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Nope. Seems I was wrong.

Yes. False memory on my part it seems. I was very clearly wrong. The current SAT is clearly selective enough for my very popular scheme.

My point was just there are obvious ways to prevent bribery. And considering the amount we burn on higher education, spending much more on tests and verification does seem like a m…

A perfect score on the modern SAT is not very impressive. The bar has been lowered considerably in the last 40 years. [edit: seems I was very clearly wrong about this]

Make the SAT so difficult that on average 1 person gets a perfect score each year. Then do not allow any other criteria for admission. To prevent bribery randomly sample 1% for a r…

If regulators do this it will be to protect a crooked accreditation monopoly from their well-deserved demise.

>These claims are certainly plausible to me, but they are by no means obvious. (For reference, I'm a postdoc who specializes in machine learning.) I don't think I disagree very muc…

AGI == software capable of any economically relevant task. If you have AGI, it is very clear you could very quickly displace the entire economy, especially as inference is much che…

I don't see the problem. If they get AGI, it will create value much larger than 100 billion. Much larger than trillions to be honest. If they fail to create AGI, then who cares?

California has some of the worst municipal governments in the country. Shockingly poorly governed. Live a year in Singapore. Live a year in San Francisco. Your opinions on many thi…

Art is the production of veblen goods. Duchamp, in his genius, realized that though the ability to buy something painfully handcrafted does signal wealth, buying literal garbage is…

One supposes a man such as him would be able to accept death with equanimity. This is backwards. As he was losing much more in death than most of us will; he was far more alive tha…

Well, Von Neumann was likely the smartest man who ever lived.

People are entitled to build whatever they want on their property. As Silicon Valley is ruled by rent seekers who make building illegal, people have every right to complain.

Ideally a state without zoning laws or noncompetes. I can’t think of one.

Pure nicotine in the doses people take it is pretty safe. I really don’t think it is any worse than caffeine.

I sense this is a lost cause, but we can already predict ~10 percent of the variance in educational attainment with the genome alone. Once we get data sets with millions of genomes…

>Have you considered the possibility that confounding variables exist? I have no doubt that coming from a family where your parents have received a good education makes it much mor…