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Mindset by Carol Dweck ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset ) So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-the…

When we ran it, the workload was mostly during weekdays in different timezones (so distributed over more than 8 hours). This was on a single c4.2xlarge AWS server, which was bigger…

You might not find them convincing, but the reasons I believe that is the case are: - Human hardware is fairly fixed (unless we go the cyborg route) whereas robot hardware (at leas…

Perhaps, I might be missing something. The way I understand it is that "the Luddite fallacy is not a fallacy" is an assertion (OED: "a confident and forceful statement of fact or b…

Sorry I couldn't make it more clear. Was there anything particular that you didn't understand? Agree on the basic income (in general, I'm not sure about the details). Jobs so far h…

No, not for it having significant economic and social implications, that's more a corollary of employment rate decreasing -- I'll change that sentence. The argument for the Luddite…

You're right, the micro-level version isn't a fallacy (either..), though I think that's less contentious, or? Many countries already have some experience with this. For example, ag…

Indeed, that is the question. The post tries to show that "cut your hair and get a job" will disappear as an answer to "how do I get to partake in this wealth creation" for a large…

I asked myself the same question. What is the best choice depends on both stated goals, assumptions, and predictions, which means others might differ in their assessment of the rig…

The author makes the implicit and false assumption that humans will always be able to compete with machines in something that other people are willing to pay for. That has been, an…

Technology is improving at a higher rate than humans -- our wetware/body have fundamental limits than hardware/software. Hence, at some point -- sooner or later -- we start to run …

He does say "passage" to refer to a small part of a composition, not the whole thing. Your thinking is spot on though -- the length of the segment needs to be considered.

The teacher would need to try and make the students understand that it is all right -- scrap that, necessary -- to fail when you learn. Learning to perform surgery is not the same …