longtom

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by longtom 6y ago
I think there are more important things than compassion, e.g. work/status, marriage and family. These are also easy to measure and to enforce by comparison. How do you force everyone to be nice? And is that worth it? Is the threat of b
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by longtom 6y ago
Yeah the system is not very meritocratic. Not sure to which extent one can change that though and not sure how much better society would look after enforcing those changes. If you wanted to make it more meritocratic the populations with low
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by longtom 6y ago
> IQ seems to be more predictive at the low end than the high end. More complex tasks actually become more g-loaded, i.e. among very sophisticated tasks, IQ and performance are more strongly correlated than at unsophisticated tasks. The
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by longtom 6y ago
Not saying the education system is perfect, but even though IQ is partly determined by education, science indicates there is not much one can achieve this way.
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by longtom 6y ago
> in general are not robust Sure, but they are robust enough to be relevant to everyday life. > circularly defined g is circularly defined, which is the nature of how a latent factor is defined. But g also does correlate with school a
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I'm not saying it is largely determined by it and not claiming there are no injustices, but I'm saying it is not a negligible factor.
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IQ is one of the few actually, and maybe THE most robust and measurable dimension in humans that psychology has come up with. Some people are smarter than others and they are expected to rise higher in a (necessarily imperfectly) meritocrat
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> I don't believe you're referring to the same statement as the prior person. I am the same person. > that statement is very precise, very correct, and ultimately uninteresting if you're wondering how dangerous COVID is
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by longtom 6y ago
> No, the 4% was based on academic papers and epidimeoligists The figure was actually 3.4% and it was just the dumb fatality-divided-by-cases estimate. IMO they failed to convey the uncertainty in this estimate. https://www.sc
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by longtom 6y ago
> They said bans on air from specific places (especially those that disrupt supply chains) are bad. No, they advised "against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks." Which
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by longtom 6y ago
But then we'd learn about all those oligarchs, abuses of the system, tax evasion, astroturfing, propaganda, opposition gate-keepers, distractions, fake conspiracies etc. ;)
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by longtom 6y ago
The WHO seems to have been embarrassingly wrong or overconfident on many accounts: 1. Global air travel does not need to be stopped. 2. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission. 3. There is still a "window of opportunity&quo
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by longtom 6y ago
The linked tweet: > I stopped doing CV research because I saw the impact my work was having. I loved the work but the military applications and privacy concerns eventually became impossible to ignore.
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This seems to be a direct outcome of globalism on digital steroids. Globalism increases the pool of people everyone uses for social comparison. Small scale achievements become negligible as they provide no sense of social status.
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by longtom 6y ago
Maybe not the weapons are the problem, but the lack of the right motivation.
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by longtom 7y ago
He is also wrong about there having been no follow-up. Here it is, though only about a smaller fraction of the passengers. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551331
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by longtom 7y ago
IANAD, but fingers can presumably increase the bacterial and viral load on the mucous membranes. Smear infections are a thing, hence the recommendation to not touch one's face during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. On the other hand, nasal cr
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Covid Watch – Help stop Covid-19 with crowdsourced data via bluetooth(covid-watch.org)
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by longtom 7y ago
Some of the 392 asymptomatic cases out of 706 confirmed cases (55.5%) on the Diamond Princess may have developed symptoms at a later point after they have been released, but this was presumably a small minority as most develop symptoms soon
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Better Than Dupont Wires: Wire Wrapping for Our Projects(youtube.com)
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by longtom 7y ago
Not black asphalt. Well, depending on the context it will appear black. :^) https://i.imgur.com/dGDaVLz.jpg https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011900/a011924/c-...
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by longtom 7y ago
Grey is also weird for the same reason. The moon appears white at night, but its albedo (% reflected light) is actually 0.12 which is comparable to that of asphalt.
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by longtom 7y ago
> This paper also got me thinking if this mechanism might explain why we enjoy listening to music. Music follows and breaks rules, which our brain continuously tries to predict and most of the time it succeeds. The link between predictab
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by longtom 7y ago
I've been several times disappointed by the lack of references in this dictionary. For example, it claims the meaning of some words shifted around a particular time without linking to data that proves so.
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by longtom 7y ago
How is this relevant? This would require action on part of the poor. What I am talking about is using technology that is already being developed. Namely, bio weapons with antidotes that is marketed to the rich. I'd do it in a heartbeat
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Why modest?
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This finding has been debunked in the meanwhile though. The suspicious inserts are fairly short and NOT unique to HIV. See these threads: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223337991168380928 https://twi
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by longtom 7y ago
This misses innerHeight, availHeight etc. which are also highly idiosyncratic due to different settings of the dock/task bar size, installed browser plug-ins, opened bookmark side windows and bars etc.
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by longtom 7y ago
This must be documented somewhere?

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