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by svnt 2y ago
I don’t think I made the assertion that anyone wants to throw away a social contract. I said it was in the bin — it has been thrown away, and not by recent Trump voters, but it started long before that, maybe when ethics became something yo
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by svnt 2y ago
> VCs and early hires are taking a massive amount of personal risk. I think you meant “Founders and early hires” here?
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by svnt 2y ago
Not to be pedantic but maybe it will help in the future: it is spelled hearsay. You heard someone say it.
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by svnt 2y ago
The connection is that the conflict of interest being discussed was only ever a social/ethical contract. That social contract is in the bin right now, so the question is moot.
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by svnt 2y ago
It is very common. There are lines of research on dealing with the shortcomings of using mturk this way. e.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
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by svnt 2y ago
LLM(and LLM+) afaik, even Perplexity, do not do textual analysis. They do not “know” what is in the book, they will only try to predict how someone else would answer your question based on data in the training set. If there are not many sim
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by svnt 2y ago
Did you read the result you linked? > Several handbooks on highly effective communication in organizations are: 1. “Winning” by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch, which emphasizes clear communication, open dialogue, and transparency in organiza
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by svnt 2y ago
Because it is about people speculating on events that seem connected to their own experience, but in actuality aren’t, because they don’t understand the breadth of the distribution of the abstraction they are discussing. This happens when y
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by svnt 2y ago
This is the root of the misunderstanding, I think. You’re begging the question. More data does not necessarily mean better data. You can collect many more individual driver experiences, but if they do not have sufficient resolution in the
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by svnt 2y ago
Natural philosophy is what science was called before it was called science. The philosophy of science is something that has only existed since the practice of science became widespread.
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by svnt 2y ago
But surely you can tell that putting him in a subordinate position does not produce the same emotional effect, if anything it amplifies the negative reaction by baking the problem into the ticket.
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by svnt 2y ago
Is this an intuitive conclusion you’ve arrived at or do you have a source for it? It seems it can trivially be shown to be false under a number of circumstances: supply and demand, secondary markets, etc.
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by svnt 2y ago
I am working on framing the interplay between systems science and theology in technical and functional terms. I hope we can use the new insights from this effort to bring about more beneficial and harmonious outcomes, with less waste, on th
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by svnt 2y ago
> 2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away. And chasing a moving target fueled by the largest technology companies on the planet.
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by svnt 2y ago
The question is more of will your customers agree to go along with this major architectural shift that sets you back on price-performance-power curves by at least five years and moves you out of the mainstream of board support packages, dri
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by svnt 2y ago
You’re suggesting that Snapdragon processors would switch to RISC-V and that would be no big deal? Presumably Qualcomm is committed to numerous multi-year supplier agreements for the arm chipsets.
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Wikipedia is not often referenced in literature reviews as an exhaustive source of relevant studies.
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by svnt 2y ago
Yes, but that is the absence of evidence, commonly called on when the science hasn't been done. If a theory/hypothesis remains not proven once the science has been repeatedly done in numerous attempts to prove it, very often it do
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by svnt 2y ago
They claimed in the first study to control for income, but I wonder how effective that is when you are considering a household of people a majority of the time. The person who donates may not be the person with higher general intelligence o
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by svnt 2y ago
This is not saying it is debatable, it is politely saying it is almost definitely wrong, but still popular.
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The replication crisis was recently discovered; this does not mean older science does not have the same challenges. Generally the problems that led to the replication crisis are worse the further back you go in time
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by svnt 2y ago
Yes, that is dated and hasn’t been supported by more recent science.
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by svnt 2y ago
> Although it remains an influential and widely taught hypothesis, subsequent research has generally not validated this line of thinking.[3][4]
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by svnt 2y ago
Yes, but not a domesticated species, and so any comparisons with dogs are limited.
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by svnt 2y ago
It is typically called theory of mind.
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Further to being a social species dogs are domesticated, which introduces more layers.
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by svnt 2y ago
I did a quick investigation into the three papers linked in the article. In the first, the correlation is between either spouse having donated “$500 or more to a religious or other non-profit” so it potentially loses a lot of smaller donors
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by svnt 2y ago
It doesn’t.
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The mark of the actual master is that almost no one can identify them, and the people who can are so rare as to probabilistically not appear in smaller companies. They “run” the company without the appearance of doing so. If someone does ap
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by svnt 2y ago
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but here: > Amazon/Bezos has strong experience in managing by metrics, so it's a shame OpenAI has committed itself to Azure/Microsoft. If they are a customer/investor, as opposed

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