rizzom5000

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by rizzom5000 1mo ago
This is a game played at the level of primate politics. If you care about epistemic accuracy more than tribal politics, you'll quickly find yourself in the outgroup. Logical from a 'within the game' perspective, but those who
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by rizzom5000 4mo ago
There is research that suggests highly agreeable people do not do as well e.g. negotiation tactics. What is probably true is that is good to 'appear' agreeable. The same research suggests you are correct about the other 3 traits.
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by rizzom5000 4mo ago
Stock prices are a prediction built on crowdsourced information.
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by rizzom5000 4mo ago
Do you also believe there is no upside in crowdsourced information found in, say, commodities, equities and futures markets?
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by rizzom5000 5mo ago
With some product categories there are independent testing laboratories that do a fairly good job of determining quality. The automotive industry comes to mind. It seems it's a revealed preference that most people really don't car
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by rizzom5000 9mo ago
> EU lawmakers should pass laws to prevent this. So EU lawmakers should determine the amount member countries collect in tax?
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by rizzom5000 9mo ago
> fixed someone else's incompetence This is basically a full-time job for many senior engineers. It may as well be the job description. Thing is, most of these 'leaders' are not capable hiring competent engineers - as if t
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by rizzom5000 10mo ago
It's interesting to think Microsoft was around back then too, taking approximately 14 years to regain the loss of approximately 58% of their valuation.
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by rizzom5000 10mo ago
In practice, it seems that politics generally takes precedence over problem solving. If you look into the psychology of it, neither politicians nor voters are really incentivized to solve big problems. This is especially true for big proble
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by rizzom5000 11mo ago
Maybe I'm autistic, but in this thread is appears that one side is making a rational argument, and the other is an appeal to emotion. A feeling of a community is not a contract. Complaining about losing that community changes nothing;
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
This is just one example that was made public due to the federal case, but there is no doubt that this kind of activity is quite common in corporate America at all levels. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/form
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
> we're headed to a world with humans, livestock, and the few species... It looks more and more like we're headed toward a world where we'll regenerate extinct species in labs; and grow our steaks in meat factories. If we
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
You might even say that some neurodivergence is an adaptive strategy to quickly identify a potential threat. Many sapiens like to believe they are good people, but they don't like to to think about what that really means. It seems we a
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
I believe you, and this has been know for decades. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10928755 The underlying truth here is worse than 'majority of educated are illiterate'. Collectively, we've built these
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
I've seen projects that failed, or were killed, likely at least in part due to a culture that encouraged poor quality and tech debt. This is preventable, and for no additional up-front engineering effort or time investment.
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
> Is there something here about the role of (and lack of in this case) deliberate and intentional practice? Something like 50% of college graduates in the US are considered functionally illiterate, despite an enormous number of opportuni
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by rizzom5000 1y ago
> Some clever business people sees this trend and starts ordering junk... Similar to lower quality made-for-outlet products produced by major brands. With the bins it seems to approach gambling on some level. Like raffle tickets, except
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by rizzom5000 2y ago
> I recently overheard a very smart user struggle to find how to mute a group > you end up having to search the internet for a recipe as to what place to click to find which flydropping menu I remember when software was supposed to re
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by rizzom5000 2y ago
Using the same logic you might say that people shouldn't be allowed to drive until they are 24. Statistically far more lives would have been saved yesterday if we'd only simply restrict more liberties based on age alone.
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by rizzom5000 2y ago
The theory is that there may be civilizations, or remnants (AIs), that have a vested interest in removing possible competition for resources, or in the case of the AIs, have been instructed to snuff out signs of life for the same reason.
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by rizzom5000 2y ago
I was referencing something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.L.A._Schechter_Poultry_Corp.... I think the 70's gas rationing in the US was another example of where price controls absolutely stomped on con
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by rizzom5000 2y ago
Have price controls ever ended with a positive outcome for consumers, or anyone for that matter?
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
> but that hasn't been proven at all. Do you know of anything that provides a strong rebuttal to the research found in documents like this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228640/
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
> no intellectual challenge I tend to think that cargo cult programming and resume-driven development are the intellectual path of least resistance. Perhaps it's analogous to, "I'd rather rewrite this than understand how i
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
Society is already structured to handle a population where approximately 50% of adults cannot read beyond the 6th grade level. For all the hemming and hawing and throwing money at education, it might be the best we ever get. I'd ventur
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
I also don't have an absolute opinion, but the math of the simulation hypothesis does appear to check out and it's not difficult to believe, scientifically, that intelligences dramatically superior to human-level are possible. (1)
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
I don't think there is an obvious correlation or obvious absence of correlation. In some sense, it's heuristics all the way down; but where one might see an obvious correlation, the one who is applying critical thinking sees only
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
The idea that someone who is a good singer would also be a good dancer is a non-starter for someone applying critical thinking, in my opinion. Do you have any other examples where you think critical thinking abilities cannot be universally
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
I think gas and parking are good examples. If your truck has had 30% less fuel efficiency than a car, then you're going to spend 30% more of your time at the gas pump, huffing fumes, than a car owner for exactly the same outcome in ter
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by rizzom5000 3y ago
Aren't you completely discounting the friction inherent in ownership of a vehicle? Humans tend to find clever ways to justify their irrational decisions, but there is absolutely more friction involved in owning a large truck that is us

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