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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think you're calling happiness success. Success in the form of an impactful career is important, not because it makes the person happy, but because it does more good for others than mere personal happiness. We've had thousands o
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There absolutely are high caliber people. We know that IQ is the most powerful predictor of success and that you can't train it into people by any known means so it would be a waste to treat everyone like these geniuses.
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That's a lot of effort that only protects against a fairly specific type of error. You'd still be vulnerable to phishing or to accidentally modifying the account number the 2nd time. If everybody paid their bills that way and ever
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I have heard of people regularly stealing from self checkout after first doing it by accident and then realizing how good it felt to get away with.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
A lot of people saying this, but the games could still have to connect to SecuROM who would then approve them all. Of course, it won't protect customers against SecuROM itself shutting down, but that's not the problem here.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's OK for a human to take over in those cases for level 4. Maybe you have some fold-out control pad to drive at low speeds through the complex situation or a remote driver controlling many cars as needed.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They may bring down the average somewhat, but all the East Asians in the world do have a higher average IQ than all the white people in the world. So random unmotivated Asians (I presume you don't include Indians) are still likely to p
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I don't see that as bad faith. Companies have weird diversity goals to do with physical features of their bodies and sexual preferences. Pedophiles are just part of that. They happen to be a marginalized group, but that's the thin
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Of course experts can be wrong, but you won't know that they wrong or how in any particular instance, so you won't be justified in agreeing on something contrary and silencing dissenters who bring up the expert opinion. I'm j
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How is a true integer easier than just pretending a double is an integer? In both cases, you have to be aware of the range of values they can hold to prevent overflow (integers) or rounding (doubles), and you have to be careful not to perfo
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by lopmotr 7y ago
How can your group know something that informed experts don't? If you have special knowledge they don't, then they aren't informed. Your group might knowingly take a risk in guessing the experts are wrong, perhaps to test a n
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Agree. All of these floating point quirks are not actually problems if you think of them as being finite precision approximations to real numbers, not in any particular base. Just like physical measurements of continuous quantities. You wou
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why shouldn't it be for revenue? I'd much rather road taxes be paid for by dangerous drivers than uniformly by everyone. Hell, they don't even have to be dangerous. If you could jump through some hoops to reduce your tax, the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> I would argue that learning of an emerging product and preemptively buying the domain is not cybersquatting but more like IP theft. Or how about investment? If you can see the future, pay for the valuable domain before it's valuab
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I think a few people, including myself somehow read too much into your comment. Actually, it sounds kind of positive now. If shortage of .com domains has pushed the "cool" websites to others, that naturally increases the supply of
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The problem of allocating scarce resources is hardly unique to domain names. Here are some ways of doing it: - Let the market set the price. - Recurring fee for holding it to discourage unproductive speculation. - An authority decides who d
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I'd guess a lot of those decisions are probably fairly insensitive to small changes in the risk. But if, say, the sentence duration for murder was gradually reduced towards 0 years, there'd have to be some kind of increase in offe
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It's a false equivalence. We're much more tolerant of the dangers of driving because of the positive value it brings. A gun is rarely essential for somebody's work but driving often is. That's also why some countries ban
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I think it's fantastic to be addressing crime with instant prevention rather than deterrence. Many people don't have enough impulse control to follow the law regardless of how harsh the penalties are. What they need is some kind o
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The definition of boy is literally an immature man who lacks some qualities. It's entirely appropriate.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I had a similar experience doing some wiring on the phone jack and probably shorted the wires just the right number of times. At some point I heard a voice telling me I'd dialed the wrong emergency number (999 or 000 or something) and
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by lopmotr 7y ago
"still"? Do you mean you've had that lack of understanding before, not thought of any possible explanation, and then continued to not understand but be interested enough to post about it online? Surely even the briefest attem
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How often do high school students actually use graphing calculators to write programs? If it's only one day a year, then they can do that by going to the computer lab. I have doubts that graphing calculators provide any educational val
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Do you mean the problem gave him a formula and asked him to describe the graph? There's no educational value in using a calculator to generate that graph compared to the graph just being printed alongside the formula. You don't le
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No because we already know IQ is largely genetic. Whatever fears you would have about impulse control, you should already have about IQ. In real life, people prefer to have inferior children that are their own, over superior children that a
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You could make castes based on measured behavior, not genetic predisposition which is obviously unreliable. We do this in school by separating kids into different classes according to our guess of their ability. Not very reliable, but it ca
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I wonder about the cost effectiveness of simulation vs actual baking. Time taken for it to "run" might be about the same. Power usage might be a bit higher for a real oven. Worker's time use could be much worse for the simula
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What private information? If you give a random website your email address or phone number, it's not private anymore and you're the one who released the secret. Unless they promised to keep it private in a legally binding way, in w
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That response doesn't make sense (normal people can risk lives but billionaires can't?). What does make sense is the fact that daily driving produces lots of economic value in the short term which manned space travel doesn't.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Prewar. Since everybody knows what that means instead of these weird Latin words. It's even worse because the choice of language contains information about which war it refers to! Latin for the American civil war and English for WWII.

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