concordDance

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by concordDance 1y ago
Examining is fine in my book. But examining the ability to think of recognizably distinct demographics should be done with great care and sensitivity. And that was not an examination, just some low effort attacks on the out group.
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by concordDance 1y ago
> inability to process information clearly and think in reality in lieu of ideology is the cornerstone of conservative thinking. Can we not do this kind of thing please?
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by concordDance 1y ago
> This is the party of so-called "rationalists". Eh?
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by concordDance 1y ago
What was the question? The rampant flagging here is quite annoying.
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by concordDance 1y ago
Do you have some further reading where one can understand the basics of the subject?
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by concordDance 1y ago
The vast majority of non-EA charity givers to not expend effort on trying to find the most dollar efficient charities (or indeed pushing for quantification at all), which makes their altruism ineffectual in a world with strong competition b
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by concordDance 1y ago
This is already true to a great extent. A family with lots of genetic health conditions are probably going to remain poor.
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by concordDance 1y ago
While steelmanning is a great practice, it sometimes feels a bit unfair that many positions are not allowed to be steelmanned (socially or otherwise).
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by concordDance 1y ago
Sadly I don't have time to go into it now, but they're massively overpaying due to miscallibrated risk tolerance. (Paying tens of millions per QALY is not a good use of money, 1 milliSv per year is an utterly insane goal) The actu
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by concordDance 1y ago
> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster. Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power production.
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by concordDance 1y ago
And yet somehow there are infinity times more reals than rationals... Very hard to get your head around!
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by concordDance 1y ago
Honestly, a future where diplomas are just noise and employers stop caring about them and thus young people stop wasting years of their lives "learning" something they don't care about sounds like a huge improvement. LLM chea
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by concordDance 1y ago
Can't see any eugenics there, can you quote?
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by concordDance 1y ago
They probably suspect you to be a slow coder who writes code with bad abstractions because they percieve the maths skills as how one does things in software engineering.
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by concordDance 1y ago
This is silly, many countries use consumer messaging for internal communications. The UK government famously uses whatsapp for example.
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Can AI Change Your View? Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment(drive.google.com)
3 points by concordDance 1y ago|0 comments
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by concordDance 1y ago
This doesn't apply to literal ASI, mostly because copy-pasteable intelligence is an absolute gamechanger, particularly if the physical interaction problems that prevent exponential growth (think autonomous robot factory) are solved (wh
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by concordDance 1y ago
This entire thread is worthless social media junk food.
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by concordDance 1y ago
Disgruntled ex-employee disparaging their old colleagues and bosses is extremely common, I don't get why this is getting so many upvotes...
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by concordDance 1y ago
Right now, sure. But when a 21 year old is picking a field they need to think 10 years from now.
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by concordDance 1y ago
Is DEI really centrist? I thought it was progressive left... It definitely used to be. Do we have any surveys on this?
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by concordDance 1y ago
Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.
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by concordDance 1y ago
> I think my main takeaway for sites like /pol/ is that you can't really pretend to act one way for humor for extended periods of time without it rubbing off on you in one way or another and that there are too many young p
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by concordDance 1y ago
The vast majority of people will get stressed talking to people they think are evil or against their values. Someone breaking down in tears because another person says they "don't give a fuck about the bloody Gazans" is not b
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by concordDance 1y ago
"Politics" is a stupid word because everyone has a different idea about what it means and so they all talk past each other.
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by concordDance 1y ago
It's in favor of not having relationships break down in your community/company. Only a small percentage of people are able to handle fundamental disagreements calmly and without it bleeding over to other interactions. Will the SE
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by concordDance 1y ago
> I never EVER saw politicians act proactively for the good of the nation or the people, This is almost certainly because those cases don't make the news.
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by concordDance 1y ago
While the manner of layoff, role of layoff and person to lay off all seem foolish, profits do not mean that layoffs are a bad idea. You should hire people you need and if you want to good in the world, donate to the most effective charities
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by concordDance 1y ago
You can use numbeo to compare. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... Basically, almost all places, particularly in the UK, have worse salary to cost of living ratios.
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by concordDance 1y ago
> It is about total benefit to society, period. It's about benefit to society per cost. If you can fire someone over here and hire someone over there in a role that brings more benefit to society, that's good. Eg. Fire the tele

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