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Post by iptpus » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 11:46 AM UTC

flippinburgers wrote: post #241

thu2111 wrote: post #227

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Some engineers wrote a couple of insightful internal post-mortems about Google Video after the YouTube acquisition. It's telling, I think, that the deep analysis of what went wrong came from front-line engineers rather than the executives you'd be expecting to produce it as part of their job. I read them many years ago so what follows might be a bit garbled by time and bad memory, but the gist of it went like this: 1…

Thumbs up, thumbs down, and comments. The very things that she would still like to see go away.

It appears that is somewhat underway. Youtube is at least experimenting with not having dislikes.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-...

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

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Post by SuoDuanDao » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

uvnq wrote: post #270

SuoDuanDao wrote: post #236

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As I like to summarise it, 'the smarter someone is, the dumber beliefs they can rationalise'. Combine that observation with the Flynn effect and it explains why common sense is never as common as it used to be... Maybe Google's best bet at this point is to hire people with a wide diversity of IQ scores.

I wish I could save this comment somehow. That quote seems extremely useful

Thank you for that compliment! You actually can save it, if you click a comment's time stamp you can then click 'favourite' and it'll show up on a list in your profile.

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Post by uvnq » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

SuoDuanDao wrote: post #272

uvnq wrote: post #270

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I wish I could save this comment somehow. That quote seems extremely useful

Thank you for that compliment! You actually can save it, if you click a comment's time stamp you can then click 'favourite' and it'll show up on a list in your profile.

Oh neat, thanks! Saved.

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Post by perl4ever » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

setpatchaddress wrote: post #180

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I saw an article recently where some school was being renamed for the sort of reasons people call "cancel culture" these days and they explicitly rejected renaming it after Obama, because he was an "oppressor" due to the (allegedly very vigorous) deportation of undocumented immigrants during his terms. For me , he's the greatest President because of the ACA.

Greater than FDR? You sure about that? Obama sucked at his job. Like, nearly Carter-level blindness to political reality, but with more personal arrogance. Obama was better than Shrub. Shrub was a war criminal, so you'd have to hope Obama was better. The ACA was emblematic of Obama's unwillingness to lift a finger to help build the Democratic grassroots. The Democrats in Congress allowed the ACA to be loaded with poi…

I don't compare him to FDR, because I have no real perspective on presidents way before I was born. I don't know if he was better than Millard Fillmore either. I do know many people hated FDR with a passion and probably still do to the extent they are still alive.

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Post by knuthsat » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 3:45 PM UTC

perl4ever wrote: post #269

knuthsat wrote: post #82

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Yeah, then he ended up being a bigger warmonger than Bush. But I believe OP meant other warmongers that got the prize too.

>Yeah, then he ended up being a bigger warmonger than Bush. What is the argument for this?

I mostly agree with Noam Chomsky’s analysis and comparison.

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Post by truth_ » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 8:32 PM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #208

truth_ wrote: post #170

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"Smart" and "intelligent" people are just people born in relative financial ease with enough time to focus on studies and very likely with parents in academia or similar fields who made their children aware of the inner workings of the fields. Physics PhD people are not people fallen from skies with a little extra brain. They just got the time, opportunity, and tips to be there. Same goes for other "smart" people. Th…

That's not what the science says: https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2017121

The abstract mentions people with 170 average IQ. Hawking had 169 IIRC. Physics PhDs are averagely on the range 130~145. That's much lower than people on the study.

IQ is not taken seriously as a measure of intelligence or success anymore. And people can be trained to score high on IQ tests.

On the debate of Nature vs. Nurture, I do not think that inherent intelligence viz. good genes do not play a role. But I tend to belive that nurture has a larger to play.