there's a sweet spot, obviously if you go too low you're talking about barely autonomous people
Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in…
One thing I found out from interviewing a lot (for junior-ish positions) was that dynamic programming questions are actually your friend. Since it's a "hard topic" they give you a relatively easy one that can be solved…
I believe the author himself said that computation improvements does make it easier to solve general AI. I think in value alignment theory there are still problems that they don't know how to do properly even with…
Stopped reading this comment after "Gladwell".
Contentiousness is a ~50% heritable personality trait, only slightly less than IQ.
How convenient that this supposed "spooky action at a distance" can't actually send information ftl. Locality is very important for coherent laws of physics. Many worlds is still the most parsimonious explanation which…
Turkheimer's laws are not the property of the man himself! I think it's pretty safe to say there's no clear winner on what the effects of schooling is on the margin at least. You're right to correct me on school being…
Actually we do have real female computer heroines like Grace Hopper which will do just fine.
Angry rhetoric against middlemen, how predictably simplistic of you.
How is that refreshing? This has basically been the natural state of human thinking until maybe around the enlightenment. People used to just say things like "all is water" or "all is fire" in very principled assertive…
I like how the author has to ruin an otherwise informative article by injecting their paranoiac 1984 scenario in the last paragraph. The kooks just can't help themselves!
So the way to counteract information asymmetry (if we assume it exists) is to artificially enforce less information on the employers? That can't possibly be the right answer unless there's some systematic bias that…
>It was really intrusive Imagine how painful it is to be an entrepreneur with a very weak signal about how much you can pay people to remain happy to work with you without going broke and still retaining good enough…
What are the chances that in this particular case, enforcing noise in the data actually leads to better economic results? Technically less information can lead imperfect human reasoners to more rational allocation of…
Two questions about the Poverty Equilibrium: 1. Are the majority of the evil extractors (a)regional powers that impose uniform rents or are they (b)targeted extractors that specifically exploit low educated/frail-minded…
> I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform Pretends that party agrees with everything he's saying.
Functional programmers love to emphasize how all the aspects of programming that their pet language is uniquely good at dealing with also happen to be the biggest problems in code maintenance. Is there any actual data…
I can't resist: "I want to live one more day. Tomorrow I will still want to live one more day. Therefore I want to live forever, proof by induction on the positive integers." - http://hpmor.com/
I don't think infinite scrolling is an obvious lowest common denominator manipulation technique like sexy photos, pimple popping thumbnails, or clickbait titles. Mainly because it isn't signalling that the content is…
This misses the most important question: Does it work better than alternate designs at baiting customers to keep reading?
This isn't some local trend in history, everyone is born with anti-market bias. We come from small bands of hunter-gatherers with fairness and egalitarianism built in through reciprocal altruism. The problem is a lot of…
So you're telling me you can only tell if it isn't a bubble if the market steadily declines eventually? Also how much should it steadily decline by before we're sure it's not some local decline phenomenon unrelated to…
Ceteris paribus allowing anyone in the world to take a job if the employer wants them leads to better outcomes on average. That includes the situation where America is paying for global protection and other special…
I was just using the extreme example of the comparison of low-skilled workers in the two countries. Even in the opposite extreme I have no particular sympathy, in my mind it's analogous to one American programmer losing…
there's a sweet spot, obviously if you go too low you're talking about barely autonomous people
Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in…
One thing I found out from interviewing a lot (for junior-ish positions) was that dynamic programming questions are actually your friend. Since it's a "hard topic" they give you a relatively easy one that can be solved…
I believe the author himself said that computation improvements does make it easier to solve general AI. I think in value alignment theory there are still problems that they don't know how to do properly even with…
Stopped reading this comment after "Gladwell".
Contentiousness is a ~50% heritable personality trait, only slightly less than IQ.
How convenient that this supposed "spooky action at a distance" can't actually send information ftl. Locality is very important for coherent laws of physics. Many worlds is still the most parsimonious explanation which…
Turkheimer's laws are not the property of the man himself! I think it's pretty safe to say there's no clear winner on what the effects of schooling is on the margin at least. You're right to correct me on school being…
Actually we do have real female computer heroines like Grace Hopper which will do just fine.
Angry rhetoric against middlemen, how predictably simplistic of you.
How is that refreshing? This has basically been the natural state of human thinking until maybe around the enlightenment. People used to just say things like "all is water" or "all is fire" in very principled assertive…
I like how the author has to ruin an otherwise informative article by injecting their paranoiac 1984 scenario in the last paragraph. The kooks just can't help themselves!
So the way to counteract information asymmetry (if we assume it exists) is to artificially enforce less information on the employers? That can't possibly be the right answer unless there's some systematic bias that…
>It was really intrusive Imagine how painful it is to be an entrepreneur with a very weak signal about how much you can pay people to remain happy to work with you without going broke and still retaining good enough…
What are the chances that in this particular case, enforcing noise in the data actually leads to better economic results? Technically less information can lead imperfect human reasoners to more rational allocation of…
Two questions about the Poverty Equilibrium: 1. Are the majority of the evil extractors (a)regional powers that impose uniform rents or are they (b)targeted extractors that specifically exploit low educated/frail-minded…
> I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform Pretends that party agrees with everything he's saying.
Functional programmers love to emphasize how all the aspects of programming that their pet language is uniquely good at dealing with also happen to be the biggest problems in code maintenance. Is there any actual data…
I can't resist: "I want to live one more day. Tomorrow I will still want to live one more day. Therefore I want to live forever, proof by induction on the positive integers." - http://hpmor.com/
I don't think infinite scrolling is an obvious lowest common denominator manipulation technique like sexy photos, pimple popping thumbnails, or clickbait titles. Mainly because it isn't signalling that the content is…
This misses the most important question: Does it work better than alternate designs at baiting customers to keep reading?
This isn't some local trend in history, everyone is born with anti-market bias. We come from small bands of hunter-gatherers with fairness and egalitarianism built in through reciprocal altruism. The problem is a lot of…
So you're telling me you can only tell if it isn't a bubble if the market steadily declines eventually? Also how much should it steadily decline by before we're sure it's not some local decline phenomenon unrelated to…
Ceteris paribus allowing anyone in the world to take a job if the employer wants them leads to better outcomes on average. That includes the situation where America is paying for global protection and other special…
I was just using the extreme example of the comparison of low-skilled workers in the two countries. Even in the opposite extreme I have no particular sympathy, in my mind it's analogous to one American programmer losing…