On his original blog the author once said that he was considering making the title of his new blog an anagram, and that the closest options were Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. We should be grateful he didn't go with Trans Latex Coeds
312 karma · joined April 27, 2017
It kind of buries the lede that we're one or two technical achievements away from the apocalypse (learning from unlabelled training sets, say) and instead starts with "AI sentencing guidelines are biased against black defendants", as if that exists in the same universe as Skynet IRL. IME the people who are even worried about AI risks at all are overwhelmingly in the "what if it disenfranchises minorities even more?" camp, and only a tiny fraction are concerned about having the atmosphere packed with graphite superconductors in the next fifteen years. Any article like this should probably start off with the assumption that the audience thinks AI is that cute thing in their iPhone that dials the local pizza joint instead of your mother when you try to speak to it. Whether or not AI will eventually let Donald Trump sustain himself eternally on a golden throne as the God Emperor of America is a red herring and needs to be deflected, like, immediately, or else people get on their own hobby horse about how AI represents a turning point in the bendy straws community. All the right notes are in here but they're at the end for some reason.
Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that bitcoin might reach $10,000... in 2011.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
The blogs that aspire to follow in TLP's footsteps are legion.
Please stop this. While I agree with your overall point, we know what causes gravity (the uneven curvature of space due to the distribution of mass). You can find this out by googling "what causes gravity". It's not a mystery anymore.
I think just about every industry that seems, from the outside, to have exploitable conditions like this has hidden barriers. The taxi industry looked exploitable, but in fact was tightly regulated. Uber has managed to capture some of the market by pretending to not be a taxi company, and wound up in a plethora of legal battles for their trouble.
I propose that how obvious or necessary a business idea appears at first glance is directly proportional to how difficult it would be to implement.
https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
But we're actually describing the candidate pool for these positions. Having a high EQ is rarely a motivating factor for going into software engineering at Stanford etc. It's people who come out of those programs and just so happens to have the right mix of EQ, drive, talent, and so on that apply to these jobs, and if the applicants are skewed male, the new hires will be as well.
But because everyone else is going to tell you to use Python, I'll say that R and MATLAB/Octave are both acceptable for prototyping algorithms.
In other countries, we call this 'saving for retirement.'
An appeal to authority is a type of fallacious argument; in attributing the quote to Einstein, your subtext is that his endorsement is your argument. But, of course, context-free quotes from Einstein aren't sufficient evidence of anything.
On a different note, Damore chose to include mention of "leftist protest" because Google's culture is left-leaning – he's explicitly saying that Google is very left, while not so left as these violent protests. Mentioning "violent rightist protests" wouldn't be germane to his statement about Google here.
Edit: Google says that their diversity platform is non-discriminatory because they're not changing their standards, but rather looking harder for qualified diversity candidates (paraphrasing). This makes the gargantuan and probably unwarranted assumption that there are a lot of these candidates not applying and that 'looking harder' will find them.