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US military standard for "did we kill civilians" with drone attacks is "do these appear to be combat aged males, based on satellite photos". It's monstrous.

You're looking for this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053

These people are all already making 9 figure compensation packages, I think if they thought they could do the work they wanted at Google, they would.

Idk, they never struck me as being into eugenics. What the fuck man? I really don't want some tech startup trying to "fix" my neurodivergence.

Auatralians are a great case study. Once you control for pensions and similar indirect exposure, Australians have very high stock market exposure.

Weird moment for this take. We're seeing some of the fastest and most impressive progress ever right now. Frontier labs have categorically different & better set ups for evaluation…

Inflation over a long time horizon is about 3%. Especially if it's going to be a decade or more, just put it in an index fund.

3% is roughly inflation.

VTSAX, ASAP. Inflation is usually estimated at 3% + annually over a long enough time horizon. You're losing money.

(1) there's a lock out, they can't legally (2) Moving that kind of volume at market price is extremely difficult (3) This disclosure was required by law as part of their earnings. …

Where the misbehaving misfits are the aggressors, i.e Russia, the USA, and Israel?

Have you ever done the math on how much that cost you? I'm guessing at least $20M?

That's why the author refused to read a proof from someone he knew until it was formalized in Lean.

The entire article seems to rest on their use of an embedding model for clustering garbage science.

"Differential privacy" is the technology they are referring to. Their English is fine, you're the one missing something.

Companies will never price in externalities unless they are forced to.

This was just a long winded way of insulting Sandy but making it look professional, from what I can see. He is saying directly that Sandy was a bad designer with a poor sense of vi…

IDK if you're familiar with Church, but that's the most heavily used third space. And we grant it tax exempt status which it abuses to push bad laws.

Defining opposition to genocide as antisemitic is a really bad idea.

Scott Aaronson has a really good explainer about complexity theory and physical computing: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf (Doing my best to ignore his abysmal …

... Police in the united states have more than a century of flagrant misconduct under their belts. They protect their own, they almost never face consequences for killing people, t…

You really haven't ever encountered someone who believed in anything, have you?

Easy question with an easy answer that threatens a lot of bad people: immigrants are good.

There's another theory which says that if people have health care, food, shelter, education, and liberty, they won't commit crimes like this. Just a thought.

inflation I suspect we'll have our first $10T company in the next 2-3 years. That's only doubling.