curiousllama

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by curiousllama 29d ago
NAL, but looks like they're alleging something like negligence & deception. Addictiveness is just the mechanism of harm, so doesn't require a strict general case: just actual harm and the prior knowledge thereof. So like the g
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by curiousllama 29d ago
> does it have to be answered in general? 100% yes. Remember, this is somewhat adversarial: Meta increases its products addictiveness year by year. Banning individual practices fails if the rate of that growth exceeds the impact of point
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by curiousllama 3mo ago
Yea, that's his point. The gold standard neither prevents nor encourages inequality, except inasmuch as it limits policy flexibility (which, similarly, could be used to promote or limit inequality).
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by curiousllama 3mo ago
NAL, but have worked in this. Griggs is a bit more complicated than that, and its progeny modify application anyway. The TLDR is that arbitrary tests are permissible if there's no disparate impact. Tests with disparate impact are permi
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
How long would it take an aggressive company to expand production capacity? I always thought it takes a few years, at minimum, for even established players to stand up new fabs
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Sure, but the key word here is "was" The industry is so naturally prone to oversupply that the only stable equilibrium is undersupply. Aggressive expansion kicks off a price war, which immediately undercuts the logic of the expans
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Again - maybe? The credential was certainly something - a more easily understood distillation of the of connections and status that got you there. But that's not exactly professional the way a degree in Business is. Besides, were there
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Maybe? Elite colleges have been around a lot longer than the professional credentialism of the last 20 years, no?
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Maybe - to your point, if we think of happiness as like “living one’s own purpose fully”, then yes, it does very directly. But I was referring to happiness more generally as enjoyment, joy, satisfaction - that type of thing. And in that cas
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Expanding this thought... UChicago should be pretty uniquely positioned to address the problem of AI writ large. They already require a full year of each philosophy, literature, and history (all through primary sources). This "Core&quo
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
I can tell you with 100% certainty this is just how UChicago students write
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by curiousllama 4mo ago
Over a decade ago, my orientation at UChicago included the traditional "Aims of Education" address. They packed the whole first-year class into the chapel to explain, at length, that this education will not be "useful."
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by curiousllama 6mo ago
This... can't be a signal of strength. There's a fine line between being agile and being erratic. AI investment makes total sense as a proximal explanation. Minimize debt by trimming OpEx, then reinvest in compute. Seems smart. An
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by curiousllama 1y ago
I think it's more like a restaurant offering both candy and burgers. When candy sales outpace burgers, they're naturally going to invest more in candy. Eventually, they start to compete more with Hershey's than McDonald'
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by curiousllama 1y ago
There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down. The problem? Nobody I care about posts anymore. The "flywheel" is broken. Social Media hasn't died - it just moved
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by curiousllama 1y ago
Never confuse loyalty to a person with loyalty to an employer. I have found loyalty to managers - when reciprocated - is the most valuable currency I have. It's led to both rewarding experiences & safety from the exact type of orga
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by curiousllama 1y ago
I would love to be a junior right now. I would just hate becoming a senior, after having been a junior right now.
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by curiousllama 1y ago
Yea but "we waste the greatest minds of our generation on global economic information symmetry" just doesn't scratch the same itch
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by curiousllama 2y ago
OODA loop is just a catchy acronym for the scientific method. Gather data, make hypotheses, choose one to test, actually test it; repeat.
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by curiousllama 2y ago
If it makes you feel better, I’ve heard similar advice to manage executives
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by curiousllama 2y ago
The whole thing with social media is network effects though. The added friction of a VPN, though small, is just so much larger than "click download, open app"
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by curiousllama 2y ago
I mean, it was a ban when China did it to Facebook, no?
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by curiousllama 2y ago
We have that. Welcome to the World Wide Web. We all walked into the walled gardens and went "ooh, looks mighty nice in here!"
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by curiousllama 2y ago
Maybe. Network effects are strong, though. I wonder how much losing access to the US market sets back TT's financial & competitive positions
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by curiousllama 2y ago
Most folks who I know who made a large career change did one of two things: - Hard shift: quit their job, went to grad school, and started over. - Soft shift: got an adjacent job w/ a company w/ many roles (consulting, big tech, e
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by curiousllama 2y ago
Tik Tok said they'll fully shut down. They'd rather go dark now than have a slowly-degrading experience, since users won't be able to update the apps.
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by curiousllama 2y ago
That's a great point. Hadn't thought about that angle
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by curiousllama 2y ago
I mean I know a lot of people who explicitly decide between sectors early/mid career. Tech vs consulting/finance for MBAs, tech vs. HFT for SWEs, tech vs. advertising for creatives, etc etc
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by curiousllama 2y ago
My favorite part about p<0.05 conversations is getting to be really pedantic about all the other sources of error in an experiment. We're all just fancy monkeys with lightning rocks, it's fine dude
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by curiousllama 2y ago
The core problem with this is: - DON'T is very clear and specific. Don't say "Stat-Sig", don't conclude causal effect, don't conclude anything based on p>0.05. - DO is very vague and unclear. Do be thoughtfu

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