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by tech_ken 3y ago
Don't even get me started on error bar usage in industry. I've seen Big 3 consultants charge several 0s for a regression analysis that I would give a C+ in a first year grad stats course. I can't imagine how any of EA's
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I think a big blocker here is that it's takes a lot of time and interpersonal connection to get people on board with a political plan. EA types want to be able to spend/design/research your way to a solution (I derogatively t
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> And perhaps consider non-charitable donations to political organizations, given the impact of government policies. This part gets wayyyyy underplayed in EA [0]. So many charities and nonprofits exist to resolve problems that are the re
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I think that the problem is even deeper, the idea of an actual concrete "universal expected moral utility" seems so shaky to me. I appreciate utilitarianism, and think it provides important and useful guidance, but the EA approach
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> This too smells like a "luxury belief" to me. If you're actually experiencing the problem, you want to solve stuff This is kind of broad and I don't think it's super fair to what I'm trying to say. You mig
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Okay sounds good :)
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From where I'm sitting the historical contours are somewhat different. I understand what is asserted by Israel, but I think an examination of their historical treatment of Palestinians makes it pretty clear that they're interested
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sure happy to: Oct 7 was a crime and the perpetrators should face justice. Hamas should immediately disarm and leave civilian areas. I don't like reactionary Islamism, I don't believe violent terror creates political progress. Fig
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I suppose if I equate “retributive genocide” and “just consequences” then I can see where you’re coming from. The US made similar statements as they poured white phosphorus on Afghani children after 9/11 and I thought it was a thin arg
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Not all protests exist to further concrete political proposals (ex. suggestions to Hamas). Expressions of mass grief, community solidarity, and elevation of an issue which harms your neighbors are all important outcomes for people meeting e
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A Jeffersonian Democracy of yeoman jet-ski dealers
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I know lots of people who are quite poor and are also very invested in the human rights of Palestinians. I know lots of people who are quite poor and very interested in reining in police violence. Your opinions and experiences aren't u
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sorry I was being oblique to signal some snark. You're sort of hitting my point directly: "luxury beliefs" are just whatever you personally believe to be (a) wrongly held and (b) limited to only the aristocracy (ie. not the o
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Is this the new codeword for "champagne socialism"? Interesting how "trickle down economics" isn't provided as an example of a luxury belief, seems like it would fit the provided definition extremely well in the con
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Can't speak to that one! Just interested in the math
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by tech_ken 3y ago
That's a good point, and tbh I was aware of color e-ink but I assumed the price difference was enough to be a non-starter for a (parasiteware) company.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Regardless of when you swing your arms, by doing so you're introducing additional energy into the system so is kind of beside the point. The relevant comparison (in the context of their paper) is how fast you can convert chemical e
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I don't think they have a functional prototype, so probably difficult to predict a qualitative comparison to other types of motion. Honestly my guess is that it's not directly comparable to anything else really, because you typica
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by tech_ken 3y ago
ITT: people who read scientific articles by skimming the pictures. The proposal isn't "springs under your feet" it's "springs along your legs that you load while your leg is in the air". The point is that by lo
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by tech_ken 3y ago
No, the difference is when/how you load the springs. This proposal seems to be that you load the spring with your leg in the air before it makes contact with the ground (achieved by attaching the top of the spring up the leg), then lan
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I mean yeah it's not exactly a novel observation, but there is some subtlety in /how/ you attach springs to your legs which seems to be the primary contribution of the paper. The two naive options - referred to as "in se
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Crazy to think how much time and money went into something like this; what a hilarious and tragic waste. Imagine a world where those resources got used to like, build affordable housing or buy insulin for people something. Instead we'r
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Given the importance of color to branding I think e-ink is a nonstarter in it's current mass-produced form.
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Was there any awareness that the premise was kind of goofy from the jump? Was there any concern about the optics of the failing units described by the author?
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sure that makes sense to me, however I will say that if I was a vendor selling stuff internationally I probably would want (and even require, depending on export controls) some level of de-anonymization on the buyer's part. Presumably
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by tech_ken 3y ago
But why not just use an email address or something for that case? I get how it would be ideal (and myself desire) to have one messaging tool which works in all cases, but it doesn't seem like a massive failure specifically of Signal to
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Presumably if they introduced usernames they would also allow you to hide your number in a chat? edit: I think I misunderstood you. Yes, it is the case that everyone in the chat has access to everyone else's ID, however in my use-cases
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> selling something Whatcha selling :) To coordinate my own anonymous commodity transactions I just use gpg to encrypt a .txt which can be delivered in all sorts of anonymous ways. I can't say that I transact anonymously too frequ
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by tech_ken 3y ago
My friend group uses Signal for cross-platform group texting and the stories feature is super popular. Great for putting up non-intrusive pet pics or memes. IDK the rationale for introducing it, but I do think it's a fun feature that m
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Doesn't the registration lock feature resolve this?

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