Progress isn't inevitable because the government can stop it sometimes. Nuclear power is regulated to be forty times safer than natural gas (the safest natural gas) (the factor of forty is ignoring the additional…
This is the case today for ai chess engines
There are plenty of good scientists and engineers who do psychedelics. If what you say were true, I think at least one of them would have figured out what the sense data is caused by in the environment and have set up a…
You may be right, so I edited my comment.
The expansion of the universe is accelerating. At some point, the number of galaxies in the visible universe will stop growing and the light received from distant galaxies will grow more and more redshifted. However,…
Well you need peer reviewed papers in highish impact journals to get tenure. For some people, the only way they're getting that is by cheating.
That's basic finance. Higher interest rates are about loaners (also known as savers) getting paid more, and borrowers paying that. If you are amassing wealth (rather than amassing debt), then you are a saver and can…
Stylized example of how the game works: Bet on every number but 0 on a roulette wheel Not 0: you and your investors make 3 billion this year 0: you and your investors lose your 20 billion you have invested, and the…
It proposes 100 sites over a 1200 square mile area. Each site would be at least 3 miles away from any other site. Energy generation, except nuclear, either uses a fair bit physical space or causes pollution, and doing…
Well the bank can't get your future earnings or other assets if you default, but they can get the house. So if the house is worth zero dollars (never true) then you are 5 to 1 leveraged.
I think this essay includes a specific prediction, that human level ai is far away, that might be disproved this decade. If human level ai is close, focusing on some other kind of ai is more likely to be a waste of time.
Rai was initially released based on a value of 3.14 usd, it's down from that. Since usd has experienced inflation one would expect an unpegged stablecoin like rai to be worth more not less usd over time. Vitalik's…
It causes higher blood pressure and is statistically associated with heart problems. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/do-you-really...
But do those marketers pay reddit?
That is a good article for explaining why costs have gone up in most countries, like they have in France and Spain. It's less good at explaining the vast outlier (larger outlier on cost than gdp) that is US construction…
Where is a better article? The cost of infrastructure is extremely complicated. People who are experts in construction financing are busy making good money rather than writing articles or donating time to journalists.…
IRBs are not legally required, and most IRBs are excessively risk-averse (an IRB doesn't lose anything for denying a study, but a study with a bad outcome can give those on the IRB a bad reputation). Suppose you are…
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/14/the-virtue-of-silence/
Per square millimeter, memory costs less than gpu silicon. (and Radeon VII's memory takes up more square millimeters than half). https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-revi... (Also yield decrease per…
'Yields' are what fraction of the chips produced end up usable rather than damaged/broken. With 7nm, yields are down. With larger chips by area, yields are always lower than smaller chips. So AMD can save money by…
If a Robinhood user thinks they are getting the wrong prices when they buy or sell, then they should seriously contact the SEC because that is illegal (as far as I know the prices aren't wrong). The reason guaranteed…
If both sides are bad, then helping either side accomplishes nothing good unless it ends the war sooner. If the side you support is enforcing a blockade and causing harm to civilians, that is a bad thing while it lasts.…
This kingpin story is not likely to be true. http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/urban_legends/henry_fords...
There are 2 sides to the economy, supply and demand. Yes, the policies you describe do boost demand and that does cause inflation, but the supply side is not irrelevant. Less NIMBYism will help with housing costs, and…
An alternative view is: "If you're already successful, everything you could learn at a college you can also learn out of college (see: the internet)".
Progress isn't inevitable because the government can stop it sometimes. Nuclear power is regulated to be forty times safer than natural gas (the safest natural gas) (the factor of forty is ignoring the additional…
This is the case today for ai chess engines
There are plenty of good scientists and engineers who do psychedelics. If what you say were true, I think at least one of them would have figured out what the sense data is caused by in the environment and have set up a…
You may be right, so I edited my comment.
The expansion of the universe is accelerating. At some point, the number of galaxies in the visible universe will stop growing and the light received from distant galaxies will grow more and more redshifted. However,…
Well you need peer reviewed papers in highish impact journals to get tenure. For some people, the only way they're getting that is by cheating.
That's basic finance. Higher interest rates are about loaners (also known as savers) getting paid more, and borrowers paying that. If you are amassing wealth (rather than amassing debt), then you are a saver and can…
Stylized example of how the game works: Bet on every number but 0 on a roulette wheel Not 0: you and your investors make 3 billion this year 0: you and your investors lose your 20 billion you have invested, and the…
It proposes 100 sites over a 1200 square mile area. Each site would be at least 3 miles away from any other site. Energy generation, except nuclear, either uses a fair bit physical space or causes pollution, and doing…
Well the bank can't get your future earnings or other assets if you default, but they can get the house. So if the house is worth zero dollars (never true) then you are 5 to 1 leveraged.
I think this essay includes a specific prediction, that human level ai is far away, that might be disproved this decade. If human level ai is close, focusing on some other kind of ai is more likely to be a waste of time.
Rai was initially released based on a value of 3.14 usd, it's down from that. Since usd has experienced inflation one would expect an unpegged stablecoin like rai to be worth more not less usd over time. Vitalik's…
It causes higher blood pressure and is statistically associated with heart problems. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/do-you-really...
But do those marketers pay reddit?
That is a good article for explaining why costs have gone up in most countries, like they have in France and Spain. It's less good at explaining the vast outlier (larger outlier on cost than gdp) that is US construction…
Where is a better article? The cost of infrastructure is extremely complicated. People who are experts in construction financing are busy making good money rather than writing articles or donating time to journalists.…
IRBs are not legally required, and most IRBs are excessively risk-averse (an IRB doesn't lose anything for denying a study, but a study with a bad outcome can give those on the IRB a bad reputation). Suppose you are…
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/14/the-virtue-of-silence/
Per square millimeter, memory costs less than gpu silicon. (and Radeon VII's memory takes up more square millimeters than half). https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-revi... (Also yield decrease per…
'Yields' are what fraction of the chips produced end up usable rather than damaged/broken. With 7nm, yields are down. With larger chips by area, yields are always lower than smaller chips. So AMD can save money by…
If a Robinhood user thinks they are getting the wrong prices when they buy or sell, then they should seriously contact the SEC because that is illegal (as far as I know the prices aren't wrong). The reason guaranteed…
If both sides are bad, then helping either side accomplishes nothing good unless it ends the war sooner. If the side you support is enforcing a blockade and causing harm to civilians, that is a bad thing while it lasts.…
This kingpin story is not likely to be true. http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/urban_legends/henry_fords...
There are 2 sides to the economy, supply and demand. Yes, the policies you describe do boost demand and that does cause inflation, but the supply side is not irrelevant. Less NIMBYism will help with housing costs, and…
An alternative view is: "If you're already successful, everything you could learn at a college you can also learn out of college (see: the internet)".