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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I think you’re reading too much into the word “wanted” or the words “in favour of.” It sounds like, if it had come to a vote, you would have voted for them.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Would love to see the data you have showing that private schools that stayed open, or public schools that fought to stay open, contributed significantly to additional deaths, such that “millions more dead” would even be a fair comparison to
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I appreciate you taking time to reply to the thread. I’m still struggling to understand the logic whereby tech workers, being overpaid relative to those other industries (so much so that there’s a brisk business and a lot of interest in boo
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I have no idea what things were like in Canada, or how they compared to America. But it seems off, imo, to call this piece a slap in the face to Americans when as far as I can tell the author isn’t asserting anything about anything outside
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I am sincerely having difficulty parsing your argument. I think you are saying: 1. Despite the news articles, tech workers by and large are underpaid. 2. Some exceptions to 1 exist that are sufficiently large and outsized that they are ca
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I acknowledge that analogies fail at a certain remove. I wasn’t particularly trying to make a comparison to the housing market, it was just the example that sprang to mind. Any market should operate similarly, no? Buyers and sellers nego
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
But isn’t that idea - the level at which both sides agree the transaction is “worthwhile” / the arrangement is “worth keeping” the definition of “market rate?” Price is what the market will bear, all that? In your example, I have two o
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
In my experience, just having a degree at all (in CS, Eng, IT/MIS, but even math, music, languages) isn’t a terribly strong predictor within the field. It’s mostly used, by those who do, again ime, to filter out against lack of comm
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
If you set a house for sale at the “market rate,” are you getting less than you’re supposed to?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
If I’m satisfied enough with the money I’m getting for the position I’m working that I’m not looking to leave, how is that not just “paid?” Flipping it around, if the company isn’t ready to fire me for underperforming, does that make underw
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Pretend you’re hiring in this landscape. If people will submit to it, if it provides a more reliable signal of likely success than degrees or certifications do, and if you feel like it’s required to stay competitive, why wouldn’t you? (To
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
> An estimated 821 million people are still undernourished (high confidence). > Changes in consumption patterns have contributed to about two billion adults now being overweight or obese (high confidence). We’re trending away from und
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I’m confused - are we underpaid? If people from all those other industries are scrambling to break into tech because it’s so lucrative, what is it you or I are bringing to the table that they couldn’t?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Sure. Except it’s the easier, more impulsive choice to just do the take home work on the off chance it gets you the job and lets you skip all the austerity. Path of least resistance is a powerful predictor of human behavior.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Right. Are you referring to this chart of risk levels at different levels of temperature rise? https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/8... Asking because, while all the risks laid out are
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
... so why doesn’t Hacker News do any of that? Isn’t it ironic that it was built by a Silicon Valley VC?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Not sure if either or both of you are lumping the article author in as “modern tech people.” From the article: > I think this combination would bring speed back, in a huge way. You could get a page on the screen in a fraction of the time
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
And yet a consideration that, in my experience, rationalists ignore at their own expense is that human factors like familiarity weigh in to the thinking of the typical layperson. Many people might bristle at, and feel "told" or
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Can you share what it is you're looking at that makes the case for 2 to 4 degrees warming being an existential threat?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I read GP trying to draw a distinction between “real ethics of AI in practice” and “fantasies about scary overlord general AI.” The former sounds like it would be full of reasonable cases for taking it seriously.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
“Allowed” isn’t language that GP is using; you’re introducing that. In fact, GP is suggesting those factions do continue to raise, under a different banner. GP’s concern, which I share, is that there’s a greater deal of effectiveness that
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Both could be true simultaneously. The relevant question would be: how much more money is not getting raised?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
When you put it that way, sure. I think GGP may have been going for a different point though, which is - is EA getting an overly harmful outward reputation / giving the wrong impression to laypeople and others, in a way that inhibits t
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Agree - the intent of this resource is fantastic. Thank you for taking the time! I do feel like I have some even better suggestions. When I get back to my computer, I’m so taking you up on this.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
If someone needed to tell you to check your email, or stop interrupting the meeting, how would you want them to do it? How would you want to have others see you being told that?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I wonder if the people speaking this way in corporate settings just don’t know how to do better? A good deal of corporate culture is people just following the patterns they see around them to conform. A good deal of culture change is just
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I disagree - I think it’s possible to respond to each of these situations with a clear, kind, and direct response. I think the underlying issue is more that, yes, if you’re already feeling like saying any of the original messages, communi
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Agree. Haven’t gone through the whole list, but the first few strike me as avoidance wrapped in fancy jargon. I think a direct, kind, but clear and unambiguous response would go a lot farther. Followed by a suggestion, to demonstrate you’
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I’m curious if there is anything that, if shown to be true, you would acknowledge as evidence of his accomplishment?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Thank you for a patient explanation. I see that using passive voice leaves out all other decisions, choices, influences, etc. And I agree that active voice is a shift to bring those into the mix. I think the point I’m hung up on is I just

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