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This website just looks like an SEO farm.

Well, it was spun off into its own company in 2020. In the West we have similar companies like Replika. Also translating 'XiaoIce' as 'Little Bing' is extremely misleading given th…

> For instance, the well-documented decline of productivity of the American white-collar worker has convincingly been linked to over-automation of the American office, but the “neg…

Although it doesn't make sense to have prediction markets for truly catasclymic events -- anyone who believes nuclear war is imminent is gonna prefer to buy canned food over predic…

Pokemon cards fail the Howey test

Same for the monthly mortgage payment, at least the part that goes towards the principal.

> you can't even hide them I changed my trends location to Tokyo on someone's recommendation, and it's been a great workaround. I don't speak Japanese, so it's the same as 'hiding'…

Damn, I guess I should become poor

I see, that's interesting! I guess there's another causal chain, which is 'buying ETH to pay gas fees -> price of ETH goes up -> value of block reward to miners goes up -> more min…

Driving up gas fees increases the number of miners who find it profitable to operate their rigs, no?

Then why have all countries abandoned the gold standard? What makes bitcoin more suitable than gold for this purpose?

What makes this an 'oral history'?

OTOH, you do have a lot of control in many cases. I realized that I was way too emotionally invested in a lot of work interactions because I just hadn't thought through what I actu…

> Ask the candidate. I would often straight out ask people how effective they were at GSD, and how did they compare to their peers? It was surprising how honest some (very smart) p…

I think the target audience is 'people who believe that they have to believe the strawman', if that makes sense. Pointing out that certain statements are self-defeating and (by def…

+1. I think it's dangerous to try to tell yourself there's a win-win (make more money AND make the world better) when there isn't one. I really like the way Anand Giridharadas talk…

I'm amused by the implication that if Google has even one piece of incorrect information in its knowledge corpus, it's justified in returning absolutely any answer to any question.…

> isn't given the game rules, so it doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal moves But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state, a…

They're verifiably hard to guess. That is fundamentally different. (At least when passwords are generated with enough entropy.)

> In chess, AlphaZero initially doesn’t know it can take an opponent’s pieces. Over hours of high-speed play against successively more powerful incarnations of itself, it becomes m…

My (low-information) understanding is that coronaviruses have much lower mutation rates than flu viruses!

> Notable that these articles about the doubtful value of a university degree are written exclusively by people who have one. Why is it notable?

'Ownership' is a pretty overloaded term. It's never really clear which sense of 'ownership' the author is invoking at any given moment. Also, lol. "100 years ago, food came from a …

Glad to know he's part of your outgroup.