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by addcommitpush 3y ago
In total, probably not but per capita?
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
> art/fine art, will only be at risk when ai learns to physically paint or interact with the world. So you just need to pair DallE with an axidraw?
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
The number of people working in agriculture was divided by c. 6 in the US [0], despite the population being multiplied by c. 3.5. Sure, automation increased demand for food, but demand did not increase enough to not destroy 5/6th of fa
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
There are two different questions: - will be more artwork be bought (probably) - will the increase in the quantity of artwork being bought (assuming there is one) compensate the decrease in price for each piece of art? Clearly for software,
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Chebyshev's inequality: > for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean. Specifically, no more than 1/k^2 of the distribution's v
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
How is it related to economics?
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
ChatGPT can use a Wolfram Alpha plugin, right? This is already a solved problem. See https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Until other countries also revise their GDP estimate, according to the article.
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
It means you're a civil servant in your own country (eg in the national statistical office) and you're sent to work at Eurostat for a period of time.
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
It's quite surprising because ever since the "credibility revolution" [0], a major critique of economics is that it focuses too much on issues that are well suited to "validating via observation" as you call it, rat
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
They care enough to p-hack [0] though [0] https://sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/economics/sites/socialsc...
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
To be more precise in a few more words, the article makes two points: * some papers rely on McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History data as the ground truth, when a lot of it is the best educated guess (sometimes the guess is b
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
The linked Google sheets computes the correlation between the _first difference of_ series 1 and the _first difference_ of series 2, and not the correlation between the series 1 and the series 2. Correlation is indeed misunderstood by the a
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Well then there are two straightforward questions: - are the overall costs of plastics (namely pollution and its environmental and health effects) higher than the costs of banning plastics? Seems like a clear yes. - what are the redistribut
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
I think the relevant metric is the amount of work per people, not the agregate amount of work. If tomorrow there's twice as many people but only one more job because of AI, then sure! the agregate amount of work has increased.
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
This is completely false; working hours per worker have declined after the Industrial Revolution [0]. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#are-we-working-more...
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
> Maybe because you are comparing r-rated action movies with super hero film made by disney. It's comparing mainstream action movies with mainstream action movies. The fact that those mainstream action movies used to be r-rated and
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Quite common in some places, e.g. France
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
This seems obvious for agricultural productivity but I fail to see how that would explain say, classical Athens.
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
I am not sure how your theory can both explain French people both turning their nose at "authentic arabic shwarma" but cheap kebabs being wildly popular at the same time. They're racist only against the authentic versions of
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
The very next sentences explain why this is about conspicuous consumption: > The authors of “Signalling status with luxury goods: the role of brand prominence”, which appeared in the Journal of Marketing in 2010, do so by dividing the ri
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
You need to have journalism as a regular, paid activity, in a press company, from which most of your income comes. There is a committee of journalists & press companies representatives that review applications.
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
> Only because most people who count calories actually don't. There are two slightly different questions: - how much weight is lost assuming perfect compliance - how much weight is lost assuming the compliance of the average people
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Surely there are many more that are not present in the data set. How do you plan to find them?
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Side note - I always wondered why English speakers tend to 1. keep the original language article and 2. capitalise it even though it is not in the original language. Why is it “La Terreur” and not “la Terreur” or “the Terreur”?
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
I have some doubts about the data: the government of France has supposedly 1 repos, but for instance the French Statistics Office has 244 repos [0], the "digital" team of the Prime Minister's services has at least 537 repos,
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Inflation is the increase in price. You may argue inflation is not an interesting metrics to look at, but it seems weird to say: - inflation is not informative about X - X is what matters - therefore we shall call X "inflation"
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
There are two obvious limits: - this may be true in the long run, this does not mean people will magically adapt in one day. Luddites were skilled workers whose jobs were replaced by much less skilled jobs because of mechanisation. - People
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
Well I do not know if it's going to be profitable but at least the foundation of interstellar trades have already been studied: there's a published paper on it by Krugman ( https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/i
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by addcommitpush 3y ago
There is the double mode of the PadMu: two A4 ereaders with a "double mode" case for 1837€. Not quite what you're asking at all, but the closest right now as far as I know.

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