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by solveit 3y ago
> How to succeed: pick the right thing to do (this is critical and usually ignored), focus, believe in yourself (especially when others tell you it’s not going to work), develop personal connections with people that will help you, learn
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by solveit 3y ago
Anyone with the expertise to have insightful takes in AI also has a financial incentive to steer the conversation in particular directions. This is also the case for many, many other fields! You do not become an expert by quarantining your
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by solveit 3y ago
I mean, the article says it formed as Africa and Europe came together, and that's not the only time continents collided to form larger landmasses. Certainly we've had larger supercontinents that could've accommodated larger l
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by solveit 3y ago
Even if every problem you mentioned was real, "let's kill literally everyone until we figure things out" does not seem a reasonable response.
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by solveit 4y ago
> Unfortunately, public intellectuals in our current society don't hold themselves to these kinds of standards (which would have been considered obvious for public intellectuals a couple of centuries ago) Have you read anything a co
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by solveit 4y ago
Dresden took literally hundreds of thousands of bombs...
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by solveit 4y ago
Eh, I know you're being facetious but the opposite of bad advice is not good advice. Things are more complicated than that. Which is why even a 20% hit rate (say) could be very impressive.
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by solveit 4y ago
Prices lower than the market-clearing price necessarily mean rationing or empty shelves. If you have a hundred potatoes and two hundred people, lowering prices just mean some people won't be able to buy at the low price.
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by solveit 4y ago
No, that's not what real wages mean. Real wages going up means we can afford more stuff, full stop. The fact that real wages haven't kept up with productivity means that we can't afford as much more stuff as is being produced
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by solveit 4y ago
Wikipedia?
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by solveit 4y ago
People have looked very hard, and there is not a shred of evidence that Abagnale passed the Louisiana bar exam other than his own claims.
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by solveit 4y ago
I think a better way to formulate the same rule of thumb is that zero, one, and infinity are the only numbers that don't need to be justified . You should always have an answer to the question "why 5000 and not 6000?" Of cou
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by solveit 4y ago
Or you're just old and you don't believe in investing. Lots of people are like this.
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by solveit 4y ago
Yes, "hard" in this context refers to worst-case complexity. In practice, lots of NP-hard problems can be solved, or approximately solved, in a reasonable amount of time. This is why traveling salesmen can exist, for instance.
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by solveit 4y ago
> My guidance counseler suggested I dont attend college, just a community college (despite the fact that I got admitted to a decent state school) What's wrong with guidance counselors in American high schools? Why do I keep hearing
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by solveit 4y ago
No. People aren't clocks. The best way to make something great is to make ten meh things and discard a hundred crap things. I guarantee you everyone whose takes you admire also have many, many bad takes (which they perhaps don't t
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by solveit 4y ago
You're certainly not disagreeing with the person you're replying to, so why the combativeness? You're literally saying the same thing (no amount is perfectly safe, we choose what level we're willing to take by analyzing
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by solveit 4y ago
467 pages. https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-01/naaqs-pm_...
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by solveit 4y ago
Eh, it depends. The USA does have some of the most stringent protections for speech in the world.
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by solveit 4y ago
The Last Question is actually the origin story of a paperclip maximizer.
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by solveit 4y ago
Most studies in this reference class (social science) don't replicate, so I'm fine with that being the default assumption.
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by solveit 4y ago
First, of course you can understand a theorem without knowing the proof! Uniqueness of prime factorization, for instance, is notoriously tricky to prove, but it would be a stretch to say people who haven't majored in maths haven't
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by solveit 4y ago
See also SMBC making this point a few years ago: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/college-level-mathematics The problem is that being privately tutored by UC Berkeley faculty is worth much less than a UC Berkeley degr
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by solveit 4y ago
You're looking for the Conway base 13 function ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_base_13_function ).
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by solveit 4y ago
No, it's we don't need factory workers and factory towns any more, so travel across the country for a job because there's no alternative, the town is gone and nobody can save it. Learn to code isn't going to work for mos
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by solveit 4y ago
"Bullish" is a terrible word to describe his position, for one thing. Scott doesn't claim crypto will appreciate in price, which is the standard meaning of the word. Nor does he make the weaker claim that crypto is net good f
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by solveit 4y ago
> rather than swallowing his medication (Ritalin?), he crushed it & snorted it like cocaine. I'm having a hard time pinning this on the meds honestly...
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by solveit 4y ago
> Technology does tend to get cheaper over time, though not always. What technology didn't get cheaper?
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by solveit 4y ago
I mean, yeah. For arbitrage to stick around for years it requires that the person who first found it be years ahead of the curve, and that's really hard to do just by being smarter than the competition. The vast, vast majority of these
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by solveit 4y ago
"You don't understand billionaires because you're not a billionaire. I, on the other hand, watched a satirical TV show, so naturally I have a deep understanding of how the minds of billionaire heirs work."

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