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by croissants 6y ago
Another discussion of the "machine" in question, including links to some pretty strong criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26044640
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by croissants 6y ago
> the unspoken reason is that the American Medical Association wants to keep salaries up I used to believe this, but the AMA claims that it's actually the US Congress that is keeping the number of residencies low [1]: > The Ameri
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by croissants 6y ago
One possible reason is that highlighting funny or bad examples of taxpayer-funded research is valuable political fodder [1]. Plus, at least one wing of American politics is extremely against publicly funded stuff in general. Although I was
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by croissants 6y ago
I'm not saying that they want to prove coronavirus is literally not real, I'm saying that oil prices generally track with the kind of economic activity that a pandemic messes up [1] > As economic activity slowed sharply across
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by croissants 6y ago
> And 50 years from now, what will the story be about say Corona virus, or global warming? Why are we so sure that this time everything is on the up and up? For instance Big pharma stands to make billions of dollars on the back of Corona
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by croissants 6y ago
I commented based on the headline. Shame on me!
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by croissants 6y ago
Is this obviously a bad thing? My understanding of the argument for tenured faculty teaching courses is that tenured faculty are (or have been) actual researchers in their field, so they have deep knowledge. But I'm skeptical that deep
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by croissants 6y ago
I don't understand Roko's Basilisk. It seems like a mild twist on Pascal's wager, and like Pascal's wager, it has the following problem: I don't see a convincing argument that we actually know what behavior the Basi
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by croissants 6y ago
It seems to make people happy to attribute pithy, compassionate, vaguely new-agey sentiments to prestigious writers. Another example that comes to mind is the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, whose works have been... reimagined in the last
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by croissants 6y ago
Dang, we moved the AI goalposts from "good at chess" to "new Bogart films"? Tough!
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by croissants 6y ago
Eh, mediocre is usually defined as something like "middling" or "middle-of-the-road" or "average". It's plausible to me that most reasonably intelligent people who try very hard can become "above aver
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by croissants 6y ago
You're right, I misunderstood the statistic. It's saying that the fraction of couples with a first-born daughter who have divorced when she's 15 is 9% higher than the fraction of couples with a first-born son who have divorce
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by croissants 6y ago
The full paper is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3043527 .
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by croissants 6y ago
This hypothesis ignores the fact that "when the girl reaches puberty", the excess divorce rate (which looks to just be "% of couples divorced if child is daughter - % of couples divorced if child is son") is a lot higher
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by croissants 6y ago
The Economist (relatively) recently featured a long article about the modern lives of adolescent girls: https://archive.is/OGxxk .
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by croissants 6y ago
I agree that TikTok is incentivized to select videos that people, for whatever reason, like. What I find strange is that there is a vocal group of people that ordinarily find this kind of story upsetting and produce public criticism, but I
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by croissants 6y ago
Also at https://archive.is/2Qnhn . Maybe it's still in the "honeymoon" phase in the west, but I'm surprised TikTok hasn't attracted more, uh, Twitter opprobrium over stuff like this: > The Interce
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Mathias Rust(en.wikipedia.org)
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by croissants 6y ago
The upshot of these experiments appears to be: communicating a "relevant, harm-based, and personal experience" leads people to rate you as more rational and respect you more. Maybe because it reframes the interaction from "wh
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by croissants 6y ago
I like the name! From a bit of playing, the gameplay looks nice as well. One big comment: make the demo puzzle more prominent, and at least build it into the flow that asks a user to sign up. My first interaction with the site was clicking
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by croissants 6y ago
This isn't doublethink, because "he's weird and unpleasant" and "he has insightful ideas" aren't "two contradictory beliefs".
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by croissants 6y ago
Something similar happened after Four Seasons Total Landscaping hosted an impromptu Trump press conference. Within hours there were thousands of 1-star reviews on their Google business page, and then a day or so later all of the recent revi
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by croissants 6y ago
I genuinely don't follow why GPT3 and investment in AI would make coding ability obsolete, if that's what you're suggesting?
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by croissants 6y ago
Jonathan Banks' everyday voice is a lot friendlier and varied than Mike Ehrmantraut's. See for example this random Community interview: https://youtu.be/FzMrU4L1E7s
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by croissants 6y ago
> However, "free therapy" is a wildly unpopular suggestion in the USA. This is strange. I'd guess that free therapy, or at least government-subsidized mental health initiatives, would be pretty popular on the left. That le
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by croissants 6y ago
I assume most people on HN have some control over their professional lives. Part of the sibling comment's response is that part of their motivation is "enormous consulting fees", for example. There is a calculus there for wei
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by croissants 6y ago
Oh geez . Until now, I thought the "Peter" in the Peter Principle was the biblical Peter, and I interpreted it as an indictment of Peter eventually getting promoted to a quasi-Jesus role as leader after Jesus...left the scene.
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by croissants 6y ago
> Did that show really teach me as much as I feel? I think one thing The Wire does is show you how bad equilibria can arise from mostly rational people making mostly rational decisions in response to the incentives around them, and see
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by croissants 6y ago
> I occasionally work with and consult for these people. Now I'm curious. The world you describe seems quite hostile to someone with your beliefs -- how and why are you in it?
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by croissants 6y ago
Maybe your (and sibling's) comment along with mine illustrate two sides of the same coin. I think Michael is interested in status mostly as a path to connection. The dreams he talks about, if I remember correctly, center around havin

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