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2mo ago
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2mo ago
Acquired on all charges in June.
Acquitted?
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3mo ago
Great stuff! I need to get back into the shop.
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3mo ago
Congratulations!
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4mo ago
(Also early follower of you on the other platform, and it's been great to see your recent growth.)
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4mo ago
Yes, very much so. While I'm mostly a lurker, The Motte is unique place that is unmatched by anywhere else on the Internet. I am grateful that it exists.
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4mo ago
If the only thing you value in yourself is being useful then you'll develop a knack for finding people who will exploit this mercilessly, and this roommate is merely somewhere between grandfathered in from the past and the worst case of all of them. It has to end, and I am not obligated to let this guy stay at my place until he dies because of whatever went wrong in his life that isn't my fault.
Read your previous posts, you're making the right decision. Good luck.
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6mo ago
How is it happening now? Language models do not look like artificial life.
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7mo ago
Congrats!
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
Which of aardvark2's four premises do you specifically disagree with?
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8mo ago
This case from a few months ago is interesting.
A voice analysis conducted by Catalin Grigoras, Director of the National Center for Media Forensics, compared audio recordings of Jezos and talks given by Verdon and found that it was 2,954,870 times more likely that the speaker in one recording of Jezos was Verdon than that it was any other person
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9mo ago
Trace, you posted a few days ago about Scott demurring Prophetship. Your recent stuff, vast quality and quantity, is reminding me of 2013-era Scott.
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11mo ago
There are plenty of gated communities and upscale neighborhoods.
What are the best examples?
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11mo ago
Arthur Herman's Freedom's Forge is excellent.
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1yr ago
A recent example: a trans woman is attempting to rewrite the Sex page, and is at least receiving some pushback.
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1yr ago
Took a look...his ad revenue must substantial. The last week of views: 400k, 550k, 530k, 770k, 620k, 1M, 400k. All are >30 minutes. Following internet rumours for CPV that's what, >$20k?
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1yr ago
- "Truly, the day when we have to portray moneylenders as a whole as generous folk just to not offend groups which have historically been overrepresented in this line of work (and still are, just less so) will be a dark one."
But on the other hand. The bigger issue here, the one that leads to such false alarms, is that Rowling's world, like all classical fantasy/sci-fi worlds and especially ones informed by British mythology, is biodeterminist. It's not just exaggeration of class differences; Rowling herself may be staunchly liberal but her intuitions are... quaint, and her commitment to not recognizing trans women as women is of the same intuitive root.
I expected see a link here to her friendly relationship with Stuart J. Ritchie, author of Intelligence: All That Matters.
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1yr ago
anecdotal reports like that man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
What possesses a man to do this? What drives a clean-cut, techno-optimist, science-tinkering Mormon with three kids to deal with arsonists (and arsonists). To be held at gunpoint. To interact continuously with thieves (and thieves, and intruders, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and…I could go on), derelicts (and, and, and, …). To be assaulted by a zoning bureaucrat. To drive around a recently-purchased 220k square foot abandoned warehouse late at night. To livestream council sessions passionately deriding slow-moving approvals to apathetic council members, and to do it again, and yet to have no ready, coherent answer to the objection of building and zoning laws. To live in a house with contaminated water. And yet, despite all of this, to continue to persevere.
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1yr ago
Another trope I've seen is a technical article written in dialogue form where a brilliant woman explains to a clueless, ignorant man how something works. It's always written by a man.
and ability to recognize and intergrate new information is only tangentially (if at all) related how high one scores on an IQ test. Ditto "academic achievement"
Attempts to study this empirically get results more like this,
The correlation between a latent intelligence trait (Spearman's g from CAT2E) and a latent trait of educational achievement (GCSE scores) was 0.81
rather than no relation.
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1yr ago
Gwern wrote a good review of the book.
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1yr ago
Day Planner section with a more or less precise timetable that is parsed into time tracker with notifications
Interesting, how does the notification system work?
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1yr ago
You may also enjoy his writing on metarationality.
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