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by jotakami 7y ago
If only as young people we could recognize how important it is for society as a whole that people continue to become parents... then we might not resent the unfairness.
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by jotakami 7y ago
I’m way more productive than before I became a parent because fatherhood triggered a cascade of positive lifestyle changes and priority rearrangements. You could argue that non-parents are better employees, all else equal . But all else is
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by jotakami 7y ago
Yeah kamaal’s comment on that thread shows just how insanely terse Perl can be... truly the king of one-liners
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by jotakami 7y ago
Oh man, this brings back memories... when this article was written, I was a high school freshman, and I had just bought Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days so I could learn how to write my own custom CGI scripts for my geeky personal webpage
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by jotakami 7y ago
My wife is Japanese and I’ve spent a few years living there. We also have a child, so I’ve experienced many of the differences in American and Japanese parenting styles. When I read this article, I don’t see amae as something uniquely Jap
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by jotakami 7y ago
Usually I would agree with you but this is an intriguing concept. They explicitly state in the white paper that this is an experiment, so treat it as such. All I’m hearing is a lot of “contempt prior to investigation”.
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by jotakami 7y ago
You probably could have left out all but the last paragraph and made your point haha... but thanks for that quote. It’s almost like you need to climb the Dunning-Kruger curve at least once in a specific domain before you can realize when yo
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by jotakami 7y ago
Aren’t all inferences based on abstraction, and all abstractions based on experience? Would it not be more correct to say that the difference here is degree rather than kind, where the intuitive types just have brains that are more active i
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by jotakami 7y ago
Ever try trading futures basis and spreads? I was killing it in mid-2018 in that space, although I got cocky and used my winnings to make foolish leveraged bets that did not end well.
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by jotakami 7y ago
Back in 2017/2018, not at all surprising. I don’t see that kind of opportunity in the crypto markets anymore though, they’ve gotten a lot more efficient. Used to be able to scalp 1% on big price moves in altcoin futures at least once a
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by jotakami 7y ago
Depends on the nature of the trades. If you are hedging and maintaining a delta-neutral position (very common situation for market makers and arbitrageurs) then technically your trades are part of a straddle, which is reported separately fr
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by jotakami 7y ago
Yeah we are working on that
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by jotakami 7y ago
The argument is not that a peer group affects all members in the same way, but that the effect of the peer group is dominant.
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by jotakami 7y ago
The book I mentioned addresses that. It’s a quick read, highly recommended.
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by jotakami 7y ago
True, and thank you for the correction. Can’t do much about genes after a child is born though...
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by jotakami 7y ago
There’s a difference between “one factor that explains everything” and a dominant factor that explains most of the variation.
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by jotakami 7y ago
My son started kindergarten this year, and unfortunately we are zoned into one of the worst schools in the district. He’s a bright kid, already knows everything they would teach him, so we weren’t concerned about academics, but let me tell
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by jotakami 7y ago
The parachute paper says this, which I think is their “punchline”: When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood
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by jotakami 7y ago
Too slow to make the connection here... can you explain your reasoning?
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by jotakami 7y ago
Thank you for substantially raising the mean thoughtfulness of the comments in this thread.
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by jotakami 7y ago
Fortunately, we get asymmetric security through laws and criminal punishment rather than machine gun bunkers. Also, MR=MC doesn’t imply that wealth is never created, it just means that it can’t be created purely through exchanging commoditi
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by jotakami 7y ago
Bribing outside of the system (i.e. in real life) could be a tremendous coordination and logistical challenge, especially given the amounts needed to make these attacks profitable. Smart contracts can make all of that trivially easy. It’s l
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by jotakami 7y ago
I don’t think you understand. The arbitrage bots aren’t exploiting poorly written contracts, they are capturing free value that users of a dApp have opened up. This free value is available to miners as well, and could be used to subsidize a
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by jotakami 7y ago
This is what I was thinking, since there is probably a strong genetic component to an individual’s dopamine production and response profile. As someone who lived most of my life with undiagnosed ADHD and just recently started taking stimula
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by jotakami 7y ago
You’ll understand when I say this: our lab was part of AIMD, so we were governed by NAVAIR instructions. Sked was for shipboard maintenance, but we technically weren’t performing “shipboard” maintenance so we didn’t use it.
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by jotakami 7y ago
Because developing software is at least an order of magnitude easier and faster when the developer is the user?
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by jotakami 7y ago
A number of years ago I was in the Navy and worked in an electronics shop on an aircraft carrier. We were responsible for calibrating and repairing all the test and measurement equipment for the entire ship as well as the squadrons that we
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by jotakami 7y ago
If my answer is “Yes, but only temporarily!” does that still count? For real though, this comment confirms all of my intuition. I’m about to start a PhD at the age of 36, with a spouse and child to support, and I know my bank account will n
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by jotakami 7y ago
Perhaps the difference is in the nature of the information that is being probed and its larger context? Visual imagery often provides almost all of its own context, but the “meaning” of a sentence can be radically different depending upon i
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by jotakami 7y ago
Perhaps, although the automobile has always had a clear explicit purpose: convert potential energy into rotational energy in a controlled manner. It’s hard to identify such a singular purpose for AGI.

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