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by cobaltblue 11y ago
This study isn't surprising, I'm unsure what you think it implies. Indeed IQ researchers have been wary themselves and known about motivational effects for decades, along with many other objections to testing like cultural bias an
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Then you should take the Bayesian side, because Bayesians look at the data first, and they take their data as given rather than taking a null hypothesis as given. They don't just blindly go off and run a test (which assumes a particula
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
That's the best you got?
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Did you account for the possibility you're dreaming, or in a simulation? Or in a simulation of a simulation and so on? Yes, that's the curse of real numbers. In practice you set a limit of precision required, and a threshold of ev
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
IQ is held in high esteem because research around g is very good and comprehensive, perhaps the crown jewel of psychology. Additionally most people's knowledge of the Flynn effect is out of date -- recent studies (here's one: htt
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
You can always use https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ as well.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
They have text somewhere explaining that clicking "not interested" just means that particular game won't show up again in your queue, and maybe on the home page too, I don't remember, but it doesn't actually affect
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Nope, just very close to the fully financially independent group under 30. I work for a living. Not sure that you understand that financial independence can be just as simple as a function of your total invested assets and expected future a
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
You can get a studio apartment in the Greater Seattle Area for as low as $700/mo, though you should probably estimate around $1000/mo to be conservative. Additionally if you have a roommate (and maybe a bigger place, up to you how
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I would describe your experience as atypical, wouldn't you? Just like Valve's nearly-flat management is atypical and requires a certain mesh of personalities and pruning to work at all. Counterexamples exist, it's not a perfe
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It's far easier to do a CS degree and get hired as a software developer (while not blowing your income on insanely high rent in San Francisco city-proper -- yeah you'll have to suck up a commute, live with roommates, or live almos
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Almost every not-typical-big-corporate job has less bullshit work assigned than the lot of BS assigned to typical big corporate job workers. Startups and even mid-size companies don't magically solve the problem of having to do BS work
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Even worse, he said of 20-somethings (not out of the whole population, and not just 20 year olds) which leaves a start number around 45 million, or a mere 45 people in the USA. It's actually pretty easy to become financially independen
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Plus a higher performance-per-dollar ratio. If you need the best single-card-performance nVidia is probably still the best for most things (unless you're mining litecoin) but you can always buy 2 AMD cards and use them together for les
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Intelligence has solved all of our solved problem thus far, it's reasonable to assume that if a problem can be solved with intelligence, maybe it's a matter of doing the intellectual work to understand existence better or engineer
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I thought of responding to that bit too, changed my mind, but your response made me reconsider again. The response is simple, just a quote from Yudkowsky: "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms w
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I'm sure if OpenAI ever produces people with anything interesting to contribute to the alignment problem, MIRI will happily collaborate. That $1bn commitment must be disappointing to some people though.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I'm a single young male, it can easily raise eyebrows if I ever exhibit interest in being around young children. As another commenter mentioned though, maybe as an aspect of my youth, I don't even like children in general to begin
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It's one class of errors that doesn't typically happen with a static compiled language, people like to feel 'safe' about the dullest things but typos can be found pretty easily by running the code you just wrote in a REP
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Indeed so what, but do you program on weekends anyway? At least sometimes? Earlier in the thread you complained about golden handcuffs. That indicates there's something you'd rather be doing than your work, but the pay is too good
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
If you interpret his unlettered remarks charitably, it's just another instance of pushing for censorship. Instead of child porn though it's terrorist propaganda. There are good arguments for censorship, though I don't think i
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Nothing on those lists contradicts what I said, but thanks for the links.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Indeed food is another thing whose price will rise. Meaning that because the supply pipeline is relatively fixed, when the demand goes up (due to more people with disposable income) things will either sell out more quickly or the price will
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Europe is doing all it can to produce a new Hitler. The anti-Muslim rhetoric can be insane at times, but it's no lie that the imports are from a very different culture and are unlikely to assimilate to a more western one, especially wh
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It's a good time to own property in Finland. If I was a landlord there, say I have about 20% vacancy over the year. After this change, I should expect to have a larger pool of applicants because whether they work or not people now have
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
The US still demands my taxes 10 years after I leave the country.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
How do you see the consumer services competing on anything but price, speed, and usage without breaking net neutrality? How do you see a "shipping" future for cell phone companies any different than the FedEx/UPS duopoly?
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
If a CRISPR change doesn't kill you, it seems to me unlikely to kill your offspring. This may be naive, I don't know to what extent a gene variant would be fine in an adult but not fine in a child. Most self gene edits would not b
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It lets the police track down murderers, at least according to the plot of Se7en ...
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It's definitely a taste thing. I found going from the batteries-included Python to the very limited strict C89 ansi-pedantic-standard rather annoying, but at the same time I got a lot of pleasure building a game from scratch in SDL ins

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