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by gen220 3y ago
Yea, we should probably adopt these rules regardless of how close to the horizon polymerphages are. Until there's some crisis, though, I'm not very confident in a change. IMO, we should tax plastics manufacturers in proportion to
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by gen220 3y ago
It was more tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not sure it would (on net, and a long enough time horizon) be a bad thing if we had to go back to some combination of paper and glass – like you said, we mainly use polymers because they're che
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by gen220 3y ago
Here's hoping 2200 will be the century of the Polymerphage (some bacterium whose favorite food is polymers, i.e. plastics). It'll be interesting to see what effect it has on the whole food supply chain, as we're pretty depend
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by gen220 3y ago
I don't think it is, as somebody who's spent maybe 100 combined hours reading AI papers mostly focused around NLP and image classification. You have a dataset, symbolically represented in 1s and 0s. You have an objective function
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by gen220 3y ago
> The vast, vast majority of jobs have godawful applications and hiring process I don't think this claim holds outside of technical jobs at big tech and big-tech-aspirers. I think you're trying to say that jobs with godawful ap
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by gen220 3y ago
Did you interview at any startups? <= Series B? This sounds like a standard big-tech run around, but IME most companies that take hiring seriously (i.e. more than "churn management") are not this slow.
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by gen220 3y ago
The ratio of edible:lookalike-and-very-poisonous is regional and varies widely. Would be a fun dataset to visualize. Anecdotally, I've heard that northern Europe is a relatively "safe" place (i.e. a high score on that ratio)
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by gen220 3y ago
That’s interesting, GPT-4 is actually quite good at these types of reasoning problems. This was the big step change between 3/3.5 and 4. Are you confident you’re talking to GPT-4, and not another chatbot?
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by gen220 3y ago
It’s a bit of a ramble, but to give you the oeuvre: the problem is that our fruits, vegetables and legumes are not as nutritious today as they were decades ago. The hypothesis motivating regenerative agriculture, is that the explanation for
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by gen220 3y ago
("We" below refers to the US, and an increasing proportion of the world that is adopting US farming practices). There's a good-natured argument to be made that plant-based diets are more sustainable, because we don't ge
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by gen220 3y ago
You might want to try out Arc if you're a Mac user – this was top on my wishlist from Firefox, too, and they're hitting it out of the park.
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by gen220 3y ago
Just wanted to say, you have benefitted a lot from the last 10%. In the future, when you're bootstrapping a project and building scaffolding, you know what the 100% looks like and feels like, which means you're going to do a muc
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by gen220 3y ago
Beware Gell-Mann amnesia when assessing how useful LLMs are for investing research. Don't forget the instinctual response you have to LLMs' supposed abilities to write software projects, when assessing LLMs' abilities to comp
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by gen220 3y ago
FSD frees up a massive chunk of attention-hours per human in the US, attention-hours that you would presumably spend hooked into ads on various entertainment platforms that ultimately drip into Big Tech's money funnel. Incentives expla
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by gen220 3y ago
News sites can't compete with big tech companies on targeted ads, they're at a systemic disadvantage. News sites have to spend X% of their margin to continuously generate content to attract viewers, while big tech companies spend
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by gen220 3y ago
I think you need a more nuanced take than "journalism is dying" – a more accurate take might be that journalism is centralizing for professionals (NYT, major cable networks have scarcely ever been doing better... don't take m
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by gen220 3y ago
I think if you gave us a hidden buffer of 1 gallon (i.e. we actually have 11.3 gallons, but I report that you have 10.3 gallons, and selectively burn some of that buffer without reporting it), and you drive in conditions that fit within t
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by gen220 3y ago
That's a fun idea :) It refers to the anxiety people have about not having enough "range" left in their car to reach their target destination. The symptom is looking at your "% battery remaining" every 5 seconds, an
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by gen220 3y ago
We regularly do road trips of 200+ miles, and we get 350 miles on a full tank of gas. At the beginning of the trip, the GPS will say something like "250 miles to your destination" and the car will say "180 miles left" I
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by gen220 3y ago
You should have higher expectations of your vehicle. My 2016 ICE car's "miles left" meter is accurate to +/- 2 miles from the moment I top up the tank (80% highway driving, 20% hilly city and rolling country roads). IMO,
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by gen220 3y ago
Regarding the 2023 part, it's because dataclasses in Python are pretty fully-featured and part of the stdlib, so building rich data structures is quick, ergonomic, and helps remove/centralize boilerplate and parsing (aka validatin
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by gen220 3y ago
It's an end of an era. Will Sequoia's next cycle live up to its previous two?
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by gen220 3y ago
Personally, I enjoy the pattern of making the return type a dataclass and make this function a static method on the dataclass, something like `def from_data(self, data: Dict) -> PortfolioRow`. In 2023, it's rude to return dictionari
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by gen220 3y ago
I totally agree, I think most level-headed people do. It's a tricky problem. We want people to have equal opportunity to pursue college, even if their parents can't afford it. But at the same time, we don't want to subsidize
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by gen220 3y ago
One point, I would be curious what the numbers would look like if you subtract immigrants from the US figures (since Japan has effectively no immigration). Stepping back... having higher "productivity" or "GDP growth" do
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by gen220 3y ago
Big tech and big-tech-competitive places will generally pay you around $30k pre-tax for a summer job. But of course, most college students don't have access to those jobs at all, let alone for each summer in college.
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by gen220 3y ago
There's more paths to discharging than bankruptcy. Somebody I know had a medical emergency while in their repayment period. They were unable to work and went on to disability insurance, and eventually had their loans forgiven. I think
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by gen220 3y ago
This reminded me of how MA passed a right to repair law in 2020. It led me to google about it, and apparently the NHTSA has overruled it [1]. :/ It's good that states are pushing the envelope on digital rights – hopefully, this on
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by gen220 3y ago
Re 4: reinvested dividends are still taxable income. The way companies get around this (return value to shareholders without triggering a taxable event) is by repurchasing and retiring shares. For example, there are 100 public shares tradin

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