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by jl6 2y ago
My point is that when you normalize for risk-taking behavior, women will come out worse. When a woman goes out at 3am in her Chrysler 300 to sling dope through a bad neighborhood, she will face additional risks than the ones she chose.
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by jl6 2y ago
That’s a pretty big exception. And do your stats control for risk-taking behavior, which is higher in men? [0] For example, do we see a higher rate of violent crime against men because that rate includes gang violence and men are much more
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by jl6 2y ago
The ultimate video game rendering engine.
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s a modern survival trait too, particularly for women, from whom we are all descended.
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by jl6 2y ago
The only way this could go anywhere is if the employees in question had a very clear performance contract, or if there was significant malfeasance.
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by jl6 2y ago
Death is much, much easier to understand than sex. It’s like an on-off switch. Someone can be alive, then they can be dead. The notion of permanence is not something that, say, under 5s, are good at understanding, but above that age it’s pr
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by jl6 2y ago
There’s a principled argument that can be made about why learning about sex and learning about murder become age-appropriate at different ages, but I don’t think the people involved in this circus are interested in discourse.
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by jl6 2y ago
I mean sure, why not? It’s clearly a book for adults. There are plenty of kids bibles that contain the key stories and messages. Let kids read the rapey murdery bits when they’re older.
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by jl6 2y ago
I think you’re right that criticism as an exercise in well-written insight is harder to find. However, criticism as a filter is abundant. Those YouTubers might not be producing erudition, but as long as they have watched a ton of content
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by jl6 2y ago
This blog post seems to be mostly quotes from this original article: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/
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by jl6 2y ago
Hopefully, but I don't think it's obvious. We don't seem to be currently in an era of plummeting hardware prices.
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by jl6 2y ago
At the current price point, the AVP is destined to achieve a market position similar to LaserDisc.
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by jl6 2y ago
It doesn’t seem like an outlandish claim that many waves of humans tried and failed to colonize the world, until one succeeded. I would find it harder to believe that the first to leave Africa got it right first time.
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by jl6 2y ago
The better analogy is to when China wanted to block opium.
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by jl6 2y ago
Why does this model think in Chinese and o1 think in English? Is this because chain-of-thought is achieved by training these models on examples of what “thinking” looks like, which have been constructed by their respective model developers,
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by jl6 2y ago
Do you want to get social sciences defunded? Because this is how you get social sciences defunded. The academic obsession with identity is completely toxic.
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by jl6 2y ago
I wonder how much funding will be needed to observe the results?
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by jl6 2y ago
> what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists? I’m usually supportive of fundamental research where there are no specific benefits known ahead of time, because the track record of fundamental research is pretty good in
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by jl6 2y ago
> Yes, irreversible decisions warrant deep consideration. I think you’ve answered your own question there. Deep consideration is not usually something done quickly, and arguably depth of consideration improves when others are involved to
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by jl6 2y ago
How cool would it be if the timeline could switch to a log scale and show prehistory too, with morphing continent shapes?
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by jl6 2y ago
Probably should be read as "bad actors", who, with enough samples of your voice, could theoretically do shady things like robo-call your mom, pretending to be you.
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by jl6 2y ago
Does this mean that the problem of not being able to verify QC results will go away in the scenario where we have a large enough QC to solve an NP problem?
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by jl6 2y ago
Maybe wearing enough makeup to hide your face would fool an algorithm, but be conspicuous enough to get you noticed anyway.
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s a disease in tech. Xbox Series X, iPhone X, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the X display server…
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by jl6 2y ago
I'm just curious if you think Exxon is the one giving the order to drill oil, or the one getting paid by others to do it. I'm not saying it's OK to do a bad thing just because someone else paid you to do it, but I am saying t
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by jl6 2y ago
Where do you think Exxon sits on the giving-orders to just-following-orders to just-making-screws spectrum? And where do people buying oil products sit?
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by jl6 2y ago
I am aware, and that behavior is despicable, but I still don’t believe that this puts all the responsibility for climate change on oil companies generally or Exxon specifically. The public at large have known for centuries that burning foss
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by jl6 2y ago
If proven, this should be harshly punishable under existing aiding and abetting laws. On the underlying matter of oil companies being responsible for climate change… the law and the morality is far less clear. We are essentially all complic
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by jl6 2y ago
That sounds like a con to me too.
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by jl6 2y ago
I’m talking about CGNAT, where the bits do not enter your premises.

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