justrealist

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by justrealist 3y ago
Please stop making up FUD. You know nothing, one way or another, about the QC in crime labs.
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by justrealist 3y ago
AI safety is not about the jobs AI replaces. If you think that's the context of this discussion, you are way off track.
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So the thing is, nobody was worried about databases. And the people who were not worried about databases, are worried about AI. It's like saying, "Oh, you're regulating biological weapons? Funny, you could say the same thi
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How did your daughter only end up with 1 cousin from your 11 siblings? That's a catastrophically low TFR.
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That sounds like a valuable thing for a coalition of governments to put an enormous bounty on! But it's a collective action problem and you're not going to accomplish anything by guilting investors into burning cash singlehandedly
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> If you have the ability to raise trillions why do this. I mean this should be obvious but the "ability to raise trillions" is because those people think they will get X returns on the money. Your "ability to raise trill
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by justrealist 3y ago
> TikTok has been a very valuable tool for learning about Palestinians during Israel's attack on Gaza and the West Bank. > Israel's attack on Gaza and the West Bank. This is true in more ways than you think.
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Will be interesting to see how the media plays this, given the pretty unforgiving coverage of Elon Musk complaining about the same thing.
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> Dunno what to tell you, friend. The adult thing would be "Wow I guess I had no idea what I was talking about".
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by justrealist 3y ago
The arrogance in just assuming you know this with confidence after a few seconds of googling is truly something. Here, I have a link of my own: https://www.attomdata.com/news/most-recent/do-you-know-what-... That
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by justrealist 3y ago
> registered with the state The government is not a single entity. States do not funnel this information to the IRS. > Those are both matters of public record In my state (Missouri) house sale prices are not public record. > 87% o
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by justrealist 3y ago
That's really not true and it's important to understand the distinction. They know a lower bound on how much income you should be reporting. They have no idea how many dependents you have, houses you sold, charity you donated,
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by justrealist 3y ago
Volatile organic compounds are a very specific type of pollutant (not CO2), and much less important than CO2 and a more localized problem in the grand scheme of things.
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Yeah Tesla paid back their loans fully.
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> Regrettably for the government (and society) It's not regrettable for the US that we have the world's leading rocket launch company and the largest EV company (outside China). It's actually pretty great for us.
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by justrealist 3y ago
The NLRB debate is not really about that. It's about leadership which can only be fired for cause.
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Well. Is the structure of those organizations unconstitutional? If Vice is hammering on the litigant rather than the contents of the case, I sort of suspect the answer is yes.
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He covered this exhaustively in the previous post https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/some-unintuitive-properties... Please actually read before snarking.
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by justrealist 3y ago
It's Scott Alexander of SSC. He's a clinical psychiatrist so he's extremely qualified on this one. On other topics he is well-informed and thoughtful but speaks with less authority.
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by justrealist 3y ago
Please have some awareness of how little thought you are putting into dismissing a field where thousands of very smart people are working on solving the problem you describe. In fact, you can correct for the exact problem you describe with
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by justrealist 3y ago
It's a lot more complicated than that. France has a higher GDP per capita than South Korea, but has a fertility rate of 1.7 vs .7. 1.7 isn't replacement but it's not national extinction. There's a cultural element here
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by justrealist 3y ago
Land and expand!
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by justrealist 3y ago
> I’d assume that the high sentimental value could be converted in a much higher price than its off-the-shelf value The PR nightmare from ransoming luggage back to the rightful owner would be catastrophic. Airlines would immediately sto
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by justrealist 3y ago
HN literally does not register for PR firms.
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by justrealist 3y ago
What would Walmart possibly gain by astroturfing HN? Do you think they are recruiting software engineers as assistant managers?
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by justrealist 3y ago
Food is like the #1 example of a highly fungible good where supply responds aggressively to price fluctuation. Incredible amounts of marginal farmland that comes in and out of production based on market prices. (so, to be crystal clear, pri
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by justrealist 3y ago
Speed throttling means the car has to know the posted speed limit. So will it be illegal to have a car in California without a GPS tracking your location in real-time? Or will it simply be illegal to have a car without cameras tracking e
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by justrealist 3y ago
The average IQ is 100.
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I feel like we need to acknowledge that 12 average jury pool members are probably not the best panel of scientific experts to determine whether a chemical is carcinogenic. Much less calculate the damages involved. Like at this point it wou
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by justrealist 3y ago
> Gaza has a sizable coastline, and China has a large number of amphibious assault ships available. They can defend themselves against Israel air attacks Sorry but this is goofy fan-fiction. No, China does not have the ability to forci

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