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by naveen99 3y ago
you can absolutely create a standard test with predicting power on success as a software engineer. Real Law isn’t standardized either, neither is real medicine. They are partly art as well.
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by naveen99 3y ago
There are a 140k premed first year college students. That number itself would be larger without the MCAT hanging at the end of the road, if med schools relied on haphazard interviews alone without the MCAT. There are 5 million college stud
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by naveen99 3y ago
Maybe there should be a standardized test for software engineers like the LSAT or MCAT. there are just too many software students every year now to filter the top 200k or so out of 2 million using interviews. Who has the time or interest f
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by naveen99 3y ago
My 5 year old learned to tolerate onions in his food. Plenty of low level intolerance can be squashed with simple guided exposure.
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by naveen99 3y ago
While there are more residency spots that graduating medical students in the us every year, they do have to compete with foreign grads, of which there are more than enough. So the us grads can’t be completely and openly incompetent. So so
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by naveen99 3y ago
Don’t contracts have to be two sided ? Like a promise to donate no strings attached, and then not donating is no breach of contract. If there are strings attached to donation and the other side promises signs off on the strings, then you
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by naveen99 3y ago
> The younger generations are significantly fewer in number, they will need fewer apartments to live in. Not necessarily, living space per person could increase faster. > all funded through mortgages All promised future work is debt
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by naveen99 3y ago
Same reason company executives and employees still collect a paycheck. Shareholders have the power to appoint new company executives which has some value.
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by naveen99 3y ago
How do you do double entry accounting of paid time off ? In the end the employee is paying themselves out of payments they got for working some other time. Paid time off makes as much sense as making energy from not doing work instead of s
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by naveen99 3y ago
interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_dynamics time as a dimension is hard to reconcile with entropy and quantum mechanics. And it allows for unintuitive ideas like the expansion of space-time over t
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by naveen99 3y ago
That might only help against weaker opponents. Also if stronger opponents adopt the same strategy, you will learn less also.
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by naveen99 3y ago
Well at some point someone was told about onboard radar and it was the truth… people lie and people tell the truth. There are infinite lies and fewer truths. But truths are consistent, and lies are hard to keep consistent.
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by naveen99 3y ago
The chess way is to prepare for your opponents best move.
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by naveen99 3y ago
some human will decide they would rather pass on their identity to an AGI rather than biologic children. how would you even know if the original human has died ?
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by naveen99 3y ago
the replica starts to diverge after the replication.
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by naveen99 3y ago
It’s the power to persuade (others to follow you). How do you decide which of the 100 agents is the expert ? They need to persuade the others. especially when they don’t know if they are the expert themselves. sometimes the right decisio
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by naveen99 3y ago
Average living area per person in China is still half of usa, about 350 square feet compared to 700 in usa.
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by naveen99 3y ago
Thought vector models ?
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by naveen99 3y ago
How much time is saved using a car vs walking ? What are the efficiency gains ? You should quantify the benefits as well as the risks.
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by naveen99 3y ago
Link to ai playing ping pong ? Edit: found one. https://youtu.be/u3L8vGMDYD8 I don’t think ping pong bots that can beat humans are here yet.
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by naveen99 3y ago
It’s not like human bureaucracies are any better. Most of the time they act like brick walls, it’s similar reasons.
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by naveen99 3y ago
marriages should probably be replaced with a license to have children, with a separate license / registration for each child.
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by naveen99 3y ago
You win Dailywtf
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by naveen99 3y ago
The patient ultimately sanity checks doctor recommendations. The referring clinician sanity checks the radiologist. The primary care sanity checks the referring clinician. Medicare sanity checks the bills. there are checks and balances.
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by naveen99 3y ago
It’s about 10-15% of gdp of india. But, be careful you could say the same thing about humanity in general. The mayhem of the early 20th century will seem like a walk in the park compared to the terminators / matrix wars.
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by naveen99 3y ago
Be careful, they might start forcing you to take the train everyday even if you have nowhere to go. Like they force children to go to school even if they don’t want to go, because the teachers pay depends on student attendance. They will
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by naveen99 3y ago
Prelife, atmosphere was 90% co2. Now it’s less than 1%. Even if we burned all the existing fossil fuel, I don’t think we could get co2 above 2% if we tried. But the whole debate is moot as electricity is so much more efficient carrier of
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by naveen99 3y ago
reducing money flowing into higher education industry would reduce overall education levels of the population. I don’t think you really want the population to be less educated. Go see what life is like in places with lower levels of educat
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by naveen99 3y ago
Full tuition is still merit based admission in theory. I mean there should be a quoted price for completely merit blind admissions.
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by naveen99 3y ago
If you were designing a planet atmosphere for 10 billion people, what percent co2 would you target ? Mars and Venus and prelife earth had very high levels of co2. I wonder what percentage of the mesozoic co2 is sequestered in oil and gas a

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