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That's not weird at all it's the difference in most cases between products and services produced by local labor vs products and services produced by more abundant, cheaper labor el…

Richard Easterlin found a correlation in 1974, and subsequent studies have reinforced that. See the Introduction in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9802463/ .

This is an ongoing course at CMU you can shadow. https://modernaicourse.org/

I am a total neophyte when it comes to LLMs, and only recently started poking around into the internals of them. The first thing that struck me was that float32 dimensions seemed v…

Complexity can lead to "more is different" outcomes at higher strata. I would not say reified concepts are "made up" as they can have very real effects on both higher and lower str…

Food prices have been subsidized for decades by farmers' pride in their work and holdings, hesitancy to make a change, and attempts to maintain a family legacy. Had those farmers s…

I was using life expansively to refer to artificial, robotic life.

It's far more practical to adapt life to space and other planets, than it is to adapt space and other planets to human life. The problem with writing a story about artificial life …

Don't index funds trail market changes though? I thought their allocations are reactive. In other words, the Mag 7 are being bid up by people trying to beat the market. I don't see…

And anyone who thinks they can consistently predict who will be among the 4% is... mistaken. Diversification is how one manages risk when a system has a power law distribution of o…

I have investigated taking Amtrak for a family trip to do something different. "The journey is the destination" or something like that. I was branding it "slow travel" to the famil…

It was always my understanding that software careers are shorter than other technical careers, and the higher wages compensate for this. More than compensate, if you invest early. …

The economy functioned without large numbers of office workers in the past, and there are regions of the country where this is still the case. To an extent they will sell their ser…

I'm not sure the comparison is apples to apples, but this article claims the current AI investment boom pales compared to the railroad investment boom in the 19th century. https://…

I received both the worst and the best pieces of career advice when I was an undergraduate. The worst advice was that writing software, after the dotcom bust, was dead as a career.…

The headline is provocative, as some amount of corporate-owned farmland is owned by corporations that are in turn owned by farmers and their families. I would also push back on the…

Psychosis is a symptom of schizophrenia, which is a thought disorder according to psychiatry. Psychosis can also be caused by a lack of sleep (like not sleeping for days) and in th…

There was a theory that autism and schizophrenia were opposite ends of a spectrum, but it's fallen into disfavor. The theory went that autism produces mechanical, rigid thought pat…

I think "Habsburg" is a good enough descriptor. It encompasses the Catholic, northern-influenced culture (if not actually in the north like Trieste) as well as the baroque, counter…

They helped me out for my 8th grade science fair! I wanted to build a shake table to simulate the effects of earthquakes on buildings. (tl;dr: the taller the building, the more fle…

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I had to scroll through most of the paper to find this. > All participants were right-handed native English speakers with no exposure to a second natural language before the age of…

I don't think it's just about doing vs talking. There are people who are great at something not because they do novel work, but because they redo known work that's really hard. Not…

It's what most users want. Most users want to scroll through internet TV passively. However there is a big enough minority of users who want authenticity, novelty, and creativity i…

If there isn't a Voight-Kampff test for this there needs to be.