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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   This seems quite hyperbolic to me. Newspapers were leveraging sensationalism and attempting to capture attention by any means long long before targeted ads were a driver of revenue. I'd guess there are plenty of pre-newspaper examples
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   I'm a nerd and do a lot of stats for my job and I would not read a statistics textbook. I read a lot of informational things, but math / stats / software has always felt like an area where a book is just the wrong format. If
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   I think you'll find that 98% of normies think the opposite
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   Oh, I know. There are many reasons why peer review doesn't work including but not limited to (1) motivated reasoning AKA complicity in whatever lie is being pushed (2) no real incentive to put effort into peer review (3) laziness and i
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   This is kinda terrifying from an AI apocalypse angle, though. It almost feels like "A robot shall not autonomously build or repair another robot" should have been another of Asimov's laws.
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   RCTs are really not that complicated or expensive. It's pretty reasonable to ask for that level of evidence for things that are this important.
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1578415/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10227535/
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   I wonder if the author has these things in abundance, or wants to have them. While they sound incredible to me, I can't help but ponder that the demographic with the highest suicide rate is retired men.
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   by howunfortunate 1mo ago

   If you have a Ph.D. you can somewhat sort the wheat from the chaff. But it's 100% not worth it for the layman. Better to just ignore it. That's why, even though it's incredibly sad to see, I can hardly begrudge the current ad
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    I knew immediately this was BS, sure enough, someone already beat me to it with the comment explaining why. Man, I'm so ashamed of my field (experimental psychology). Maybe ~60% of publications are literally worse than useless (that is
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    That's not what the parent comment said though > any human for which we spend $100billion - $3 trillion...would be able to reach all of those levels
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    IQ tests are incredibly good at what they're designed for, which is discriminating relatively higher intelligence humans from lower intelligence humans. Also discriminating within a single human - they are routinely and reliably used
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    Some results, sure. But that list is extremely ambitious. Write a best seller, make a popular game, come up with a truly novel theory, consistently outtrade index funds. That's top 0.001% human stuff, I don't think you can take ju
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    I think I view humanity fairly positively, but I admit I would gladly take the other side of that bet
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    You're absolutely right - filler words are genuinely load-bearing
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    I'd really like for some country to ban all ads, even if just for a while, so people could observe the quasi-experiment. My personal bet would be the country would suffer for it quite a lot, similar to places that have banned e.g. loan
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    It may be that you just aren't a big spender. My experience with performance adtech was that 95% of the energy went into targeting whales, with a focus on products that drive massive revenue (mobile gaming, gambling, crypto). It's
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    by howunfortunate 1mo ago

    I won't weigh in on whether it's "cheating" but it is definitely benchmaxxing