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You’re free to look away.
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These NYC media establishment orgs are the #1 enablers of “shaming”. How many employees have they fired because of social media shaming campaigns?
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Quanta is funded by Jim Simons, so it seems JS himself disagrees with you on the value of academic research.
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I mean that it’s what VCs always do. Just as macro investors and political scientists throw out wild prognostications about global affairs all the time. It’s the equivalent of a painter doodling in his notebook. Some of them will turn into
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Ok? 1. That’s his job as an investor. Getting one big outlier prediction right makes up for a hundred wrong ones. 2. These predictions tend to provoke interesting debates(that’s probably Sama’s intent here).
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This is actually the most interesting book on this thread. I ordered immediately. I’ve been on a big Renaissance kick lately. You find inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. Thanks!
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This is insane. Thanks for sharing your anecdote.
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MIT’s new mask policy forbids requesting or requiring that others wear masks(now.mit.edu)
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A Twitter thread with some context and responses from free-speech activist orgs: https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1504104905690259457
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Schmidhuber on Zuse v Turing: (Turing oversold)[ https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/turing-oversold.html ] (Turing: Keep his work in perspective)[ https://www.nature.com/articles/483541b ]
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This book is “..likely to be highly relevant four or five years hence” according to Tyler Cowen https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/wh... Presumably referring to the collapse of the pres
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Comments like these are why I come to HN. Thank you.
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That is not the only alternative. Putin’s terms for peace are nowhere near as extreme as “overlording” over Ukraine
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Scott Locklin memorably declared Google to be in its "Fat Elvis" stage as early as 2011: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/google-as-fat-...
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It managed to mislead the purportedly wise readership of this forum. Fake news doesn’t mean literally everything in the article is fake. It’s a metaphor
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Ironically this article itself is fake news: 1. It is just a proposal: “The proposed legislation, which is supported by Vyacheslav Volodin, the parliamentary speaker, a close ally of President Putin, could be discussed by parliament as earl
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Capitalism is ok with diversity in working methods as long as the pay is diverse too.
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John List is a top behavioral economist; the humble-bragging is backed by science, FWIW
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Policy arguments are based entirely on economic considerations. I don’t remember anyone bringing up parties while discussing student loans or charter schools.
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2 only amplifies Caplan’s broader point about the importance of corrective feedback mechanisms(from real or prediction markets or anywhere else). I remember my manager in finance telling me that he would readily use a “mickey-mouse-in-a-box
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The cynicism on this thread shows how far HN has fallen since the time I first visited back in 2008. MA is clearly talking about products that can be built with the technology. Believe the worth of web3 or not, there is no need to talk abou
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Spaced repetition is one of the “mind hacks” that has been proven to work: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
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I don’t understand the disproportionate hate Peloton gets. They have a fanatical costumer base. From past experience with similar attitudes towards fancy gyms, fitness products and basically anything catering to the rich, hot and fit, I can
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“We should raise boys like we raise girls.” — Gloria Steinem “—Boys are going from female-dominated home environments to female-dominated school environments, back to female-dominated home environments—where boys are being told to behave. —
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If you have even the tiniest bit of curiosity, there are users, on this very page, describing how it’s much much more than a “YouTube video”.
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“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel
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Stories like this one—and the ones on FB during its outage—reveal the solipsism of the HN crowd. 99% of the population find Uber/FB etc. awesome for mundane, day-to-day use.
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You may be interested in the work of the political philosopher Jerry Gaus: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/the-virtues...
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A merger of state and privatized power asserts a monopoly on virtue and truth(threadreaderapp.com)
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“Conservatives and libertarians must reckon with the fact that a jurisprudence and governing philosophy that sought to aggrandize the rights of private actors to rule without any outside interference is foundational to the emerging progress

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