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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yup, we need the Groke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Unpopular opinion from the sidelines: Silicon Valley is in a tech bywater now. It's just circling aimlessly. Think of XKCD's chart extrapolating the number of cameras per phone. Things have got zero sum. The real innovation is in
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by tuatoru 3y ago
True! Really?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Probably need to increase wire spacing and upgrade insulators as well.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Just like undergraduate work, your PhD thesis is practise. For the PhD, in the mechanics of doing large scale research and participating in the community. Save the novel and profound stuff for post-doctoral work.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Really? How about the attitudes towards vibrators versus fleshlights?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Men and women stopped relating to each other with the advent of social media. AI is a consequence, not a cause. No, I take that back. Not social media. It was the widespread availability of effective contraception. #WTFHappenedIn1971.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sure, they go to college. Which makes the low labor force participation rate even more of a tragedy for them and the country.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It is possible to live well enough to raise children with "a job", requiring high school or maybe two-year technical college training, instead of a four year college degree and postgraduate degree as is required for "a career
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Children of immigrants rapidly absorb the core culture of their new country. Especially when in grants them greater independence. The upper classes in India are a rounding error, maybe the population of Spain at most. Edit: you are right th
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The (lack of) social prestige for pregnancy and motherhood among UMC women is a bigger factor. Women have been indoctrinated to place career first and only. Try saying "soccer mom" with an admiring tone instead of a sneer if you w
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by tuatoru 3y ago
But only 20% of Indian women are in the workforce, due to culture--family honor concerns.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
To a first approximation GDP is what households consume (and household consumption is kind of the point of GDP). How will AI increase aggregate household income explosively? Creating a few more billionaires is just measurement noise, not ev
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The propaganda about work as being prestigious and important is one of the primary reasons fertility has collapsed in OECD and east Asia, such that the populations of China, Japan, Korea, and some European countries will roughly halve by 21
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If that is the case then electricity is overpriced in Australia.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
We still don't have the ability.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
* Chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis, for those not familiar with the abbreviations. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/chro...
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, the Seagull is causing a bit of a flap in the US and Europe. And it's only the leader of the flock. Yet another case of disruption from below.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Dan Luu is anti-paternalist. Designers who want to control your experience completely are totalitarians. Designers who result in over five second LCPs or two seconds of CPU on modal hardware like the Tecno Spark 8C are sociopaths.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Not just population growth, but the absolute population is now leveling off and/or declining in many developed countries. Some countries have tried to stave off population decline with indiscriminate mass immigration, but that turns ou
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Getting to space is not going to happen. We don't have the ability to live sustainably on Antarctica, which is several orders of magnitude easier logistically and technologically.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Rugose and squamous.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The older I get, the more libertarian. A landowner should be allowed to build whatever they want[1], irrespective of the objections of neighbors. Viewshafts, sunlight blocking, neighborhood "character", convenants on building attr
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is. Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. Israel is not th
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Triggers my asthma when consumed in small amounts, but that's just me. (I only realised I was drinking a sugar-free soft drink when that happened, so I don't think it's psychosomatic.)
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Impending, for values of impending that started out "in the 2080s...", and went to "no, wait, in the 2060s ...", to "no, wait, in the 2040s ...".
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by tuatoru 3y ago
We would not have self driving cars or any other useful robots in quantity. China would wall itself off from the western parts of the internet to an even greater degree. Blockchain will never find widespread use. I thought face recognition
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Just reading the quoted email started a histamine reaction in me. I now have itchy hands.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The impression I get from the review is that China's elite suffers collectively from schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur. Napoleon is apposite: “the enemy is making a false move, why should we interrupt him?”.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I agree, with this and see that objection as stupid consequentialism. Policy that actually improves wellbeing[1] can probably only be developed by accepting and working with the facts as best we know them. 1. For the target groups, not for

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