@toiletkingcap tokens cost money so need to be rationed. but solving problems makes money and thus buys more tokens. if a company could actually identify the productive employees then they would be rationed all the tokens because that would just generate more tokens
@toiletkingcap tiny portion of employees drive all the productivity because they bang shit down all day. there are infinite problems to solve, but also infinite ways to waste time and money
I’ve never had any, Eliezer, I live alone under a bridge and can never hope to be as smart as a world class genius such as yourself. Nevertheless, I fucked your entire movement. You decided that you wanted a totalitarian regime to make your twisted dreams come true, and I decided to fight. It doesn’t matter if you believe me or not of course. Your movement is still fucked.
How can you even hope to measure that? Who are they being measured against in the first place? If you pick someone like Eliezer how are you even deciding what his prediction set is? (Many of his really important ones (claims that he would be able to build a "seed AI" on an ordinary desktop computer of circa 2000, claims that machine learning would not work, etc.) have been hilariously wrong, and most of the things people think are "his" interesting predictions about AI come from others to begin with.) Claiming that some group has a "good Brier score compared to other groups" is risible when no one is actually in a position to make such a thing precise; as with systematic abuse of Bayes' theorem to transubstantiate vibes into "data", it's just another form of fake quantification to make yourself feel good when you have no reason to do so.
I am so sick of people who should know better terrorizing all of us with their obsession with “root causes.”
We actually don’t need to interrogate why the random man is harassing women on the subway, or to rationalize teen takeovers, or to get to the bottom of why drugstores are now fortresses. We just need to fix it.
Free agency is here and, right now, my TL is all LeBron, all day. Where's he going, what are the Warriors doing, etc. That's fine. He's LJ. I get it! But I'll tell you what I'm actually watching, and it isn't LJ and marquee guys. It's the OGs.
Don't get me wrong, I love this young NBA. These kids are so skilled it's almost unfair, and athletic in a way that's crazy. Different game now. A better one in a lot of ways, and I mean that.
Here's my thing, though. When I came into the league I didn't know anything, not really, and it was the vets who raised me. Guys like Ervin Johnson and Lindsey Hunter and Ray Allen taught me how to carry myself, how to be a pro on the nights nobody's watching. Taught me about money. Shoot, taught me about golf, about how to be a man. I needed that. Most of these young guys need it too, whether they know it yet or not.
So yeah. Harrison Barnes going back to San Antonio, that one was obvious. Russell Westbrook getting tied to DC? I love it for AJ Dybantsa and them. And if you've got a young roster you're trying to grow, you have to call a Khris Middleton or a Mike Conley. Get somebody in that locker room who's seen it, lived it, and can pass on that knowledge.
They can still give you minutes, sure. But that's not really why you sign them. You bring them in for the kid who's got all the talent in the world and no idea what to do with it yet. The vet pulls him aside when the coaches can't. Shows him the little things nobody teaches you in college. Shows him how to play the game, but also live the life.
Each one teach one. That's how it used to worked in the NBA. Let's make sure the young guys get that same guidance.
Shocking. "Compared with a decade earlier, reading scores were down last year in 83 percent of school districts...Math scores were down in 70 percent. The declines have affected both rich and poor districts, and crossed racial and geographic divides." https://t.co/86rIEiaJEP