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by klipt 4y ago
Or just measure the methane output and charge the farmers a tax on that directly. That would give them incentive to feed their cows that methane reducing seaweed.
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by klipt 4y ago
> Is the answer anki+ankiweb+ankdroid? I think it's the best answer since Anki is open source and you can even write python extensions for it.
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by klipt 4y ago
> I didn't have to spend days of time that I would have had to with spaced repetition The number of repetitions per item is basically O(1) over your lifespan because of the exponential backoff. If you're spending constant time
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by klipt 4y ago
So what do Swedish guests do - bring their own food to others' houses, or just always leave before mealtime?
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by klipt 4y ago
> Large language models do have a "goal" but it (predicting the next word) is very alien Is it though? Imagine talking to someone in a noisy environment, surely inferring what words they're saying from context given noise,
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by klipt 4y ago
It's just one more selection pressure added to all the existing selection pressures.
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by klipt 4y ago
> the value of each coupon becomes more, not less, over time Deflation has historically been a bad thing every time it's happened.
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by klipt 4y ago
Why? Fitness is and always has been relative to the environment in which one lives. It just happens that our environment is now largely man-made.
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by klipt 4y ago
Not to mention that "not frequenting strip clubs" increases your evolutionary fitness. Strip clubs take away your resources but don't increase your chances of reproduction in any way (possibly the opposite).
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by klipt 4y ago
> But you still have a clear path to permanent residence through naturalization. At the cost of your existing citizenship, since India doesn't allow dual citizenship. One nice thing about permanent residence e.g. green card is that
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by klipt 4y ago
Why is it more work to operate two small TLDs than one large one? If the total number of domains is the same?
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by klipt 4y ago
ACA doesn't pay long term nursing home fees for e.g. bedridden parents though. That can easily cost a fortune.
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by klipt 4y ago
Sponsoring elderly parents to retire in the US seems prohibitively expensive in terms of healthcare cost. Maybe that's why Canada disallows it, since their healthcare is covered by taxpayers unlike US healthcare.
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by klipt 4y ago
Not at all, in fact modern society has added many new evolutionary pressures. E.g. by inventing birth control, society gave an evolutionary advantage to people who refuse to use birth control for religious reasons, or people whose biology i
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by klipt 4y ago
> medication is only tested on men That's pretty clearly sexism against men, e.g. viewing men as disposable. Remember we test drugs on mice before humans, and that's not because we like mice; it's because they're ch
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by klipt 4y ago
> If you really want to tackle this issue, you need to look at why men live shorter than women. Well one obvious factor is that society has a bias towards over investing in women's health. Look at cancer research. Pancreatic cancer
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by klipt 4y ago
Maybe, but if the goal is shrinking the gender lifespan gap, reducing women's mortality would actually make the gap worse. You should focus on reducing men's mortality first, until the gap disappears or reverses, at which point yo
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by klipt 4y ago
For example, men live on average 5 years less than women. How should we fix this? Massive government expenditure into men's health research and men's occupational safety?
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by klipt 4y ago
Yet if you point out that women live longer than men on average, and equality of outcome there would require huge government funding into men's health, or allowing men to collect social security earlier so they have equal retirement ye
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by klipt 4y ago
> replaced it with equality of outcomes Not consistently. If you point out there are outcomes where "minorities" do better, e.g. women living longer than men on average, and suggest we fix this by e.g. spending more government
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by klipt 4y ago
Why, wouldn't you want to spend your entire life in a virtual world completely controlled by a single mega corporation? /s
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by klipt 5y ago
> but honestly, once you can afford a house or whatever That's probably where Bay Area housing inflation has an effect - houses that used to be affordable to "normal" engineers are now only affordable to staff engineers. T
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by klipt 5y ago
Seems pretty sexist to associate solving hard problems with masculinity. Women at Google also work on hard problems.
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by klipt 5y ago
AlphaGo? AlphaFold?
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by klipt 5y ago
> They say they will never make that compromise again Not surprising to see this sentiment from a group whose marriages all failed. I expect the biggest prediction of long term marriage success is the willingness to compromise on much bi
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by klipt 5y ago
> There are billions of women out there Most of those are in other countries though, so you'd have to be willing to date internationally ("mail order brides"?) to meet them. And if you're American, a large number of f
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by klipt 5y ago
According to the "sneaky bisexual" theory, bisexuality is beneficial because of you can seduce the fit dude maybe he'll let you sleep with his mate, and if he's fit he probably has a high quality mate. One hypothesis is
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by klipt 5y ago
> plus, even if woman select for taller men, men do not necessarily select for taller woman, and woman are part of this too let's not forget Men's preferences only matter in a monogamous society, where less attractive women are
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by klipt 5y ago
Now includes the Book of Jezuboad!
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by klipt 5y ago
Compromise position: the natural immune system is great but vaccines make it even better.

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