Was there even a serious policy discussion of banning gain-of-function research? Gain of function research is supposed to help with pandemics, right? Did it help with COVID?
>In real life, intelligence is associated with picking better goals. "Better" according to what metric? It may be the case that there is a tendency for high-intelligence humans to pick "more enlightened" goals. Perhaps…
See discussion on the EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...
Maybe you'll find this useful, I think I saw it elsewhere in this thread and bookmarked it https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Doesn't that make it harder to do an apples-to-apples comparison between candidates though?
What does rewriting your codebase have to do with hiring?
How about LinkedIn certificates? Last I checked Triplebyte has a certification you can put on your LinkedIn if you do well enough on their process.
Why not just apply at companies that focus on take-home problems?
I wonder if there's a way to write a DEB to RPM conversion script with automated testing etc, so Fedora gets to snarf up all existing DEBs :-)
This angle works in the other direction as well: Is a newborn a human? If yes, is a baby in the process of being born a human? If yes, is a baby who will be born in a week a human? My understanding is that opinion polls…
Fair point, but on the other hand, if language policing leads the American Medical Association to make decisions which decrease the quality of medical care, I'm not enthusiastic about that. The relative importance of…
Interesting, thanks for chiming in. I wonder if the best way to push back against language policing is to simply poll various groups, see which language they prefer, and publish the results. The deltas could be…
NAACP stands for "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People". Interesting how "Colored People" was an enlightened term in 1909, but "Colored People" is now out and "People of Color" is the new way to go.
>For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings. For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people" because of some tiny number of trans men that exist and…
I'm not entirely sure how to parse your comment. Did you notice this section? >Equity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particularly nonprofits. The American Cancer…
I acknowledge that language shapes the way people think. But the replacement of cost-benefit analysis and evidence-based debate with arguments regarding the connotations that different words pull in has been a huge…
At this point the heterosexual relationships discussion has become so poisoned that I don't think further activism of any kind is likely to help. In terms of constructive solutions, I think what we need are people…
I think the explanation is the same as for hitchhiking: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/where-have-all-the-hitchhik... It's a multi-step process: 1. Society has some kind of neutral/positive norm like hitchhiking or…
So this is not the first time HN has discussed the Pew statistics showing far more single men than women in the 18-29 bracket: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954694 People have proposed so many hypotheses: *…
>There are so many people looking for respectful, reasonably attractive, healthy, financially successful and emotionally mature men. In what region?
First two sentences of the abstract: >Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. Delegation of learning…
>through some cryptographic trickery you can prove that the backdoor can't be detected. Can you explain more about this? E.g. in the worst case, if I know the learning algorithm, I could retrain the model myself and…
I always figured that ransomware was like a vaccine, provoking an immune response, with the net result of overall stronger cyber defenses
>Despite our citizens’ penchant – almost enthusiasm – for self-criticism and self-doubt, I have yet to see a time when it made sense to make a long-term bet against America.…
For this argument to be persuasive, you'd have to argue that doomsaying gains more influence/funding/etc. than mainstream AI development. I'm not sure this is true in general? Like, I believe https://intelligence.org/…
Was there even a serious policy discussion of banning gain-of-function research? Gain of function research is supposed to help with pandemics, right? Did it help with COVID?
>In real life, intelligence is associated with picking better goals. "Better" according to what metric? It may be the case that there is a tendency for high-intelligence humans to pick "more enlightened" goals. Perhaps…
See discussion on the EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...
Maybe you'll find this useful, I think I saw it elsewhere in this thread and bookmarked it https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Doesn't that make it harder to do an apples-to-apples comparison between candidates though?
What does rewriting your codebase have to do with hiring?
How about LinkedIn certificates? Last I checked Triplebyte has a certification you can put on your LinkedIn if you do well enough on their process.
Why not just apply at companies that focus on take-home problems?
I wonder if there's a way to write a DEB to RPM conversion script with automated testing etc, so Fedora gets to snarf up all existing DEBs :-)
This angle works in the other direction as well: Is a newborn a human? If yes, is a baby in the process of being born a human? If yes, is a baby who will be born in a week a human? My understanding is that opinion polls…
Fair point, but on the other hand, if language policing leads the American Medical Association to make decisions which decrease the quality of medical care, I'm not enthusiastic about that. The relative importance of…
Interesting, thanks for chiming in. I wonder if the best way to push back against language policing is to simply poll various groups, see which language they prefer, and publish the results. The deltas could be…
NAACP stands for "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People". Interesting how "Colored People" was an enlightened term in 1909, but "Colored People" is now out and "People of Color" is the new way to go.
>For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings. For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people" because of some tiny number of trans men that exist and…
I'm not entirely sure how to parse your comment. Did you notice this section? >Equity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particularly nonprofits. The American Cancer…
I acknowledge that language shapes the way people think. But the replacement of cost-benefit analysis and evidence-based debate with arguments regarding the connotations that different words pull in has been a huge…
At this point the heterosexual relationships discussion has become so poisoned that I don't think further activism of any kind is likely to help. In terms of constructive solutions, I think what we need are people…
I think the explanation is the same as for hitchhiking: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/where-have-all-the-hitchhik... It's a multi-step process: 1. Society has some kind of neutral/positive norm like hitchhiking or…
So this is not the first time HN has discussed the Pew statistics showing far more single men than women in the 18-29 bracket: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954694 People have proposed so many hypotheses: *…
>There are so many people looking for respectful, reasonably attractive, healthy, financially successful and emotionally mature men. In what region?
First two sentences of the abstract: >Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. Delegation of learning…
>through some cryptographic trickery you can prove that the backdoor can't be detected. Can you explain more about this? E.g. in the worst case, if I know the learning algorithm, I could retrain the model myself and…
I always figured that ransomware was like a vaccine, provoking an immune response, with the net result of overall stronger cyber defenses
>Despite our citizens’ penchant – almost enthusiasm – for self-criticism and self-doubt, I have yet to see a time when it made sense to make a long-term bet against America.…
For this argument to be persuasive, you'd have to argue that doomsaying gains more influence/funding/etc. than mainstream AI development. I'm not sure this is true in general? Like, I believe https://intelligence.org/…