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871.
by solveit 7y ago
Irresistible title.
872.
by solveit 7y ago
It's correct in the short run, incorrect in the long run, and correct in the ludicrously (I'm talking cosmological scales here) long run. For all practical purposes, the long-term is much less zero-sum than the short-term.
873.
by solveit 7y ago
Sounds like it would be great for a bored mathematically-inclined high school student with an interest in programming who is also pretty confident that they can get into the college of their choice.
874.
by solveit 7y ago
Trucking will probably be first, no?
875.
by solveit 7y ago
The problem is that skill and salary don't correlate as much as it should. As bad as we are at taxing negative externalities, we're terrible at rewarding positive externalities.
876.
by solveit 7y ago
I have no idea why you're citing a government website on an ethical question. You realize that law and policy is just something a bunch of people decided was a good idea? The distinction between rights versus privileges, insofar as it
877.
by solveit 7y ago
> or, whatever is the appropriate "balancing" field to science My opinion is that there is no such field, that there never has been such a field, and that we are therefore screwed.
878.
by solveit 7y ago
> if something is both lawful and profitable, you have to have an almost absolute consensus amongst the people capable of doing it that it should not be done. Sure, but you just need a weak consensus amongst everyone that it should not b
879.
by solveit 7y ago
And I like how you immediately decided to alienate somebody clearly on your side pointing out a systemic problem by moralizing at them. Flagging suspicious transactions and verifying that they're legit is costly. Spending money to redu
880.
by solveit 7y ago
How do you cap Bezos at $250 million without taking Amazon away from him? > I doubt Jobs, Zuck and Gates would have said "Forget it" if they knew they only had the opportunity to acquire a quarter of a billion dollars. They mig
881.
by solveit 7y ago
"Kill literally everyone" seems like a poor way to deal with that (or any) problem.
882.
by solveit 7y ago
That's an incredibly strong correlation by social science standards (seriously, one number correlates that well with something as complicated and path-dependent as income?), which is also weak enough to be completely useless for an ind
883.
by solveit 7y ago
> As far as I know, there is nothing in Korean analogous to the English alphabet song. We sing 가나다라마바사아자차카타파하 to exactly the same tune as the alphabet song up to P.
884.
by solveit 7y ago
At the moment the relevant choice is between human and human+AI, not human vs only AI. And I believe human+AI outperforms in what rough statistics we do have.
885.
by solveit 7y ago
Oh okay, I think we mostly agree. People ragging on the SATs and other standardized exams for being teachable is a pet peeve of mine and I overreacted. Back to the hardship score, I just don't think that the College Board should be in
886.
by solveit 7y ago
Collectively, we did no such thing. Many individual researchers and journals refused to use Nazi research, but many felt that it was unethical not to use it if it could save lives. In particular, I believe that the results of Nazi hypeoth
887.
by solveit 7y ago
> For many students, I tutored them weekly or biweekly, for 1-3 hours per week, for multiple years! This... is a feature, not a bug. The SAT is a tool to measure educational attainment, and you boosted scores by legitimately educating st
888.
by solveit 7y ago
I agree, but do we really want to disincentivise parents sacrificing for their children's education? I'm fine with taxing Maseratis at whatever rate, not so fine with this.
889.
by solveit 7y ago
Obviously both are bad, but if you had to choose (and you kind of do, because admissions is zero-sum in the short term), you should incentivise good character.
890.
by solveit 7y ago
And all that secrecy should go burn in a fire. Colleges have more impact than many government institutions, and they certainly take in a lot more government funding than many government institutions. They should be as transparent as governm
891.
by solveit 7y ago
> given the political will Don't gloss over this that quickly, this is literally the hardest part. You might as well wish for a viable commercial fusion plant. Honestly, it's probably easier than getting China to go carbon-free
892.
by solveit 7y ago
Tangential, but I would be very interested in a census of HN. Does anyone know if this has been done?
893.
by solveit 7y ago
> Sensors could become damaged, circuits broken, etc.. It is our job to plan for edge cases. Not those edge cases. They have nothing to do with the core competencies of a software engineer and should be offloaded to someone who is comp
894.
by solveit 7y ago
That's nowhere near a worst case for oil&gas. It's the most visible spectacular case. The worst case is mass extinction events due to climate change. The worst case that's actually happened is a million deaths/yr due
895.
by solveit 7y ago
The Soviets dominated the Olympics, but they produced 25 Nobel Prizes to America's 375. I might agree with you were the numbers less extreme. Re: American prodigy manufacture, you have a good point and I should think about this more.
896.
by solveit 7y ago
It does if you're a totalitarian state that really really wants to win an ideological battle by producing Olympic medals and Nobel prizes. Only one of those were produced.
897.
by solveit 7y ago
That doesn't mean that BTC can't go to $1, it just means that BTC will die if it does go to $1.
898.
by solveit 7y ago
I will note that (Soviet vs. US/European success) in (Olympic sports vs. Nobel/Fields medals) strongly supports this argument. Prodigy manufacture has been tried and shown to sometimes work in some fields.
899.
by solveit 7y ago
Talking about passionate interest just passes the buck. Sure Tao was, but why was he passionately interested and can we replicate it in an average person? >There are vanishingly few people in the world who spent as much time or had as mu
900.
by solveit 7y ago
Re 2: Military research gets ignored all the time despite (because?) it often outpacing academia by decades. Not sure exactly why this happens, just wanted to note this phenomenon isn't specific to CO2 levels and cognition.

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