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by sandspar 2y ago
"The people who disagree with me have no good reason to" is prima facie a strawman.
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by sandspar 2y ago
The potential rewards are so great that you might be overestimating the odds this will come about. Even lottery skeptics might buy a lottery ticket if the prize is a billion dollars.
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by sandspar 2y ago
For readers' edification, would you mind making a strong hypothetical argument for why this time it actually is different, from an expert's perspective?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Maybe you're using a strawman.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I'm concerned about the "turning the brain off" effect too. When we put backup cameras on cars it means that everyone can parallel park perfectly. Now take away the backup cameras and see what happens to our parallel parking.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I can't tell whether this is sad or not.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Nice writing. Art can be useful for helping us cope.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Article brings up the Polgar sisters. Their father wasn't specifically a chess fanatic; he was more interested in the power of education as a whole. Here's their (rather charming) daily schedule: 4 hours of specialist study (for u
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by sandspar 2y ago
Besides the mismatched board, could you sense something different in his play compared to other people? Some kind of exceptional presence?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Doesn't every expert start as a beginner i.e. as someone dependent upon memorization?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Judging from your post alone, you seem to have started with a conclusion ("China will collapse") and sought out evidence that will support your prejudgment. Also, the statistics you cite are less sophisticated than the statistics
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by sandspar 2y ago
Schmidt has been on a public relations campaign for the last year or so. It's unclear why.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Great, now do scandals in the US. The Chinese internet was very interested in the Ohio train derailment, for example.
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by sandspar 2y ago
From February 2023: "Sci-fi magazine has to halt submissions after receiving too much AI-generated fiction" https://qz.com/clarkesword-neil-clarke-chatgpt-ai-q-and-a-18...
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by sandspar 2y ago
I'm curious to what degree TikTok could be used to detect precrime. Once a person turns 18, he must pass through The Video Room. After he swipes through videos for an hour, investigators can predict his cognitive, sexual, and criminal
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by sandspar 2y ago
287,849th iteration of subculture is cool, normies are attracted to coolness, normies ruin it, cool people leave, normies leave
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by sandspar 2y ago
Does it get easier over time? I asked the most socially adept person I know about how she's so good with people. She said, "I just picture myself in their shoes." She made it sound easy, so I tried it, and phew! It's tou
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by sandspar 2y ago
Have you looked into leasing your phone? You pay more per month but always have the latest upgrade. I'm curious about it too and am hoping you've done the numbers on it.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Investment in x% higher likelihood of your child's safety.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Here we have OP doing an "I have better money sense than you" brag followed by a guy doing an "I have better empathy than you" brag. (Followed by me doing an "I'm more savvy than you" brag.)
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by sandspar 2y ago
iPad is the new laptop.
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by sandspar 2y ago
The defending democracy team strikes again
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by sandspar 2y ago
>Humanities aren't interested in math because it isn't useful for them. Or they just don't understand it. ~115 IQ field vs ~130 IQ field.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Maybe your algorithm is optimizing for divorce content.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if upper level people tend to hire reports with discretion, people who let them keep their hands clean. Dictator: "You mentioned a... reeducation project of some kind...?" Minister of Internal Affairs:
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by sandspar 2y ago
The recent meme of the unequipped Turkish Olympic shooter comes to mind. The other competitors in the shooting event had expensive specialized gear. The Turkish guy had no gear and he got silver. >Reflecting on his viral moment, [the sho
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by sandspar 2y ago
He has developed a theory and would like to share it for kudos.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Keep your hopes up: they may find entirely new ways of fucking things up.
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by sandspar 2y ago
This is a form of brainwashing. Cult leader: "Will you repeat the word 'Love' 10,000 times out loud?" Why? Leader: "Asking 'Why' means you've failed and shall be liquidated." It's a way of f
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by sandspar 2y ago
"Agentic" is a term of art from psychology that's diffused into common usage. It dates back to the 1970s, primarily associated with Albert Bandura, the guy behind the Bobo doll experiment. From ChatGPT: Other examples include

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