epistemer

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by epistemer 4y ago
It also disregards the type of lottery game that is a part of wealth accumulation. Of course, it is not all luck but to believe wealth accumulation is a type of purely deterministic meritocratic game without a giant stochastic factor is rid
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by epistemer 4y ago
A big problem is we have gone from Feynman saying "science is the disbelief in experts" to "What experts say is true right now is the science".
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by epistemer 4y ago
I was pretty into that level of skepticism but all it really showed me is that people are natural "believers". We are ultimately story telling apes. To believe we are going to stop telling each other and ourselves fictional storie
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by epistemer 4y ago
I would think it all depends on the initial energy source. This is just one of the myriad of ways our malinvestment in cheap nuclear energy condemns us to try to build a type of perceptual motion machine.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I suspect people of the future will view our view of the jumble of heuristics as a type of medieval place holder for the "soul". Most people are just interchanging the word "consciousness" in place of "soul" bu
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by epistemer 4y ago
All you have to do is get use to initiating conversation with strangers out and about. People have no problem swiping literally every person on Tinder/bumble but I have had lovers specifically tell me that no one ever hits on them in p
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by epistemer 4y ago
If anything this is why someone like LeCun isn't good at shipping a product people want. It seems like we lack a word in English for knowing too much about a subject that you can't see the forest for the trees. To say chatGPT is n
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by epistemer 4y ago
IMO you should just start playing with them. Midjourney gave by far the most impressive results with images but I also got bored fast with seeing amazing art. chatGPT you just have to interact with it and get a feel for its strengths and we
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by epistemer 4y ago
We really need this to be legal someplace in the world. Fentanyl at this point makes any street pill an insane proposition to me. I am surprised a country hasn't already embraced a type of psychedelic and MDMA drug tourism. Fentanyl ul
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by epistemer 4y ago
5 grams is the idiotic recommendation from Terence McKenna that people blindly follow because he was a good writer and had an almost psychedelic stand up routine with public speaking. He was basically a type of cult leader. It is absolutely
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by epistemer 4y ago
You must have not thought this through very hard to believe it wouldn't be a net good. I mean we are in a crisis of opiates with fentanyl. It would be a massive net good.
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by epistemer 4y ago
The idea technology is completely neutral is obviously stupid and obviously wrong. Neil Postman has two amazing books on this subject. It is not even that technology is good or bad, any technology will have good and bad aspects but the main
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by epistemer 4y ago
All this to me is pure technological kitsch and bullshit. My coffee maker has had automation built in for years, it makes a ton of sense for it to automatically make coffee in the morning yet even for free I have never used it even once. Th
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by epistemer 4y ago
I think people underestimate how often their cover letter is a negative even without this. I wouldn't doubt that often the cover letter causes people to be eliminated in about 5 seconds because it says the same meaningless bullshit tha
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by epistemer 4y ago
There is no going back though. No politician is going to risk repealing this type of law and then have their career destroyed when a single crime happens against a kid that this law would have "prevented". People bashing the cops
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by epistemer 4y ago
$20 is completely reasonable to me. I have come to see it as a brilliant savant friend that loves to tell bullshit stories. At first , I was hung up on the bullshit stories but the brilliant ideas are so good that I can put up with the bull
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by epistemer 4y ago
Jim Simons is a great example. Has made 28 billion from algorithmic trading, has Chern–Simons form named after him in math but has said he sucks at computer programming because he can't remember syntax well enough. If he was 50 years y
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by epistemer 4y ago
This is typical bad financial journalism. Spitznagel is not "predicting" this. Jennifer Sor either has no clue what Spitznagel is doing or knows no one will click on a headline about tail hedging unpredictable events.
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by epistemer 4y ago
IMO this whole nonsense argument stems from poor high school economics education and not teaching Schumpeter in high school. Per Schumpeter a 100 years ago, the economy is an ever changing process from technological change and entrepreneurs
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by epistemer 4y ago
If you try to tune to AM stations though it is literally 90% noise. It may as well be dead because if you removed the regulation it would still be 90% noise.
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by epistemer 4y ago
The whole argument is stupid on both sides. There is no "mainstream" culture anymore to counter. Everyone is living in their own little cultural bubble that they believe to be a counterculture to a non-existent mainstream culture.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I have had experiences like this several times also so it is interesting to look at an example from someone else. Probing it about CenPCA it gave these two definitions: "CenPCA is an abbreviation for Centralized Principal Component Ana
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by epistemer 4y ago
The old music business thrived on vinyl then 8 track then cassettes then CDs. $15 in 1985 is about $40 adjusted for inflation and they convinced people to buy the same music multiple times. To even find that music you liked enough to buy mu
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by epistemer 4y ago
I use to enjoy Peter's talks but he seems to be a bit out of new ideas himself.
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by epistemer 4y ago
Interesting, I like that clicking on Thinking, Fast and Slow recommends Barry Schwartz and Judgment under Uncertainty. Still though, I would probably just stick with "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" on Amazon as it fe
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by epistemer 4y ago
The economy is so high dimensional as to be basically stochastic but people like to make up bullshit stories about this stochastic process? Of course that is not satisfactory. "The market went down because of X". For whatever reas
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by epistemer 4y ago
A person claiming to be lonely because they are too smart/wealthy/good looking sounds incredibly narcissistic. I highly doubt that is actually the issue with their loneliness.
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by epistemer 4y ago
That Sapolsky class is one of my favs as well. Anything I have watched from Open Yale has been fantastic too. I feel like they have done a great job of curation and not just creating a list of random new class recordings. https:/&#x2F
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by epistemer 4y ago
It just isn't that complicated to build a bunch of smaller cheap homes and pass a law that says you can't buy one these types of homes if you already own other property. You can't own these homes within a corporate structure.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I don't see how AR will be useful without face recognition. The killer app is something like I go get a coffee and instantly know the barista's real name and they know my real name from AR face recognition. People are not interest

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