MperorM

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by MperorM 5y ago
He is the leader of the Copenhagen Consensus Center https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/ Which does research into the most cost-effective ways to fight global poverty. Absolutely marvellous work.
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by MperorM 5y ago
Why not? They have many things in common. For example make they both make you sick, often with similar symptoms. If you're arguing that you shouldn't dismiss the danger of covid because of its flu like nature, then be my guest but
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by MperorM 5y ago
I completely agree, I merely meant to point out that making decisions based on the absolute pollution of something will lead you horribly astray. That said a carbon tax certainly does limit shipping, as some of it will no longer be profitab
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by MperorM 5y ago
no, it is absolutely the marginal numbers that matter. All else equal, starting anywhere but the place with the most pollution per $ produced is a sub-optimal place to start. In a world that has climate change under control, there's fo
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by MperorM 5y ago
We should be concerned about both. That said, whether to spend your energy on global poverty or abolishing factory farming really comes down to how you highly you rank animal suffering. Is a thousand chickens tortured from birth to slaughte
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by MperorM 5y ago
coordination problem. Europe provides no competitive advantage to any first mover.
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by MperorM 5y ago
If you remove the bay from the equation, the US starts looking much more like the rest of the world. I now live in Copenhagen Denmark but still maintain a decent network in the bay. The difference of culture is astounding. More than anythin
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by MperorM 5y ago
Trade agreements don't need to be symmetric to be beneficial for both parties. Even if China didn't buy a single American good, it is beneficial for US to sell to china. Export is what you pay for import. If China sells goods to U
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Be in a field where tech is the limit(mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com)
186 points by MperorM 5y ago|203 comments
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by MperorM 5y ago
Spreadsheets and finance has tremendous value!
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by MperorM 5y ago
Or do like apple and charge both!
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by MperorM 5y ago
That was exactly my experience. Sold off every keyboard except one with sentimental value. Typing this from a macbook keyboard.
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by MperorM 5y ago
If India requires twitter murder a child every time someone tweets, I sure hope they don't just say: "Well, I guess that's just their way of life" and continue operating. Obviously India is requiring no such thing, but w
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by MperorM 5y ago
we torture and kill so many more animals to eat meat and dairy, than we do to conduct science. While I share your view, I think it's important to point out that this really isn't the best place to start if you want to reduce anima
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by MperorM 5y ago
Am I the only one who barely understands anything from that show? Every episode I hear a dozen barely explained confusing terms with quantum this and higgs-field that. I feel like they care more about impressing me with how complicated this
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Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree(inc.com)
15 points by MperorM 6y ago|0 comments
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by MperorM 6y ago
I'm Danish and live in Denmark. Please keep your next bigoted comment to yourself, they don't belong on this forum.
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by MperorM 6y ago
This is the same argument often made against prediction markets. I remain unconvinced this is a significant issue, but I'm always open to changing my mind :)
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by MperorM 6y ago
Yeah that's right. I am somewhat torn on where to stand on this. On one hand I do see why we would want regulation against insider trading & pump and dumps, on the other hand I worry that regulation isn't preventing either, an
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by MperorM 6y ago
How is that perverted? Shorting a stock is fundamentally no different than other types of debt. Imagine an economy of 3 people, A, B and C. A has $5. B borrows $5 from A. C borrows $5 from B. A borrows $5 form C. The economy started with $5
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by MperorM 6y ago
why is shorting a company perverted? I would argue it's a great asset to society. Eg. those who shorted stock because they expected covid-19 to cause a market dip, sent a giant signal to the entire world that covid was going to be a bi
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by MperorM 6y ago
No, the opposite. Google aren't allowed to tell you how you can socialize with your colleagues outside of work
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by MperorM 6y ago
What other things were terrible about the biography? It's my favorite biography of all time. I'd love to know better what important parts were left out.
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by MperorM 6y ago
The best steelman I can come up with is that it's very difficult to give away that many billions effectively. Give one billion to every charity on givewell's list, and now those have more money than can effectively spend in the fo
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by MperorM 6y ago
I don't understand why this exact pattern of argument happens so much in online debate, but I really despise it. Acrobatic_Road makes a reasonable point that they don't feel they were given the proper means to express their policy
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by MperorM 6y ago
I find it pretty amusing that your last post was advocating for why we should hire you :D
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by MperorM 6y ago
To her defense, she was working on ethics in AI. What ethics to adopt inherently comes down to ideology. While I don't really understand the emissions argument, the rest strikes me as very defensible. If the best language models need g
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by MperorM 6y ago
I think this is a great comment, that would do a lot of people a lot of good to read. That said, how should a person like Yann LeCun argue his case? Namely that biased models are the result of bad datasets more so than the result of bad alg
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by MperorM 6y ago
I wouldn't frame it as 'giving up' when you stop playing, rather you achieved what you set out to do.
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by MperorM 6y ago
I think there's something to be argued that reaching a high level in any competitive game or sport has merit. I've learned more valuable lessons from competing in Starcraft than I can count. Without knowing the exact opportunity c

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