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devalgo

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    Comment #24133148

    Illuminati preventing us from hearing signals. Aliens Confirmed!!

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    Comment #24133112

    [flagged]

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    Comment #24133020

    >Someone stuck in a one-person flat will have a different experience. As someone in this position I can say that the lack of a commute has been amazing, I'm sleeping much better an…

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    Comment #24115213

    > I have several friends that actively choose to be contractors because they prefer the (legally protected) flexibility to decide their own hours, among other things I'm sure the f…

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    Comment #24084049

    >have been constructed to build a specific narrative about diversity and inclusion Just for reference, the first line in the memo is literally: "I value diversity and inclusion, am…

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    Comment #24083936

    Nice strawman you've built there. Enjoy beating it up.

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    Comment #24083913

    No... It's to point out that the particular claim to authority that SPLC is the adjudicator on who is racist or not is stupid. OP could have easily posted the quote directly from M…

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    Comment #24083881

    Just for fun let's try a few: Memo line: "Women, on average, have more Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger int…

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    Comment #24083713

    >articles that were both cherry picked and misinterpreted Which ones? Your edit is even more misleading and incoherent than your original comment.

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    Comment #24083630

    Care to point out which lines in the Memo were weren't supported by standard literature?

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    Comment #24083573

    Where did I say I dispute the quotes? I said Molyneux is a dirtbag but SPLC is not a credible org.

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    Comment #24083504

    Stefan Molyneux is a pig but your characterization of Damore is low effort and more or less completely wrong. If you read the memo it is a relatively straightforward review of stan…

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    Comment #24083424

    Molyneux is detestable but SLPC has no credibility. They recently settled a defamation lawsuit against Majid Nawaz an anti-extremism Muslim reformer who they labeled as an anti-mus…

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    Comment #24065662

    >Direct helicopter money into everyone's bank account...oh, wait, we are doing that Except the amount is peanuts, peer countries are doing 2k/mo without issue but its somehow a str…

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    Comment #24065625

    In a SHTF scenario I think the idea that you would be able to reach, operate or maintain a refinery is fanciful.

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    Comment #24065336

    >basically stealing TikTok for example 'Stealing' it for 30 Billion? Give me a break... TikTok is not the hill to die on...

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    Comment #24012905

    I agree, but it hasn't changed yet. Despite the "teach truckers to code" kind of rhetoric and survivorship bias of self taught coders.

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    Comment #24009940

    People always parrot this but how many Doctors do you know with no degree? Take a poll at Google engineers and see how many are actually self taught and have no degree. How many Wa…

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    Comment #24009844

    >GPT-3 demonstrates that a huge volume of what's written is mostly bullshit Have you never seen reddit or youtube comments? But seriously this seems like a standard Pareto distribu…

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    Comment #24009799

    >I have a hunch it will work on 50% of people. The number of people on Social Media that don't read past an article's headline is enormous, they are convinced by basic false headli…

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    Comment #24009634

    >One consequence of GPT-3 is that I am now highly sceptical of the human provenance of any HN comment on an article about GPT-3 This likely isn't a bad thing. As more and more gene…

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    Comment #24009570

    John Bell would like to have a word with you.

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    Comment #24009549

    >If anything, GPT-3 is too tied to the real world. Like a search engine, it can quickly find the answer to almost any practical question. What we're trying to figure out is if it c…

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    Comment #24009490

    > It cannot be emulated in an environment that's secluded from the world or even in an environment that is exposed to a carefully selected slice of the world. This has always been …

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    Comment #23987867

    >men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring How can you get this close >Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer th…