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nah it's not top tier college, it's just being insanely smart in the mathy way.

Huh, in my circles the real trophy jobs are quant roles at top firms. And given the caliber of the people there - and the compensation - they're arguably not trophy roles. Tbh ppl …

do me a favor and look up all the papers in thinking fast and slow that failed to replicate

so based. But I do have to say that when the president of one of your top institutions resigns over misconduct, the level of misconduct is probably a fair amount over optimal. And …

> The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors. Yes. > Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. Yo…

On the whole, all these scandals in manipulated research have deeply shaken my trust in many of our scientific institutions. It's clear by now this isn't the case of a few bad appl…

ya so notice the pattern before anyone else and extract money by filling the inefficiency. this isn't a profound insight, the nature of alpha is that it's temporary and limited. do…

? Personally I'm comfortable uploading my resume wherever - it's my resume, it exists to advertise my skills. I'd give it freely to anyone who asks, there's nothing on there I'd co…

the nba player's association has secured nba players a nice share of revenue. seems to me like engineers could do something similar.

I've never felt unsafe in an alleyway in sf. but probably the same as any other city - don't be a dumbass, avoid the alleyways in shady parts of the city, esp at night.

Very interesting approach to gaining a comparative advantage in the labor market: pay everyone less.

I personally don't like the undertone of the class (tho very grateful that this material exists!!!) - this idea that universities are failing their students by not teaching them ne…

The issue I see is that humans seem to have many of the same problems as the ones they point out ml systems can have.

generally, this is a reputation thing

nah, i have plenty of similarly smart friends who are doing just fine. he'll fit right in in some college environments, and he can take the time he's not wasting doing class and pu…

re "calculator for text": gpt => wolfram alpha is scary good

notice how hackernews uses an off white for its background? do you find it hard to read?

Openai is a bunch of scientists. And their product is not exactly unique - all the major cloud vendors will have a chatgpt available soon. So openai won't copy for the same reason …

What's ae level

doomer take but tbh i respect it. but the central thesis of the tech industry is that it allows for products to be created with very low marginal cost which facilitates the high re…

I think this makes assumptions about the demand for software engineers that seem unproven. Law salaries are bimodal because the demand for lawyers is limited, so there's only so ma…

I'm sorry but I'm unable to take anything nick land says seriously anymore But in general I don't think I'm taking the permanence of twitter or fb for granted - they both fill a cl…

The problem isn't chatgpt, it's curriculum. If students were motivated to learn to write (and the skill is genuinely useful, this shouldn't be a hard task) this wouldn't be a probl…

It seems to me that the deaths of Twitter and Facebook are being greatly exaggerated (by this article, and by the vibes generally). A decrease in users is not the same thing as a m…

I saw them, takes a while though. Just keep scrolling