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Her appointment should also be discussed, given how much of Tesla's bad press has been HR related over the past year. She may prove to be the more important addition.

Given Tesla's current issues with how they have been reported to treat their workforce, while Larry might be useful in terms of finance and contacts, I'm more interested in discovering what Kathleen is bringing to the table and what her attitudes to things like unions and employee rights in general might be. I suspect that could be at least as make or break as anything Larry might do here.

Given the title includes her, I'd like to know what the thought was behind removing her name. I'd be very surprised if it was; 'Larry is bad, so lets not harm people by association'.

Not only can you not always distinguish them from each other, but they are very far from being mutually exclusive. Which is somewhere else that Hanlon's razor falls down. It sets them up as being options to choose between, which is obviously a very bad model.

To be honest, when I first heard Hanlon's razor, I immediately wondered what nefarious stuff Hanlon had been up to that he wanted to deflect attention away from.

Is a bit like the old aphorism 'You can't cheat an honest man', which is of most use to con artists trying to put honest people at ease before then cheating them.

edit - also you are misrepresenting Hanlon's razor. It is not an argument that says that stupidity is merely more likely, rather it says - "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

>If "conservation of complexity" were universally true then ANY compression would be impossible.

No it wouldn't. The complexity of a pattern can usually be conserved while reducing its length, but for each pattern there is a limit. This is the entire concept behind the Kolmogorov complexity of a system and any patterns that cannot be reduced any further without removing complexity are at their limit already.

This is also related to the idea that you cannot have a universal compression algorithm.

Tomatoes flavour often gets killed by chilling them too far - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109336-heres-why-putti...

There are probably other things going on as well, but this seems to be one of the major factors at play.

I have said this before, but Hanlon's razor is good for politeness, but not very good for assessing what people are actually up to, as people regularly disguise maliciousness as incompetence and find it fun to do so, especially in politics and other power games.

One of the many tricks to power is pleading powerlessness on the things you actually planned ahead of time while claiming full responsibility for things that are accidental.

If it was objectively not true, then you could have infinite compression and any program could be reduced to a single bit.

Isn't pseudo though as he is also a lawyer. He may be far too used to writing like that.

One thought, if this is combined with a freezer and there is a pumped heat exchanger between that and the fridge, you can effectively use the freezer as the battery.

On the other hand, if you know something is bad for false positives then unless it is so bad as to be unusable, you would expect that, on average, getting a few results is dubious, but lighting up like a christmas tree probably means something is actually there.

>The problem with this definition is that it is close to making every promotion decision meritocratic by definition.

This is pretty close to what Michael Young was warning about when he coined the term in his 1958 satire, 'The Rise of the Meritocracy'. Here's an article by him on the subject - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

Thanks for the advice. I think also some of it might just be that I have mainly had jobs for smaller companies which have a relatively small percentage of management positions available compared to larger organisations. So as they tend to only have a handful of people in the middle between the executives and everybody else, there are just less management positions there to start with and they tend to either go to the existing friends of the executives or professional managers hired from outside.

Thanks for this. I guess there is a fine line to tread between being aggressive and assertive. I often see them used interchangeably though.

Not yet you aren't.

My mind went straight to Cold Lazarus, the sequel to Karaoke, by Dennis Potter. Reality Or Nothing! Poor fucking pig. I hope it stayed comatose and didn't dream. You can still feel pain from injuries in your dreams sometimes.

Maybe. Is very good at designing intelligence however.

I am light skinned and look much younger than my age. I have noticed over the years that I seem to not be allowed anywhere near any kind of management role. Although I will be trusted with great responsibility to actually research, develop, build and deliver, I have not generally been allowed to define projects or suggest strategy. I am either at the sharp end or nowhere, it seems. I suspect that my only way to be anywhere near being in an executive position is if I start my own business.

edit - of course it might be nothing to do with appearance, I definitely have some negative character traits. Though if it is character traits, very similar traits don't seem to hurt the men with stubble and prominent chin clefts in their careers.

>how did he come to the conclusion that these effects and psychological biases are undesirable and we should find mechanisms to avoid them

Given your desire that others provide you with strong evidence for visual biases in hiring being at all damaging, otherwise you will dismiss them as pushing a political agenda, perhaps you might be a perfect volunteer for the following proposal.

In this spirit of hard nosed logical inquiry, are you at all interested in helping the British Medical Journal with their double blind parachute study? https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

Given this bit -

>"Since this was a task more suited to Cylance Protect, they rolled out that tool in a free trial mode, and it "lit up like a Christmas tree." At this point, OPM began using Protect extensively in its diagnostic process, despite not committing to license it from Cylance; they eventually agreed to do so on June 30th, a day before the trial period was set to elapse. Cylance did not actually receive payment for months."

- it seems that the takeaway is even more devastating. Don't start work unless they have already paid.

>AlphaZero is just a very refined and efficient form of brute force.

As is evolution.

Fusion power has not yet reached ignition, without that it is not just uneconomic, it is not working period. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor

I don't know where you get that idea. The current problem with fusion is not that it isn't economic, it is that it is not yet at the stage where it produces excess power that can be used.

The electric cars 100 years ago were functional as a form of transport.

No you don't. Rolling logs as a linear bearing for launching boats, with people carrying the logs to the front from the back as the boat passes over, almost certainly preceded the wheel.

>"One Friday afternoon in 1921, Steinmetz hopped in his electric car and headed off for a weekend at Camp Mohawk"

I wonder what he would have made of the fact that people are arguing about whether electric cars are practical almost 100 years later.

Mathematics has the recent case of having to reference an anonymous 4chan user for a paper 'A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern' - https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf

Alan Kay's take on Jobs and Pixar is pretty illuminating regarding this -

>Steve wasn’t capable of being friends. That wasn’t his personality. Besides the Apple stuff, I had a lot to do with his Pixar thing. I was contacted by the people who became Pixar–I knew them well, and they wanted to get out of Lucasfilm. They called me up and asked me for advice, and so I said, I can talk to Steve. I explained very carefully to him who these people were, and you shouldn’t fuck around with them, like he did with his normal employees. He did a good job with them. [Pixar] was the most honest billion he ever made, because he put a lot of his own personal money into nurturing those guys. They got fabulous. That was Steve’s best hour.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...

The whole article is worth reading for Kay's take on a variety of stuff.

I'm really interested in this, how far have you got?

I had forgotten the Dr Who reference, though I only dip into Dr Who now and again. I had always assumed that the title of the film 'The Matrix' was in homage to Neuromancer. I had never considered that Gibson might be doing a homage to Dr Who.

Better plasma control doesn't do much to Lidsky's argument though, if you have a look through it.