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I was not intending to be antisemitic. I just think is a salient example of a religion that no longer believes in God. Christians tend to profess a belief in God right up until the…

Then those resistant to conversion will be selected for.

Humans are subject to selection both genetically and memeticly. Some portions of the population have high birth rates. Fecundity in modern environments appears to be partially heri…

You should not impute beliefs on others when you have not read their arguments. I would recommend reading this: https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...

Bear case for self-driving: in 1 million miles of driving, roughly the number between major human accidents, do we really think these cars will not encounter one AI-complete proble…

A few years before I started working, I read Average is Over. Made a good case that labor power's decline would ramp up ever further. People like to poo-poo AI, but I have been fol…

Would not want to be Graphcore right now.

I find monetary policy a hard subject to reason about. It is too complex for me to understand. Yet the political economy of it is such that I would expect the expert classes to be …

Julia Galef remains the best interviewer I have ever heard. She is so incredibly sharp. Her guests will make a point about an abstruse philosophical/economic/statistical topic and …

McNamara’s Folly is a great book on one of his more idiotic policies, and a great meditation on the dehumanizing cruelty that results from basing policy on false but ideologically …

Physicist/geneticist Steve Hsu and linguist/neuroscientist Cory Washington have an extremely good podcast called Manifold. This episode in particular is a good introduction to the …

I see. Just a c-style loop absent conditions. I find it kind of ugly for some reason.

Not a Perl guy. What are the semicolons in that if statement all about?

I have seen a lot of shoddy statistics used by ad people to justify the necessity of ad people. I would trust a random engineer over the ad team for this task purely as a matter of…

Just going to leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

I have seen the progress in China since the late 1990s. A rate of change impossible for a modern westerner to believe. China is not a photograph but a video on fast-forward.

China has half the world’s manufacturing ability, a civil service selected strongly for cognitive ability, a much more diligent and capable people, and a large population. Not to m…