programjames

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by programjames 2y ago
Boo, go read the other comments that explain all of this instead of wasting people's time.
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by programjames 2y ago
Sure! I'll try to give a more intuitive explanation. Basically, it's been known for awhile that intelligence is very related to compression. Why? Suppose you're trying to describe a phenomena you see (such as an IQ test). To
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by programjames 2y ago
Here's what they did: 1. Choose random samples z ~ N(μ, Σ) as the "encoding" of a puzzle, and a distribution of neural network weights p(θ) ~ N(θ, <very small variance>). 2. For a given z and θ, you can decode to get a
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by programjames 2y ago
I seem to be much more confident that technology could solve the aging problem. Two routes come to mind: 1. We can already splice up DNA with decent accuracy, so it's just a matter of finding what DNA to splice in/out to have th
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by programjames 2y ago
You're currently dying of the "being human" cancer. Are you working on or donating to anti-aging research, or do you prefer to do other things with your time? It just comes down to your discount factor. Based on inflation, it
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by programjames 2y ago
There's a rather simple proof for this "add one to the top, n to the bottom" posterior. Take a unit-perimeter circle, and divide it into n regions for each of the possible outcomes. Then lay out your k outcomes into their cor
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by programjames 2y ago
Imagine a study where all you're given are people's SAT scores, but then told some are "more physically attractive as reported by their peers". For some reason I think this study would find the opposite result.
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by programjames 2y ago
Just switch dealers each round and have them sit out...
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by programjames 2y ago
I think it's because there's usually only a couple players at any given time, so live matching would never fill.
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by programjames 2y ago
About 8μs, or a couple trades.
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by programjames 2y ago
Only ~5,000 people get E1 visas each year. That's 0.003% of the people who want to immigrate. There are surely many, many more people that are highly skilled and would be beneficial to have in America. Maybe it would be "easy&quot
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by programjames 2y ago
I feel like the reason immigration is a controversial issue is because people don't feel like one's circumstance of birth is really their "fault". If you don't have a choice in the matter, can you really be blamed?
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by programjames 2y ago
Trying to limit birth rates is a tragedy of the commons (no individual in your community is incentivized to limit themselves), while trying to limit immigration is a competition between two commons (and thus cooperative within your communit
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by programjames 2y ago
I mean, you've just invented eugenics. Restrict the number of children being born that would not help the economy out. The government did do this once upon a time, but there are tradeoffs like riots you have to take into account. The d
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by programjames 2y ago
In the early 1900s, the government implemented eugenics for this reason. Nowadays, people feel the country is better off just letting people plan their own pregnancies, which is a looser form of this. The difference between restricted immig
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by programjames 2y ago
So, I agree that there isn't a big enough shortage of engineers to prompt a need for easier immigration there, but I also agree that Americans aren't as technically skilled as they should be compared to foreigners.
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by programjames 2y ago
I'm perfectly aware most people would fail this easy task, but a thousand years ago most people would fail to read. Just because it's easy, doesn't mean most people will succeed.
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by programjames 2y ago
I think movement is pretty free for people that can demonstrate they would be net-positive to the country they're moving to. I don't really see why movement should be free for anyone who would be net-negative. It's true that
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by programjames 2y ago
It really isn't very hard to get a temporary O1 Visa, which can turn into a permanent E1/E2 visa. You just have to be extra-ordinary in your field. Pretty much every country wants to import people they know will make their country
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by programjames 2y ago
It's pretty hard to believe the article's authors when the third sentence in the abstract labels "arithmetic" as "complex calculations". There is nothing complex about arithmetic.
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by programjames 2y ago
Or, the famous AoPS Proofs Without Words: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Proofs_withou...
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by programjames 2y ago
Yes, this is how I learned it. Suppose you have a line of charges with density p moving up at velocity v, and want to find the force on a stationary particle with charge q and distance r to the right. The classical Gauss' law gives F =
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by programjames 2y ago
This is where the "critical mass" argument comes in: you (allegedly) need people who superficially look like you in the roles to inspire you to learn the skills needed for that position. Thus, working to correct poor education due
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by programjames 2y ago
Well, the issue with coordination is you need everyone already there to coordinate. If people are only using the network for illegitimate uses, then it will get shut down (think 4chan, Silk Road). Really, it's in the authoritarian gove
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by programjames 2y ago
That's about as much as United States Presidents spend on their campaigns, so it's actually quite a lot. Especially if it gets noticed and shut down.
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Ah, I on the other hand have met many individuals who have been indoctrinated out of a capacity to reason. I grew up in a town with a relatively high population of Mormons. Their reasoning capacities are mostly fine when it comes to scien
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by programjames 2y ago
I think anonymity is important for some kind of coordination problems (e.g. against an authoritarian government). A better solution is to have a nominal fee, maybe $10/yr to be platformed, that way it's expensive to bot.
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by programjames 2y ago
> There are systems that spend more per student than the US does, more % of GDP than the US does, they have lower classroom sizes than the US, they have better systems for gifted students, their students spend more time in class, they pa
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by programjames 2y ago
> There may be a problem with the educational system not serving highly gifted students, but that's way further down the list than kids who graduate without basic reading and math skills. My entire premise is it's way further u
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by programjames 2y ago
> I can't imagine what you might mean by negative-externality people Google is your friend. Essentially, in a counterfactual universe where they never existed, the world would be better off. If you have more negative externalities t

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