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by sandspar 3y ago
Adding programming to your toolbox doesn't require a $15,000 bootcamp. The unwritten agreement to these things is that you pay $15k now to get a $100k job once you graduate. The reality is that that rarely happens.
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They've added a big, colorful, ugly button to my WhatsApp now. At the moment the button is covering the date information of my last chat with my Mom. It's revolting.
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The truth is that intelligence is largely genetic. Nobody knows how to handle the society-wide and global-wide implications of that.
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He said that black people have lower IQ, which is true. You are the one who translated that to "black people are inferior". You are the one who is equating intelligence with superiority. You are projecting this belief onto him. Re
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Occasionally something will break an animal's brain and it will act oddly. Ants have something called an ant mill, where a platoon of army ants will begin to follow their own pheromone tracks, marching in a never ending loop until the
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The Economist has a firewall between its magazine and its social media team. The magazine is still good.
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Studies consistently show that liberals are unhappier and more mentally ill than conservatives. There was even a big Gallup poll about it this month. One of the floated reasons is that liberals tend to think negative thoughts, as you say.
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Democrats are the rule of law party now? When did that happen?
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Republicans are the party of poor people now. Democrat support is falling everywhere except among affluent whites.
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Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson is good if you like interviews. It's like Charlie Rose meets conservatism. Full episodes on YouTube.
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Airline timelines deal in decades. Building capacity is like steering a cruise ship: very, very slow.
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One thing to keep in mind is that these lists conflate difficulty with time. If you like Chinese, learning Chinese isn't difficult - it's fun. It just takes a while. If you find Spanish dull, then learning Spanish is difficult, ev
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A theory of why Sufism is popular is that it gives its followers pleasurable feelings (spinning in circles causes pleasure). Similarly, it seems like revolutions gain followers by offering pleasurable feelings too. Forbidden fruits are a gr
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Cognitive behavioral therapy calls this exposure therapy. It uses repeated exposure and reinforcement (the same things we use to train dogs to shake a paw), tailored specifically for reducing fear and anxiety.
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Similarly, I've known of a psychic who was known for regularly making catastrophic earthquake predictions. Naturally he was wrong 99 times out of 100. But that 1 he got right was enough to build his whole career. "The Great Zambin
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You're right and I think you could go further. There's a carrot and there's a stick. You can join communities where change happens by force. Think of the guy who runs someone over in his car then becomes a priest to atone. He
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by sandspar 3y ago
Predictable Elon Musk dunking, but I'd like to see other people's ideas. Generative AI is an existential threat to social media. At least he's thinking about what to do about it.
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It's very difficult to admit that you're ugly. There's that quote about how the revolutionary is someone who, finding something wrong with themselves, sets out the change the world.
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Yeah TV America is a different thing. Anime and Japan.
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It's always interesting that people will wait in line for an hour to save $2.
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Of course 2 years of stress can lead to otherwise-good marriages breaking up. Didn't you know happy couples who divorced during COVID lockdowns? It was common.
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Another way to put it is how she became CEO of Yahoo at age 37.
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I also think we already have a bunch of old words for the techniques, like "upscaling" or "statistics". It's "AI" everything now but the old words for the old techniques are waiting to be used again.
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Paul Graham's "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" is relevant. https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html Apropos of nothing, Paul Graham has written 7 tweets in the last 24 hours.
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? It's a truism. They have a direct relationship. There may be literally thousands of studies showing it.
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Fame is a 100x multiplier for these things. Harrison Ford talked about his sudden fame. "As a young actor, you spend your life observing people. Then, suddenly, everyone is staring at you."
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Where else is that mental revisiting useful? I'm very much in love with someone who has that trait and is a successful software developer. They say they want to get out of the industry in a few years. I want to know other places they c
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Toilets are an interesting invention. It seems like we have an instinct to want to shit in the same place every time. Toilets are one of those old inventions that I can't imagine ever uninventing. The people who are around 500 years fr
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Yeah and being nostalgic around people who don't share it is difficult, since if you talk about it then they will find you insufferable. Unrelated but I can remember when a friend of mine came back from a long, glamorous trip and sudde
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I really appreciate that the $200,000 free t-shirts are delayed. Icing on the cake in my opinion.

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