tw1010

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> "Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions.&quot
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Opportunity cost.
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You're prematurely moving the debate one abstraction layer up, making the issue about the whether a general virtue signal can ever contain truth. (That's an interesting discussion and I agree with you that it's definitely lik
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Does anyone know something similar but for data projects/science? Preferably something with practical data, not just the math.
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Just because something is social signaling (which it undoubtedly is in Theils case), doesn't mean it isn't true, and that you shouldn't follow the advice.
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Maybe that's a sign that incentive structures are the most important (meta) problem to work on. Maybe the most important problem of all is to make it trivially easy for people to solve the problem of this thread. (And not only easy, bu
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I'm all for egalitarianism in the public sphere, but in private I still believe that there's such a thing as natural born talent. Anyone can probably reach the top 5% in most non-athletic areas given enough time. But if your goal
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Makes me glad I didn't use 23andMe and makes me not ever want to use products like that in the future.
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What if you cook the spinach, do you know if the oxalic acid less of a problem then?
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Are you on a low-carb diet by any chance? I only ask because I've been on one for a while and one reason I suspect I'm having similar effects as you're describing is maybe because of long-term consequences of carb restriction
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Even if "strike" sounds dramatic, isn't it technically correct?
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You think you're getting closer to the truth by being cynical, but what you're really doing is overshoot the target so far that you're basically just as far from the reality of debates as the uncynical view is.
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I guess I'm stuck in a bad equilibrium/filter bubble then (which only hurts Quora because I haven't been on the site for ages, precisely for this reason).
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Hedonic treadmill
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Because every question is some variation of "What should I do to become rich or financially independent before 30?". The whole site stresses me out, and is probably counter productive if that's the goal I even wanted to achie
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What does regularity mean, more formally? The phenomenon needs to have a probability distribution that looks something other than (uniform?) random?
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That's because all it is is (unconsious) learning.
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Maybe things are different in the US (where maybe peoples personalities are extra rigid because self image and the concept of identity is so amplified), but the people I tend to interact with are usually much more subtle than this, and can
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Ever considered the idea that boiling down people to archetypes might be a core reason you'd need to consult something like this in the first place?
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A lot of old people have been comfortable their entire adult lives.
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I mean, if you're experienced, plan ahead (mentally and economically), and have a good idea and product market fit, it doesn't have to be torture, or even that hard. It's like trying to prove a really hard theorem. For Goedel
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This seems like a fairly easy thing to test rigorously (in a statistically significant way). Just create a fake account and do a search and see what the effect is on other places on the web. Are there services that does this automatically,
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They do use the phrase "deadly serious" a curious number of times...
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Is there something similar but for positive reinforcement? Negative reinforcement (tough love) tends to make me want to crawl into my bed, cry and give up. (I know I should fix this, get tougher skin or whatever, but assume I've tried
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Acting ethically has nothing to do with talent (you can be unambigously crazy smart and yet direct it towards bad things).
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I regretted wasting so much of my life on a product (opportunity cost), if that counts.
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What other strategies, like this one, have been invented which feels like a more offensive counterforce against the slow surveillance tide, in contrast to the more common defensive strategies that just tries to keep one step ahead of th
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Eric Weinstein just needs to teach the world how to self-teach yourself anything. He's given plenty proof he's managed to do it himself, and he says he knows the secret. But I still eagerly await him to explicitly describe the pol
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Woah, now it suddenly makes sense why the a16z podcast interviewed people from CAA a while ago.
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Why does the article make it sound like the two are causally connected? A report says morale is down because employees don't feel like they're contributing to humanity. And the stock price happends to be down. Putting these two fa

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