nmrm2

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by nmrm2 10y ago
> because he has stated at great length... that the value of other people has absolutely nothing to do with their intelligence 1. It's not 2. It's not what he says. It's what is totally completely obviously entailed by
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by nmrm2 10y ago
I don't think all his writing is like this. Some of it is clear and cogent. This was specifically an indict of his writing on race-related writing. When MM's writing goes wrong, it almost always follows this pattern (highly specif
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> What if I believe that genes explain 10% of the gap? 50%? 100%? At exactly the point where you think this actually fucking matters when evaluating the value of those people. That's the "clear, objective" meaning MM ref
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Which starts with not obfuscating the history of colonialism in order to push a single-minded obsession with discrediting something called Cathedral that is, vaguely, all the badness of progressivism. This is kind of my point wrt MM. He say
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Holy shit, massive political instability followed a century of plunder and political domination?! And powerful institutions exploited that?! Well damn. Better go back to colonization. But seriously, what the fuck is supposed to be the take-
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Holy shit your quote is a perfect example of exactly what I'm talking about. 1. It dismisses an obvious truth. You know, that there actually really were/are actually people who actually thought black/latino/etc. people w
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by nmrm2 10y ago
See tome's reply and keep the following in mind. MM is rarely explicitly racist; it's more like he espouses ideas that obviously entail racial superiority and then stops shy and pretends like you're an idiot if you actually
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Free speech is being shouted down on campuses across the nation. The threats to free speech on college campuses come from a lot of directions, but angry undergrads aren't one of them. In fact, politicizing higher education by in
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by nmrm2 10y ago
This doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true... Anyways, this bit of real politic is completely immaterial to my orig
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Context is removed when something like that is placed in a public area And then re-inserted again when the author and his/her intent is identified... > I have no doubt in my mind the art defense would not pass if the person
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Probably the same thing that makes you so sensitive about students at a place you have very little stake in being too sensitive? I mean tink about it. The things that a very miniscule portion of Princeton students choose to complain about
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> I'd like to draw attention to the "white only" sign on a bathroom door in SUNY. Because it was a black female who did it, it was called art. Had it been a white male, it would have been called hate crime. We can clearly
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by nmrm2 10y ago
walshemj's comment was clearly referring to cases where the expected profit of a lottery ticket is positive ("pot odds are such it does make sense to bet on the lottery"). I'm working from walshemj's assumptions abo
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by nmrm2 10y ago
One could make the argument that there's a difference between letting people do stupid things that only indirectly and only in certain contexts hurt others (ex spending the rent money on lottery tickets) and letting people do stupid th
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by nmrm2 10y ago
1. This basically never happens. 2. Don't compare to letting the money sit under a matress. Insteaad, compare with other investments. Buying a lottery ticket doesn't make sense when measured purely in terms of profit, even when th
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by nmrm2 10y ago
1. It's a problem for students who invested their time (and possibly money, but certainly opporunity cost) in this training. "Sucks for them, not my problem" is 1) excessively uncharitable, and 2) confuses personal interest w
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Government augmenting research institutions has been the only consistent source of funding for research that doesn't pay out in a 2-5 year timespan. Theere's plenty of waste in the government, but you'd be hard-pressed to f
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Exactly right. And that's more obvious on the web than anywhere else. My point was just that seeing this is a lot more subtle -- it's not a purely technical observation, but also contains a social/economic component.
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by nmrm2 10y ago
There's another way of reading it, which is that code generation will become sufficiently advanced that a huge number of the high-paying software engineering jobs that exist today become things that people can do with very little train
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by nmrm2 10y ago
1. This actually happened to homosexuals in the west during the twentieth century. The worst social ostracization faced by individuals who disapprove of homosexuality today really is not even noteworthy by comparison. Compare Brandon Eich
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by nmrm2 10y ago
The suburban/urban school divide is less potent than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For example, this program on a school district that's 99% african american and has huge rates of poverty with terrible failing schools is about a deci
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by nmrm2 10y ago
In terms of actual quality of education I'll agree with you on the last point. But in my experience -- having spent a lot of time in both urban and rural schools -- the quality of education in urban schools is typically better than or
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by nmrm2 10y ago
I'm not even particularly sure why content expertise is relevant here. There are a lot of arguments both for AND against the FBI that demonstrate a poor understanding of the underlying science. But there are also strong arguments bo
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Maybe in areas where 99% of the kids would qualify anyway? Yes. Which there are a lot of, because poverty is so extremely concentrated.
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Life isn't fair. So either it isn't fair because a poor person can't claw their way out of poverty while a lazy dullard skates through life doing easy work for Father's friends, or it isn't fair because an enterpriz
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Are you referring to bolsa familia? Or is this something else? (I don't speak Portuguese)
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Many internet forums are no longer community-organized or community-funded like they were in the early days of the internet. Many media companies spend money moderating internet forums because their users and/or advertisers have expect
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by nmrm2 10y ago
These curves are marketing material for an "advisory firm". Nothing more, nothing less. The idea of the curbe is more important that the particular points, and the points are often mis-placed. Also, lots of technologies jump aroun
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by nmrm2 10y ago
I'm not so sure this is great advice for PhD students. Junior faculty maybe. You should fix a lot of other things first (in particular, prefered methodology and advisor) and then, after fixing those things, choose applications toward t
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think this is pretty debatable, at least in the US. Being born during the middle or late-middle of the 20th century was extremely lucky if you managed to stay out of manufacturing and could put your retirement into funds that came close t

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