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by verteu 12d ago
> Let me help you: work on figuring out how to spend the millions of dollars every year Jane Street will pay you to clock in. Does Jane Street really pay that much? Of course 7 figures is possible , but these median comps seem lower tha
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by verteu 25d ago
> I want something a little more significant than "we asked around the newsroom, and 35% of fox news reporters approve of the current administration". Cool, thanks, but that's not helpful or even a useful datapoint. The st
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by verteu 1mo ago
> Why is this one in particular different? The article answers this: For one, the 'papers' are entirely AI-generated.
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by verteu 1mo ago
Indeed, pg has an essay about it: https://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html
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by verteu 2mo ago
As touched on in the article: The data's not IID, and there hasn't been very much "time" to generalize across.
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by verteu 2mo ago
Safely aligning a powerful CEO is difficult.
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by verteu 2mo ago
Yes, the quote was "Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." (Sam Altman, Harvard 2024)
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by verteu 2mo ago
I agree, the conjecture never says anything about a proper map.
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by verteu 2mo ago
No, housing those people is only half the budget, so it's like $25k/person. It's unlikely there's a trivial arbitrage to eliminate homelessness in a city full of engineers.
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by verteu 2mo ago
Not likely: SF has ~7,973 homeless people now, and current spending provides housing for 14,498 "previously homeless" people: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Agenda_Item_9_HSH_Budget_... Thus, cutting all
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by verteu 2mo ago
This is a fallacy because it's not the same people homeless each year. There's substantial turnover in the homeless population. "Replace services with direct transfers" would eliminate homelessness for 1 year. Then new p
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by verteu 3mo ago
Here's what I see on desktop: https://i.imgur.com/vuA2Y3w.png Is this an artifact of dynamic resizing at small resolutions?
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by verteu 3mo ago
> Rent seeking, *according to the Georgist* Only Georgists believe that. And it's the rent of the "bare land", not including the housing constructed on it.
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by verteu 3mo ago
Seems the actual article is here? https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tesla-autopilot-c...
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by verteu 3mo ago
You can compare modeled heat deaths across different countries, Western Europe is still significantly higher. Eg Figure 3C in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7618246/ It doesn't affect life expectanc
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by verteu 3mo ago
This simulation claims otherwise (though I agree it's hard to believe): > A significant degradation of external thermal comfort can also be seen in the simulations, as heat released by AC systems warms the outside air (see figure 3)
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by verteu 3mo ago
Yeah, good point.
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by verteu 3mo ago
They're using a Benjamini–Hochberg correction (alpha=0.05) to account for multiple comparisons (see Table 2).
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by verteu 3mo ago
> Obviously a rejected resume is more likely to be rejected by every other employer and an accepted resume is more likely to be accepted by every other employer. But that wasn't the case for non-algorithmic screening. From the paper
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by verteu 3mo ago
The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371 They find "disparate impact" of pymetrics across racial groups, but it doesn't seem like they controlled for anything.
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by verteu 3mo ago
I'm getting SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG on Firefox.
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by verteu 3mo ago
It does not, as explained in the section "Are Landlords Rent Seekers?" "Rent seeking" is more about making money by changing the rules instead of providing a service.
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by verteu 3mo ago
Counterintuitively, collecting rent is not considered "rent-seeking" by the econ definition, eg: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
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by verteu 3mo ago
Opposing Israel's flagrant violations of international law is not hate speech or discrimination against Jews, regardless of how desperately you want it to be.
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by verteu 3mo ago
Not quite. That was Black Cube, a second Israeli spy firm accused of election meddling: https://www.politico.eu/article/robert-golob-slovenia-eu-pro...
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by verteu 3mo ago
Alameda was only profitable in the years when Bitcoin was going up. By 2022 their trading operations were deeply negative (hence the decision to steal customer funds).
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by verteu 4mo ago
Why not simply use median life expectancy, which is more robust to fraud and outliers, instead of "number of centenarians"?
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by verteu 4mo ago
> It's weird to me that standardized tests were demonized as anti-equity rather than GPA I think it's because socioeconomic status is much more correlated with tests (40% of variance explained) than grades (<10% of variance
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by verteu 4mo ago
Indeed GP is falsely equating "wealthiest" with "highest taxable income". They are likely referring to a stat like this: https://usafacts.org/articles/who-pays-the-most-income-tax/
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by verteu 4mo ago
Indeed, the ultra-wealthy pay far less than 40% effective estate tax. Seems closer to 15% due to creative accounting, which is further reduced to 6.8% by charitable contributions: > Specifically, for single decedents, estate taxes paid e

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