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by retsibsi 8y ago
> And your first quote is a trick on how to extend one's intuition, not abandon it! Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean that the point is 'to free up your intuition, abandon your hope of truly visualising this stuff, and mak
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Because you can't just wave a magic wand and cure all of someone's problems, and because being a heroin addict with a reliable, legal, relatively safe supply is probably a lot less bad than being a heroin addict without that. And
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> My takeaway is that you did not even read what I wrote: > a) I said I quit the circus 15 years ago. I did not claim 15 years of game dev experience. Just a note on this misunderstanding: you wrote "I have been part of this circ
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by retsibsi 8y ago
They didn't say that something goes badly wrong most of the time, just that it's usually dangerous. Likewise, most of us would agree that policing is a dangerous job, even though in the vast majority of cases a police officer come
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by retsibsi 8y ago
More like: if unsold X is given away to people who need it, don't buy X with the goal of reducing waste. And if your other possible motivation is to help the producers of X, bear in mind that there is another group with conflicting int
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in subsidies. In an ideal world, we could even redirect that money towards the poor - potentially making up for the impact to food banks. This seems true but irrelevant.
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> People need food, so fund a food bank. Yes. But in reality, removing the 'contortions' does not imply increasing direct funding for food banks. It's misleading to defend a change on the basis that it would lead to a pa
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Depends on how much good that would do, and how much harm he did to get it. But the_duke suggested donating all of the extra money. That's not having your cake and eating it -- where's the selfish benefit?
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It would be good if he did either or both of those things. The original question was why giving up $850,000,000 is a big deal when you're already super-rich. The answer is that, even if it won't affect your living standards, it&#x
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Luxury goods cost money that could otherwise be used to help the vulnerable and suffering. Of course there's no point foregoing the fancy car if you're going to spend 100% of your money on yourself anyway. But even when it's
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It's hard to think when someone Hadamards your brain(scottaaronson.com)
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> guitar is easy Is it? I'm musically stupid, so the fact that guitar is hard for me doesn't mean much. But isn't it truer and more relevant that guitar is a popular instrument for amateur and casual players, because a) it
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I don't think this is what you meant, but just in case: I certainly wasn't implying anything negative about you or your idea. If you think I'm being too harsh on Theranos, well, my mind was open too until I read the book. :)
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by retsibsi 8y ago
That frustration is understandable if you have a great product (or at least a truly realistic big idea) and struggle to get traction with clients and investors. But if John Carreyrou's account is accurate, Theranos was in the opposite
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I think the contrast is shirt vs. t-shirt, rather than shirt vs. bare chest.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I don't think 'would be useful in a post-apocalyptic wasteland' is the usual definition (or a very good one) of a non-bullshit job. It's more about how much genuine value the job creates in the real world today.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
While I suspect you're right, anecdotal evidence must be fairly weak here. Not many people would admit to themselves that they weren't up to the intellectual challenge -- let alone admit it to other people.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I find audiobooks excellent when I'm doing something that occupies my body but not my mind. Excercise (whether working out or just going for a walk) is great, as are any jobs you do around the house that are >90% autopilot -- cookin
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Pointing out that someone does not really fit a negative stereotype will ussally not be perceived as a positive. Agreed, I just think this is relatively likely to be one of the exceptions, or at least to be genuinely well-intended. Par
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by retsibsi 8y ago
That (to my complete layman's eye) seems reasonable, but is it really much more than shuffling labels around? It seems the 'deeper' mystery remains: what is going on at the fundamental level of reality? (Or, in other words,
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I dunno, I know a lot of 'compliments' are nothing of the sort, but I can see this one being well-intended. It's not actually saying anything bad about the target, just awkwardly pointing out that they don't really fit a
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> You could wisely point out I claimed there's research, and I could at least provide it. The research I've seen tells me this won't help since people tend to discount research that goes against their beliefs, and use rese
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I think l9k might have been making a more subtle point: maybe motivation/willpower isn't quite so different from the other required personal attributes (in this case, physical fitness) as we tend to think. Perhaps because it can&#
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Bear in mind that the existence of obviously fake reviews doesn't imply that all fake reviews are obvious. Maybe it would be prohibitively expensive to do a really good job of producing fake reviews at scale, I don't know -- but s
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by retsibsi 8y ago
This still implies that higher-income eyeballs will be more valuable, doesn't it? McDonald's might not value rich people so highly, but Lamborghini will be willing to pay 10,000x more per customer gained. Of course the details cou
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by retsibsi 8y ago
There is a middle ground: spend a few hours verifying a small sample of the citations. This still takes more time, effort, and ability than most readers will have to spare, but it is feasible and would be enough to expose the worst offender
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by retsibsi 8y ago
This probably varies a lot by culture (and sub-culture), but 'bookworm' doesn't really have perjorative connotations for me. I know it was probably originally intended that way, and it can still be used as an insult, but it f
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by retsibsi 8y ago
A Good Read is excellent too. It feels so natural that you forget how hard it must be to produce a consistent 30 minutes of interesting discussion, with one host and two new guests every week. It doesn't feel scripted or heavily edited
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Why not make pro football players wear standardized shoes during a game? I don't know whether this image is accurate, but: https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/es-footb... Really
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Good point, and I can understand that mindset in some cases. But even though the line between removing an obstacle and gaining artificial assistance is hard to draw sharply, the way these shoes are described makes me think they're clea

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