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> there are students whose performance on such assessments is not a good signal of their intellectual ability Is there a form of assessment that is a good signal of the intellectua…

> Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia Has this changed recently?

For most taxes you expect higher earners to pay more but this is not the case with student loans because high earners pay of their loans quickly whereas lower earners end up paying…

> so either none of the current competitors are doping or all of them are The drafting effect in cycling means that a clean cyclist can finish very closely behind a doped cyclist

https://pypi.org/project/formulas/ might help with this without needing the OpenAI part

> It seems like ClosedAI wants their system to follow the desires of some people and not others, but without describing which ones or why If the problem is "unaligned AI will destr…

> What might be seen as exponential progress could actually be the accumulation of a few tremendous leaps This is what exponential progress is as long as the leaps continue happeni…

Thank you for the link to the paper; very interesting!

One construction of the natural numbers that I've seen is 1. There exists an element 0 that is a natural number 2. For every natural number there is a "sucessor" that is also a nat…

I think that at a networking event 1-2 minute conversations are normal so this isn't a sign you are doing something wrong

Don't you just end up on a "meaning treadmill" instead?

> There’s a huge difference between being there from day one vs day 2,555. Between being a founder and an employee who joined later on This is true but there is also a huge differe…

Just saying "36000 die" by itself doesn't tell me very much about how dangerous it is - expressing that as a percentage gives much more information I think. As another person point…

36000 Mexicans is 0.03% For more context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... has the risk of death by traffic in Mexico as 0.01%

> some of them talk about their gorgeous cars for the sake of talking about their cars > My coffee machine is all mine (Gaggia Babila)

Do a search and the websites that rank at the top are the optimised ones

so I took out a few Google Ads on companies in the same space This is considered an aggressive move. My guess is their CEO thinks he is responding in kind

The long slow SAAS ramp of death

I am very surprised by this. I suppose somewhere like Ben Nevis maybe 90% of the people you meet won't have a map and it is possible that places like this will represent a large pr…

Ridiculous! It would take longer to get to the moon and back if you walked there. There is no place on Earth that you couldn't get to quicker if your budget was the same

It has been a long time since I've studied this; can you link me to something more about the reals being consistent and complete? Or write a quick explanation in a comment? I thoug…

I took his point to be that things like "feels readable" and "feels fast" and to do with feelings rather than actual quantifiable things that could reasonably be compared between l…

It is a signal the the person isn't top talent. Because if they were they wouldn't be desperate

What is crippleware? Does it mean it doesn't work?

You need a whole industry of people telling your customers that these things do work. I think it is quite difficult to accomplish entirely by yourself