ShredKazoo

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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>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. Perha
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>I don't think it's impossible to come up with arguments against them. For one thing, extrapolating the current gradual rate of progress forwards means that we will get to see several minor "intelligence spills" befor
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
See discussion on the EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Interesting take.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Doesn't that make it harder to do an apples-to-apples comparison between candidates though?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
What does rewriting your codebase have to do with hiring?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Why not just apply at companies that focus on take-home problems?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
I assume that's a joke? Sounds like going back to manhole covers.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
It's incredibly cold in the outer solar system right? So why is it that there is liquid water in these moons? Is it some sort of geothermal heating? What's the most complex life which could conceivably exist in such a cold envir
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 :-)
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 show most people h
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
The "this topic is less-than-maximally-important" critique applies to pretty much every story on the HN homepage.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 the opinions of e
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 interesting as well, e.g. e
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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"
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>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 tha
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 Society has one.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 mistake in my view. Ther
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 pioneering new &quot
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
The thing that frustrates me is that if you speak out against safetyism, some people will ignore what you're saying and just declare you a safety threat. It'd be nice if we made more decisions using cost/benefit analysis inst
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 hitchh
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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: * Women a
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>There are so many people looking for respectful, reasonably attractive, healthy, financially successful and emotionally mature men. In what region?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
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 has clear benefit
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>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 notice the diff
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
I always figured that ransomware was like a vaccine, provoking an immune response, with the net result of overall stronger cyber defenses
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>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. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/

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