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by crassus 13y ago
Though it is unpopular to say it, individuals differ in their innate academic aptitude. What is hard for some will be easy for others, and no amount of preparation can completely overcome this.
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by crassus 13y ago
Where did I bring religion into it? It's valuable to have community norms that prevent people from throwing away their family as soon as times get rough or life fails to be "fulfilling" or entertaining. At least, ours is the
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by crassus 13y ago
People that marry as virgins have a much lower chance of divorce[1]. If you think that stable families are a good thing for your society to have, then you have to reject "sex positive" modern culture and value virginity. Coinciden
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by crassus 13y ago
Where we're going, the rules will be written in software
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by crassus 13y ago
As Steve Sailer said "Perhaps one reason these two guys couldn't get hired by Facebook is because they are so old: Koum is 38 and Acton 42."
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by crassus 13y ago
That value may never have been created otherwise. If the acquisition turns out successful then not hiring him may absolutely have been the right thing to do, even in hindsight
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by crassus 13y ago
Along with 10 million physical laborers, just to kick in the teeth of the middle class a bit more. The middle-class doesn't benefit Silicon Valley. Cheap nannies on the other hand...
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by crassus 13y ago
If our approach to AI is to model the human brain (i.e. passing the Turing test), this probably won't happen. Friendly AI is a silly research project at this stage of AI research. It's like trying to figure out how to make horsele
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by crassus 13y ago
Yudkowsky is a megalomaniacal dilettante. Sure, there are some interesting ideas at Less Wrong. But don't get sucked into believing that Yudkowsky has the one and only truth, as the majority of the community there believes. Does MIRI h
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by crassus 13y ago
Google doodles are distracting. I don't need to see a clever flash game commemorating something-or-other every time I open a new tab when I'm working, thanks.
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by crassus 13y ago
Double the equity. 9 month vesting cliff. Market salary.
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by crassus 13y ago
The crime rate also has something to do with the cost of space
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by crassus 13y ago
The unsafeness isn't just perception. I see friends becoming victims of violent crime and property crime in Oakland/SF on Facebook fairly regularly, and I don't have that many city friends. The cities are too progressive to s
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by crassus 13y ago
I wouldn't choose engineers based on who needs the money, and I wouldn't choose a location based on who needs the tax revenue Berkeley appears more pleasant than Oakland, though further away. As much as I find it unappealing, I no
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by crassus 13y ago
Activists would flip their shit if Google started throwing their weight around in politics - "Is Google trying to buy your democracy?". And then the NIMBY crowd would swarm all over any proposed building.
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by crassus 13y ago
It's "gentrification" when people with money move in, and "white flight" when they move out. Chase those tech workers out and watch public tax revenue, infrastructure, police force, and schools go down the tube. Pre
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by crassus 13y ago
I'm adding "disrespectful" to the list of euphemism that progressives use to silence dissent.
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by crassus 13y ago
The data agrees with you. Racism is particularly weak in the anglosphere, you'll experience much more if you venture outside it: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a
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by crassus 13y ago
It's tempting to define "impoliteness" as disagreement with progressive beliefs about feminism or white racial guilt. Judging by what Scalzi has banned people for, he seems to fall victim to this. He uses the banhammer more t
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by crassus 13y ago
Scalzi considers "ugly" anyone that is outside a very small neighborhood of idea space. It's fine for his own professional blog, but it's incredibly narrow as a general principle for discussions.
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by crassus 13y ago
This was a good start because it mobilized some passionate people. The next step is building effective organizations for these people to get behind, organizations that promote a minimalist tech/privacy platform - leave off controversia
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by crassus 13y ago
The only way to be effective is to make politicians lose their jobs. This means coalescing behind single-purpose organizations meant to win reelection for anyone supporting a minimalist tech/privacy platform, and defeat for anyone else
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by crassus 13y ago
These days, there are social justice warriors combing your twitter feed looking for a way to get you fired if you "offend" someone. Anonymity is vital for the diversity of ideas. I'm sure some people are slavering for a world
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Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013)(nature.com)
129 points by crassus 13y ago|201 comments
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by crassus 13y ago
The way to measure your political effectiveness is how many people have lost their jobs. We're not making real progress until Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are unemployed, just like we aren't making real progress on IP law unt
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by crassus 13y ago
It's also the predominant gender role in monkeys, and in human girls that get an usual amount of male hormone in the womb: http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks...
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Monkey research suggests a biological explanation for toy preferences (2012)(livescience.com)
64 points by crassus 13y ago|76 comments
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by crassus 13y ago
Maybe if there were a tech workers union, we could finally organize politically for some pro-tech policy. Is there a better paid group of people who can't get anything done politically?
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by crassus 13y ago
In an interview from Lee Kwan Yew, he suggests that it would be better for democracy if people with children between the ages of 35 and 60 had two votes. One of the common criticisms of democracy is that it promotes short-term thinking beca
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by crassus 13y ago
Thanks. I find it odd that supposedly pro-female movements denigrate all the things that women have participated in over the years. Women have always been with us, and they haven't been sitting around all day doing nothing! But we tell

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