FD4280
2yr ago
Somewhere downthread, or perhaps last week, conversion therapy was described as akin to the Ludovico treatment from A Clockwork Orange. Let's say that this assessment is plausible. Why hasn't an effective version been developed for some (not necessarily gay male) sexual preferences? Surely there is no shortage of adults who would like to reprogram themselves but lack the means to do so.
FD4280
2yr ago
Somewhere downthread, Kanye West was said to have written some of the best wordplay of the past few decades. Could anyone cite some examples? (ideally text rather than video links)
FD4280
9mo ago
They (counting unified/Western only) also averaged 6-7 years on the job. I can’t think of one who was replaced and lived afterwards.
FD4280
2yr ago
What should I include in a CV for a software engineering internship? I'm a PhD student in pure math with little relevant work experience. Some highlights:
-Teaching (including some CS-relevant classes like linear algebra and discrete math).
-Coauthorship on several publications.
-A little programming work towards one of said publications in C and Sage, some more in C for master's thesis, a bit in Python for the current dissertation.
-Project Euler, mainly in Python with occasional pen-and-paper (285 solved currently. Almost caught up to our nybbler. Not much low-hanging fruit left.)
-Grades: mediocre undergrad in an irrelevant subject. Graduate coursework is all math and much cleaner.
-Teaching and academic awards.
FD4280
2yr ago
Meta question: are subthreads disappearing without a trace, or am I losing my mind? I could have sworn that there was a thread here on Jewish power with an eloquent effortpost by Ilforte about a day ago.
FD4280
1yr ago
Is there a term for the joining of two phrases or expressions with the last word of the first phrase starting the second phrase? For example:
Mobius strip club
Augean stable genius
FD4280
1yr ago
Haley is the same old establishment. Ramaswamy bugs me on some level. De Santis would be preferable if he were not a lawyer.
FD4280
11mo ago
The best old evidence we have is that she passed the bar on the second try, with the ameliorating factor of the California bar being somewhat nastier than the norm. So she’s probably at least as intelligent as Hillary, who also took two attempts (with preparation in a better law school, for whatever that is worth, and not in Cali).
How difficult is the bar, anyhow?
FD4280
1yr ago
Academic standards vanished with the Covid response - at least in the US - and have not recovered since. If I have to be treated by an otherwise unknown doctor, a top criterion would be completion of medical training by 2019. I suspect that this outweighs the racial preferences given, though the effect is probably cumulative.
FD4280
1yr ago
Zoom in a little. Muslim immigrants are not homogeneous. Persians might well be a net positive for their host countries. Pakistanis, in the aggregate, very much aren’t. Most other nationalities fall somewhere in between.
FD4280
1yr ago
How well do communication skills transfer across languages? I have always been impressed with Ilforte’s writing, and a few days ago, saw Anatoly Vorobey (whose Russian blog I follow - I suspect Hebrew is his strongest language, but I cannot read it) post in very precise and clear English here.
(I would not be surprised if there are many other such posters here, but I can’t read their native languages. I’m not a very effective communicator in either language, though writing verse is way easier in Russian).
FD4280
2yr ago
That’s an argument for not discriminating against groups that have a reasonable chance of producing 100x people. As stated, it requires a heavy dose of blank slatism on top.
FD4280
1yr ago
Maximally offensive version: StarCraft-style base trade. They capture Mecca and/or Medina.
Slightly less contentious version: they plop down in a no-man’s land somewhere between the Donbas and the Dnieper to act as a buffer between two countries that both hate them less than they do each other.
Maximally lazy version: they capture a chunk of Cyprus. It’s close by, and if Turkey can do it, why not them?
FD4280
1yr ago
This isn’t just Harvard. It is every American university except the ones that admit anyone with a pulse (and wouldn’t turn down the living dead if someone paid their tuition), and perhaps a smattering of religious schools. Even Caltech debased their admissions not too long ago.
FD4280
2yr ago
The girl carries the zombie fungus. There’s a second major reason that’d spoil the story. It is more than adequately justified.
How would you rate it relative to Arcane?
Edit: 3 episodes in. Excellent so far except the very jarring soundtrack.
FD4280
7mo ago
Do you really prefer RTwP over turn-based? I’ll grant that it works well in Faster Than Light (and is preferable to the singularly shitty turn-based implementation in Fallout Tactics, which runs both options), but for the most part, the good games that have it are good in spite of it.
FD4280
10mo ago
It’s an existential gamble, but Ukraine has the brainpower to develop nukes without external help (and their uranium deposits are west of the Dnieper).
A link stolen from DSL: http://www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-of-literature/
A parody poetry collection, where an anagram of the poet’s name is chosen to examine in the poet’s style. Enjoyable even if you’re not well-read; I’m not.
Highlights: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Poe, and Larkin.
What would you consider to be sufficient factual evidence to shift your views on HBD in various directions?
In order for the question to make sense, it is probably helpful to think of one's position on HBD along two axes, as in the Political Compass test, and one discrete parameter that would make less sense on an axis. You're also welcome to point out omitted positions.
x-axis, ranging from 0 to 10, where moving right indicates agreement with the statement: Human populations have significantly different average levels of intelligence, and this becomes far more pronounced in the right tails of the distributions.
y-axis, same range as the x-axis, but measured as 10 * perceived percentage of genetic contribution to the difference above. If you attribute some of the difference to the interaction of genetic and environmental influences, give that half the weight for simplicity.
Parameter z: How does intelligence correlate with the moral worth of a person? This can take on one of a few values:
(-1) Negatively
(0) Not at all
(1) Positively
(i) The moral worth of a person is dependent on their actions or beliefs, and intelligence only provides bounds on their culpability or merit.
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