belly_joe

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by belly_joe 1y ago
just let the "proto" do the work and enjoy the joke
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by belly_joe 1y ago
I would say generally speaking that people who assume AI will replace somebody else's job believe that these jobs are merely mechanical and there is no high-level reasoning involved that would basically require AGI (when that comes a
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by belly_joe 3y ago
Yeah my understanding is that the balance of evidence on moderate alcohol consumption works this way as well (though with cancer and heart health reversed).
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by belly_joe 3y ago
No, so long as they do so independently. However if they were to collude to suppress wages, then it becomes illegal.
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by belly_joe 3y ago
In my experience, Spotify generally picks 20-40 top songs from each genre and recommends them to any listener that has showed interest in that genre. To a listener new to the genre, this yields a pretty good hit rate and the perception that
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by belly_joe 4y ago
Yes, plus it's also risky as a store of value for someone even if they are complying with local law. There are greater opportunities for fraud as well as the risk the regulatory environment can change at any time.
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by belly_joe 4y ago
Interesting that GOP confidence is down as well (since 2020)
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by belly_joe 4y ago
Yeah in terms of greed it's really hard to say which of these two parties I detest more.
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by belly_joe 5y ago
The wiki article cites this link: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-... which does show many comparable countries, but it seems like much of the info is from ~10-15 years ago.
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by belly_joe 5y ago
The dynamic sort of of reminds me of the "market for lemons" in that the bad drives out the good. Not really quite the same though. The question is what the production function for articles looks like from the publisher/journ
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by belly_joe 5y ago
FWIW I'm currently in my late twenties / early thirties and I also think the tech of 10-15 years ago was optimal. Hypothesis 1: The 90s-00s really were the peak and it's not just a generational effect Hypothesis 2: The nostal
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by belly_joe 5y ago
Yeah in my experience the need to be distracted can always find an expression even after eliminating individual outlets. Still, there are marginal benefits to reducing the quality of the distraction by banning myself from those I most enjoy
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by belly_joe 5y ago
Most of the growth in Chinese carbon emissions (>90%) is due to growth Chinese consumption, not exports. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china
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by belly_joe 5y ago
This seems like it's merely codifying a practice that already existed de facto. I doubt Harvard had a specific social media monitoring policy in place when it rescinded admissions from the admits posting offensive memes, but that didn&
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by belly_joe 5y ago
True, but to be fair a null result is much more interesting (and thus publishable) when it cuts against a large body of prior empirical work or theory. Thinking specifically of Card and Krueger (1994) finding zero impact of the minimum wage
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I think the chief complaint of the analysts is less about the total hours worked than the fact that much of the grinding is not productive. From what I recall, the issue was that management knew analyst time was not valuable at all, and so
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I feel the sound -> stress connection palpably. Especially sudden loud noises like a horn honking cause me to feel upset for a long while after being startled. Seems like a convincing argument to me for car-free spaces, although honestly
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I agree with this broadly. I find it interesting that most of my friends/social set will (rightly) dismiss "high school health class" fearmongering over drugs, but when that drug is anabolic steroids suddenly every warning is
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by belly_joe 6y ago
What I like about this reply is that I think the best answers are probably the ones you don't immediately think of, as they've changed things so immensely that they're now a component of cultural background noise. FWIW, I rem
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by belly_joe 6y ago
Heh, same. All I have to do is wait 30 years and everyone will stop bothering me!
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by belly_joe 6y ago
They do in their model. Being Asian carries with it the worst relative odds of being hired, though it is not responsible for the overall negative non-white male coefficient (Black and Hispanic applicants also have negative coefficients in t
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by belly_joe 6y ago
GOP senators going through these motions is kind of like a weird mirror image of when the Dems bring in the relevant CEO from the latest financial fraud for grilling, but no relevant laws get changed
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I think this is a good point that doesn't get discussed enough. Was Bell bad for the consumer? Yes, probably. Was the benefit of the increase in innovation a net benefit for society when compared to deadweight loss incurred by monopoly
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by belly_joe 6y ago
Seconded on the imposter syndrome point. I definitely have days in my life when my internal narrative sounds just like your post, but if I take a step back I'm much further along than at those low points. Another issue is that it&#x27
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I feel this deeply. I was extremely lazy in high school and college and then got my act together gradually throughout my 20s to the point where I feel like I no longer waste much time. I've experienced some success and accomplished goa
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by belly_joe 6y ago
There are many reasons why China catches heat for this. China is big so when it does things like this it tends to have a larger impact than other countries' practices. Also it has been growing very fast, and we tend to notice things th
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by belly_joe 6y ago
Is there a way to check local insect levels without harming their populations? A lot of comments in here have been anecdotal observations of pretty big population swings and I too (in the northeast of the USA) have noticed the insect popula
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by belly_joe 6y ago
As someone who's lived in both New York and Los Angeles, I find the car-centric low density city to be a much more pleasant living experience. In either case, my commute to work was around 45 minutes, but in NY I faced a great deal mor
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by belly_joe 6y ago
Came here to say the same. At least personally, it's the insight into human brain mechanics and new abilities to test hypotheses in this field that gets me most excited about deep learning developments, rather than the improvements in
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by belly_joe 6y ago
I'm 30, in grad school, and moved back in with my parents just prior to the corona lockdown. I didn't break my old lease, so I didn't save much money until last month when the lease was up. I thought I was going to move out a

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