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by shuckles 4y ago
I was reacting to your original post which implied that speculative concerns have marred EA the movement by pointing out that EA the movement has had close ties to speculative concerns since the beginning. It's a large, complex group w
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by shuckles 4y ago
No, Oxford is incidental to the story. The term was used to mean roughly those ideas at least half a decade before CEA was founded. Some history is here: https://jacyanthis.com/some-early-history-of-effective-altru...
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by shuckles 4y ago
Peter Singer happened to write primary source material, but your comment is like saying the EAs came from Jeremy Bentham. EA the organization began with LessWrong which, again, was all along a play to generate funding for AI safety research
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by shuckles 4y ago
This is an incorrect understanding of history. Eliezer Yudkowsky more or less created the rationalist movement, out of which EA emerged, as a way of funding AI safety research. MIRI is older than EA.
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by shuckles 4y ago
iPhone was speculated about as an Apple product for years by the media before it came out. Newsweek even did a cover story about it. Also, the initial launch of iPhone didn’t support apps or Flash (i.e. no porno videos on the web!), and the
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by shuckles 4y ago
I was referring to insiders selling at ICO to retails. I’m sure insiders were savvy and made plenty of money.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Would you consider cashing out pre-ICO tokens for bogus projects to “accredited investors” (ie retails) as “taking money”?
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by shuckles 4y ago
This is not true. Large Indian cities have some of the worst planing/zoning/building codes in Asia. Mumbai's FSI (Floor Space Index) is so bad it's almost a meme.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Someone should ask Chris Lattner what he thinks of Elon. :)
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by shuckles 4y ago
Not to mention installing a social networking app doesn’t somehow make your iPhone capable of satcom.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Counter point: I am personal friends with two big name Tesla employees whose hiring and quitting were both in the press. They both despise the guy.
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by shuckles 4y ago
There are plenty of unions that keep supply low. Nearly every labor union in California, for example, has underfunded apprenticeship programs for exactly this reason. I’m surprised you aren’t aware this is a phenomenon. Unions answer to the
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by shuckles 4y ago
My understanding is that Japan is a really bad place to be a worker.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Unions have a range of outcomes for business success. Yes, some may hold management accountable and ultimately help companies; others screw over everyone besides long tenured employees. Suppose Stripe was unionized and somehow the union had
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by shuckles 4y ago
I don’t understand responses like this. They are returning to February headcount. The executive team also made the long term planning decisions which gave those people jobs for the last 9 months (and income for the next 3). Would the right
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by shuckles 4y ago
Do you have any textbooks, course materials, or other references for these topics you'd recommend?
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by shuckles 4y ago
I could tell you a dozen similar stories about every part of the San Francisco or state bureaucracy. Does that mean they’re all over staffed and over funded? If booking a suspect takes multiple hours of work by the booking officers, I could
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by shuckles 4y ago
The idea is aligning profit motive of investment with profit motive of selling analysis makes it too tempting to engage in price manipulation.
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by shuckles 4y ago
In the United States, the research arm of banks are explicitly forbidden from working with the investment arms. So they are not the same people.
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by shuckles 4y ago
This may be the case, but your link doesn't really prove the point. SFPD is certainly not over-staffed, with half the per capita police force of most major cities. Per capita statistics in San Francisco also need to be adjusted because
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by shuckles 4y ago
This is incorrect. You need to attend a school admissions counselors are familiar with. They often can’t evaluate grades, academic advisors, or recommendation letters from schools they don’t repeatedly place students from, and therefore hav
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by shuckles 4y ago
The Stanford CS curriculum only distinguishes on the first digit: 1XX for undergrads and 2XX and above for graduate students. (Undergrads often take one or more graduate courses as they progress.) Most taking this course are advanced 2nd ye
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by shuckles 4y ago
Random assaults, petty crime, and cartel violence are not aesthetic issues and persist even if you house a homeless person. Thus the subsidized housing evictions. And while we’re being sanctimonious, neither are 600-800 overdose deaths a ye
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by shuckles 4y ago
Atherton is way more expensive than San Francisco yet no sidewalk fentanyl dens. What gives?
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No the article linked in this topic.
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by shuckles 4y ago
You’re missing the point. For many people, the endless petty crime, assaults by mentally ill people, open air drug abuse, and more are the issues to fix, and there isn’t much evidence giving impoverished people a shelter fixes that. WV and
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by shuckles 4y ago
Letting people do what they want with their own property isn’t communist, and the YIMBY platform polls very well statewide.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Cheap housing certainly allows social services to house severely drug addicted or mentally ill people more cost effectively, but that doesn’t solve the open air drug dealing and psychosis you see in parts of San Francisco. Many of the peopl
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by shuckles 4y ago
It's way less simple than that. There is an entire political machine of patronage jobs, nonprofit executives, etcetera that form an incentive system to maintain status quo.
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There are a lot of friendlies in the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), but NIMBYism tends to attenuate at higher levels of office since you can't simply move externalities outside your jurisdiction. City

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