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by jrs99 13y ago
at every school in the world, there are kids that need help with math. Even at MIT there will be some kids that have been memorizing formulas... that's simply because that's how they've been taught for their entire life. Then
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are you talking about a world in which robots perform surgery better than surgeons?
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universal health care is coming no matter what. The best governments will figure out a way to provide that, and if we want to stay competitive, that's what we'll have to do.
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the gain will never be negligible for a guy that had nothing at all. That's who this is for.
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$34,000 is foolish when you can do a pilot program for $12K per year, or even $6 K per year to simply see what happens. There's no other way around it. You need to give people money in a more automatized world. wages and prices may inc
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The poll really just mocks itself.
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Don't forget, Awesome Award based on internet votes will be spammed all over Wikipedia, providing free advertising that points to Time Magazine, and wikipedia editors believe any award is some authoritative measure of success. In a way
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it depends what is meant by "tech."
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only bloomberg thinks about competition with SF.
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of course that's true. I think in this one particular case, I'm skeptical. That's all. The guy says he had to check the PET machine before he removed the blinding. He says his parents showed him a lot of love. he would have t
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the guy probably wants to sell books. so is he really being hard on himself? Or just pretending? If he understands he's an a-hole because he doesn't let his grandkids win, probably means that he has enough empathy to understand th
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i disagree. i think there's some morality hard-wired in most people.
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i see that as more discussing and communicating than arguing.
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you know what's interesting is that i've been seeing a lot of psychopath books out there recently. Like a publishing trend, where people are riding on the success of some other book. kind of like that 10,000 hours thing came out a
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He likes to win arguments. so maybe roughly 100% of humans?
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if morality is never involved in a strategy to survive... why do you think it exists?
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and "usually" of course. I concede that there may exist a game that many people devote a lot of time to that is not a "good" game in an objective sense, if there can ever be an objective sense of that kind about games.
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They should really do a startup: www.winklevoss.com The original social network.
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It's possible that he died.
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you're right. i should clarify that i mean "a life long pursuit" kind of interest and devotion. That something could offer that many stimulating moments to many people intellectually and aesthetically and socially.
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yes, absolutely agree. that's what i mean by "solved" in quotes. i mean that computers can beat the best humans, not that the games are solved in the absolute sense like tic tac toe.
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If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something. Go and no limit poker are getting massively popular. They are both like chess,
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all of the examples here are good, specific examples. this is a good example of both tactics and positional play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEcRQXN2dbg
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you choose to go into it when you see that you have a lot of talent in it and you enjoy playing it more than other games and it interests you. you have time to try out many games. Some will choose chess, others will choose Go. Chess was THE
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If Carlsen started playing out all his games do you think he wouldn't be invited into tournaments? He'd be in the tournaments, it would just be a waste of time for him to play out all the games, when he is certain to lose. instead
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it's about personality. some players do play on for a while and it is part of the rules and has nothing to do with tournament invitations. You can play for as long as you want within the rules, and every once in a while, people do just
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what about Go?
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one reason why Poker is becoming the great strategic game for all of the World (or so it seems)
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track and field is largely irrelevant. Chess is pretty irrelevant, no matter how much i love it. avant-garde Novels are also irrelevant. What i mean is that a huge majority of gifted athletes will not be going into track and field. The best
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yes, i believe that we can agree that it gives us some idea of where the players were relative to each other. but, at the same time, it's messy. and comparing the top two players only will probably not be as meaningful as looking at th

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