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by unabst 6y ago
It's absurd to think "we've stumbled on the biggest productivity increase" by changing the math to include commute. If you work 10 hours and are productive for 10 hours, nothing changes regarding workd done whether you c
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by unabst 6y ago
We also live in a "consumer always loses" economy as well. It could just be "consumer" supercedes "user". I was listening to Richard Wolff describing to Patrick Bet-David how capitalism creates monopolies and i
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by unabst 6y ago
I just stated facts which I also find are incredibly important and relevant. Downvoting without replying is another perfect example of not pushing past the issues with meaningful discourse and instead resorting to censorship.
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by unabst 6y ago
The implications were not that bad until companies were able to obtain enough information to change our minds and change our votes. Cambridge Analytica weaponized information. Russia weaponized information. Bots and fake accounts are rampan
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by unabst 6y ago
Thoughts can't be removed or undone. They need to be pushed forward passed the issues. That is why free speech is so important. We need to keep talking in an educational forward-thinking manner. The reason facebook is fucked is they ar
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by unabst 6y ago
Hey, I was reading your comments. Had to check out the guy with the huge balls. Kudos to you sir. I sum up George Carlin's life's work and applied it to bullshit detection and get nothing. I wonder if there are better places to h
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by unabst 6y ago
Two issues. First, no math problem or physics problem or chemistry problem or science problem involves politics or ethics. Give great scientists a great problem, and they will solve it. It's always up to the administrators and managers
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by unabst 6y ago
Writing on HN is like walking on eggshells. Everyone writes so carefully. Such a shame, since there are so many great minds here.
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by unabst 6y ago
The truth is not enough. It needs promoting and needs to be fought for. But the best paid promoters and fighters can win regardless of how true anything is, allowing those with the power and money to select the truth that suits them. And ra
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by unabst 6y ago
In my words, because I agree: We are all entangled and entrenched in our self-interests and group interests, and cannot undermine the profit motive or the need to win. Scientists are just players in a vast field of this entrenchment who do
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by unabst 6y ago
If you cut the bullshit, you cut most of society out. Institutions, the government, the media, the left, the right, corporations... And bullshit is the glue that keeps it all together. So, I would add one more rule. The George Carlin rule:
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by unabst 6y ago
And couldn't you just have one flat log file as an append-only ledger of all the votes? Maybe add a time stamp and location stamp to each prime recorded for context. Found this gem. https://primes.utm.edu/lists/sma
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by unabst 6y ago
Except sudden pivots and breakthroughs are what made Sony and Toyota and Nintendo and what still drive them. Mario, the Walkman, the Corolla. More recently, the Switch, PlayStation, and Prius. All breakthroughs with exciting beginnings resu
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by unabst 6y ago
Innovation happens at the individual level, and to that end, the Japanese are incredibly innovative. The person must then fight the hierarchies which farms the innovations from individuals who are undercompensated for their miraculous work.
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by unabst 6y ago
OP is saying nomikais are about trust. P is saying they are about team, and that they help bring the boss down and lift the workers up. Nomikais are both. If anything it's just an excuse to drink, and each company or team would decide
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by unabst 6y ago
I said more. I posit it's susceptible to both, and that it is susceptible to any manipulation. Not just overt or malicious. Even in good faith. And even the article is a form of manipulation. And I am saying the "manipulated"
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by unabst 6y ago
The 98% are never split equally. And some percentage of 100% is always swayed by propaganda. That's why it's propaganda that pushes the vote over the top. And in today's democracy, its done under the guise of "education&
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by unabst 6y ago
I agree with the first part. We get by fine for the most part by our own intuitions driven by fear and risk aversion. We are constantly triggered into action, not persuaded -- not by ourselves or anyone. But I think the blog here is a call
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by unabst 6y ago
Fear also works. That's why cramming for exams is so easy. Not the act, but getting yourself to do it. You can also barter with yourself. Have a list of harmless splurges to reward yourself with. Kyoto cold brew, a Sapporo black beer,
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by unabst 6y ago
The "Auckland kid" is the entrepreneur here. And no, I don't believe Harvard would ruin an entrepreneur that would have succeeded otherwise. And they would have attractive alternatives. Everyone changes, especially in college
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by unabst 6y ago
But wouldn't you think an "Auckland kid" would fair better as a "Harvard kid" given the same ambitions with better opportunities and greater access? Ivy League affiliates enjoy the privileges of being branded Ivy Le
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by unabst 6y ago
So your point is most cookie cutter rap is good writing? If engagement is the new measure of good writing, then we are lost. Click bait is engagement. Tabloid material is engagement. Fox vs CNN and political trigger pieces are all engagemen
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by unabst 6y ago
Also, didn't the hip hop crowd just give away their music for free and make all their money touring? Until signed anyway. And mix tapes were more than a single. So to that end, music definitely was their marketing. To put it another wa
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by unabst 6y ago
As Spotify CEO, we should think he isn't speaking to musicians, but to all the bigger labels on how to make the most money. Musicians should feel they can do whatever they want, and should, and probably would, but I reckon they would e
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by unabst 6y ago
How do you engage your audience without giving them anything? With just word play? And are we all forgetting the context of GPT-3 and the post I was replying to? Also Jay-Z isn't every rapper. I'm pretty sure even Jay-Z would agre
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by unabst 6y ago
A good poet has something to say, and wastes no words saying it.
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by unabst 6y ago
Yes. But they are also good writers, no? After the premise that good writers have something to say, it should be clear I am referring to the "just rapper" rapper.
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by unabst 6y ago
If you test a population, regardless of the test, certain people will always do better on average. So IQ is real. Out of all the studies done in the social sciences, IQ is by far the most conclusive. But the other half of the story is the m
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by unabst 6y ago
Can GPT-3 make a valid point? Good writers have something to say, and they don't waste words saying it. Someone just good with language is an editor. Or a babbler. Or a rapper.
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by unabst 6y ago
> what's written is mostly bullshit. This is very upsetting to some. But not George Carlin or Ludwig Wittgenstein. > "How-to" material [...] It lacks adequate ties to the real world. And so did we. How-to is science. Un

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