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https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2020/03/Crossing-the-Line-S...

The 1-in-10 number is self-reported harassment which is different from teacher-on-student abuse but I don’t really care about the distinction. Your 1-in-20 number is a different metric entirely, by the way (as abusers are not one-to-one with abused). Again, I don’t really care about these wrinkles.

Anyway, AAUW’s data doesn’t distinguish between reports from public and public charter, so you can’t use this data to draw conclusions about differences between public and religious schools.

Furthermore, and this is the most important part, their main recommendation to reduce the incidence of abuse and discrimination in all schools (i.e., one of the things I actually want to minimize) is to promote more adherence to Title IX protections.

Private schools have no legal obligation to provide any Title IX protections, and indeed some religious schools, by their very doctrine, cannot.

Next time, if you’re going to demand statistics that don’t exist (as private schools have no reporting requirements and the AAUW report demonstrates that many institutions obviously underreport) please provide better links, thanks.

My favorite example of this is the debate between a faction that believes Lithobates is the proper genus of a certain set of frogs, and another faction that believes the correct genus is Rana. The Lithobates side is essentially one person along with his sock and/or meat puppets, so in the end, after many rounds of moderation, most of the species in question are listed under both genuses.

They’re working on it.

This seems to be the French text of “Gravity and Grace”. The English translation dates from 1997; her other works are even less known and less likely to have sufficiently old translations.

Copyright really does screw over lesser-known philosophers.

[0] https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/6/2/fifty-years-la...

The position I describe above is consistent, though. And widely held.

The content industry’s intellectual property is primarily enshrined in copyright, whose exclusive lifetime greatly outstrips most human lifespans.

It’s not contradictory to be for the first and against the second.

* Privilege

> “One obvious answer would be “privilege”. It’s not completely wrong; once the first talented individual makes a family rich and famous, it has a big leg up.”

But this answer isn’t politically viable for him so he glosses over it.

* Genetics

> “The other obvious answer is “genetics!” I think this one is right, but there are some mysteries here that make it less of a slam dunk.”

He spends a lot of time trying to make this one work but of course it has all the well-known problems that all the eugenicists of the past ran into (e.g., assortative mating doesn’t completely explain Ashkenazi Jews).

* Education

> “Overall I’m not sure I can find any commonalities in these families’ educational styles except that they were all pretty weird.”

* Yudkowsky’s “Hero License”

> “. . .which I have no evidence for.”

Moderation (in the sense of temperance) as a meta-ethical principle has an exceedingly long pedigree, starting with Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics. Every virtue he describes is a mean between two extremes; courage lies between cowardice and recklessness, for example.

TL;DR: Every virtue has a “oops you went too far” failure mode, this doesn’t make it “self-contradictory”.

The Ivies thought what they were doing was legal. It no longer is.

Nothing has effectively changed.

This is the fallacy of gray.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac...

“Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view . . .”

There is something fundamentally different about the cultural life in cities. The suburbs are actually "soulless" in comparison.

https://www.iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl010.htm

Worth pointing out that every Stoic I can think of was an upper-class city-dweller. Epicurus—Athens. Marcus Aurelius—Rome. Zeno of Citium—Athens again, but perhaps apocryphal. Seneca, Cicero, Epictetus—Rome again [0].

[0] I'm reminded now that Epictetus was not particularly wealthy, and did live an ascetic lifestyle. Perhaps the exception that makes the rule.

What does it mean to learn to add numbers? LLMs in general are not good at accurately portraying their own processes, and humans are equally bad at interpreting what LLMs do “under the hood”.

“To rationalize” means something like “to provide a reason (a rationale)” and I don’t think the current generation of models can do that.

Two examples.

About twenty years ago they spearheaded modest-to-mediocre efforts at expanding Medicare; today, post-ACA, the party seems intent on an unprecedented degree of privatization and deregulation.

In 2002, GWB was able to mandate increased military smallpox vaccinations with little to no resistance; now almost all GOP party members are on the record as against any form of vaccination mandate (exception: Gov. DeWine of Ohio, who famously received hundreds of death threats from his own partisans over the issue).

I intentionally chose the tamest examples of a substantial platform change in the GOP over the past twenty years, but many more come to mind.

Bear in mind mere homelessness is not unequivocally a crime in the states, see Martin v. Boise (2020 or so).