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"Has some negative effects" != "is overall negative"

Life does have meaning now - but if we could colonize the galaxy, there would be a billion stars with a billion people for a billion years. If their lives are equally meaningful, then these existential threats to humanity correspond to the greatest threat to mankind's meaning.

Putting on a label doesn't cost anything. I don't see why you think this would make (non-) medicine more expensive?

Also, the FDA has the responsibility to make sure that fake medicine cannot be advertised as being medicine. It doesn't remove competition, it removes fraudulent competition from competing with real medicine.

The U.S. government decidedly does NOT think climate change is economically advantageous, and they have fought any measures against it tooth and nail.

There's two parts that I'm still not sure about here - a question of moral weight W: 1 * innocent prisoner executed == W * innocent victim of crime

and two epistemic questions, how many innocents X are executed per guilty person, and how many victims Y are saved on average by the disincentive caused by executing one guilty prisoner?

Per guilty person executed, we save Y lives and we are penalized W * X. Is Y > W * X? If so it seems reasonable to keep the death penalty, all things being equal (ignoring the cost of litigation vs. prison time, etc)

Does anyone have sources for what the values of any of these numbers should be?

No system can avoid failure 100% of the time. It may find itself going too fast with a unexpected loss of some control - brake failure, intentional sabotage, (imperceptible) oil slick, whatever. However, the system still has some control to choose between several terrible and costly outcomes. It must choose its victim. How should it chose?

That's very interesting, I might consider doing this in the future when needed.

Thank you for the voice of reason

Dota 2 isn't going anywhere. The current tournament has an $18+ million prize pool (and rising) - meaning Valve was paid about $72 million in compendium sales.

This is for a tournament that runs every year and is growing in popularity and size.

I think you're confused about the mathematics here - cap and trade for cap (C tons) is EXACTLY equivalent to some carbon tax (T dollars) in the behaviors it incentivizes.

No, if they're producing by buying oil or coal. Just tax the source.

The problem is then the rich will do a simple expected value computation to decide whether to do fraud. A disproportionate and non monetary punishment will be far more effective at deterring them.

Thanks for saving me the time!

Really? How would you feel if an islamic terrorist group had funded it, and it circled Anglo-saxon names? Is that as defensible as getting business information about your contacts?

Something is seriously wrong with you if you don't think the explicit targeting of Jews online is problematic.

W2 jobs are not comparable. Driving for uber is flexible - you can drive whenever you want, for however long you want each week. Obviously that value will come at a lower price point for wages.

And? Are they supposed to let people use the house for free? It seems like communists are willfully ignorant of the time value of money.

Furthermore, basic income would likely get people out of unemployment benefits and food stamps and into jobs because they no longer have a DISINCENTIVE to work! I expect this effect would be about as large as the number of people who quit their jobs to pursue their passions / hedonism.

Yes, you pointed out the main advantage - it's a bet against the stock price of the company. This lowers the volatility,and it doesn't lower expected earnings too much because if things go up you can just hire more people at lower RSU amounts.

The other advantage is you can incentivize people to stay to at least the RSU cliff, which improves your retention and institutional knowledge.

Absolutely, I don't understand how GP can causally accept how drugs damage thousands of people's health while harshly criticizing a different form of cheating which happens to use a different substrate than human flesh.

It's humor, not actual bike-shedding. Was that not obvious?

Well said. Google is hardly an American company anymore. Their EU workers pay EU taxes.

That's not sufficient. If you write 10 different models, each with 10s of thousands of parameters until you get the results you want, it doesn't matter how accurately the model seems to predict in the past. Modelling is a tricky business that easily falls prey to such "data snooping" methods.

Dota 2 is absolutely unplayable above 150 ms. Last-hitting and denying get hard enough, but at an even higher level you MUST be able to react to in-air projectiles with abilities such as Black King Bar, Manta Style, Blink, Naga's Mirror Image, etc to disjoint the projectiles.

Anecdotal evidence: historically I have a 60% winrate on US West servers (~40-70 ping) and only 50% winrate on US East servers (~110 ping). I've played on EU servers and it is absolutely miserable at 200+ ping. If I had to play regularly on anything above 110 and I'd probably drop to 45% or 40% winrate.

Yes, but employee stock purchase plans (~50% of the time) result in large capital gains.

The way you explain it, it's no different from functions and function composition; in which case, why invent new vocabulary?

I do remember looking into them before and translating them into Haskell and they ended up not being identical to functions in the trivial sense that you suggest, but I forget how.

Agreed.

Although, I'm a vegetarian and I'm salivating at the thought of a perfectly cooked and seasoned steak. :)

So, tl;dr, you consider "'Considered Harmful' Essays Considered Harmful" harmful?

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Ok, that makes sense... but then why bother pushing the branch in the first place?

> They can also build neural nets 10x smaller by compressing a larger neural net while maintaining most of accuracy. That means once a problem such as vision or speech has been solved with a huge net, it can be transferred in a smaller, more efficient net.

This is known as "dark knowledge". Slides from Geoff Hinton: http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf