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Comment · 2 years ago
What % of people alive can do either? We have a system which beats the vast majority of humanity.
Comment · 2 years ago
How is GPT-4 not AGI? It is generally intelligent and passes the Turing test. When did AGI come to mean some godlike being that can enslave us? I think I can have a more intellectualy meaningful conversation with ChatGPT than I could with the vast majority of humanity. That is insane progress from where we were 18 months ago.
Comment · 3 years ago
Clubs' spending must be tied to their revenue, foregoing sponsorship money would force them to spend less no matter what, and there's a continuos arms race to spend more and more.

Also, practically all football club ownership is a loss-making activity.

Comment · 3 years ago
What stage of denial is this?
Comment · 3 years ago
The US government gets to pay x% interest because they can theoretically always service a debt denominated in USD. Every other borrower in USD pays (x+y)%, where y amongst other things represents the risk that they will default.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you name a single form of analysis which a human can employ but would be impossible to program a computer to perform?

Can you tell me if a program which searches for counterexamples to the Collatz conjecture halts?

Turing's entire analysis started from the point of what humans could do.

Comment · 3 years ago
Fund managers at a Swedish pension firm don't have yachts. The teachers/train drivers/policemen etc. they manage pensions for definitely don't.
Comment · 3 years ago
So did the depositors who exceeded the limit for FDIC insurance.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Even something as broad as 'buying and holding an index fund' beats almost all funds and strategies.

How do you come to believe something so blatantly false and naive? Is this due to the proliferation of the (good) advice that most Americans are best off saving for retirement in index funds?

Comment · 3 years ago
Why? Loads of private investment funds beat indices.
Comment · 3 years ago
Where is the money skimmed from the retail investor there? They beat the NBBO?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
User-approval isn't the only metric by which features are judged. No one liking it was obvious as there's no user benefit. If it results in increased revenue/recurring users/valuable ad displays, that's different.
Comment · 4 years ago
Are any of those workable on a phone?
Comment · 4 years ago
Tether is not backed by crypto so why would crypto market losses affect it? They publicly state what their assets are and how much they're worth. People just think they're lying for whatever reason.

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