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by niyikiza 4y ago
You may benefit from his other essay on how to disagree: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by niyikiza 4y ago
"Late stage" iterated PD.
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by niyikiza 4y ago
Everything is literally editorialized (first by your brain, then by institutions). A charitable interpretation of the parent comment is that it is not editorialized relative to the original source.
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by niyikiza 4y ago
And absolute power corrupts absolutely
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by niyikiza 4y ago
I don't actually even remotely believe that he is a foreign government asset, but I don't think that's a good argument: giving Starlink to Ukraine is exactly one of the things that a Russian asset would do.
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Inaccuracies and political interests behind Project Pegasus(researchgate.net)
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An interview with an anonymous Data Scientist(logicmag.io)
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Ghana at the Verge of Default on Bonds(bloomberg.com)
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by niyikiza 4y ago
Saw first-hand this kind of life when I was living in Seoul. It's a parallel universe right there along with the impressive high rise buildings and infrastructure.
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AI Alignment as a Religion(scottaaronson.blog)
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by niyikiza 4y ago
Wow! That's next level Ad Hominem & Genetic fallacies
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by niyikiza 4y ago
Great book. It was my introduction to Taleb as well It profoundly shaped how I interpret markets and approach my own investments.
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by niyikiza 4y ago
How about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKeRnsDIiDg
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by niyikiza 4y ago
Alain De Botton has a fantastic book about this called "Status Anxiety"[1]. The book gave me a fresh perspective on how to avoid being trapped in the race to prove yourself to others. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Stat
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by niyikiza 5y ago
I love the book. I was introduced to it by a brilliant review[0] by Scott Alexander. [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
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by niyikiza 5y ago
I'd imagine the main motivations are similar to those of spies: ego, revenge, money and ideology.
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Birthrate may play a role too, turns out. https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/russia-as-the-great-sa...
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Don't trust everything inside the gate isn't necessarily about getting rid of the gate. Like another child comment points out, ZT isn't about getting rid of VPN. There is still a place for VPNs in an organization that embrace
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The author makes some good points here: devices and CAs are the most challenging part although I think it remains feasible for some types of companies(likely more so than at Google). I was discussing about ZT with a friend recently and we w
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Wordcels and Shape Rotators(roonscape.substack.com)
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Scott actually did a great writeup on Webmd specifically: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
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Culture Wars and Russia/Ukraine Foreign Policy(richardhanania.substack.com)
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Are you proposing waiving technical interviews for people who worked in "reputable" companies?
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Rebranding "propaganda" into "PR" was, in and of itself, quite an impressive work of propaganda.
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But what TYPE of happy are you?
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Peter Thiel – The Straussian Moment(evernote.com)
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>>a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace while also being a participant. Like the government?
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Actually that can be quite an equitable way of distributing the fines (to all people holding the currency in question).
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by niyikiza 5y ago
That's an interesting question. The cynic argues that everyone is on a PR mission and that our true self is when we are in a moment of weakness. The idealist argues that those moments are rare and far in between, and shouldn't def
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Peter Thiel: The American Oligarch(web.archive.org)
4 points by niyikiza 5y ago|3 comments

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