cm2012

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by cm2012 4mo ago
High school GPA correlates much worse (.41). SATs correlates with IQ better - .82 or so.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
.71 explains about 50% of the difference, its bigger than the effect size of Advil or Tylenol
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns out knowing advanced vocabulary correlates really well to IQ.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
He was an Elkjøp/Elgiganten customer club member. He wanted to keep the club membership and discounts/offers, but stop the marketing emails. Elkjøp’s setup told him the only way to stop the marketing was to cancel the club members
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Wages in america are extremely high, its just property prices are even higher.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Try to affect human behavior at scale in any way and you pray for an effect size like that
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by cm2012 4mo ago
A certain portion of people just prefer learning from video instead of text.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Even if we had billions dead from starvation worldwide (huge if), life in a western country in 2060 will be better than life for almost anyone born in 1800 anywhere on earth.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
If you think that you're simply incorrect. For the average person in a Western country, life is dramatically better anytime in the next hundred years, including the worst possible outcomes of climate change. Not to mention that the exp
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by cm2012 4mo ago
But a lower probability than ever before in human history of those things
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Make a product people really want.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Under this principle no human has ever been able to consent to anything in the history of the world. Certainly 99.99% of humans. This would also imply that the best thing ethically is not to give people goods in exchange for labor because t
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by cm2012 4mo ago
That is wonderful. What makes billionaires valuable to society is that the act of trying to make a business worth a billion dollars that people want is really, really hard. It essentially punches you in the face constantly. You have to powe
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by cm2012 4mo ago
The fact that while racism exists, Western society is certainly not at the forefront of it? If anything the collective "West" is the most sensitive about race and racial issues.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
One can agree that they would rather see wealth more equitably distributed while also admitting that the current system of private property and capitalism is the most effective at broadly generating wealth.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
On a trillion year time frame, sure.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Nike has some of the best labor policies of all the shoe companies now. Their controversies were in the 90s.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Look around you and see we are not living in mud and huts anymore
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Well, this is outrageously impressive
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Two of my favorite games of all, Chivalry 2 and Hell Let Loose, are indie studio games and this law would make more expensive to make.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
When I realized I could build a lead gen mini-site in Replit in ten minutes that was better than I have ever had an engineering team build
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by cm2012 4mo ago
basically agreed with some minor quibbles. Just want to say I enormously enjoyed this respectful discussion with you.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
It's not that businesses have a fundamental right to buy people's attention. It's that people have a right to sell ad space that they own to other people to show messages on if they want to. I dont think its right to tell (ex
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by cm2012 4mo ago
How will the directories get their names out and compete if they're not allowed to promote themselves? If you remove approved commercial options for promoting yourself, like advertisements, then most of the other options left for promo
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by cm2012 4mo ago
If you think buying ads is the only form of marketing, sure but advertising is probably 10% of marketing. See my other comments to see why he was a natural marketer and used some key tactics that he specifically chose for promoting himself.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Every kind of food is currently being made: healthy fresh food, processed foods of various types at all different price ranges. People have options to buy what they want and that's a good thing.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
I didn't recall Hicks saying that people who do bait-and-switch tactics (which i also agree are bad) should kill themselves. I recall him saying all marketers and advertisers should kill themselves.
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by cm2012 4mo ago
My Theory: Advertising is a lot like capitalism itself. Both ads and capitalism are messy and have some externalized harms, but are better than the alternatives. In the "advertising led" model of customer discovery, businesses adv
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by cm2012 4mo ago
Performing is just showing up at comedy shows and doing your bit. That alone would not have made him successful. He aggressively promoted and marketed himself! Biggest example: Going on Letterman and other corporate talk shows / interv
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by cm2012 4mo ago
I promised you every single individual business could say the same thing. No product has any value if people don't know about it.

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