chillacy

14 ms·

121.
by chillacy 5y ago
Adam smith wrote a short philosophy book about this back in the day about this very topic. (something like: what is worse: stubbing your toe, or a natural disaster somewhere remote which kills thousands but doesn’t affect you personally). I
122.
by chillacy 5y ago
The parent said the metric was “people” not a rate of people normalized by total population, so by virtue of there being more people alive today than ever, many stats like this will be technically true but imo uninteresting.
123.
by chillacy 5y ago
The question of whether race or location is the causal factor seems to just be different dimensions of the same thing, no? Given that they pretty much correlate though most of history.
124.
by chillacy 5y ago
I found two books so far that had pretty actionable plans to address this. They first is Difficult Conversations, largely about nonviolent communication, which provides a structured template for “learning conversations”. The relevant advice
125.
by chillacy 5y ago
I’ve been contemplating this topic as well, though more for social issues which I think that I’ve thought deeper on than the other person. The end state is that I believe that I know more than them and therefore my conclusions are “more cor
126.
by chillacy 5y ago
I once heard this observation: judgement and curiosity are two distinct states of mind. If you’re curious about something, you cannot simultaneously be judgmental.
127.
by chillacy 5y ago
I don’t know if this is satirical or not but 275k for 3yoe is near the top of that band (assuming the startup equity is liquid). I think the parent has very generous stock appreciation going on, as $GOOG roughly tripled in the past 3 years
128.
by chillacy 5y ago
Just speculation, but there is a possibility that the old employer sought retribution against an employee who left by lying to the new company to sink the employee’s career? With laws like this it’s often a case of “it happened (at least) o
129.
by chillacy 5y ago
You can test at home with rapid antigen tests, for something like $15 per test where I live in the US. You can also swab at home for PCR tests but by the time you mail it in, a few days will pass and it sort of defeats the purpose of doing
130.
by chillacy 5y ago
Thanks, this actually matches my initial intuition about the matter. It's been awhile since I've looked up info in this area, partly due to the fact that a lot of IQ test proponents I spoke to seemed to have a great deal of person
131.
by chillacy 5y ago
Hang enough long enough on the internet and you’ll see a lot of hindsight bias. Or “first it’s is impossible, then it becomes obvious”
132.
by chillacy 5y ago
That’s a good take. I get the impression that some people just take his word because he has a Nobel prize. Relatedly, do you have on Taleb? Given that Taleb and Krugman seem to have beef.
133.
by chillacy 5y ago
Do you have a source for “practice makes you better”? Last I checked only N-back benefits from practice, the rest doesn’t.
134.
by chillacy 5y ago
Couldn’t one also say that getting into Harvard just proves they were privileged enough to jump the criteria for selection? Eg parents sent them to volunteer abroad and varsity crew? How can any admissions criteria not get gamed over time?
135.
by chillacy 5y ago
Afaik they do this because they wanted to avoid admitting so many Jewish students in the 1900s. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/14... https://www.theatlantic.com
136.
by chillacy 5y ago
Also related to the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap
137.
by chillacy 5y ago
Shouldn't ITAR make this a non-issue?
138.
by chillacy 5y ago
> If "changing the American system", then I think that's what he wants. He seems to want industrial policy, possibly state control of industry -- whatever it takes to employ everyone and give them good wages. A Republican
139.
by chillacy 5y ago
This is a very well reasoned article. The central thesis is that if culture follows economic realities (a notion I first encountered in Sapiens but have come to strongly believe), then readers (seems the audience consists of US cultural con
140.
by chillacy 5y ago
Afaik solana full nodes require basically datacenter level networking (unless you have like gigabit fiber at home) while more people could run an Eth full node at home on cable internet. That's one aspect of a sacrifice in decentraliza
141.
by chillacy 5y ago
The author could be practicing a superforecasting exercise of coming up with probability estimates and grading them at the end of the year to calibrate, but this author doesn't show his work as to where these estimates come from. For e
142.
by chillacy 5y ago
Afaik markets use multisig now, so the facilitator never has access to the funds unilaterally.
143.
by chillacy 5y ago
Certainly morality is a shared part of us all, it was evolved to create ingroup cohesion and resist outgroups in humans, so there are a lot of commonalities like reciprocity, justice, etc. It’s the divvying up of ingroup and out group that
144.
by chillacy 5y ago
I'm partial myself to two books from the Harvard Negotiation Project (Douglas Stone, Shiela Heen, et al): Thanks for the Feedback (on how to receive feedback), and Difficult Conversations (on how to give feedback). I imagine books abou
145.
by chillacy 5y ago
> Nobody knew who won, and there was a lot of misinformation spreading. It was also very confusing to watch the live chat on YouTube. There was no authoritative communication on the official twitter or website about who would be bidding
146.
by chillacy 5y ago
Lee Kwan Yew gave an excellent speech on this topic, applied to how journalism works in the US (where it acts as a distributed force for accountability) vs Singapore, where he talks about how Singapore has found other ways to achieve accoun
147.
by chillacy 5y ago
These are good insights, I get the sense maybe that you may be tracking your predictions or at least are revisiting them more than most people. The common behavior is to forget just how uncertain the past was. Or summarized: first things se
148.
by chillacy 5y ago
Oh totally, but GP never said the words "normal", only "much" > they don't get paid much which is how I suppose we're on the topic of arguing the semantics of "much". I think GP should have said &q
149.
by chillacy 5y ago
FAANG senior engineers get in around 350-400k and with recent stock appreciation some are hitting 400-600 depending on tenure and company performance. Source: levels.fyi
150.
by chillacy 5y ago
The FAQ says they're net negative, recovering 95% of the input. They don't really define what that encompasses though. https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/

More ›