wycs

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by wycs 8y ago
Nope. Seems I was wrong.
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by wycs 8y ago
Yes. False memory on my part it seems. I was very clearly wrong. The current SAT is clearly selective enough for my very popular scheme.
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by wycs 8y ago
My point was just there are obvious ways to prevent bribery. And considering the amount we burn on higher education, spending much more on tests and verification does seem like a much much better use of money.
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by wycs 8y ago
A perfect score on the modern SAT is not very impressive. The bar has been lowered considerably in the last 40 years. [edit: seems I was very clearly wrong about this]
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by wycs 8y ago
Make the SAT so difficult that on average 1 person gets a perfect score each year. Then do not allow any other criteria for admission. To prevent bribery randomly sample 1% for a retest under much stricter security. If you must, lower stand
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by wycs 8y ago
If regulators do this it will be to protect a crooked accreditation monopoly from their well-deserved demise.
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by wycs 8y ago
>These claims are certainly plausible to me, but they are by no means obvious. (For reference, I'm a postdoc who specializes in machine learning.) I don't think I disagree very much with you then. >People thought the same th
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by wycs 8y ago
AGI == software capable of any economically relevant task. If you have AGI, it is very clear you could very quickly displace the entire economy, especially as inference is much cheaper than training: which implies there will be plenty of ha
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by wycs 8y ago
I don't see the problem. If they get AGI, it will create value much larger than 100 billion. Much larger than trillions to be honest. If they fail to create AGI, then who cares?
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Get Ready for the Struggle Session(wsj.com)
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by wycs 8y ago
California has some of the worst municipal governments in the country. Shockingly poorly governed. Live a year in Singapore. Live a year in San Francisco. Your opinions on many things will change. Hearing the performative compassion of San
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by wycs 8y ago
Art is the production of veblen goods. Duchamp, in his genius, realized that though the ability to buy something painfully handcrafted does signal wealth, buying literal garbage is a much better display of wealth. Someone who can afford to
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by wycs 8y ago
One supposes a man such as him would be able to accept death with equanimity. This is backwards. As he was losing much more in death than most of us will; he was far more alive than most anyone has ever been.
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by wycs 8y ago
Well, Von Neumann was likely the smartest man who ever lived.
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by wycs 8y ago
People are entitled to build whatever they want on their property. As Silicon Valley is ruled by rent seekers who make building illegal, people have every right to complain.
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Chinese gov funds may have been used for ‘CRISPR babies’ project(statnews.com)
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by wycs 8y ago
Ideally a state without zoning laws or noncompetes. I can’t think of one.
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by wycs 8y ago
Pure nicotine in the doses people take it is pretty safe. I really don’t think it is any worse than caffeine.
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by wycs 8y ago
I sense this is a lost cause, but we can already predict ~10 percent of the variance in educational attainment with the genome alone. Once we get data sets with millions of genomes tagged with their donors IQ, this number will rise. If we c
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by wycs 8y ago
>Have you considered the possibility that confounding variables exist? I have no doubt that coming from a family where your parents have received a good education makes it much more likely for you to personally also go on to get the same
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by wycs 8y ago
Harvard does not discriminate against Jews today. They have historically. Now they do the same to Asians. This, one supposes, must be an example of moral progress.
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by wycs 8y ago
See Singapore for such a country.
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by wycs 8y ago
You are just wrong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ I know it is ideologically uncomfortable but this is a fact you will have to get used to. Cognitive genomics is coming. The undeniable is becoming l
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by wycs 8y ago
When this is tried, it does not output ideologically-pleasing student demographics. Presumably because all objective tests of merit are hopelessly biased. Caltech is such a school. And its population is largely largely Asian and Jewish, bot
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by wycs 8y ago
Of course he was manufacturing them. He explicitly talks about the art of having an adventure in the book.
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by wycs 8y ago
In fact, “futurism” is contributing nothing either.
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by wycs 8y ago
Anyone who thinks China is not full of extremely talented software engineers does not know anything about China.
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by wycs 8y ago
Monsters.
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by wycs 8y ago
The general rule of cars is buy used, buy cheap and buy Japanese. A 6000 used Honda Fit will run forever with cheap maintenance. Spending more than 10000 really is not needed if you don’t care about impressing people. Though impressing peop
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by wycs 8y ago
It’s almost like intellectual property is an absurd injustice.

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