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I would think you should admire her for taking a strong moral stand at the expense of the business. She added a number of grievance-oriented features to reduce "bigotry", "xenophob…

Criminality is congenital. Social interventions will not fix the kid. Neither for that matter will prison, but at least it will protect the rest of us from his increasingly violent…

> (and unless you are a crook, there is not) What sort of shenanigans do you think profitable automated traders are engaged in?

High frequency trading (measuring latency, inferring event ordering, etc). Since most crypto derivatives trading takes place at ap-northeast-1, it feels like AWS is orienting this …

Because we should have strong priors disfavoring regulation, and this is a stalking horse for yet more internet regulation.

Sorry, is your criticism that IQ proponents conflate point estimates with unknown population parameters? Is that what other IQ critics see as the core of the disagreement in this d…

> otherwise identical cohorts. You could do this stratification/matching for any IQ study. What's special about lead-IQ?

But these controls could be done for any IQ-related study. Is IQ-skepticism based on the belief that IQ researchers generally don't use controls? That lead-IQ researchers alone do …

Question for any IQ skeptics here (e.g. "it just measures your ability to take tests" or "it just tells you how rich your parents are"): what's your response to studies like this? …

Good comment. I concede if it's really ~$20/month it's a rounding error and an obvious policy win.

There's wide, wide middle ground between celibacy and the debauched status quo.

Rather depressing that we're subsidizing wanton sexual indulgence to the tune of $30k/year/person.

Assuming: * average 1% asset management fee (modal number if you poke around) * 0% investment carry (hedge funds get away with charging this, but most asset managers don't) * 9% ef…

> The United States seeks fair consideration and back pay for asylees and refugees who were deterred or denied employment at SpaceX due to the alleged discrimination. Does anybody …

Because models are trained and validated on real data. Given a training set of crimes and corresponding surveillance footage, arrestee info is a (not noisy) label for “who is the g…

With a moment's thought, even the most emotive amongst us should see that the mugshots will be part of the training set--the photographed individuals are, after all, the class of t…

This doesn't rescue their claim. If the suggested class imbalance really exists in the training/test sets, the model will preferentially identify whites as criminals.

Are black faces overrepresented or underrepresented? According to AI researchers, we're faced with Schrodinger's Mugshot--there's simultaneously too many and too few!

> "We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms' training data sets..." the researchers wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American. > …

If illegal aliens count for apportionment, why shouldn't prisoners?

Agreed. Just want to preempt any arguments about incarceration “wasting their potential.”

Yes, I would happily reconsider in this case.

The transparency push would effectively veto race and gender teachings--the bet being that any teacher pushing leftist doctrines would be buried under parent complaints. Needless t…