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My biggest takeaway is that they nowhere address address the fact that correlation is not necessarily causation. Yes, our childhood affects who we become. But it is not the only th…

That is true. But in the early 60s, before the rise of the Religious Right, no such association existed. For example https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_4/p_2.html shows the…

The experiment in question happened over 60 years ago. This was before the War on Drugs, before the hippies, and before most people had any familiarity with these drugs. Public att…

I am strongly reminded of https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/rationalists-and-the-cu... , which concluded that the kind of person who believes complex irrational arguments is als…

Or alternately, they staged what appeared to be a fatal accident to put him in a witness protection program. Or alternately, he did it and then tried to back out of the deal. Now a…

Based on his biographies, I think that Feynman had ADHD. He never demonstrated an ability to do things because he thought he should do them. And, as this story shows, trying just r…

IQ measurement definitely has major flaws.. But IQ is better correlated with job performance than job interviews are. As they say, perfect is the enemy of good. IQ tests are good. …

According to GDP per capita, before the war Gaza was at $3500/year, while Egypt was at $3700/year. Which says that Egyptians are probably better off than Gazans. Even before the pr…

Funny, my mother-in-law lives in Russia and describes nothing of this sort of fear. Young men there do have trouble working internationally. And they do have legitimate fears. But …

The hunters that they brought in who actually did the shooting were also not employees. If they could be there, she could be there. The fact that outside primatologists say that sh…

The fact that the head of another Swedish wildpark got convicted of manslaughter over the death of a keeper. Given that, it would be hard for those in charge to allow any worker to…

The former keeper left the zoo over frustration that the zoo prioritized rollercoasters over the animals. That speaks louder about the CEO's thinking than anything that the CEO mig…

I read that as, "Person who made bad decisions concludes that there was no alternative but the bad decisions made." The former keeper should have been given a chance to try. Sign a…

Solving mazes. GTP4 got stuck at 7x7. https://ekzhu.medium.com/gpt-4s-maze-navigation-a-deep-dive-...

The source for his being born wealthy is his father. Who is known to be a conman. For example the emerald story seems to be false. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-father-…

You forget people who are convinced that they are wealthy, and then are convinced that they have humanity's best interest in part. This describes many who fell for crypto Ponzi sch…

Indeed the more complex and complete you make your rational model, the more tunable weights there are. By just dropping in the right weights, you can get whatever result you want. …

No, it actually is much older. https://extropians.weidai.com/extropians/0303/4140.html is Yudowsky inventing the specter of a paperclip maximizer as a potential problem about 20 ye…

The one piece of this that I question is the employee motivations. First, they had offers to walk to both Microsoft and Salesforce and be made good. They didn't have to stay and fi…

Yes. The east coast of Sweden is the Baltic Sea, which is not an open ocean. This boat may be perfectly usable there. But that's still not a rough sea. Other than temperature, that…

Declared does not mean real. There have always been questions about the veracity of that "proof of reserves". https://qz.com/binance-proof-of-reserves-solvency-1849884404 Do not fo…

What billions will he wind up with? Binance did a lot of fraud and money laundering. Clawbacks are coming. There will be no fortune when the legal system is done with him.

That isn't rough. According to another comment, the Candela can handle waves of up to 1.2 meters. But about half of waves in the open ocean are 2+ meters. So this boat can't handle…