rjf72

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by rjf72 8y ago
The problem and solution are one and the same. Google is trying to automate tasks that are nowhere near ready for automation. This doesn't even really make any sense either. You might argue its because they're huge, but the number
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As your quote says, that study is talking about birth years, not the year they were tested. Since it's based on conscription it's around age 19-20, so the decline was measured between ~1994 and 2011. Your lead paragraph also state
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by rjf72 8y ago
This is misunderstanding the point. The issue is not IQ scores are not increasing less rapidly - they are now decreasing ! Increases asymptotically approaching something near 0 would be completely expected. To understand why think about so
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It's very pleasant to have 0 dependence on anybody or anything other than these games. You go in whenever you want, do your thing, and at the end of the day you have earned or lost money. It feels something like a microcosm of a purely
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Please do share what you're talking about regarding some sort of a reversal in the 70s. To my knowledge all declines, and certainly anything that could fairly be called widespread, began around the mid 90s. There was some isolated stag
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I wouldn't equate all wastes. Most forms of play have some derivative benefits. Social media and trash content on YouTube seems to have no benefit whatsoever. Of course we had TV whereupon the same critique of unbeneficial waste applie
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It's unbelievable this is getting downvoted, because it's 100% true and a very major problem in society. I've taught lots of young players and success or failure has 0 to do with intelligence. It's a matter of who can st
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There are lots of +EV (expected value) opportunities in many house favored games of chance including slots and video poker. It's pretty simple. The house edge is x per game. Many games have a jackpot that adds a fixed value per hand.
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Imagine you're making a game that targets desktop and you can only target one platform. Do you launch on Windows, Mac, Linux, or something else? If you put personal ideology aside, it'd be Windows every time because that's wh
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It seems like pushing for immediate change would be a mostly risk free proposition. And so focusing on the worst possible case, "time is clearly running out", seems fully justified. Even if time is not running out, trying to impro
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I think supply + demand oversimplifies one major issue. Wages are extremely inflated in certain hotkey areas with housing issues. There was a story somebody shared a couple of months back on here about somebody in the Bay Area working at a
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Socioeconomic stuff in the developing world is something I think we can learn a lot from, but also has to be taken in context. There's one factor in particular that's just so different. In the US crime is extremely strongly con
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This doesn't necessarily mean what you think it would mean. As always the problem with social sciences is that correlation != causation. For instance taller people also have higher IQs. [1] Its for reasons like this that I think we&#x2
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Even if you take the rather extreme assumption of purely environmental factors, your conclusion does not hold. "Environmental" does not inherently mean "changeable" on already affected individuals. For instance developme
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The one and only reason there is a backlash against Venezuela is because the US is exerting its clout. And, in turn, the one and only reason the US cares about Venezuela is because the Venezuelan government dropped the petrodollar in late 2
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by rjf72 8y ago
In my opinion, this a tier away from the fundamental problem -- idealism. Many open source projects have been driven by people that believed that society would, one way or the other, commensurately reward them for their efforts. $0 and open
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This is commonly stated, but untrue. Here are a couple of studies on this topic. [1] [2] And the always critical third link. [3] The nature study carried out specific tests and indeed surgical masks did surprisingly very well at blocking pa
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I feel headlines like this can be answered using simple logic. Most people want to learn many things, but are lazy. Learning while you sleep would solve this. It would be an absolutely enormous industry. Want to know French, but too lazy (
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That'd be a really interesting experiment. I think the sort that get accepted to these programs also tend to be the sort that would consider just sitting on the beach sipping martinis to be something that'd rapidly become hell. It
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One key thing this paragraph misses is the characterization of this sort of person. Imagine we have a person that would independently, without extrinsic reward or 'push', show up to classes completely of their own accord. And we m
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" > It's unfortunate how bad the state of mobile gaming is, considering how powerful today's phones are. " Pretty simple reason. There's enough games that charge $0 up front that products asking for even $1 up fr
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I've wondered about this as well. Studies are difficult to find. The ostensibly answer is morals/ethics of advertisers which if not already bordering on an oxymoron, also makes no sense given that these same advertisers still happ
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I'd distinguish between first and third party cookies. Is there any legitimate and reasonably necessary purpose for third party cookies? And similarly is there any undesirably exploitative use of first party cookies? As I am not a web
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Same answers on the math. Using a binomial I got 1/9009 for 2+, mostly same answer for 1+ in 150k. Probably rounding differences. Also agreed on asking the right questions. Could be a 1/9000 event given a 1/10million safety e
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Because it's largely unnecessary. If people were more willing to push for decentralized alternatives then world-wide outages would be a thing of the past, short of the entire internet itself going down in which case you probably have b
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We already live in a world where if e.g. North Korea wanted to destroy the huge swaths of our entire species, they probably could. See things such as salted nukes, like a cobalt bomb. [1]. I think there's an even more general lesson th
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I think it's about something much more insidious: FOMO. Today it's easier than ever to create e.g. a decentralized or independent means of doing pretty much anything that could easily let people escape those walled gardens, if the
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There seems to be such a simple solution here that would solve the problems without even needing to breakup companies: require companies offering user generated content for free, to host such content under 'copyleft' licenses, unl
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First as a little update it turns out they did try to provide English language coverage of the protests, so much as possible [0]. As for your question, I think that's clearly a false dichotomy. I do think the issue of propaganda is imp
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How exactly do you propose vote buying would work? Somebody has to advertise it, somehow validate results, and then engage in widescale monetary transactions in a method that would appeal to a significant number of voters. All while also so

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