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by aggie 1mo ago
It's similar to why we don't expect to get a speeding ticket when going 66 in a 65. And we often see backlash to traffic cameras that enforce minor infractions relentlessly. Police officer can't practically write down every l
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by aggie 4mo ago
I'm also curious what it really means to have CPS called on you. People talk about it like it's a foregone conclusion that they'll take your kids away. I just can't believe they would do so lightly. Now of course even ha
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by aggie 7mo ago
I've long expected Waymo's approach to prevail simply because - aside from whether vision-only proves good enough to some standard - it will be easy to lobby for regulations that favor the more conservative approach. But I also do
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by aggie 7mo ago
How does #3 square with Anthropic's literal warehouse full of books we've seen from the copyright case? Did OpenAI scan more books? Or did they take a shadier route of training on digital books despite copyright issues, but end up
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by aggie 1y ago
Why do I see so many critiques of the abundance movement based on factional motives and ad hominem, and so little critique of the arguments they make? If progressives want to expand government, government needs to be effective. Abundance li
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by aggie 1y ago
The value of AI is easy to see personally, concretely. But there is always a gap between concrete value in your hands and how that plays out in larger systems. The ability to work remotely could intuitively project to outsourcing of almost
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by aggie 1y ago
It's far from simple. There is no clear delineation between food and non-food offered by saying Doritos are a science experiment. Is an ear of corn real food? It has of course been significantly modified by selective breeding. And your
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by aggie 1y ago
If you're implying the marginal cost of a 6-hour AV errand is almost zero, I think you're describing a prosperous future. This is also easily managed with congestion pricing.
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by aggie 1y ago
I've seen it discussed on Twitter for a while, mostly on the right. As best I can tell it is related to a general trend toward distrust of big agriculture, big pharma, big institutions in general as seed oils are painted as a product o
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by aggie 2y ago
Most people do not have elite resumes and most people are not hiring people with elite resumes. There's plenty of uncertainty in hiring in general, and that being the case with bootcamps isn't much different than a typical resume
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by aggie 2y ago
Unless EMG signal processing has had some breakthrough in the past 10 years, it is not a very precise interaction mode. I worked in a lab developing it for quadriplegics to use with the muscle on their temple (we tested above the thumb as w
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by aggie 2y ago
Microplastics seem bad. The evidence of adverse effects seems marginal. But in the bigger picture, plastics provide enormous wealth to the world. We should look for ways to mitigate any adverse environmental effects, of course, but it'
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by aggie 3y ago
It's worth considering that throughout history there have been people who have felt this way. That suggests this perception is a natural tendency of humans and it does not have a good track record of turning out be be correct.
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by aggie 3y ago
This is actually a common dynamic between humans, especially when there is a status or knowledge imbalance. If you do user interviews, one of the most important skills is not injecting your views into the conversation.
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by aggie 3y ago
"Small n" is not always a problem. They are not trying to tease out a small effect size between two treatments. This is a strong signal -- literally children can now hear when they couldn't before. A small sample size does no
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by aggie 3y ago
That may have been critical to forming the network but not for maintaining it. As long as the consumer UX is good (which is a big assumption I have no idea about), the creators will do whatever they need to to reach that audience. You lose
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by aggie 4y ago
In practice, peer review isn't even that. Most referees are not double-checking your statistical analysis. What they focus on is whether the research is interesting and has it appropriately considered relevant literature. Even that is
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by aggie 4y ago
This assumes everyone sees all the headlines. This approach is very bad for people paying attention, but the type of people to pay attention to this kind of news would probably be unwilling to go near LP again if it was revealed all at once
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by aggie 4y ago
Is there a better study you can point to? From what I remember looking into this topic the research has always provided ambiguous results with lots of context-dependence.
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by aggie 5y ago
The marginal value to your career of a day's work is probably highest during your notice period, because of the opportunity for a last impression on your network for future job references etc.
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by aggie 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of weak external validity that has caused much of the replication crisis.
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by aggie 5y ago
"AI Robot cops show implicit bias resulting in 3 deaths" is a headline today if you remove the AI robot part. As evidenced by the comments in this thread and any other on these robots, the public is extremely skeptical of them. If
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Why is China smashing its tech industry?(noahpinion.substack.com)
12 points by aggie 5y ago|0 comments
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by aggie 5y ago
"What you have built is illegal" is hardly the same as "I don't believe in your vision."
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by aggie 6y ago
I'm sorry but why should we take WSB posters at their word? Here's an alternate view (also from a reddit post): "WSB's power users are younger finance bros. It's 30s investment bankers and portfolio managers memeing
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by aggie 6y ago
Occam's razor does not actually mean the simplest explanation is correct. If that was the case you could explain anything with "a wizard did it." Occam's razor says that if you have 2 possible explanations, but one adds
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by aggie 6y ago
Do we know it was Pelosi's computer and not just a staffer in her office? I also imagine it's a lot harder to walk out of the building with an open laptop in hand than a closed one in a bag.
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by aggie 6y ago
This laptop is probably used by staffers in their 20s and 30s. It's not like Nancy Pelosi is administrating IT security.
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by aggie 6y ago
Is it obscene to buy a thousand dollar laptop when 500 dollar laptops are fine for most users? $500 for headphones seems like a very arbitrary standard for what is excessive. A billion people live on a dollar a day. They would consider spen
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by aggie 6y ago
Why are you linking to a news report on the preliminary summary released by Barr? It was clearly crafted to drive an initial narrative of exoneration. The actual Mueller report is much more damning for Trump, including findings that were re

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