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Evolution happens even without any selection pressures, for example with genetic drift.

Another important factor is whether the place is monetizable. Places where you can't make money are less likely to be infested with AI.

> The natural equilibrium for a perfect ad market is for the ad spend to be exactly equal to increase in revenue Not quite, the equilibrium is when marginal ad spend results in no …

System Settings > Touch ID & Password > Use Touch ID for autofilling passwords. Turn this off on Macs with Touch ID and Safari will autofill without requiring Touch ID.

The probability is exactly zero by definition. The maximum score on a test is a raw score of 100%. Tests are normalized to have the reported scores fit a normal distribution. An ou…

You seem to be under the mistaken belief that democracy means deciding policy based on opinion polls. This is not how democracies work in practice, and opinion polls often show tha…

It's possible to do proportional representation with a ranked choice voting system where you vote for individuals rather than parties. Or you could allow voters to rank either part…

I don't think national elections need to have districts smaller than a state at all. If all of a state's seats in the House that are up for election were decided in a single state-…

"120" and "0.12%" both have 2 significant digits. "120." and "0.120%" have 3 significant digits.

I don't think it's quite correct to call it a regressive tax. Driving a car in Manhattan is a luxury, so this is a tax on a luxury that subsidizes transportation that works for eve…

Protests don't need to change the minds of the public to work. For example, protests still work in non-democratic societies in which public opinion has no bearing on policy. They w…

7 and 49 look the same.

For those who believe that billionaires are a policy failure, the answer is they should be taxed more to the point that there are no more billionaires.

If you want to know whether a drug is more effective than placebo, the answer to that question depends on both the data collected in a study and the initial study design. There’s a…

Unlikely in what probability space? We only see one version of reality so the probabilities that we assign to any outcome are based on a prior choice of probability space. That is …

You linked to an editorial about ethics. I'm not sure what to make of it, are you against conducting research and communicating it in an ethical way? Or do you disagree about somet…

Note that as a plane burns fuel, its maximum sustainable altitude and its most fuel-efficient altitude both increase. This explains why the pilots did not climb to a higher flight …

> How about I authenticate with the payment provider instead of some random store clerk? I don’t want the merchant to even see my name at all. Apple Pay and Google Pay don't show t…

A union B is defined as the set of things that are in A or in B; A intersect B is defined as the set of things that are in A and in B. So I don't really see it as an arbitrary choi…

You can interpret 0 and 1 as probabilities. 1 + 1 = 1 in this case makes sense because P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B). You can interpret "A or B" as a set union and "A and B"…

The "disagree and commit" leadership principle is supposed to represent a situation where the manager is the one who disagrees with a subordinate but trusts the subordinate's judge…

Kids need a large house? Not places to play outside with their friends? What is a kid going to do in the suburbs that doesn't rely on being ferried around in a car for hours each d…

It is not possible to prove that calling the server will not produce side effects. The link you provided does not address side effects, but correctness, which is much weaker. A tri…

It sounds like you are describing a multidimensional array, which can be used to represent a tensor, but is not conceptually the same thing. A tensor is an element of a tensor prod…