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by slibhb 2y ago
It's so trendy to blame everything on the British. Downside of being the local (or global) power; everything is your fault. Probably they should have helped more, but so should have everyone.
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Utilitarism says that we should maximize utility; it doesn't say we have to do so by focusing on "human flourishing" or that every individual must get the same capabilities as Nussbaum does. Moreover, utiliarians don't a
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It's fundamentally not Mill's approach. As a utilitarian, Mill got to dodge questions like "what is human flourishing?" Nussbaum, I believe, refers to her interpretation of virtue ethics to answer that question and give
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What do you think Mill would say about Nussbaum's capabilities approach? Whether or not "Mill was a libertarian," my sense is that he would object on basically libertarian grounds (i.e. he would see CA as paternalism).
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While I think that resigning is stupid here, asserting that "punishment doesn't deter crime" is just absurd. It does!
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There are plenty of people who defend free markets...but both political parties are increasingly against them. Biden and Harris both campaigned on price controls. Trump is all in on tariffs.
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They aren't in the least related. The reason housing is expensive is that, in places where there is high demand, it is illegal to build housing. Housing isn't expensive where there is low demand.
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This is where pseudoscience comes from. You dropped acid and think it helped you but you probably tried many different things before acid which "didn't work". In all likelihood the acid had nothing to do with it; it was just
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I agree with Chiang. Reminds me of Searle and The Chinese Room (I agree with Searle too). I do think that at some point everyone is just arguing semantics. Chiang is arguing that "actual reasoning" is, by definition, not something
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> Does no one remember that in the 2010s, Zuck went around trying to advocate against the calls for censoring "disinformation", arguing free speech shouldn't be regulated by a company? Nope! I remember it too. It was impre
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Hating Mark Zuckerberg is like a barometer for someone having no mind of their own. We've been told that Mark was responisble for Trump in 2016 and teenagers having low esteeem. It's so laughable. He seems like a fine guy to me.
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Hope you enjoy it! It's a strange book and the bees in question are a small detail. I found it presicient (though ultimately wrong) in terms of how it portrays what is essentially a big tech company.
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Right out of Ernst Junger's best book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bees (1957)
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I thought this was better than most essays in this vein. I do fundamentally disagree with the author. People can think poorly of you for whatever reason they want. If someone hates trans people, they can, and you can't stop them. The w
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's fine to question that "great men" are the prime movers of history. But you're taking it too far by saying something like "all discoveries would have been made by someone else so individuals get no credit".
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For some people at that time, smoking was a non-trivial part of their identity. Or even a significant part of what it meant to be a proper Englishman (that and tea). Fisher strikes me as that sort, just look at pictures of him. The (fairly
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> So I would suggest this pushes the question back yet further, why do we (still?) think he was brilliant? Because he (mostly single-handedly) invented modern statistics. Gelman comes down pretty hard on Fisher here but he doesn't q
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Insurance isn't a good industry to "get insanely rich". It doesn't have high profit margins. For one thing, the ACA mandates that insurance companies can't keep profits past a certain point. My sense is that people
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The blog clarifies that it's $17-20 per task. Maybe it runs into thousands for tasks it can't solve?
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Interesting about the cost: > Of course, such generality comes at a steep cost, and wouldn't quite be economical yet: you could pay a human to solve ARC-AGI tasks for roughly $5 per task (we know, we did that), while consuming mere
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by slibhb 2y ago
"Negatively impacts mortality" doesn't mean "kills" or "causes to die". "Bad for health" is a better interpretation. Do you really believe that unemployment + bankruptcy = death? If you don'
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Quite a goal post move from "just go unemployed, and then bankrupt, and then die" to "poverty impacts health"
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The question shows a total disconnect from reality. People who are unemployed with no money today don't die. Even street people don't die. If AGI labor is cheaper and as effective as human labor, prices will drop to the point wher
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> So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return Modern (2024) LLMs are "little return"? Seriously? For me, they've mostly replaced Google. I have no idea how well the scaling will contiue and I&#x2
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This attitude is so common. It's obviously wrong. Humanity is richer and freer than ever. Here's a theory of why people spend so much time railing against modernity, capitalism, and "the corporate class": Humans used to
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Another piece of evidence in favor of my view that pretty much all competitive games and sports are awful when perfectly optimized.
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I wonder if any of this misperception would go away if you found a way to use revealed preference instead of asking people what they prefer.
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I'm not an MD. Jumping from "he blinks a lot in interviews" to "his lacrimal ducts cannot manufacture the lipid portion of tear fluid" is silly. It's like something from a TV show doctor. He's being interv
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> Also, in the interviews I have seen of him, his blinking frequency is quite high, presumably because he is so low in body fat that his lacrimal ducts cannot manufacture the lipid portion of tear fluid properly. Bryan Johnson is one we
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I thought A. ChatGPT said E. ChatGPT o1 said A. Also, the novel referenced (Intermezzo) by Sally Rooney is quite good. It makes a few references to analytic philosophy, mostly Wittgenstein. It concerns two brothers whose relationship has br

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