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by csee 5y ago
There's a huge difference between an accurate descriptive explanation of why someone is in poverty, and what mindset one ought to have if they are in poverty so as to maximize their chances of escaping it (or at least, of enduring it
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by csee 5y ago
Why wouldn't they do fusion locally but also build a Dyson sphere? Doing only the former produces less energy than doing both the former and the latter. The view that they wouldn't do both is premised on the assumption that they
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by csee 5y ago
Yes but isn't the optimal policy novel information?
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by csee 5y ago
"But a better analogy would be if an AI generated a computer game that another computer can learn to play." Doesn't the latter AI have a policy which contains novel information that does not exist in the former AI? E
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by csee 5y ago
Not at all. The existence of the Gran Turismo game (a simulator) is not the same thing as an AI that can play Gran Turismo.
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by csee 5y ago
You could make a site that provides the nice UI and charges a fee.
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by csee 5y ago
> The implication of this is that somehow the sedentary lifestyle of your average couch potato is the "normal" lifestyle for a body, and the lifestyle of a hunter gatherer is "overactive", and their bodies are c
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by csee 5y ago
That's true, but at the same time let's not downplay the ways that self-custodial crypto may be a bulwark against authoritarian governments. I am not labelling Canada an authoritarian government by any means, but widespread self-c
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by csee 5y ago
This assumes that there isn't a spectrum of running intensity. In this case they were running 10s of kilometres every day during the study, an absurd distance. So they were likely experienced runners already who were engaging in this e
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by csee 5y ago
> strenuous mental activities can burn a great deal more energy in humans Could be the body stress response associated with doing those activities
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by csee 5y ago
The article proposes stress and inflammation.
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by csee 5y ago
In the inline chart "42 factors that affect blood glucose", how do I interpret the two different arrows corresponding to each entry?
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by csee 5y ago
We saw a very large reduction in caloric expenditure in people who were already very fit runners. So body weight changes over the course of the experiment are unlikely to explain it.
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by csee 5y ago
The article mentions a study that tracked energy expenditure of runners over many weeks, and found that the energy expenditure was much lower at the tail end of the experiment, suggesting the body gets accustomed to the activity somehow and
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by csee 5y ago
I don't know if it's the mental difficulty or the stress associated with the task that is causing the energy to be burnt. I'd like some clarity on that if anyone has studies. > I feel like this is already known? I'm
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by csee 5y ago
Point taken, but a 1 hour train ride into the city twice a week for social purposes is more manageable. Doing that every working day is the killer.
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by csee 5y ago
1. Phelps seems to be guessing: "Maybe eight to ten thousand calories per day," he writes... Also, the research shows there is extreme variation in people's resting BMR (perhaps due to large variation in height, body weight,
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by csee 5y ago
Well that's what the article says. The Hazda who walk 8-12 km a day burn the less calories as an average American (or the same after adjusting for body weight). Also that Phelps thing is highly questionable. He says he "probably&q
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by csee 5y ago
This misses the point of the article, it isn't that you unconsciouly eat more when you exercise, it's that moderate exercise simply doesn't burn that many calories (if any) once your body is accustomed to it.
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by csee 5y ago
Aside from the possibility of self incrimination, the whole IANAL thing is mostly just a meme. People are more than happy to feign expertise on epidemiology or any number of topics but legal advice should only be trusted if it comes from a
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by csee 5y ago
That statement in particular isn't what's crazy, of course various people of the elite strata will work and socialize and collaborate together to various extents. The craziness is the specifics of certain conspiracy theories. For
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by csee 5y ago
I am just as cynical that this problem can be resolved, there are too many voters actively voting against housing affordability; mostly homeowners but also a subset of the left who hate property developers and the concrete jungle aesthetic.
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David Epstein talking to Malcolm Gladwell about his book Range(youtube.com)
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by csee 5y ago
> It's called "people and culture " now. There's something broken about the highly extroverted non-technical types that are attracted to HR roles thinking they're in charge of shaping the 'culture' of
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by csee 5y ago
I interpret that as a positive sign. Every manager and company I've worked for has been too slow to fire under-performers.
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by csee 5y ago
> demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high. Demand is real as evidenced by everyone in this thread wanting such a search engine. We are not representative of genpop, but we aren't insignificant either.
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by csee 5y ago
Alternatively, I could have searched for "flight comparisons" or "US airlines" back in 2002 if that's the type of result that I actually wanted. The problem is that there is no way I can tell current Google to giv
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by csee 5y ago
It is largely Google's fault. Example. If you searched the word "flight" in 2002, the first two results would be NASA links and the third would be the Museum of Flight. These pages still exist. But now the entire first page o
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by csee 5y ago
Sprawl is environmentally unfriendly (transport distance and construction material usage), financially expensive (sparse service provision, roads), and it excludes poor people from the city center (since everyone has to compete to be within
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by csee 5y ago
I am offering my opinion, but you already knew that and were just being sarcastic. It is also not meaningless, you simply totally ignored the rationale I provided for the 10:1 figure. It's the ratio that roughly equalizes the moral wor

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