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6hr ago
Yes, by "college education" I meant the instruction. Though I should have also mentioned that Caplan's case is mostly about societal waste, and there can still be substantial gains to the individual.
Math didn't go so well. This is fine, since I don't necessarily want to be a Woman in STEM, but also very common among homeschoolers I know, even with engineer fathers. I think math just inherently requires more structure and pushing for a lot of teens than reading and writing do.
From the homeschoolers I've spoken with this seems quite common. Great outcomes in many different domains, but a real lack of mathematical maturity.
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22hr ago
It seems very clear that college education effects outcomes such as higher earnings.
This is not so clear. The earning difference between college graduates and non-graduates is clear, but whether it's the college education that's primarily responsible for that difference is questionable.
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2d ago
The increase in autism is largely the result of diagnostic drift and increased awareness.
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2d ago
the average modern western middle class woman spends much more time 1 on 1 with her young children than her predecessors a century or two ago.
From the survey data I've seen comparing the 1960s to today parents' time with their kids has increased, most notably and substantially for fathers, but also somewhat for mothers. (Though, we've only had the American Time Use Survey since 2003, and I don't know how much to trust the previous survey methods.)
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3mo ago
Also David Chapman's Vividness website-book-blog-thing at https://vividness.live/ , he's been on my radar for a long time and I've never followed through.
You may also enjoy his writing on metarationality.
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4mo ago
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4mo ago
Acquired on all charges in June.
Acquitted?
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4mo ago
Great stuff! I need to get back into the shop.
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4mo ago
Congratulations!
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5mo ago
(Also early follower of you on the other platform, and it's been great to see your recent growth.)
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5mo 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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5mo 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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8mo ago
How is it happening now? Language models do not look like artificial life.
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8mo ago
Congrats!
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8mo ago
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8mo ago
Which of aardvark2's four premises do you specifically disagree with?
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10mo 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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10mo 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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1yr ago
There are plenty of gated communities and upscale neighborhoods.
What are the best examples?
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1yr 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.
There are a few charities like that, e.g. GiveDirectly.
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