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It really seems like those meaningless, flashing YouTube kids videos, but for adults.

I've always found it somewhat ironic that the people who are least familiar with the actual research on the Dunning-Kruger effect tend to be the most confident in discussing it. It…

This is actually an easily solvable problem. In fact, most of the world has already solved it by not allowing caller-ID spoofing and by blocking bad actors similar to the way that …

This is not specific to Silicon Valley. It's human nature. People take the "vibe" from a work and assume the vibe is the meaning. Look at how things like Fight Club, The Punisher, …

> frustratingly difficult to even get through the first lesson in which you are supposed to focus on your breath and minimize the wandering of your mind Everyone experiences this. …

A good article about a genuinely great and important book. One quibble. > Lukashenka knew that arresting children for eating ice cream would make him a laughingstock abroad. Zucker…

FWIW, I've just published this interview with David Ha an hour ago. We talk in detail about Fugu and why these kind of routing models are likely to win out over the big frontier mo…

Said experts do not seem to have included this core analysis in the report. Since housing starts are more likely in areas seeing rapid housing price appreciation, and construction …

The research is impressive in its granularity. However, they seem to simply assert causality. It would seem far more likely that people (illegal or not) move to areas experiencing …

Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligenc…

> "if the product is free, you are the product" This is not true. You are the product whether you are paying or not. If the company thinks they can make money by selling your data/…

> There’s a fallacy that gets used a whole lot to justify things like this ... FWIW, this is the Fallacy of Composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

The Luddites (or at least their successors) won, and we are lucky that they did. I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were …

If you look at what their actual demands, the pattern is clear. They lobbied for support for unemployed, the right to vote, improved safely and labor conditions across all industri…

I think that is the core truth of the matter. Technology itself does not make life better. I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, …

This will be just another minor cost of doing business unless they are treated like human drivers in at least two other ways. 1) If theses companies get enough points on their lice…

I used to be a professional musician, and I can't work if there is any music playing the the background. It drove my ex-wife nuts because she could not stand the silence. We ended …

talk is cheap, so what is he doing today to make that happen? Is he supporting NGOs or politicians focused on making this happen, or is he just musing that it would be nice? (I hon…

If you look at their actual demands its clear the the Luddites were not actually opposed to the new technology, but the new business practices. It's an interesting parallel to AI t…

> People are not willing to sacrifice their freedom to save 40,990 people from cars, why should our constant locations be monitored? It's not binary. People are absolutely willing …

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> for work requiring Japanese This only applies to jobs that require Japanese proficiency. The vast majority of engineering and specialist visa will not be affected. It's not unrea…