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by staunton 3y ago
> determining if a candidate can perform the job duties. A candidate who cheated -- from the perspective of the interviewer, I guess -- but still manages to adequately perform in their role very plainly did not cheat That's not what
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by staunton 3y ago
Newton was the first to act on the revolutionary idea that "physics should be formulated using math". Nowadays a theory of gravity that doesn't use math is basically not a theory. Maybe we can forgive him at least some of the
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by staunton 3y ago
And that's why digital documents are better (for average use-cases) than paper. Another argument for using technology to make things easier at the cost of possibly losing skills you no longer urgently need (such as "maintaining
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by staunton 3y ago
People used to believe a lot of crazy conspiracies and superstitions throughout history. The reason why we're so appalled at Qanon is that "it should be so easy for them to correct their superstitions, given the tools we have&
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by staunton 3y ago
The problem is that you have to invest actual effort to memorize things. Memorizing things you very rarely need is not worth it, even if you're amazing at memorizing things. It's impossible to memorize everything you would benefi
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by staunton 3y ago
> regardless of category I think that's a sweeping generalization. For example, it's much better to have a bunch of food that's mostly garbage than to have a famine where all food is super high quality. There were points i
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by staunton 3y ago
PhD defenses are mostly ceremonial. What are you trying to say? Is anything important transmitted orally during a PhD defense?
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by staunton 3y ago
IQ is a very different thing from literacy (or generally any skills one learns). I think IQ is not relevant to this discussion. It's basically impossible to improve an adult's g-factor, for example. For children, things like nutri
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by staunton 3y ago
But there are still people playing chess professionally because playing well is not enough. (You have to entertain an audience, which is only possible by "just playing well" if you're human)
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by staunton 3y ago
> chatgpt came up with a generic response, everyone said "perfect", copy-paste that into Jira and call it a day I don't think I can believe this story as told...
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by staunton 3y ago
> I wouldn't consider asking the AI to do something I don't know how to do My experience has been the opposite so far. I benefit much more from such tools when I can easily check if something works correctly and would have to
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by staunton 3y ago
Presumably, this was supposed to show how parent's arguments can equally well argue for the opposite or for something nonsensical. However, it seems incoherent to me (in a way that parent does not). I don't even know what it'
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by staunton 3y ago
My comment was sarcasm (which I thought was obvious, but I'll just have to finally accept that sarcasm on HN is never obvious enough).
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by staunton 3y ago
> I wonder if she is just a sociopath I would phrase it as "she did what was expected from a CEO in that environment". That is, (try to) protect the profits and interests of shareholders with very little regard for the workers.
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by staunton 3y ago
One could argue that someone actually adhering to (at least most) of the morals and teachings of any major religion (which is already a rare thing) would almost never become CEO of anything. There's no evidence priests (or ethicists, i
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by staunton 3y ago
> No system made by humans can resist malice of those humans. Some systems have a better chance of resisting a few malicious actors within than others. There's no reason not to do both: punish the people who broke the law and also t
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by staunton 3y ago
> Twitter being the rough equivalent to Vienna's Café Central Presumably, what paved the way for that development was the recent and widely reported solution of the "nuance problem", such that we can now conduct philosophy
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by staunton 3y ago
First, that number is most probably understated. Second, your comment could be interpreted as saying that counties with high pay have (or should have) a lot of homeless people, which seems insane. So what did you mean?
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by staunton 3y ago
Can there be anything in the real world that is "literally 1d"? I would think not.
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by staunton 3y ago
> I also think this site employs the same filter, whether intentionally or not. Definitely intentional.
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by staunton 3y ago
I think human extinction due to climate change is extremely unlikely. However, civilization collapsing is bad enough. We can't be certain whether or not that will actually happen but we do know it will if we do nothing. We even hav
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by staunton 3y ago
I would think any scenario where humans actually go extinct (as opposed to just civilization collapsing and the population plummeting, which would be terrible enough) has to involve a lot of social and economic modeling...
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by staunton 3y ago
Basically, "there is no (scientific) evidence of X" means that nobody published a peer-reviewed paper yet presenting evidence for X. At least that's a common interpretation...
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by staunton 3y ago
> any information which increases the likelihood of a claim being true This sounds like "Bayesian evidence". However, I don't think "scientific evidence" has a precise agreed-upon definition. I would take "t
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by staunton 3y ago
No. Excel/Docs is user-facing. Most of the way is enough, people will figure out the edge cases or just give up on them. To be viable as an OS, you have to support applications. An application running on your OS won't go "wel
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by staunton 3y ago
> Can I use PyTorch or JAX comfortably in Julia? No. And it doesn't seem like that will become possible any time soon.
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by staunton 3y ago
Agreed on all points. I also don't see anything that contradicts what I said, though you phrased some of it better than me. The issue is that this feeling people have isn't really related much to Graeber's objective claims.
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by staunton 3y ago
> We as a society don’t actually value the discipline of science or the pursuit of knowledge. The discipline of science is exactly how you get knowledge in a society that doesn't value its pursuit. It's an imperfect process of
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by staunton 3y ago
Seems like there's a lot of discontent people who really enjoy it when someone starts calling everything around them bullshit. Graeber's ideas/books with respect to "bullshit" are themselves cynical bullshit written
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by staunton 3y ago
Maybe math overflow or physics overflow might work in rare cases... For most papers, I don't think there's really much a layperson can actively do to find out what experts think.

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