Gary Shawn Fields

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[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

Imagine that I invent a medicine that 100% cures cancer, but only if it is taken 1/day for a year. This drug has 1 and only 1 side effect. At completely random intervals the patient's bowels will evacuate instantly and uncontrollably.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@ProfRobAnderson Need a third sting for science

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@cremieuxrecueil A rant about measurement invariance would be a great place for an explainer link

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@JohnDCook The surest sign that there is intelligent life on other planets is the fact that they have never contacted us

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

Are they going to boycott the Gulf of America also?

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I don't think our duty is too ignore it; our duty is to figure out the response that maximizes the future health of our society, while taking into account that Trump's character flaws and intense partisan polarization make the best solution--moral shaming--completely ineffective

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@shaneparrish Carpenters, data analysts, musicians...

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@shaneparrish This is an underrated opinion. You have to be proficient at a skill for a tool to make you better. Better tools just make you faster at sucking.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@shaneparrish This is an underrated opinion. You have to be proficient at a skill for a tool to make you better. Better tools just make you faster at sucking.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@cremieuxrecueil I'm not arguing that FSD isn't a magnitudeof order safer. But so far FSD data results are benefitting from a selection problem, for instance not servicing rural roads without marking lines.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@cremieuxrecueil Your post is imprecise. Waymo is so safe that if every car was driven like a Waymo, where Waymo cars are currently driven....

[Dan Martell @danmartell]

Here's how I went from ADHD to $100M:

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

Watching @TheRock kick @kimkold Klaus butt in FF6 and my wife says " I bet he eats lite mayo"

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

AI should be considered closer to asking a colleague for a second opinion than asking an all knowing uninterested observer.

1. Fallible
2. Biased
3. Useful

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Look if you buy a piece of tech (or in this case, get it for free) and don't know how to use it that says more about you. Don't put aluminum foil in a microwave and don't use LLMs in situations where hallucinations (much less common with newer models) would cause a huge problem.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

And it's reply to my reply to it's reply to my initial question

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@elonmusk I asked for a proper benediction from human to Ai.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

Underrated account

[DPRK News Service @DPRK_News]

So many times, it happens too fast.
You trade your passion for glory.
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past.
You must fight just to keep them alive.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

The goal isn't to raise a child, it's to raise an adult. A child doesn't know how to be an adult.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

This highlights the best argument for public school alternatives, it's not optimal to have children socializing other children.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I was the class target for several years running, and nothing since has ever been so emotionally awful. If it hadn’t been for my best friend, who loyally stuck by me, I don’t know how I’d have survived it.

[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

Ignorance can be cured but stupidity is forever

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

Helpful in spotting formal/informal logical fallacies, crooked arguing, skilled lying, coercion, irrelevance, rhetoric, flawed inference, ignoratio elenchi, narrative shtick, & syndicate/agency thinking on the part of those who seek cultivated ignorance.

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[Gary Shawn Fields @GaryShawnFields]

@ChaddingtonSC Good Jack