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by cirgue 9y ago
> makes it difficult for special interests to lobby the legislators. It makes it considerably easier for lobbyists to lobby legislators because it sets up an even greater information and power asymmetry than it does now. Lobbyists can s
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by cirgue 9y ago
In addition to other commenters providing sources for this assertion, there is also the fact that Russia's current strategic doctrine is to disrupt and delegitimize governing institutions of rival states, and Russia considers pretty mu
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by cirgue 9y ago
> it's especially bad in scientific contexts where scientists don't know better and are lured in because of its decent selection of available packages. Packages are the motivation for using the language. No other language has
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by cirgue 9y ago
It was also a widely held belief for decades that the internet was nothing more or less than history's most efficient porn-and-bullshit-machine. Anyone who took seriously what they read online (without verification) in 2005 was rightly
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I don't think A.I. is the problem, it is automation that is the great fear. Regular code is as dangerous as A.I. as far as fear-mongering goes. I 100% agree. Modern business still organize themselves like firms a century ago but w
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by cirgue 9y ago
And in economics 102 they teach you that price elasticity of demand is rarely if ever at unity, and it's not generally even a linear function. For a good like Tesla, this is especially true, because income distribution is close to a no
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Ask HN: Book reccomendations for setting up a software development team?
4 points by cirgue 9y ago|1 comments
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by cirgue 9y ago
> It doesn't matter how much education you have, if entertaining a particular problem causes your amygdala to start firing then your ability to think critically is out the window. Thinking critically is, by definition, the ability
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by cirgue 9y ago
Could you be denied admittance to Harvard because you showed up on campus at some kind of freshman event and started telling extremely offensive jokes in front of the whole gathering? How is a Facebook group full of people you don't kn
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by cirgue 9y ago
>Robotics already outperform humans physically, and AI is (in many areas) approaching humans. So the risk here is complete replacement, not supplementing. The steam drill didn't beat John Henry, the system of technology, resources,
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by cirgue 9y ago
Even OPEC is not much of an exception: they've only occassionally been effective at coordinating outputs, and supply dynamics typically overwhelm OPECs ability to respond.
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by cirgue 9y ago
No, not by a long shot.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I would rather a larger portion of the value I create go to social programs than to shareholders. If I am going to be an exploitable asset, I would prefer to be exploited for reasons that do some good in the world.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I know next to nothing about quantum computing, but something about this seems extremely fishy. Had they developed a working quantum processor, would they not have publicized its capabilities far and wide before releasing an enterprise API?
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by cirgue 9y ago
The internet removes individual accountability for your beliefs and ideas, and very much influences the zeitgeist. It's not an honest mirror but a funhouse mirror, because it exacerbates not only genuinely held extreme views, but also
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by cirgue 9y ago
We did optimize for that, and our optimizations became gendered division of labor that enforced rigid gender roles.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Adults forgetting what it is like to be young has been a foible of teachers and parents for all of recorded history. People are way worse at making connections between past experiences and present ones than we like to admit.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Who curates?
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by cirgue 9y ago
Because teachers and nannys are mechanisms of cultural reproduction. We could give those jobs to AI, but they're also some of the few jobs that are actually interesting in an economy where we have no material need for work.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Do you have a coherent argument for this?
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by cirgue 9y ago
The problem isn't the surprise, it's showing that you are surprised. If you do so impulsively, you are being rude, whether you mean to be or not.
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by cirgue 10y ago
How do you mean?
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by cirgue 10y ago
I don't think that's what the parent meant: your time is better spent understanding the whole market than a subset, and your time is better spent getting the important trivial thing done now than working on the not-as-important no
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by cirgue 10y ago
This post contains a cursory discussion of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and a promise to deliver on the title in a subsequent post.
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by cirgue 10y ago
Schrodinger's library
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by cirgue 10y ago
Gathering smart people in one place is exactly the point and the major value add. It facilitates the construction of robust social networks of people in a field, even at the undergraduate level. That enormously valuable and impossible to re
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by cirgue 10y ago
Even though the article bungled the concept IMO, this is actually a pretty well-documented phenomenon in psychology and economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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Immanentize the eschaton(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by cirgue 11y ago|3 comments