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541.
by solveit 6y ago
Both sides are correct.
542.
by solveit 6y ago
I'm convinced that most people just hate text and that everything we're complaining about is just part of a larger move of the entire internet away from text.
543.
by solveit 6y ago
I don't know about these precise numbers, but ~57% of autistic people have an <85 IQ (cf. 16% in general population), and somewhere between 25% to 50% are nonverbal. So 90% may be too high, but it seems very likely that a solid majo
544.
by solveit 6y ago
Banking on computers to automate all of human reasoning? Sure. Preparing for computers to automate some disproportionately impactful subset of human reasoning, on the other hand, is very reasonable.
545.
by solveit 6y ago
I note that there are many sensational media stories about accidental genius, and zero accidental geniuses who leveraged their genius to become absurdly rich/famous/powerful. I am therefore very skeptical about whether accidental
546.
by solveit 6y ago
Note that you learn to generate valuable things to say by saying things.
547.
by solveit 6y ago
I don't disbelieve you, but do you have evidence to back this up? That is, do you have evidence that suggests value capture at the price of value creation is more important than value creation itself?
548.
by solveit 6y ago
> Not sure that the question of whether we've "tried hard" to understand it is a productive one The point is that more effort isn't likely to dramatically change things on the margin. Whether we know much about pain i
549.
by solveit 6y ago
It's sad how people just don't believe that markets are good at all.
550.
by solveit 6y ago
Seoul, a city of 10+ million, had 214 new cases today. The health minister's rhetoric only serves to show how well South Korea dealt with the first wave.
551.
by solveit 6y ago
Incompetent people can be remarkably successful in a job they can't do.
552.
by solveit 6y ago
I thought we settled on lastElement = array[-1] for this problem (a little, but not entirely, tongue-in-cheek).
553.
by solveit 6y ago
Oh come on, I'll bet you that there were in fact numerous 500-level Topics in Economics courses on precisely speculative asset bubbles with tulip mania as a central case study.
554.
by solveit 6y ago
There's a depressingly good chance that the p=0.048 was p-hacked while we can trust the p=0.07 to be what it says on the tin.
555.
by solveit 6y ago
Straw man. Anyone who actually studies this for a living is well aware that nuclear war is very unlikely to lead to full extinction. But the popular impression is that nuclear war could lead to everybody dying. Partly this is because if you
556.
by solveit 6y ago
> everything humanly possible Does this include, say, accelerating climate change? This isn't an idle hypothetical, nuclear reactor technology is similar enough to nuclear weapons technology that any country with a reactor can produ
557.
by solveit 6y ago
Yes, but I think the question motivating the study is "should we change standard guidelines?" and not "is exercise good?". Not least because exercise is very very good and rechecking that isn't a very high priority.
558.
by solveit 6y ago
Statistical significance is not binary. And, personally, I have more confidence in a p=0.07 study than a p=0.048 study
559.
by solveit 6y ago
You would have to tell your date that the person they were speaking to online was not you. And I don't think that would go over well.
560.
by solveit 6y ago
So people don't have to click through: Yes, the comparison is between '80s hardware and '00s hardware.
561.
by solveit 6y ago
This is a perverse level of precision to insist on. Yes, people cannot hope to have 100% certainty that no gods exist. No, that should not be the threshold, unless you would call yourself agnostic on whether leprechauns exist. And nobody (e
562.
by solveit 6y ago
The question isn't whether high-altitude planes can go to the moon, it's whether human intelligence is closer to the clouds or to the moon. For all the talk about how language models "just" learn correlations, there&#x27
563.
by solveit 6y ago
> Next time someone laughs off being bad at math, you should point out that being unable to read is no laughing matter, and being unable to understand numbers shouldn't be either. You're not wrong, but you should not do this .
564.
by solveit 6y ago
It's also one hell of a lot easier to reinvent a shitty wheel than it is to learn a good one. Add that to the phenomenon of temporary hacks becoming permanent nine times out of ten...
565.
by solveit 6y ago
Yes, but if uncensorability is a feature you want, there's nothing stopping you (other than the enormous cost[1]) from using the messages themselves. [1]: Not necessarily a deal-breaker. For perspective, consider that a 10-word transat
566.
by solveit 6y ago
That's why you shouldn't show skin in the game unless you actually have skin in the game. That is, you should have upside.
567.
by solveit 6y ago
> I don't know what people expect from their phones, but 5-6 years of updates and the phone still running well is incredible. My phone is a computer that happens to occasionally make calls. I expect a flagship computer to easily las
568.
by solveit 6y ago
What's with the obtuse questions? It's okay and even expected to be somewhat bad, but it's still better to not be bad.
569.
by solveit 6y ago
Everywhere else should also open borders.
570.
by solveit 6y ago
Animals in factory farms disagree with you.

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