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American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'(popularmechanics.com)
256 points by hirundo 4y ago|559 comments
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These sound like expected growing pains for such complex software, and that there are rapid and effective iterations in progress. I salute SF and its residents for putting up with this and suffering such delays, making a sacrifice that impr
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Subtract the free speech argument and a law school still has a very particular need to train students in adversarial debate. It is inherent to the practice of law and failing to teach it would fail to prepare the students. Lawyers need to c
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I interpret this as damage and route around it. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/ Specifically I prefer to get my news from RSS feeds from lots of independent websites, to avoid such damag
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> We argue that awareness of hidden biases on Wikipedia is critical to the objective and equitable application of the notability criteria across race and gender both on the encyclopedia and beyond. Disparity of representation is not evid
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by hirundo 4y ago
Bueller?
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UCLA professor Eugene Volokh, a speech law specialist, shares your interest, and is behind the research that resulted in this article. He is writing a series on the topic of Large Libel Models: https://reason.com/tag/la
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Defamed by ChatGPT(jonathanturley.org)
397 points by hirundo 4y ago|370 comments
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A non-paradoxical variation: "We wish to be kind to party A, the good people, but to do that we must be mean to party B, the bad people."
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by hirundo 4y ago
It worked for me too until it didn't. I'm a world champion yo-yo dieter, having followed that jagged sinusoid from age 7 to 57, when I finally found one that keeps working. I've "succeeded" on more diets than anyone
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If you can predict weekly stock performance from news reports you can quickly become rich. These researchers must be very altruistic people to instead release this work to the public.
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There's a great benefit to extremism for me in this case. By vastly simplifying my menu I emptied and repacked my kitchen with about 80% fewer things in it. I can more easily buy in bulk now which makes this expensive diet a lot cheape
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Effortlessly, by replacing carbs with high quality proteins and fats. No interruptions of a carnivore diet for the last 36 months, 90 pounds down, diabetes and cancer in remission. I was a severely bulimic binge eater on carbs. On high fat&
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> but the game mechanics pushed you toward the next quest in the main storyline all the time I didn't feel this pressure, which resulted in the opposite problem. I played all of the side missions before anything else where they were
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Could it be that one of the reasons that we have sexual inequality is that over generations the people most concerned about it reproduce less than the people least concerned about it -- who pass on those attitudes to their progeny? If love-
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Because additional grams in orbit are equivalent to additional joules of energy released as weaponry, e.g. dropping rocks. I fear that our ability to use space to destroy ourselves will come before we can use it to launch a diaspora.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Candidate measurements of a civilization's distance from the Great Filter: - energy yield of weapons - ratio of their AI's IQ to theirs - cost/mass to orbit TODO: Calibrate after the Great Filter.
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To cross the streams, Thanos is our Boggart and therefore encoded in the training data in various ways. The resulting mirror reflects that.
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The elephant in the room was not addressed, that despite these great open-source advances, closed-sourced Bambu products have taken a big lead in price/performance. It would be nice to hear that Prusa is working on designs to close the
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Studying the physics of the sun is highly useful in understanding lightbulbs, and visa versa. It's not just a surface analogy but a deep physical commonality in which discoveries about one not infrequently informs both. The same is tru
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Certainly gravity applies to both economic and ecological physical artifacts, and many aspects of evolution do too, including its sources in heritability, variation and scarcity. How is it that you can know categorically that choices by eco
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> Real Risk: Overreliance on inaccurate tools We might be able to remediate this somewhat by designing AIs that are purposely below some threshold of reliability. Their current tendency to hallucinate will discourage over reliance if we
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I would be as concerned about the health implications of the sound. The constant background noise adds to the baseline stress level of the environment, and it's difficult not to intersect printing and sleep schedules. So I recently mov
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I enjoy the work of Israeli anthropologist Miki Ben-Dor on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miki+ben+dor He's very much in agreement, saying that the human pattern was to hunt large game and t
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https://www.mammothburgerco.com/ https://mammothwool.com/
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> And to this day I still get emails from them as if my account isn't banned Marketing people please take note of this. It is particularly galling to be continually pestered to buy things from a company that has refused to do busin
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Mediated by the CNS or not, placebo effects are ultimately very chemical too.
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I think it would be useful to play a simulation of cancer treatment that includes realistic odds of survival. It's difficult to grok the idea that you have an X% chance of surviving for Y months by just looking at the numbers, or that
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> It's kind of funny that this is often brought up as some achille's heel of linux but honestly my Windows PCs have always been larger headaches. Same. I switched to Ubuntu a decade ago when my Windows machine started displayin
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My dad told me it was just one.

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