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by kr0bat 3y ago
This might be the explanation astralcodexten was discussing [1]. Geoffrey Miller, a commenter, (I'm not involved in EA enough to know if that's a household name) says this I've been to about 70 conferences in my academi
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by kr0bat 3y ago
The problem with EA isn't a focus on objective METHODS to do good, but with the belief that there are potential recipients of "good" that are objectively better targets than others, and the belief that finding objectively bet
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by kr0bat 3y ago
I think the QALY criticism grazes the real fundamental problem with EA. You can't really quantify "good" good enough to create a meaningful measure. Being alive is better than being dead (in almost all cases). Being sighted i
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by kr0bat 3y ago
Out of curiosity I went to open Edge and try to trigger the poll, instead I found the most shocking avenue of product placement I've ever seen. [1] Yep, Microsoft pushed an update that adds a (completely useless) launch app button to W
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by kr0bat 3y ago
Yup, I use fsquirt.exe to transfer small files between my phone and laptop. But I have to grab a usb cable for anything bigger than a low-res picture.
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by kr0bat 3y ago
Android's always-on display turns off most of the screen, besides a clock and set of notification icons. And the display constantly shifts to avoid burning out the screen. It looks like iOS, on the other hand, just dims your lockscree
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by kr0bat 3y ago
In this example the assert is less explanatory than a comment. Why do if (condition): ... else: assert(!condition) ... When you could instead if (condition): ... else: #if (condition)
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by kr0bat 3y ago
Honestly, my first question was "why not use a combination of user-created types and exceptions to ensure program validity." But I get the impression that asserts are used for alerting programmers to their own syntactical and logi
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by kr0bat 3y ago
>Notice that at 0.02% prevalence the two conditional probabilities differ by 97% but at 20% prevalence the difference is only 3%. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Fallacy is not an issue when the prevalence (or prior likelihood of guilt) is h
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by kr0bat 3y ago
>They had a firewall between themselves and the manufacturers of products they review. They would buy cars themselves, then review them instead of getting a "perfect" car loaned and managed by the company that created it. This
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by kr0bat 3y ago
This is essentially the service Reuptation.com claims to provide. Jon Ronson's "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" describes the site games SEO to flood the search results of controversial figures with banal nothing posts[1
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by kr0bat 3y ago
I wouldn't even disagree with a lot of what's you're putting down, but it's not very relevant, no? Even if you believe that we've "outsourced violence" - and honestly I agree, it's all to easy to forg
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by kr0bat 3y ago
So we're living in the least violent times of human history, aren't we? The murder rates found in Oxford was higher than even the most violent contemporary American cities, and the conditions of some of our cities are absolutely t
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by kr0bat 3y ago
How many major social media sites try to prevent this behavior? Facebook links expire[1]; but Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter all generate seemingly permanent image links. Also semi-related fun fact, I think most sites lack authorization checks
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by kr0bat 3y ago
A politcal landscape of career politicians and undignified, multi-millionare ideologues may be better than a landscape of just career politicians; I'm not sure if it's much better, however.
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by kr0bat 3y ago
"Breaking up homogeneous communities?" What a torturous way to describe desegregation.
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by kr0bat 3y ago
40% of new hires are hispanic. Funnily enough, hispanic is counted as a race even though one can easily be hispanic AND white. And the fact that black and "other race" are both options makes me assume that many of these hispanics
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by kr0bat 3y ago
I came to realize that there was a long-standing scientific controversy in the field, and I felt that I had no choice but to get to the bottom of things myself. Although I am not a medical doctor, I hold a PhD in neuroscience and am fa
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by kr0bat 3y ago
When do you stop digging? When you reach a primary source? If I can't get a cheap, reliable answer to a simple question without looking into a potentially dense primary source, then online search becomes about as useful as a library ca
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by kr0bat 3y ago
D) Irony poisoned teenagers
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by kr0bat 3y ago
They used the term LARP a lot more literally than I expected. Although the history of LARP as a legal defense is narrow, the authors share the concern that it may soon become commonplace. Early attempts at such a strategy have been made
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by kr0bat 3y ago
Going from discussing the curvature of the Earth to the finite speed of light wasn't to dunk on the student, it was to demonstrate the increasing relative correctness of our universal theories.