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Was there even a serious policy discussion of banning gain-of-function research? Gain of function research is supposed to help with pandemics, right? Did it help with COVID?

>In real life, intelligence is associated with picking better goals. "Better" according to what metric? It may be the case that there is a tendency for high-intelligence humans to …

>I don't think it's impossible to come up with arguments against them. For one thing, extrapolating the current gradual rate of progress forwards means that we will get to see seve…

See discussion on the EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...

Maybe you'll find this useful, I think I saw it elsewhere in this thread and bookmarked it https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Interesting take.

Doesn't that make it harder to do an apples-to-apples comparison between candidates though?

What does rewriting your codebase have to do with hiring?

How about LinkedIn certificates? Last I checked Triplebyte has a certification you can put on your LinkedIn if you do well enough on their process.

Why not just apply at companies that focus on take-home problems?

I assume that's a joke? Sounds like going back to manhole covers.

It's incredibly cold in the outer solar system right? So why is it that there is liquid water in these moons? Is it some sort of geothermal heating? What's the most complex life wh…

I wonder if there's a way to write a DEB to RPM conversion script with automated testing etc, so Fedora gets to snarf up all existing DEBs :-)

This angle works in the other direction as well: Is a newborn a human? If yes, is a baby in the process of being born a human? If yes, is a baby who will be born in a week a human?…

The "this topic is less-than-maximally-important" critique applies to pretty much every story on the HN homepage.

Fair point, but on the other hand, if language policing leads the American Medical Association to make decisions which decrease the quality of medical care, I'm not enthusiastic ab…

Interesting, thanks for chiming in. I wonder if the best way to push back against language policing is to simply poll various groups, see which language they prefer, and publish th…

NAACP stands for "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People". Interesting how "Colored People" was an enlightened term in 1909, but "Colored People" is now out and…

>For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings. For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people" because of some t…

I'm not entirely sure how to parse your comment. Did you notice this section? >Equity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particular…

I acknowledge that language shapes the way people think. But the replacement of cost-benefit analysis and evidence-based debate with arguments regarding the connotations that diffe…

At this point the heterosexual relationships discussion has become so poisoned that I don't think further activism of any kind is likely to help. In terms of constructive solutions…

The thing that frustrates me is that if you speak out against safetyism, some people will ignore what you're saying and just declare you a safety threat. It'd be nice if we made mo…

I think the explanation is the same as for hitchhiking: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/where-have-all-the-hitchhik... It's a multi-step process: 1. Society has some kind of neutr…

So this is not the first time HN has discussed the Pew statistics showing far more single men than women in the 18-29 bracket: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954694 People …