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by sebastos 9y ago
Based on the responses I'm seeing from user lpage elsewhere in the thread, it sounds like you can establish lower bounds external to the AI aspect of the settlement layer, making it "at least as good". So perhaps the optimiza
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by sebastos 9y ago
Man, this was excellent. If you're passing by, definitely give this a watch. The speaker makes the material clear and understandable for the complete layman. Very exciting.
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by sebastos 9y ago
Absolute junk science. A negative contribution to net human insight. >The simulations show that although talent has a Gaussian distribution among agents, the resulting distribution of success/capital after a working life of 40 years
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by sebastos 9y ago
Not sure the particulars of your friend's situation, but some slot machines have a Jackpot that increases in value the longer it hasn't paid out. If the machine happens to hit a stretch of not paying out the jackpot for a long tim
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by sebastos 9y ago
Apologies. I guess the nature of these threads is that everybody jumps in thinking that they're above all the bickering, then promptly and utterly fail to rise above it. Reminds me of those emails that accidentally bcc the entire compa
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by sebastos 9y ago
Your vision for the future of America sounds incredible, how can I sign up? Seriously, I had never thought about it before but just dividing everybody up into high-school cliques that openly loathe each other, with no pretense of a common s
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by sebastos 9y ago
Yep, perhaps just coanda effect with control surfaces on the bottom. Sort of like what the AESIR guys did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVtUCABiv8
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by sebastos 9y ago
The entire point of the paper is to show that you can observe a statistical anomaly like wage disparity whenever you compare two different populations, even when you essentially control for job effectiveness and isolate out any influence fr
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by sebastos 9y ago
Well, yes, just like the emergent consensus that US dollars are worth real goods and services. Nothing is “worth” something unless people say it is. There are plenty of problems with Bitcoin as a currency, but the fact that its value is der
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by sebastos 9y ago
Everything about Bitcoin is driven by emergent consensus. This includes the mining - there is no underlying fundamental mathematical entity that is being discovered or exhausted when people are “mining”. The only reason there is said to be
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by sebastos 9y ago
But the market value of that house surely reflected the value of the view. So in very real terms, you paid for that view. You can argue that the entire market was over-valuing the property, but... that just seems kind of cold.
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by sebastos 9y ago
You've probably looked at this, but maybe it would help to avoid thinking "out of the box", and try it more incrementally: create an extremely simple cellphone video of an "easy" scene, like a teapot sitting on lino
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by sebastos 9y ago
Whatever reason modern games have for looking like shit, it's not good enough. The end effect is that they look like shit. Maybe a little snark is good. These big studios have been pumping out bigger and louder games for a decade, and
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by sebastos 9y ago
Boy, is it me, or is the writing absolutely awful in that 'Savings and Loan Crisis' wikipedia article? I can barely make it through a sentence without getting confused and re-reading.
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by sebastos 9y ago
"Support of the weak" and "neurotic" are being used in their technical sense though, as rough axes upon which people can lie. It's not normative, it's descriptive. I don't really know if your #3 is true or
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by sebastos 9y ago
SUCH AS? Jesus Christ.
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by sebastos 9y ago
Phew - I was worried I would actually have to read the responses and form an opinion on the science. Good to hear that we can Kevin-Bacon them over to "uncritically praising" an event put on by Ben Shapiro. There can be little dou
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by sebastos 9y ago
> Redundant information. The latter follows from the former. It's a blog post, not a paper. If I give you a brand new operator ^ that takes an arbitrary object a and another object b and tell you that it has anti-commutativity, it&#
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by sebastos 9y ago
Yes, you're missing that this is all wish fulfillment doomsdayism. People are nursing some recreational outrage because of the revelations regarding Uber's culture. So now they all have a pet theory that Uber will fail. They'
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by sebastos 9y ago
You can tell that from all the way over there, eh? Anyway, what would it matter if I hadn't? (I have.) The pull quotes from the parent and the content of the grandparent reflect the attitude I'm criticizing perfectly, even if one
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by sebastos 9y ago
Right, everything is just feelings anyway, it's all just relative. Can't we all agree that nobody can know anything because we all have a different point of view? Who's to say my offense is worth less than yours?? Sometimes I
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by sebastos 9y ago
But to play devil's advocate, replace "for simply not being able to interact socially with others" with "for simply not being able to adhere to a schedule" or "for simply not being able to keep up personal hygi
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by sebastos 9y ago
I have at least some sympathy with the point you're trying to make here. I think you are essentially saying that we've all gone a bit soft, and that the modern workplace is full of a bunch of crybabies that can't solve any pr
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by sebastos 9y ago
Agreed, I'm not seeing any protection against simply using fake photoshopped pictures of eyes. It appears they're envisioning an encrypted microkernel which digests the bio data, generates a public key, and pushes it to a blockcha
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by sebastos 9y ago
For those wondering: Collect, Aggregate, Reduce and Generate Objectives to Cultivate Understanding Learning and Teamwork
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by sebastos 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Talk is cheap. Once you select for people who are willing to make a donation, I bet you'll end up with a fair share of actual grown-ups who want to talk about real news.
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by sebastos 10y ago
Fair points. If I were a VC, I wouldn't be thrilled with Kalanick at the helm, even if I wasn't about to sell sell sell. I get why people might be concerned about the operating losses, at least to first order. But I just don'
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by sebastos 10y ago
Your whole comment is a perfect demonstration of what I'm saying. My point is not that Uber has no problems, but rather that people are blowing things out of proportion because they've taken an emotional dislike for the company. S
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by sebastos 10y ago
If Uber were a publicly traded company I'd be buying as much stock as possible right now. All I see is total hysteria over completely surmountable setbacks. People want your statements to feel true because they have beef with Uber&#x27
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by sebastos 10y ago
You're treating it like well-established fact that people's career choices are based on gender identities which are fabricated by the environment they're raised in. Where is the evidence for this? Where are the oddball societ

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