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   by eli_gottlieb 1y ago

   Oh, it's a good deal worse than that. The NSF actually has a statutory mandate to ask for those Broader Impact sections; Congress would have to pass a law to stop it. So now the people applying for grants need to include, by law, a s
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   by eli_gottlieb 1y ago

   Sure, but that was believed not only literally but very literally, as referring to the political liberation of the Jews from Roman rule.
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   by eli_gottlieb 1y ago

   The "Kingdom of Heaven" was not a contemporary concept in first-century CE Judaism, to my knowledge.
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   by eli_gottlieb 1y ago

   I've gone on a science communication podcast to talk about my work: https://braininspired.co/podcast/202/ This does not seem to have stopped anyone bullshitting to the media about AI.
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   by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

   Well if we don't want them to monetize the user-network, someone would have to straight-up pay to use the sites.
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   by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

   >What, exactly, do you think the left has been doing for the last ~10 years? Which single person is "the Left" here? You're basically proposing establishing a personalist dictatorship to combat a bureaucratic para-party.
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   by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

   > Well the tarrifs do very much show that Trump has no "default preference" for the capitalised class -- he's very willing to wreck the american stock market. Yes, Marxist-Leninist governments also wreck their local stoc
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   by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

   The thinking was, "international students pay the most, contribute the most in tuition payments to the university budget, and therefore by cutting them off we hurt our enemies' budgets."
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   by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

   If they don't wanna pay so much in taxes, they should stop having so much money. Taxes function to raise revenue and thus have to go where the money is.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    I've lived most of my life in America, where I was born.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Ok, so what policies do you like about BWS, then?
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    I wasn't trying to be pithy. My most recent understanding is that a lot of EU countries have been cutting their research funding and attacking their universities.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Sounds like you kinda just want an excuse to vote AfD without pointing to an element of their policy platform you think the rest of us should support too.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    You mean as opposed to the American national idea of "work or starve, bitch"?
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    >Also healthcare is absolutely stiffled by bureaucracy. I have a friend who is a cardiologist. He says that exactly half of his work time is paperwork. And not just paperwork, but German paperwork, where you manually type PDF fields one
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    There's research funding in the EU?
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    If I tell you that the sky is blue, COVID kills people, and coal emits CO2, that's "impartial" in the sense of being facts .
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Not sure what's meant by "intelligence" or "twice" here, since the study in question ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2609 ) concerns the pallium in both birds and mammals.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Name: Eli Sennesh Location: Nashville, TN, New York, NY, or Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: To New York or Boston yes, to other places maybe Technologies: PyTorch, Pyro, Jax, Numpyro, deep probabilistic programming,
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Then you're not looking.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Yeah that's just regularized optimization which is actually just the Bayesian Learning Rule which is actually just variational Bayes.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    >(Energy minimization is a very old idea. LeCun has been on about it for a while and it's less controversial these days. Back when everyone tried to have a probabilistic interpretation of neural models, it was expensive to compute t
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    > They're too smart for mass murder because that would actually spark a resistance I don't think they're too smart for that. They're too lazy. They prefer to just gut public health and let disease take care of the c
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Also, the Houthis are a paramilitary party, not the Yemeni state.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Or he's misestimating his potential wins because he's on tons of drugs and they're giving him delusions of grandeur.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    > The big problem with a land tax is that you'd have billionaires paying little tax. I don't think so. Billionaires consume quite a lot of real-estate, even if indirectly through their business enterprises. Consider the Googl
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    Labor is a near-universal ingredient for economic activity. If you refuse to tax anything with a labor component, you run out of things to tax at all.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    The noncogent and unrespectable argument is that labor is less liquid and more difficult to move around for tax-dodging purposes than capital. States have been reduced to opportunists in the realm of taxation and tax enforcement.
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    > People tolerated a caste system because they were information poor. Well no. Peasant rebellions/uprisings happened all the time. People tolerated the feudal system because those rebellions could at best pressure for greater leni
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    by eli_gottlieb 2y ago

    So you're saying that on average if you can afford to buy a house, it's bigger and better than it used to be, but also that the fraction of people who can afford to do that is stagnating or declining.