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Indeed, pg has an essay about it: https://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

As touched on in the article: The data's not IID, and there hasn't been very much "time" to generalize across.

Safely aligning a powerful CEO is difficult.

Yes, the quote was "Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." (Sam Altman, Harvard 2024)

I agree, the conjecture never says anything about a proper map.

No, housing those people is only half the budget, so it's like $25k/person. It's unlikely there's a trivial arbitrage to eliminate homelessness in a city full of engineers.

Not likely: SF has ~7,973 homeless people now, and current spending provides housing for 14,498 "previously homeless" people: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Agenda_Item_9_HSH_B…

This is a fallacy because it's not the same people homeless each year. There's substantial turnover in the homeless population. "Replace services with direct transfers" would elimi…

Here's what I see on desktop: https://i.imgur.com/vuA2Y3w.png Is this an artifact of dynamic resizing at small resolutions?

> Rent seeking, *according to the Georgist* Only Georgists believe that. And it's the rent of the "bare land", not including the housing constructed on it.

Seems the actual article is here? https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tesla-autopilot-c...

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You can compare modeled heat deaths across different countries, Western Europe is still significantly higher. Eg Figure 3C in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7618246/ It d…

This simulation claims otherwise (though I agree it's hard to believe): > A significant degradation of external thermal comfort can also be seen in the simulations, as heat release…

Yeah, good point.

They're using a Benjamini–Hochberg correction (alpha=0.05) to account for multiple comparisons (see Table 2).

> Obviously a rejected resume is more likely to be rejected by every other employer and an accepted resume is more likely to be accepted by every other employer. But that wasn't th…

The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371 They find "disparate impact" of pymetrics across racial groups, but it doesn't seem like they controlled for anything.

I'm getting SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG on Firefox.

It does not, as explained in the section "Are Landlords Rent Seekers?" "Rent seeking" is more about making money by changing the rules instead of providing a service.

Counterintuitively, collecting rent is not considered "rent-seeking" by the econ definition, eg: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp

Opposing Israel's flagrant violations of international law is not hate speech or discrimination against Jews, regardless of how desperately you want it to be.