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Yeah I don't buy this idea at all. People freaked out over the ability to edit photos in dark rooms decades ago. Trust didn't deplete because pictures got tied to identities which …

People generally seem to have difficulty thinking about the diversity of types of lives on a population-level scale.

I have such trouble trying to figure out which of these many algorithms that are released will end up having a significant impact on a 5 year horizon. But this I have a rare hunch …

Thank you

Curious: why isn't all porn sites sued for this? I don't quite get why they're only going after PH? Is it because it's harder to win a case against 1000 websites? Is it because it'…

I used to be sceptical that the concept of overtraining was a thing, but it definitely is. Just saying that running every day consistently might not necessarily be good for you in …

Pet peeve: when people take phrases intended for one thing and uses them for a slightly modified purpose. I take Branson's "screw it, let's do it" mantra as something entreprenuria…

I'm hearing this advice so often that it's pissing me off. The book is BS. (I've read it.) There, I said it. It's always "this book is hugely thought provoking" (pointing at you Da…

Like I said above, "typos" in sequences of calculations are obviously problematic, and lead (almost always) to mistakes in the final result. In this case that's not applicable sinc…

There's value in collaboratively discussing half-baked ideas in public before any real applications have been produced. Imagine this article as just another in a stream of posts tr…

I didn't say it was one of the most common mistakes, I said it's one of the most common mistakes I have observed. Purely subjective.

Not really, it's one of the most common mistakes I see in bayesian calculations. If the author was basing a lengthy series of calculations on that first step, it would be worse (bu…

It's not "not getting the basics right", it's a simple typo. A thing like that shouldn't invalidate a whole article (unless you have skin in the game for the opponent argument). Wh…

I mean the boring answer is that people have patience and energy constraints. They arbitrarily ignore the whole group because VC isn't adjacent enough to their life goals, or somet…

They're not all bad, far from it. But sometimes a few actors poisons the well of a whole label (ehm, shark tank), causing some people to have an allergic reaction to the whole clas…

Isn't everything politics in some form or another?

It wouldn't be so sleazy if the fact that that's the transaction being made was less of an "open secret" and more of an acknowledged fact.

Curious: Do people find value in reading increment? I've tried reading it a few times but have often found it to be too many words for too little deep insight. Would love to be con…

I agree with you. I find Melvyn Braggs rudeness quite useful. (And it doesn't seem like the quests mind. I mean, they're adults, they can handle some pressure to be succinct.)

Tbh, some anti-tech ideas (essentially eloquently presenting steelmanned ideas I'd only had at the periphery of my mind). All their ideas which goes against the grain, that I find …

Eric Weinstein's The Portal really is amazing. A top 5 highlight of 2019 as far as I'm concerned.

Can't think of a specific episode, but all the controversial ideas discussed in the Red Scare podcast have really twisted around my brain (and put words to things I thought only I …

Learning to become more creative so I don't have to chase new languages or frameworks for intellectual stimulation.

I feel like we're ignoring the obvious answer: because most people in AI right now are overwhelmed by the necessary mathematical background and comfort necessary to produce first-p…