Most of these "computational X" people do one thing really well: solve partial differential equations. Incidentally, PDEs are also a useful modeling tool for all sorts of simulation and optimisation. It's why you see physicists in finance, for example.
TikTok has an open computational chemistry position
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The end results are not the same. There are many observable differences between doing business in China and in the US or other western market democracies. For instance, executive action is regularly challenged in the US, and successfully so.
>For instance, executive action is regularly challenged in the US, and successfully so. And? How's that different from China?
China does not have a judiciary independent of the ruling party.
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But the knowledge we gain is only about triggering the bad paths of human brain, like addiction, greed, FOMO, etc. And who is "we" anyway, this stuff isn't public.
No, because literally every business that exists wants to advertise. (And also organizations that aren't businesses, like NGO's and government agencies and non-profits.)
Well, advertising only stimulates consumption, to the detriment of our planet.
Also, it is a loudness war, that is a race to the bottom in various ways.
As an individual business owner you want it, as society you don't.
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>For instance, executive action is regularly challenged in the US, and successfully so. And? How's that different from China?
China does not have a judiciary independent of the ruling party.
[citation needed]
US, on the other hand, definitely doesn't - everyone from the top is chosen by politicians.
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#136I'm really curious about this. Hypothesis 1) Tik Tok believes AI/machine learning algorithms themselves are converging across fields, and the company is finding that its internal AI innovations can be applied to biology and materials sciences algos and, possibly, vice versa. We'll call this one the "data are data" hypothesis. Hypothesis 2) Tik Tok has decided that it's an AI company, not a content platform company. T…
Experimenting on people. It's the new sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll revolution, delivered straight to your optic nerve, so get with it. They already got the monitoring and analytics in place - ain't no regulator got sufficient resolution to stop them from figuring out how to make that dopamine hit just right.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
China does not have a judiciary independent of the ruling party.
[citation needed] US, on the other hand, definitely doesn't - everyone from the top is chosen by politicians.
> [citation needed]
I’m not claiming anything controversial. The SPC openly says that they follow the guidance of the Party. https://qz.com/886665/xi-jinping-promised-legal-reform-in-ch...
The US has a judiciary comprising of judges picked by politicians from two competing parties.
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#138"Our brightest minds are making people click ads" ...
A few generations ago many of our brightest minds were building doomsday weapons to incinerate all life on Earth, so maybe this is progress.
Nuclear weapons have killed about ~200k people in all of history.
Advertising probably kills that many people most months when you consider things like:
* Convincing people that various groups needs to be genocided
* Convincing people to use cars instead of less dangerous methods of transportation
* Convincing people to use fossil fuels instead of less polluting forms of energy
* Convincing people to eat unhealthy foods
* Convincing people to smoke cigarettes
I'm not convinced that advertising is less dangerous than nuclear weapons.
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and we thought spam calls were bad, now instead of extended warrantys and political surveys, my dog is going to be calling and texting me every 10 minutes asking for treats and belly rubs
or just to say "hey", like the old far side comic with a canine decoder https://elorganillero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/canine-...
Haha that’s a good one thanks for the link!
Just pulled “Hound of the Far Side” off a shelf last night after not looking at a Larson comic in a long time - reminds me of the one where a car of cows are driving by a field of humans yelling “yakkity yak yak” out the window
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#140"Our brightest minds are making people click ads" ...
Still better than wasting away the intelligence inventing something that will never hit the market and make any impact