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by tpeo 9y ago
Putting Damore's stuff aside for a while (I haven't even read it yet), reasonably discussing anything and having some sort of "Bohm dialogue" is one of the hardest things in the world. Not only it takes quite a bit of me
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by tpeo 9y ago
Indeed, it probably doesn't. Thanks for the link, by the way.
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by tpeo 9y ago
As I said, I also believe it's much more common. I meant "odd" in the sense that it might lead to unintuitive situations if we only consider the preferences of the people involved. For instance, there might be situations wher
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by tpeo 9y ago
Besides ideological self-righteousness, Aaronson left out one important component of oppressive regimes, which I think is actually far more important: it takes a relatively large amount of people to topple a regime, while small groups as we
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by tpeo 9y ago
Hey, have a little fun.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Now I've realized what I thought was so funky. It's a rather semantic issue. Markets aren't just a pipe or a screen where stuff goes through, at least in economics. The market isn't just the market mechanism, but rather
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding why you'd say that the net cash flow is zero. If a person who previously owned no stock buys a share from another person at a price above it's current market price, that's a net cash
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think I've read somewhere that once newspapers report some piece of financial news, it's no longer news. Anyway, it seems like sound advice.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I've seen a similar usage of the expression "social creatures" ("social animals") before, and it bothers me. Firstly, because I've known several loners who would take issue with what's being suggested. But
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by tpeo 9y ago
> Even John Maynard Keynes, the father of modern economics, attributed our irrational choices to “animal spirits.” Yeah, there's an equivocation in this reference. The "animal" in "animal spirits" doesn't re
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by tpeo 9y ago
As much as I agree, notice that it sort of defeats the point of it all if the they have to sit there with their child. It ain't easy being a parent, a 9 to 5 worker and a household manager within a 24h schedule. If parents leave their
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by tpeo 9y ago
I wouldn't go as far as calling it either terrorism or Luddism. Because, frankly, it doesn't seem like they care. It's just sensationalism.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Do the best we can to dismiss them as irrelevant while simultaneously using them to argue that the project needs additional funding. As in "The project is fine! We just need to work out this thing".
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by tpeo 9y ago
Funding criminal activities comes to mind as an immediate use.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why do you say so? The original AoE always struck me as kind of clunky, specially because of the atrocious path-finding. But I never actually played it in multiplayer.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I ran through it. I didn't suggest he didn't cover it. I just used it as a trivial example, because other readers supposedly also ran through it. Some other commenter suggested communication between agents as an extension, I could
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by tpeo 9y ago
The little animated chums strike me be as a bit too cute. One has to take care to not anthropomorphize models. Even models ostensibly created to model aspects of human behavior, such game theoretic models. Anthropomorphism might induce pe
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by tpeo 9y ago
Frankly, I think that in order for something to "touch on labor markets quite a bit", they'd have to at least dedicate a book to it. In the current day, David Card and Orley Ashenfelter might be said to have touched on labor
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by tpeo 9y ago
I agree, publication bias is a thing. There's no questioning that.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Don't be disingenuous. That would require someone to actually read their papers, which would already be a net loss and a massive waste of time for everyone involved. Not to mention the amount of department politics which could be invol
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by tpeo 9y ago
What's the point of fitting arbitrary functions to noise? Because that's what high p-values would lead to. Undue emphasis on p-values is bad, but what you're suggesting is bonkers.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Would you mind if I told you that you're not even wrong? First, neither Hayek nor Friedman were well known for contributions to labor market research. Hayek was well known for his critiques of central planning while Friedman was famous
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by tpeo 9y ago
Well, nobody is forced to create models they don't believe in. But besides some models being useful, as that old adage says, some are also useful-er than others. Adding stuff such as "imagination" functions as a constraint
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by tpeo 9y ago
It really isn't that ambiguous in cursive, though. When writing out "dx" as product in cursive, the "d" and "x" characters are written separately. When writing "dx" as an infinitesimal, the chara
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't think the usage of "rate" here meant the ease of converting sugar from some particular source into blood glucose, but rather how much of blood glucose is used up by the body per unit of time. The issue wouldn't b
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't think growing staples within cities will be economically viable within our lifetimes. As a general rule, agricultural land use orders itself around it's markets according to transportation. The more delicate the produce, t
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by tpeo 9y ago
Don't know, man. Every time part of the establishment (i.e. everything that's already out there and have already made a name for themselves) tries to reach out for the younger crowd it makes itself more démodé, not less so. I&#x27
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think he meant that Glass was a dev kit, which is fair enough. But it intended to be eventually released as a consumer product. Somewhere along that path, the idea lost it's charm to the execs at Google.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Oh, I see. To be fair, there might be some more productivity gains lurking around the corner if augmented reality allows a tighter integration of each process in the factory line. Any time lost involving searching anything in the factory fl
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by tpeo 9y ago
Low knowledge tasks aren't a bottleneck in contemporary manufacturing though, at least in so far as "low knowledge" correlates with being easily automated. Tightening a screw or riveting a steel frame for example require litt

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