purplethinking

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by purplethinking 2y ago
We're bringing children into a world that's better than ever before in history—that’s simply a fact (by almost all measurable statistics). Yes, there are some challenges, but the panic is likely overblown. As for why have kids, be
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Tesla Model Y is the most sold car in Europe right now. Not most sold EV, most sold CAR.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Something else entirely. Similar to an LLM, V12 of FSD is trained on on tens of millions of clips of people driving. The model takes in the history of frames over some period of time and spits out a path for the car to take, conditioned on
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Musk Derangement Syndrome
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Missed that part, my bad!
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by purplethinking 8y ago
We'll there's your problem. If it were me, I'd look to cut expenses before doing something like this, but they're already as low as $1500. If I cut further I could be ramen profitable on his blog income. Edit: don't
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Exercise is anything but relaxing (except for perhaps afterwards). More likely it's mostly a status indicator. People want to be "a person who runs marathons", or be a very fit person, because in their mind it gives status.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I don't think American culture is more fundamentally macho than Swedish culture. Maybe now it is on average, but not when this rule came into place. Monetary incentives really do work.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
> My personal opinion on the matter is that children are 49% horrible and 51% of pure bliss and it's that 1% which makes the whole difference. In my head I think of it similarly: the mean of the experience of living before and after
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by purplethinking 8y ago
The way it's done in Sweden is that 3 months are reserved for the father, otherwise they're forfeited. Works wonders because initially, fathers had a very legitimate reason to take the leave, anything else would be giving up free
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I'd say the opposite. As long as everyone remains vigilant and looking for catastrophe in every shadow we should be less likely to have another 2008 sneak up on us.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Maybe the real world is the weak reality? You can do anything in virtual reality, while the real world has tons of limitations. Thinking (very) long term, I don't see a reason for why we should prefer the physical reality made of atoms
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Sleep deprived people can't tell how impaired they are. Sleeping only 7 hours a night has serious long term mental and physical health consequences, and is affecting your productivity short term. If you don't believe me, read Why
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, it's the most mentioned book on sleep recently. According to this book there is no such thing as sleeping "too much". Sleeping a lot is correlated with higher mortality, but that is because s
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by purplethinking 8y ago
> And I'm a 9 hour+ sleeper, so I need those sleep hours. Most people need at least 8-8.5 hours (as in 99.999%). He does too, just doesn't realize it.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Good on you. I'm a fairly new parent and from the perspective of quality of life, things are just worse now. I still love my child intensely and get so much enjoyment out of him, but overall I'd just be fooling myself if I said li
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I can second that. Got worse when I started reading it. I'm guessing it's aimed at people who can sleep but don't think it's important. I secretly despise those people. It's sort of like they're being perfectly
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by purplethinking 8y ago
It strikes me that many very successful people are incredibly smart and driven but seem to have the emotional maturity, or personal introspection, of a 10 year old. Maybe it's just a necessary combination for this kind of success, but
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Oh you sweet summer child... I don't want to discourage you, but be prepared for a slog. Try to really enjoy the process. I've been at it for many years studying by myself (not in China), and I've come to the conclusion that
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I don't like Facebook more than anyone else, but at this point aren't we just blaming them for enabling communication? By all means, criticize Facebook for privacy issues, but not for stuff like this, unless you actually want cens
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Thanks, the post on herd immunity looks very good.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I don't think it's any single point that dominates their belief, but it's that they have so many "doubts" about vaccines to point to. As soon as you debunk one they move on to the next. In the end, even if you debun
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by purplethinking 8y ago
That is very useful, thank you
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear from my post that I do not believe those arguments. I'm asking how to debunk them because I'm a software engineer, not a biologist or doctor. I do not have the time nor competency to read research pa
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I'd rather convince her with facts rather than making an ultimatum. In the end, it's probably not life and death. It's true that many of these diseases are extremely rare, and often rarely cause death or permanent injury. But
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by purplethinking 8y ago
The argument goes something like: there are outbreaks in populations with very high immunization levels, so they're not even effective! Or they're only effective for a time and only partially, so it's not worth the risk.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
I'll use this as an opportunity to plead for some rebuttal to the anti-vaxxers' arguments. My wife doesn't want to vaccinate our child so this very personal. She's highly educated, knows statistics and reads research pap
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by purplethinking 8y ago
Can't we just refer to people as a hash of their DNA.. And forget about identical twins.
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by purplethinking 8y ago
>Going into work less productive because you are exhausted and having your boss yell at you for missing deadlines is the hard part. Struggling with money is the hard part. TIL I have it easy...
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I would personally be more worried about not doing any deep thought. At least I know for myself when I'm in deep thought on some subject, I don't notice anything around me. I walked past my own wife on the street while she was try

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