i agree that wisdom / an independent thinking spirit is an important factor to prevent manipulation and that it's not something easily taught. but i also believe that in fact knowledge is another very important factor…
> if things pay off anyway, why should should tax payers fund it? i believe the idea is that when someone is educated, it's not themselves alone that benefits from it, but rather everyone else around them. thus the…
another possibility to combat grifting would be to have competition. another university comes up and provides the same service as the wasteful university at a smaller cost, and thus displaces the wasteful university.…
i like your framing of "holes" in political systems. one way to put it is that a political system has "holes" if the ideal/desired outcome is not a Nash equilibrium. however, my understanding (though i can't speak for…
this is a good point. > It seems more fruitful to approach things from the perspective of monopolies, competition, corporate governance etc in general where to go to learn more about these topics?
i guess in that case the question would be if one should be as worried about the biological effects of PFAS as much as these two other forever chemicals you cite
for me, the moral of the story is that it's easier to promise things than to deliver them. or, engineering was the bottleneck. in my experience, this is not particular to start-ups, or even software engineering. why…
i agree with you that this is a technique that is used to make people give up. not only in the context of this discussion ("how is the economy doing"), but in many discussions. i see it being effective often enough for…
the Wikipedia page on Europe you cite lists average, not median wage in Germany. the average household income for Mississipi is given as $76,305/year by this US census link:…
we were explicitly talking about people who went to university "for the joy of learning", instead of, as was cited as one of the examples, to prepare themselves for a good career, and how the latter can detract from the…
good to know, thanks. it does make sense. there's still the professors though. the courses may not necessarily be different from their point of view. also, what do you make of physics grads going to work on finance?…
so, essentially, you and the other commenter are arguing whether it is everyone that has a little fault for being naughty, or is it just a couple of psychos who are fucking everyone else over. but even if it was just a…
while i agree that this "doorman fallacy" happens, and i also agree that it can happen in the context of restaurant servers, i completely disagree that this is an example of it. problems cited: people ordering at the…
so you go to university just for the joy of learning? to be clear, i think that's cool, and i might try it at some point. but how do you deal with the fact that university, in practice, is not "for the joy of learning"?…
my impression is that inside these niches, people know each other personally, or are only separated by a small number of degrees. reputations form, etc. so any paper they end up reading, most likely does not have…
> I'm with you until I remember how expensive medical school plus internship is in the US. in that case you should double check your math, because it doesn't work out like that > If doctors cannot pay back their student…
a friend of a friend who did a stint in biomedical academia told me that the researchers in their field did not hold research coming from the medicine community in high regard
in that case, it's a question of proportion. we cannot automatically conclude that a (supposed) "good handful" doing good research makes up for "most students" doing bad research.
> An employer is looking to screen two recent harvard grads by GPA, not really between a new grad and a 5/10 year ago grad. that's a really good point, actually. in every situation i can think of where someone is…
> I've always wondered what the steelman is for curve grading. assuming that by "steelman" here you mean "the justification", i believe the point is that a curved grade shows how you compare to others. the idea is that…
> Or 100% Fs if you want to retire from teaching immediately it's crazy to see that mentioned so non-chalantly. my expectation is that the teacher, when they grade, is meant to be impartial, as if they were doing…
> Yes, in positivist sciences 20% intending to stay would be very high by historical standards. i'd be interested in a source for this. i did not find in the article you cite mention of historical trends.
> When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO. that's hilarious, since today, as many other days, i am literally looking forward to watching HBO when i get home from work
somewhere else they were discussing how to use a 555 to time 55 years, and how for such a long period you'd need impractical resistance and capacitance values. easy workaround would be to set a more reasonable period,…
yes, from the point of view of an individual programmer, there is no difference between code created by AI or by some other programmer. but from the point of view of the company as a whole there is a difference: code…
i agree that wisdom / an independent thinking spirit is an important factor to prevent manipulation and that it's not something easily taught. but i also believe that in fact knowledge is another very important factor…
> if things pay off anyway, why should should tax payers fund it? i believe the idea is that when someone is educated, it's not themselves alone that benefits from it, but rather everyone else around them. thus the…
another possibility to combat grifting would be to have competition. another university comes up and provides the same service as the wasteful university at a smaller cost, and thus displaces the wasteful university.…
i like your framing of "holes" in political systems. one way to put it is that a political system has "holes" if the ideal/desired outcome is not a Nash equilibrium. however, my understanding (though i can't speak for…
this is a good point. > It seems more fruitful to approach things from the perspective of monopolies, competition, corporate governance etc in general where to go to learn more about these topics?
i guess in that case the question would be if one should be as worried about the biological effects of PFAS as much as these two other forever chemicals you cite
for me, the moral of the story is that it's easier to promise things than to deliver them. or, engineering was the bottleneck. in my experience, this is not particular to start-ups, or even software engineering. why…
i agree with you that this is a technique that is used to make people give up. not only in the context of this discussion ("how is the economy doing"), but in many discussions. i see it being effective often enough for…
the Wikipedia page on Europe you cite lists average, not median wage in Germany. the average household income for Mississipi is given as $76,305/year by this US census link:…
we were explicitly talking about people who went to university "for the joy of learning", instead of, as was cited as one of the examples, to prepare themselves for a good career, and how the latter can detract from the…
good to know, thanks. it does make sense. there's still the professors though. the courses may not necessarily be different from their point of view. also, what do you make of physics grads going to work on finance?…
so, essentially, you and the other commenter are arguing whether it is everyone that has a little fault for being naughty, or is it just a couple of psychos who are fucking everyone else over. but even if it was just a…
while i agree that this "doorman fallacy" happens, and i also agree that it can happen in the context of restaurant servers, i completely disagree that this is an example of it. problems cited: people ordering at the…
so you go to university just for the joy of learning? to be clear, i think that's cool, and i might try it at some point. but how do you deal with the fact that university, in practice, is not "for the joy of learning"?…
my impression is that inside these niches, people know each other personally, or are only separated by a small number of degrees. reputations form, etc. so any paper they end up reading, most likely does not have…
> I'm with you until I remember how expensive medical school plus internship is in the US. in that case you should double check your math, because it doesn't work out like that > If doctors cannot pay back their student…
a friend of a friend who did a stint in biomedical academia told me that the researchers in their field did not hold research coming from the medicine community in high regard
in that case, it's a question of proportion. we cannot automatically conclude that a (supposed) "good handful" doing good research makes up for "most students" doing bad research.
> An employer is looking to screen two recent harvard grads by GPA, not really between a new grad and a 5/10 year ago grad. that's a really good point, actually. in every situation i can think of where someone is…
> I've always wondered what the steelman is for curve grading. assuming that by "steelman" here you mean "the justification", i believe the point is that a curved grade shows how you compare to others. the idea is that…
> Or 100% Fs if you want to retire from teaching immediately it's crazy to see that mentioned so non-chalantly. my expectation is that the teacher, when they grade, is meant to be impartial, as if they were doing…
> Yes, in positivist sciences 20% intending to stay would be very high by historical standards. i'd be interested in a source for this. i did not find in the article you cite mention of historical trends.
> When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO. that's hilarious, since today, as many other days, i am literally looking forward to watching HBO when i get home from work
somewhere else they were discussing how to use a 555 to time 55 years, and how for such a long period you'd need impractical resistance and capacitance values. easy workaround would be to set a more reasonable period,…
yes, from the point of view of an individual programmer, there is no difference between code created by AI or by some other programmer. but from the point of view of the company as a whole there is a difference: code…