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by rendang 2y ago
Today I saw a twitter interaction between, of all people, Ross Douthat and Scott Alexander. Two very bright and interesting thinkers with wildly divergent points of view, discussing ideas with courtesy
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by rendang 2y ago
The big companies could crash significantly, but if the technology keeps bringing productivity gains, it will have a big positive impact on GDP over the next decade
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by rendang 2y ago
Apparently it isn't clear to the investors valuing OpenAI at >300B. Possibly they're betting that the ecosystem & integrations around their models will generate a certain amount of lock-in or otherwise make the difference i
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by rendang 2y ago
Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space
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by rendang 2y ago
I missed the first half hour, any highlights?
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by rendang 2y ago
Pretending to be of the opposite sex, and applying pressure to third parties so that the latter accept and go along with this pretense
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by rendang 2y ago
"I don't think people should be allowed to partake in a particular behavior" is not the same thing as "People of a specific group should be killed".
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by rendang 2y ago
A lot of interesting points in this speech. Among other things, Vance points out that it's often incumbent players in a market who lobby for heavy regulation as a way of deepening their moat against challengers.
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by rendang 2y ago
> consortium led by Elon Musk Are there other major investors involved here or just Musk?
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by rendang 2y ago
-kin is not but via your link https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-kins sometimes "-ikins"/"-ykins" is used, I've heard this before but can't think of any specific examples
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by rendang 2y ago
*Almost 3 years before Trump took office. Crimea was early 2014, inauguration was Jan 2017
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by rendang 2y ago
People may say that, although it isn't exactly hard to differentiate them. All scientific propositions/hypotheses/findings are "is" statements. Ideologies are made up of "ought" statements. There is no Ven
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by rendang 2y ago
Better to measure electricity usage in either $$ or kwh.
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by rendang 2y ago
I use it every day and my feed is full of intelligent, thoughtful analysis and discussion. Even the edgy humor is much more clever and subtle than what you'd find on Reddit or 4chan
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by rendang 2y ago
Homeless people are not inherently unsafe. Unstable people who threaten & assault those around them are.
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by rendang 2y ago
Driving in a car is pretty dangerous when you're in some Texas suburb with 50mph arterial streets. Going 20mph through lower Manhattan with an intersection every few hundred feet, not so much
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by rendang 2y ago
> Indigenous peoples have been warning us The ones who are descended from the people who wiped out the New World megafauna? Noble savage myths are not going to help you get your point across.
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by rendang 2y ago
How does a country skew toward theocracy? There are only a handful of theocracies and most don't have notably high birthrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/theocracy?variant=zh-tw#Curren...
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by rendang 2y ago
There's tons of countries where historically "reproductive rights" have been taken away in order to reduce the birthrate including China and India at different points. Countries where "reproductive rights" have been
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by rendang 2y ago
Everything I've ever seen says that secular Jewish birthrates in Israel are higher than W Europe/US, like https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-birth-rate-remains-hig...
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by rendang 2y ago
The throwaway diss of Blue Origin was pretty funny. The biggest miss from Elon seems to be that he overestimated Google's lead. Did Google really drop the ball on staying in 1st place and if so why?
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by rendang 2y ago
Some of the countries, like Japan, are close enough to racially homogenous that the results wouldn't be affected. For France or something it would be more interesting to see racial breakdowns, if the data existed. I don't think th
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by rendang 2y ago
How's that?
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by rendang 2y ago
> schools focused on religion and/or patriotism Being from Arizona and having some experience with the charter schools there, I'm curious which ones you have in mind
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by rendang 2y ago
> the educational system being geared towards these groups What does that mean?
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by rendang 2y ago
It turns out that if you cluster people together by their genetic information, the clusters that form are pretty similar to the racial groupings that ordinary Americans would understand. See this chart: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by rendang 2y ago
PISA scores as per a commenter above: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
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by rendang 2y ago
If you're spreading blame around, save some for the politicians who let in millions of immigrants despite the housing shortage
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by rendang 2y ago
Why did you buy a house while having such small savings?
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by rendang 2y ago
Textiles seem to have heavily moved toward Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc, but I don't see a lot of cheap plastic toys and so on produced outside the PRC.

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