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by devalgo 6y ago
Illuminati preventing us from hearing signals. Aliens Confirmed!!
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Someone stuck in a one-person flat will have a different experience. As someone in this position I can say that the lack of a commute has been amazing, I'm sleeping much better and less stressed overall but the lack of social conta
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by devalgo 6y ago
> I have several friends that actively choose to be contractors because they prefer the (legally protected) flexibility to decide their own hours, among other things I'm sure the flexibility is nice when you are making $100+ per hou
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by devalgo 6y ago
>have been constructed to build a specific narrative about diversity and inclusion Just for reference, the first line in the memo is literally: "I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse u
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by devalgo 6y ago
Nice strawman you've built there. Enjoy beating it up.
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by devalgo 6y ago
No... It's to point out that the particular claim to authority that SPLC is the adjudicator on who is racist or not is stupid. OP could have easily posted the quote directly from Molyneux's twitter or wherever he rants at without
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by devalgo 6y ago
Just for fun let's try a few: Memo line: "Women, on average, have more Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to me
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by devalgo 6y ago
>articles that were both cherry picked and misinterpreted Which ones? Your edit is even more misleading and incoherent than your original comment.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Care to point out which lines in the Memo were weren't supported by standard literature?
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by devalgo 6y ago
Where did I say I dispute the quotes? I said Molyneux is a dirtbag but SPLC is not a credible org.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Stefan Molyneux is a pig but your characterization of Damore is low effort and more or less completely wrong. If you read the memo it is a relatively straightforward review of standard Biology and Psychology research. There's virtually
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by devalgo 6y ago
Molyneux is detestable but SLPC has no credibility. They recently settled a defamation lawsuit against Majid Nawaz an anti-extremism Muslim reformer who they labeled as an anti-muslim extremist. It's in the same vein as people who call
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Direct helicopter money into everyone's bank account...oh, wait, we are doing that Except the amount is peanuts, peer countries are doing 2k/mo without issue but its somehow a struggle or hyperinflationary for the US to do 240
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by devalgo 6y ago
In a SHTF scenario I think the idea that you would be able to reach, operate or maintain a refinery is fanciful.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>basically stealing TikTok for example 'Stealing' it for 30 Billion? Give me a break... TikTok is not the hill to die on...
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by devalgo 6y ago
I agree, but it hasn't changed yet. Despite the "teach truckers to code" kind of rhetoric and survivorship bias of self taught coders.
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by devalgo 6y ago
People always parrot this but how many Doctors do you know with no degree? Take a poll at Google engineers and see how many are actually self taught and have no degree. How many Wall Street bankers/traders/etc have no degree? How
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by devalgo 6y ago
>GPT-3 demonstrates that a huge volume of what's written is mostly bullshit Have you never seen reddit or youtube comments? But seriously this seems like a standard Pareto distribution, 20% of the writing provides 80% of the value a
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by devalgo 6y ago
>I have a hunch it will work on 50% of people. The number of people on Social Media that don't read past an article's headline is enormous, they are convinced by basic false headlines like "George Soros paying for mind con
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by devalgo 6y ago
>One consequence of GPT-3 is that I am now highly sceptical of the human provenance of any HN comment on an article about GPT-3 This likely isn't a bad thing. As more and more generative models come out it's likely that a major
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by devalgo 6y ago
John Bell would like to have a word with you.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>If anything, GPT-3 is too tied to the real world. Like a search engine, it can quickly find the answer to almost any practical question. What we're trying to figure out is if it can do anything else. I disagree, for what it is GPT
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by devalgo 6y ago
> It cannot be emulated in an environment that's secluded from the world or even in an environment that is exposed to a carefully selected slice of the world. This has always been some kind of anthropomorphic argument to me that I d
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by devalgo 6y ago
>men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring How can you get this close >Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer things in life, which distracts from family planning And
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Low birth rates may be exacerbated at the moment by the economy, but people's preference for their careers and the quality and availability of modern entertainment (why raise kids when you can travel, binge watch shows on Netflix,
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by devalgo 6y ago
Between increasing economic uncertainty, student loan debt, no mandated maternity/paternity leave, no sick leave, no vacation time, etc. etc... Is it any wonder Millennials aren't having kids?
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by devalgo 6y ago
>I don't think it's rent seeking by definition to modernize a product and/or make it more accessible to people. The fact of the matter is that there is a tremendous backlog of legacy industry/infrastructure that needs
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by devalgo 6y ago
Sure but that's not addressing his point which is most of the ideas being funded are uninteresting and aren't really moving the ball forward. Instead they're doing some kind of rent seeking.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Just want to point out that many of the complaints in the comments here are US specific. At many PhD programs in Europe for example you are considered an employee of the university and not a student, this often comes with full benefits: sal
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by devalgo 6y ago
Is there a standard set of potential side effects? Lets say some of these potential vaccines are effective at producing an immune response enough to provide protection from Covid infection, is there a level of side effects that would cause

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