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by dash2 2y ago
> When I'm feeling down I call it “Internet Gated Communities”, when in an optimistic mood, “The Faculty Club”. This may lead to what many observers refer to as “the Balkanisation of the Internet”—a fragmentation of the “goes everyw
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by dash2 2y ago
The author seems to conflate "dark" with "adult", so let me take the chance to point out this common mistake. Horror films, Warhammer 40K and 2000 AD comics are all famously dark, but they're for kids or teens. A Mi
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by dash2 2y ago
Mercedes is planning a Tesla competitor: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/business/mercedes-cla-ele...
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by dash2 2y ago
This idea of moral equivalence is popular and extremely dangerous. It is what Trump expressed as "you think we're so innocent?" No countries are purely altruistic, but there is a big space between pure altruism and simply bei
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by dash2 2y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to say "refusing to give a country loans" is exploiting someone through debt. Though "refusing to roll over a loan" might count, if you have first made a country dependent.
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by dash2 2y ago
If you're looking for 10x, you are gambling. Buy calls on GME or quantum or whatever.
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by dash2 2y ago
I read through some posts and found this, after Gelsinger was fired: >It’s over. > If corporations are people, then Intel has decided to commit suicide and sell its vital organs. Yet now the same guy seems more positive ("The bes
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by dash2 2y ago
I think the post above you asks a relevant question - shouldn't Vanguard, rather than always voting with the board, just not vote at all? Wouldn't that be the truly neutral position?
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by dash2 2y ago
As ever I think the bigger problem is grey areas, fooling oneself, etc rather than outright fraud. If you really are self-interested and greedy, you’ll probably choose another career than academia.
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by dash2 2y ago
Some serious macroeconomists think fiat money was a bad idea on balance.
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Jed(eatingpolicy.com)
2 points by dash2 2y ago|0 comments
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by dash2 2y ago
It means they’re not prepared to stand behind it and stake their reputation on it.
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by dash2 2y ago
Suppose you take the first principal component of performance and fit it to log(compute). Seems like a fairly reasonable way to get an answer.
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by dash2 2y ago
In the Philippines Infinix and Tecno are dominant brands. They're super cheap and have good gaming performance. That company rules Africa for the same reason. Dunno if Americans can get them behind the Great Tariffwall?
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by dash2 2y ago
It’s the opposite. The US economic boom has seen EUR/USD fall to near parity.
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by dash2 2y ago
I’ve published in genetics and been at conferences with epigenetics guys and honestly I came out with a low opinion of them. I saw a lot of poor work, p hacking with multiple indices, trawling etc. I just think common sense should make us s
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by dash2 2y ago
I actually think we should be quite cautious about this. It's essentially seizing dollar assets. It might provide a big boost for China's efforts to get the world off the dollar standard. (I'm a strong supporter of Ukraine, h
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by dash2 2y ago
There are very many tests, leaderboards etc. for AI models, and while none of them are perfect, in the aggregate they might not be a bad measure of intelligence (perhaps locally, in an interval around current models' performance level,
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by dash2 2y ago
But SF is a single US city built on a grid. Try London or Manila.
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"Draw me a 3 panel cartoon "(substack.com)
3 points by dash2 2y ago|1 comments
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by dash2 2y ago
My point was that they misunderstood that sending likes does not necessarily cause later user retention just because it correlates with it.
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by dash2 2y ago
My view is it's mostly human nature not cultural bias. Sex differences in mating are cross-cultural (Donald Buss has done a lot on this). Whether either side can be said to be "disadvantaged" is a bit of a hard one. Compared
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by dash2 2y ago
If the advice had been "Boys: lower your standards, girls: pay a photographer" I wonder if you'd have said "guys just get to be dawgs, women have to spend money to beautify themselves".
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by dash2 2y ago
Turns out even highly motivated professionals don't understand that correlation is not causality: > For girls, it is the number of likes sent; the number of likes received has no impact on retention, maybe a little bit but less than
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by dash2 2y ago
My ignorant outsider perspective. If you ask a real chemical expert "how can I make sarin?" he will refuse to answer because he knows it's unethical to make sarin. You'd expect AGI to include the basic understanding of e
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Cultural Endosymbionts(wyclif.substack.com)
3 points by dash2 2y ago|0 comments
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by dash2 2y ago
The good news is that the near-unanimous consensus among experts is that climate change is not an existential issue. Almost no climate scientist thinks that climate change could wipe out the human race. (That's compatible with it hav
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by dash2 2y ago
I remember a guy at school in the 90s talking about the QL. He said it had a 32 bit operating system, but if you turned it upside down, the keys fell out.
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by dash2 2y ago
I had reasonable success deleting Safari from my iPhone. I still need to hit weblinks sometimes, but iOS does a reasonable job at providing a basic web browser for those (no URL bar so I can't then waste time on it). Of apps, I am curr
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by dash2 2y ago
> Only if you place no value on the land simply existing as it does now and providing aesthetic value. A lot of Cambridgeshire is frankly flat, ugly monoculture.

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