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Humans and machines find good moves in different ways. Most humans have fast pattern matching that is quite good at finding some reasonable moves. There are also classes of moves that all humans will spot. (You just moved your bishop, now i
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I’m curious how human like this LLM feels when you play it. One of the challenges to making fun chess bots is to make it play like a low or mid ranked human. The problem is that a stockfish based bot knows some very strong moves, but delibe
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Agreed. You can’t prove a negative, but you can define limits on the effect size. You can show that the maximum possible size effect size is so small that you’re not going to worry about it.
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The blue zone stuff has been debunked. It’s caused by poor birth records and pension fraud. > In the United States supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. In the UK, Italy, Japan, and France remarkable
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Also smoking has a large effect so you do notice it in every correlative study too.
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> if it did work, we'd probably know already just by looking at existing centenarian populations. This is a key point. Lots of people follow fasting type diets for cultural/religious reasons. Those groups are not over represent
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Ed Sheeran just won a case like this. He basically played the four chord song in court, and showed that the prosecutions’s song was “copying” an earlier song. https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/04&#x2F
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I think it’s a question of what counts as publication. I think that an AI model is analogous to an employee. Imagine I ask my employee to write an article, and they just copy an existing one from the times. That’s plagiarism and bad work, n
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If you get ghosted it usually means that you were almost good enough, or it was something unrelated to you. The bad candidates get an immediate rejection. The best candidates get offers quickly. Candidates that are kind of good enough, but
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I notice a room labelled storage. Why not use that?
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There’s another heuristic that he broke. If you can easily read and understand some code, then it’s good code and you should leave it alone.
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Good idea
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This is so hard in practice. I just had a junior dev rewrite some of my code so that: a builder calls a constructor which instantiates a builder factory which builds a builder then that second builder creates the object. This whole system o
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I agree all casual sport is good, and that physical sports are better than sedentary ones.
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Mediocre compared to who? I’m pretty sure the worst professional player in your local team could beat me and my whole five aside team by himself. The skill gap between professional and good amateur is huge.
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This is true. With physical sports you have a limit on the time you can spend training. That’s different to chess and other e sports.
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I think you have to be very good at football/boxing to make a living off it. A subpar 3rd division football player is a better athlete than anyone you have ever met in your day-to-day life. Chess supports maybe 30 full time competitors
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This argument generalises to all sport. If you want to become the best in the world at something then you have to give it 100%. It will be everything in your life. Most people who try to be the best don’t make it. If you’re nearly the best
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Yea it’s very rare to find a French person who will slow down or repeat things to help you understand.
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Imagine it costs $3/month to provide the service to a customer and the customer is paying $3/month. You can make a good case that most of your costs are fixed. So that if you have 100x as many customers it’ll cost you $0.03/m
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Natural selection operates at the gene level, not the population level. There has to be a positive expected return for the genes of the individual that takes the risks. If it’s beneficial to not take risks then populations will be full of i
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We evolved in the only phylogenetic family to use organised group conflict (war) as a mating strategy. I think we’d have a much more peaceful world if we’d evolved from crocodiles or something peaceful like that.
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If you don’t think there needs to be a discussion then don’t engage. In my first year at college we were all set an essay about why human females invest lots of resources preening and enhancing their appearance, while across nature females
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Can you cite some sources?
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In hominids leadership is linked with male mating success. In most of the other mammals leadership is orthogonal to mating success. For example a pride of lions is a matriarchy. The lionesses are in charge. However there is only one mature
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I’m curious why you bring up the rare cases of matriarchal societies as a way to disprove the general thrust of the argument. The existence of a few matriarchal societies doesn’t disprove my argument that biology makes us patriarchal. If I
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Our closest relatives Chimpanzees are patriarchal. Humans are patriarchal. It’s probably genetic. One female can have about 10 babies. Regardless of how powerful she is. One male can father hundreds. The genetic rewards are there for males
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I feel like the paper lacks a discussion about why males are more likely to take risks. Typically extremely reproductively successful men like Chengis Khan take enormous risks to get the power and status that leads to high reproductive succ
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Kids of gay couples do better than kids of straight couples because it’s a really clear choice for gay couples to become parents. About 70% of children to heterosexual couples are unplanned.
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You may not be able to do whatever you want, but you can often get a lot further than you think. The first few years after school are the time to shoot for the moon.

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