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That’s what I thought too. For example if they “control” for factors like IQ or social economic status, then the correlations will be reduced. This isn’t a surprise unless you thin…

Which one is more respectful is a different question. The lowest entropy option would still be the most likely gender specific pronoun. This would depend on the language, of course…

I’m not asserting why they were developed in the first place. The comment is just about which one is used, supposing that they already exist. Choosing the more stereotypical option…

One interesting thing to do is use a model directly like Llama and then query the next-token probability logits for "he" and "she" (assuming you set up the sentence in such a way).…

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There is also one more kind of undefined, which is undefined as a type: the string value "undefined" for `typeof undefined`

Ah, yes. The definition I tried to use was from Wikipedia, in full: "In mathematics, a set is countable if either it is finite or it can be made in one to one correspondence with t…

If a set is countable, then there exists a mapping which is a one-to-one correspondence between the items and the natural numbers (that’s the definition of countable). This corresp…

I want the staking mechanism to incentivise truth. Binary votes don't provide such a system. Binary votes (aka polls) can be useful to gauge opinions, but are insufficient to aggre…

Hey, thanks. Yes I’ve seen them. Trustory was pretty cool. They started with fact-based statements I think, but then transitioned to any kind of debate. Ended up closing down thoug…

I agree with you this is important. > verifiably false speech Since social media companies can't be trusted to make that decision, I'm more worried that what they censor was true s…

> My guess is pretty much never I'm not able to know how often it could prevent such slander in those times, but we can look at the incentives. In those times, the authorities (chu…

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > What is the process for overturning a ruling? The staking is open for 7 days, so discussion and adding more stakes is fine during that phase. Bu…

Thanks for your feedback. Just to be clear, its more than a show of hands because you choose how many tokens you want to stake. So in the Reddit example, if those 5% were willing t…

Hey everyone, This is a project I'm working on to get more truth on the internet. If deemed factual by the network, you gain more tokens from those who voted opposite to you. It us…

Yep you are right. I should have said geocentricity.

I also reject platonism. I really don't mean to imply changing these norms was easy, or is only a matter of putting the information out there disregarding material conditions and t…

Communism collapsed intellectually in the West after the economic collapse of the USSR and the relevant death tolls. I know China is communist, but in democratic countries, for the…

Both flat earth and geocentricity were ideas that died out, but yes, geocentricity.

Yes that is a good point. The link I gave mentions that study, and says it has failed replication attempts. I think the truth is more nuanced - there are ways it can be more effect…

No. stevebmark said "I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it" So I gave examples of some ideas that did in fact d…

> That people thought the Earth was flat before Galileo is a meme. Even Ancient Greeks knew it was round. Well knowledge wasn't spread as easily, and could be lost. People knew, th…

My comment wasn't about whether people knew these practices were occurring. People knew they were occurring. The mere public existence of an idea (like in some dusty old book that …

I meant they didn't know the truth about them. They obviously knew that slavery was occurring.