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by knzhou 7y ago
I'm not advocating for anything, I am describing what already happens and why it is pragmatic. Look, in a perfect world, maybe there would be a police officer ready to spend all day scouring the flea markets for my stolen bike, the sec
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by knzhou 7y ago
> uh, idk, try and look for it on Craigslist, eBay, and the local flee market? How much free time do you think these guys have? They have a full time job, you know. My dad likes to tell this story: when he was my age, his bike would get
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by knzhou 7y ago
I prefer to focus on the concrete actions that individuals do. In this news story, Facebook is not exerting any influence beyond what 10,000 residents of Menlo Park would have (in fact, probably far less), so there is no need to bring in ex
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by knzhou 7y ago
> Which is that typically the police don't give a single shit about stolen bikes or anything like that unless you're rich or, apparently, Facebook. The poor already have weaker property rights than the rich, because if they wer
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by knzhou 7y ago
Have you ever lived in these places? I have. Nobody is starving. The place is a little cheap, perhaps, but that means that it's only 10 times richer than what my parents and their parents had growing up -- and they weren't starv
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by knzhou 7y ago
> What should a large company do in this case? If you pay, it's "sinister". If you don't pay, it's "parasitic". If you get your own, it's "mercenary". In all cases it is "dystopian&q
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by knzhou 7y ago
I've had stuff stolen from me plenty of times, and the police never cared because there was nothing they could do about it. My stuff was here, now it isn't, what are they supposed to do? Obviously it's different if the owner
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by knzhou 7y ago
In the first 2/3 I just list a representative selection of direct quotes. In the last 1/3 I give my opinion and make it clear that it is my personal opinion. That's how journalism should work, my whole point is that it's
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by knzhou 7y ago
I also object to associating everything bad with "corporations". This particular article is almost falling over with spin because its single author wrote it that way. > Why can’t Facebook keep track of its own bikes? Cops don’t
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by knzhou 7y ago
This article is an interesting example of using careful wording to paint one side as maximally sympathetic and the other as maximally unsympathetic. It's the kind of thing that should be read in high school classes to help train critic
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by knzhou 7y ago
You could train a knzhou to do it.
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by knzhou 7y ago
Yeah, this is classic neural network hype. I wish there were a way to automatically copy-paste my usual comment on trusting the MIT Tech Review, and especially its Emerging Technologies column, whenever such a link is submitted.
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by knzhou 7y ago
Because if you take superdeterminism seriously, you can't do science. Sure, it is logically possible that the world runs on classical mechanics, but that random factors in the light emitted from opposite ends of the observable universe
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by knzhou 7y ago
Sure, but I don't think theoretical guarantees are that important in practice. When I solve math problems, I don't personally use methods with such guarantees. Mathematica has certain guarantees for evaluating integrals, but that
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by knzhou 7y ago
I meant from the perspective of tech employees that have to decide whether to add this kind of monitoring.
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by knzhou 7y ago
As always in big tech, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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by knzhou 7y ago
You can check my website, which I linked above, for several papers and a dissertation. I'm not talking about any of "my" "theories" at all, I'm just describing a bit of what has been done in the past century by
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by knzhou 7y ago
I think this illustrates one of the preconceptions this challenge is meant to work against. Namely, people think of coordinate bashing as "computational" and purely synthetic/geometric solutions as "insightful". But
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by knzhou 7y ago
de Broglie-Bohm has the same problems as usual for such theories. I wrote an article once [0] about such things and I'll just quote from it. > To understand the working physicist’s position, it is useful to consider pilot wave theor
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by knzhou 7y ago
Physicist here. This is just self-congratulatory nonsense. Though I shouldn't be surprised, because I originally signed up for this site to comment against some other self-congratulatory nonsense. Quantum mechanics is built on extraord
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by knzhou 7y ago
This kind of conspiratorial thinking is precisely the problem. There is a constant avalanche of papers being published on interpretations of quantum mechanics, in my mind, too many. To believe that Sean Carroll is the only person thinking a
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by knzhou 7y ago
This is exactly demonstrating my point. When smart people disagree with you over the answer, it's not because they're misunderstanding the question -- it's because they are not aware that Monty must reveal a goat, which is
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by knzhou 7y ago
> What if you could pipe enough direct sunlight from outside, into the chamber? Isn't this just called a window? If you're at the point where you're using soil from outside and sunlight from outside, to support a tiny devi
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by knzhou 7y ago
Sure, if you fix the motivations it's easy, but that's missing the point of the problem -- the only reason it generates so much disagreement between smart people is that people make different implicit assumptions about the motiv
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by knzhou 7y ago
I'm gonna pile on the hundreds of comments already existing and say that the real key to the Monty Hall problem isn't about pure probability, it's about human interaction. The answer can be either 1/2 or 1/3 depen
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by knzhou 7y ago
TED talks were never a good signal of credibility.
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Back when I was at MIT, the shiny Media Lab building was right across the street from my room. We told a lot of stories about it, usually starting with some variant of "as you all know, the Media Lab is the coolest place in the world&q
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by knzhou 7y ago
In the media, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If tech companies weren't removing violent content, there would be twice as many articles complaining about it. For any choice, whether it's a blanket poli
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by knzhou 7y ago
America actually is unique among countries. I could move to Japan, but I'll never be Japanese; I could also move to Denmark, but I'll never be a Dane. But I moved to America and now I am American. The vast majority of countries do
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by knzhou 7y ago
I use a few giant PDF files that total up to 1500 pages and 600000 words. They are made with plain LaTeX and no special tools. [0] To me the main choice you make for a knowledge base is the linking structure: do you want just an unorganized

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