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The perfectly rational actor myth in economics will have Mary doing all sorts of things she doesn’t actually do. Mary just really likes peaches and the whole construct of rational …

It’s the same rehashed idea of the perfectly rational actor in economics.

All I know is the Taylor Farms Creamy Ranch from Costco gave me the worst stomach aches for 4 days and horrible gas

Are you sure you’re talking about fat and not total calories? The whole premise about Zone 2 running vs Zones 3/4 is you really do burn more grams of fat at the lower Zone per minu…

Longer slower running burns more fat because your body isn’t forced to use as much glycogen as faster paced running. I guess the answer for optimizing time is to get a home treadmi…

My house and street and surrounding streets still aren’t on Google Maps after a month post closing (new development). It’s on Apple Maps and Uber; Amazon and FedEx deliver. Google …

Ya and this leads to the point that if the simulation is so complex, which I take to mean is so like the real thing, then the near-perfect simulation and the actual thing must be h…

That’s like saying simulating a supernova and a supernova are both extremely hot.

Well if you go that route, a computer simulating digestion has almost no physical features in common with actual digestion of a stomach. The same holds for consciousness and brains…

Anyone tried to buy paint recently? $611 for 2x 5 gallon buckets just to do my garage.

“The law of non contradiction exists”. Even Aristotle couldn’t “prove it” exists yet logic uses it all the time. I hardly think logic is about what exists but rather a tool, born o…

Yes state schools are. That’s why it’s so competitive as well. $4-$6k at the state school vs $50K+ at private. There’s one state school for my program within 100 miles of me (physi…

Rad tech is like $130k+ per year in the Bay Area. And if you specialize even more. I know one in a hospital in Marin making $150k+. That much pay for a 2 year program is very hard …

One reason is rad tech and similar are all over Tik Tok. Another reason is these people know how to grind, but can’t afford a 4 year program.

Egalitarian? Let me explain healthcare right now. To get into a radiation tech program, there are 260 applicants, almost all with all As, for 20 slots at my local community college…

Interesting that boring is the salient factor.

Which generations? Even the most low tech older Millenials are using AI more and more.

There’s 3 main facets behind AGI pushers 1) True believers 2) Hype 3) A way to wash blatant copyright infringement True believers are scary and can be taken advantage of. I played …

I don't know if you can have it all, bacteria wise.

This is how I feel with AI math proofs. I’m not sure where they’re at now, but a year ago it took so much more time to check if an LLM proof was technically correct even if hard to…

No projects, no labs, no teamwork, no papers? What a narrow set of skills to send into your economy.

Dogs?

I guess I just don’t have the experience or optimism that a harness around an LLM, which can’t make the first, bare deduction on its own, is a good use of compute. I got out of RLH…

Grammar seems like you’re talking about LLMs specifically. Well, isn’t Sudoku just math? LLMs suck at Sudoku last I checked. When told not to code a solver, its very first deductio…