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601.
by dash2 2y ago
I feel deeply sad having to ask this, but... how did you manage to leave?
602.
by dash2 2y ago
I like Sam Bowman a lot, but are you sure the construction issue is central to this issue in particular? I suspect that access to capital is equally important: the UK is very finance-centric. I wonder how many VCs have engineering expertise
603.
by dash2 2y ago
Surely even prime agricultural land is vastly (thousands of times?) less valuable than lab space for engineering companies.
604.
by dash2 2y ago
Something major missing from the LLM toolkit at the moment is that it can't actually run (and e.g. test or benchmark) its own code. Without that, the LLM is flying blind. I guess there are big security risks involved in making this hap
605.
by dash2 2y ago
Look, when are these models going to not just talk to me, but do stuff for me? If they're so clever, why can't I tell one to buy chocolates and send them to my wife? Meanwhile, they can allegedly solve frontier maths problems. Wha
606.
by dash2 2y ago
US society existed and was plausibly high-trust for more than 150 years before 1776.
607.
by dash2 2y ago
This might get the causality backward. Most high trust societies were high trust before, not after, they became democracies.
608.
by dash2 2y ago
I think it's a great idea, but I felt a bit uncomfortable being asked to "say anything" to persuade people. In the first two scenes, I would have just been honest in real life.
609.
by dash2 2y ago
This simply repeats the mind-reading and assuming-the-worst of your original comment.
610.
by dash2 2y ago
> These being the only ones whose populations are worth having empathy with.…It seems you'll need to find another way to promote the "Israel's suffering is unique" narrative. HN norms are to assume the best interpreta
611.
by dash2 2y ago
How many years did it take for them to drop by the previous factor of 100?
612.
by dash2 2y ago
Just one thing is missing from this excellent article: any explanation of why splitting up Intel, while it would “maximise shareholder value” is also “bad for America”. What’s America’s interest in having an integrated designer and manufact
613.
by dash2 2y ago
So ridiculous that it's harder to listen to worldwide radio on a phone in 2020 than it was using a fireside radio set in 1940.
614.
by dash2 2y ago
Though, if you start solving problems that humans can't or haven't solved, then questions of capacity won't matter much. A speedup in the movement of the maths frontier would be worth many power stations.
615.
by dash2 2y ago
Have you got any real evidence behind your first paragraph?
616.
by dash2 2y ago
I think science journalists often have some science background, and university press releases are in my experience collaborations between the scientist and the PR person.
617.
by dash2 2y ago
My first hypothesis would be that the original discovery was a fraud, like Piltdown man.
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Makers and takers: why wars are not always won by the wealthiest country(wyclif.substack.com)
2 points by dash2 2y ago|0 comments
619.
by dash2 2y ago
I'm not sure how the above relates to the argument.
620.
by dash2 2y ago
Here's an interesting extract: > We find evidence of nepotism for 5–6.6% of scholars’ sons in Protestant and for 29.4% in Catholic universities and academies. Catholic institutions relied more heavily on intra-family human capital t
621.
by dash2 2y ago
In particular (from a very quick glance!) it looks like they distinguish between nepotism and inherited human capital only by using a particular model. They have data on father-son pairs and the correlation between them in terms of publicat
622.
The Defense Reformation(18theses.com)
1 points by dash2 2y ago|0 comments
623.
by dash2 2y ago
The article seems to be arguing that this 12th century artist thought about their art in just the same way as contemporary artists. That seems unlikely somehow.
624.
by dash2 2y ago
It would probably be easier to test the other way round: demand for creative software goes up when macs get cheaper.
625.
by dash2 2y ago
Presumably if time spent using these things is bad, then ensuring children spend no time on them till 8th grade will be an improvement. What am I missing?
626.
by dash2 2y ago
The point of the pledge is that you take it and you encourage other parents in your school/neighbourhood to take it. So this helps solve the coordination problem: "By signing the online pledge, you promise not to give your child a
627.
by dash2 2y ago
Hmm. So the point of looking "painterly" is that it looks like the art was done manually by a craftsman. But once any computer can do it, that stops working. Then you'll need to do something else. I guess this also applies to
628.
by dash2 2y ago
There's a lot of cases of "impure randomization" when I think balance tests are a good idea - for example, natural experiments.
629.
by dash2 2y ago
This is the big question. The blog says "hey, we don't teach memorization, we teach critical thinking". My response to that would be "for real critical thinking, you need memorization as a starting point. You can't
630.
by dash2 2y ago
You're mistaken. Polygenic scores for educational attainment correlate negatively with fertility in the US, UK and elsewhere (in fact, AFAIK everywhere it has been tested). So it's not just because people in poor countries have mo

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