friend_Fernando

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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
> I’d caution against assuming IQ is at all representative of average practical or applied intelligence I don't necessarily disagree. Unfortunately, demagoguery has paid off handsomely in recent years. It has been refined as a disci
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
We can name the professions that won't eventually be wiped out, but not a lot of them are suited (or palatable) to middle-aged dudes.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
The most interesting argument is about the ratio of the marginal value of labor to the marginal value of everything else. Let's call it MVLE. In prehistory, land was plentiful and hunting/gathering skill was scarce, so MVLE was hi
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
It's starting to look like an increasingly sensible policy IMO.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Gradient Descent?
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I don't really buy into the theory that something changed in the last couple years. Men don't change in their 50s (not without trauma anyways.) This is stuff that was there before and held very very close.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
RL Will Byers
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I don't disagree on the actual policies, but I have an even darker view. People expect a return to the T1 strategy of making the rich richer. However, that was targeted to a low-power-grip environment, where the goal was re-election. T
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
This article is indirectly saying something critical about a certain someone with a wide following of non-digital and digital beings, so I wouldn't expect it to stay up very long.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
We take games for granted now, but in the early 80s the anticipation of what might be possible was something else. The War Games scene where the magazine ad for an unannounced game motivates Broderick's character to start wardialing al
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Have a look at the actual posts to realize why they were flagged. Had they not been, this page would be less than 5% non-cranks. Even as it is, it's hard to break 10%. Sadly, this seems to have become a flamebait/trollbait/cr
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
All the legitimate studies that did not find masks to be effective had glaring omissions, such as adherence to guidelines. Would you wear the mask properly or let it droop? E.g. from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles&#x2
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
This is provably untrue disinformation.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I agree about the response. From a Bayesian perspective, our priors were that society would respond better, and that the pandemic wouldn't be politicized (much.) Something I find of interest is the set of all conjectures whose Bayesian
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Do not confuse silence with absence. Also, that weird-looking fella in the corner with the bits and vectors sticking out is not really representative.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I suspect it's because of the feeling that the world has gone much further off the deep end since then. In 2017 it still felt salvageable. If the world is screwed, NN isn't as big a deal.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I don't think we disagree here, unless you saw some pro-Ukraine 2024 ads. It's not about left and right. To demagogues, ideologies are just tools of the trade.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
They're usually not filtering pro-left or pro-right. They're filtering pro-Russian-faction within the left and right. This usually means extremists that used to have no hope of winning in the pre-Internet days. These factions ar
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest. The net, filtered result is what's in their interest. That leaves "mutual assured dialogue destruction" as the only option, IMO.
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
I think we actually need more bots discussing politics online. Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. The only way to salvage democracy is to bring it back offline. Online, it was undermined by troll far
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Eh, no one really has any idea what production functions will look like in 30 years (assuming no mass extinction of any kind.) The more interesting question is another. Half the population has IQ<100. Assume a full-demagogy world where a
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
OK, will do. I was just imitating others that seem to be doing the same. Is there such a thing as an acceptable number of accounts per year? (Not fond of the karma system.)
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by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Gaza was heartbreaking, but the story was amplified in the US to suppress progressive turnout. I think I saw the same fingerprints on both sides. Either way, the Battle of Oil is mostly over. The ME is increasingly irrelevant. Arab leaders