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by pcrh 4y ago
It's intriguing. GDP per capita comparisons between the US and Europe would suggest that almost all of Europe should have a lower standard of living than the US. However, this is not the experience of people who have lived in both plac
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by pcrh 4y ago
Having been in both the UK and Bay Area, I agree with your points about VCs. However, the average age of tech founders in the US is older than you might expect, being well above 40yrs. Experience does count for something.
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by pcrh 4y ago
SpaceX?
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by pcrh 4y ago
It's more likely that the "value" of income in the US is overestimated in international comparisons. If one compares not only lifespan, but also other measures of human health and experience, the differences between US states
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by pcrh 4y ago
Anyone who has spent time in both places will recognize this comparison as self-evidently flawed, probably for reasons underlying the statistical methods used. A comparison of the human development index between US States and European count
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Ask the Oracle (ChatGPT and Chemistry)(science.org)
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by pcrh 4y ago
It isn't just the nature of rail travel that has changed. The internet has changed travel forever; as mentioned in the article, Paul Theroux set out with only a few books to guide him, today he would have pictures of sites all along th
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by pcrh 4y ago
Cooperation per se doesn't result in pressure to evolve, unless it is cooperation against an outside competitor, see for example herd animals or the care of offspring. Hence the reasoning above that the human intelligence evolved in
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by pcrh 4y ago
Evolution is frequently driven by competition between members of the same species, independent of resources available. Witness the elaborate feathers of many birds of paradise which evolved to secure mating partners, or the antlers of deer
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by pcrh 4y ago
Sure, cooperation would be helped by intelligence. However, evolution only occurs under selective pressure, and would cooperation (which reduces pressure) require great intelligence? Cooperation exists widely in the animal kingdom. The ques
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by pcrh 4y ago
Inter-tribal conflict is a constant feature of human behaviour.
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by pcrh 4y ago
In that vein, I remember reading somewhere a proposal that the force driving the evolution of human intelligence was human-to-human competition, since humans don't need as much intelligence as they have to out-smart any other species.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Well... a probability of zero is self-evidently incorrect.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Humans have been cultivating perennials for just as long as annuals. It's why we have so many varieties of olive trees, apple trees, etc.
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by pcrh 4y ago
>ALL human civilizations and tribes had animal foods as a part of their diet. There is not a single tribe that survived on plants alone. FYI, India contains about 280 million vegetarians.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Thanks, the explanation of jokes was very interesting, although both GPTs made the wrong interpretation of the goat/toga party joke. The joke is that the speaker thought it was a "goat party", not a "toga party" (ra
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by pcrh 4y ago
Your Bayesian estimations make no sense. When the alternative is that it is the daughter who survived to 98 (which is already old) rather than the mother surviving to 122, the question should be phrased as "if you are older than 98 wha
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by pcrh 4y ago
It's interesting to compare this "sound-talk" that parrots can easily accomplish with the obviously greater intelligence of apes, who can't reproduce human sounds, with the debate over whether chatGPT is intelligent or n
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by pcrh 4y ago
Indeed, it recognised that being "European" was more than a geographical concept. Note that in 2014 it was "Euro-maiden" not NATO-maiden, or West-maiden.
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by pcrh 4y ago
>There's no 'average european culture Where do you live? Are you not aware that there is a very active and ongoing war in Europe which was triggered by the desire of a certain country to be more "European", and opposi
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by pcrh 4y ago
Neat! What are the "real world" uses for this kind of mathematics?
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by pcrh 4y ago
Thanks for doing that! It isn't very helpful, though. Adobe has a method of compressing pdf files that is quite effective while retaining the quality of images, etc, e.g. 50 MB to 3 MB, so you can now email it. However you can only use
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by pcrh 4y ago
User: How do I fix large pdf files? ChatGPT: delete system32
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by pcrh 4y ago
Both steel and quartz have a mohs hardness of about 7.... just sayin'
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by pcrh 4y ago
Awesome! I found this site which tracks current amateur radio balloons: https://habhub.org/
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by pcrh 4y ago
Interesting, that might explain the fairly low level of income at which cognitive ability and income correlated in the OP (under US$ 57K).
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by pcrh 4y ago
An important aspect of these findings that might be overlooked is the relatively low level of income at which the association of cognitive ability and earnings plateau. In Figs 3 and 4 the plateau starts at about SEK 600,000, or US$ 57,000.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Quite. An important part of meeting notes is to establish what decisions had been made, and by whom. Most formal meetings start with approval of the minutes of the previous meeting.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Looks great! I would completely dig living in such place.
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I like how the SA observatory is known as Meerkat, given the comedic stance they take when on guard. Otherwise, I always found favour (regrettably) with the argument that the amount of energy needed to transmit a signal across the galaxy wa

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