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by scarmig 4y ago
I was actually just looking at near hits for gwern and found what's almost definitely a defunct alt for him.
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by scarmig 4y ago
One commenter did dig through their history and called them an autistic enby who wanted to saw his[sic] own genitals off, though thankfully it's been deaded. Plenty of personal attacks all around.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> It's usually white men who are used to seeing any action taken to further the interests of oppressed people as "political" and "ideological", but they do not see their own actions which implicitly require conti
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by scarmig 4y ago
> A logical argument can be perfectly true and still invalid if it is the result of motivated cherry picking and framing to support an agenda or incentive. The approach to take here, then, would be to critique the part of the letter that
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by scarmig 4y ago
Many people don't believe that the truth or falsehood of a logical argument rests on the identity of the person making the argument. If you want to convince them of something, it's best to point out flaws in the argument, not try
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's interesting that your first instinct in counterargument is to claim that anyone making the argument in the letter must be a white man.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> The reality is every device between me and AWS is owned by my ISP. They know exactly which physical path ahead of time will get a message from my laptop to AWS. Neither of these are true in general. And suppose AWS (or GCP, or Azure, o
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by scarmig 4y ago
Isn't demanding a high discount rate itself an exercise of using fancy math to support a pet conclusion? Although future generations are different from us, so too are current potential beneficiaries of charity; and though charity aimed
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by scarmig 4y ago
A decade or even a year before AlphaGo, most people would have said an AI capable of playing Go at superhuman levels was intelligent. Intelligence is a mystery. As soon as we can build a rational system that demonstrates a particular kind o
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'm pointing out that the parent comment has some bad economics in it, not arguing one way or another about whether we should have a UBI or how it should be funded.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> If the rent of an apartment is $500, and the government gives a person a UBI of $500, then it is logical and legal for that apartment to now rent for $1,000. What benefit has been gained? Zero. What if the apartment then went to $1,500
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by scarmig 4y ago
California is trialing a guaranteed basic income, which is very different from a UBI. The latter is universal, while a GBI is conditional. Conditional money grants gated on income invariably create high marginal tax rates, as a dollar can r
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by scarmig 4y ago
Very different preferences can be mental health problems, in the sense that their mental state isn't compatible with a healthy society. Even if someone "really" prefers blocking sidewalks with all their worldly possessions an
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Alphabet must cut headcount and trim costs, activist investor TCI says(cnbc.com)
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by scarmig 4y ago
...how do you know that doesn't work? Sometimes surprising and interesting things happen when you experiment. Maybe goat piss with hair of a virgin seems weird, but burying shit in your backyard for awhile, digging it up, and mixing it
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by scarmig 4y ago
I am always shocked that somehow "we shouldn't teach algebra in middle school because Black kids aren't able to learn it" somehow became a progressive viewpoint.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Murder has always been bad. Slavery has always been immoral. Genocide has always been bad, but guess what happened when the Spanish invaded the Americas? The mass murder, slavery, and imperialism of the Aztecs was replaced by the mass
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by scarmig 4y ago
Turmoil isn't a good description of Google right now, though. It's far from healthy, but it has avoided mass layoffs so far, and the bug was filed in June.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I think the relevant figures here would be how much of each countries' banks' balance sheets are de facto liabilities to the state. I can buy that Chinese banks incur more liability for their government than Indian banks do for th
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Again, China can keep yelling that their way is the only way for China, but there does need to be a little more supporting basis than that. Says who? Running a society is hard. You can't simply compare the reality against a hypoth
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by scarmig 4y ago
1) At this point, the CCP internally considers the 1 child policy a mistake. I'm sure this news won't be widely published within China, but mentioning it is not going to get anyone into trouble. Plenty of people complain about the
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that, not that the article you're responding to is particularly nuanced itself. The overall goal is to improve material and physical well-being for society in aggregate (itself a bit ambiguous, but
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'm pretty surprised that one fell off the front page so fast.
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by scarmig 4y ago
It makes sense to punish or reprimand someone internally for leaking confidential information. Something like a firing could be appropriate. But banning someone or their Tweets on Twitter for posting an internal corporate communication is w
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by scarmig 4y ago
They're different problems, but messaging isn't some trivial thing. And a user having a single unified public view of their tweets is pretty much O(n).
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by scarmig 4y ago
Though that'd be a likely outcome, it's also good in itself. If you have rich, well educated people moving to impoverished zip codes/shitty school districts to get their kids a leg up, that improves the tax base for those dis
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by scarmig 4y ago
My point is not that white people don't have oppression in recent memory, but more that everyone has oppression in recent memory. And if you dig back further and further, you just find heaps and heaps of more oppression, and it ends up
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by scarmig 4y ago
Low income and (to an extent) wealth are also gameable. Especially if you're well off and privileged.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Interestingly, he only brings on pretty girls, to the point where people advise interviewees to sex themselves up a bit for interviews with him. Thank God he's fighting systemic oppression.
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by scarmig 4y ago
That goes a bit too far in the other direction. Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage. That includes slaves brought to the US and the Caribbean; slavery was rampant in Africa as well.

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