> It’s hard to prioritize health advice. I’m told I should limit salt and eat cruciferous vegetables and do cardio and sleep well and limit alcohol and reduce stress and go for regular checkups. But how much do each of these matter? If you’re a fallible hairless ape, what should...
This is a follow-up to his previous Questions about Trees which was an inquiry "about the puzzling diversity of forest trees." This one looks into questions like: * Why do the leaves of trees have such varied shapes? * Why are trees so tall? * Why are trees trees (rather...
Summary of the book "Anxious" by NYU neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux
Turns out it can also happen for sending your child's medical pictures to a doctor (and also send the cops after you).
Or for storing "educational content on Palestine". Unverified story, and there's a few more such stories and links at [1] and [2],
(I'm not including cases where it was a developer account - i.e. an account used to publish apps - that was banned.)
The core issue seems to have two sides:
Note that Google can terminate your account with no recourse (it has no customer support to speak of) due to completely unrelated reasons
Another example of this that comes to mind is when fans of a YouTube streamer got their entire Google accounts banned for posting too many emojis (as votes, at the streamer's behest) in YouTube chat.
The classification is too abstract for me to figure out to what degree I agree with it, and where I fall. The table of examples is also of largely abstract things, and also full of confounding variables (i.e. other reasons to choose one choice over another). Could you take a specific concrete theory, and work through what version of it a K-type and a T-type person would prefer?
I believe there's a conflict-vs-mistake thing going on here. I saw this as a specific case where the probabilities don't line up the way your comment assumes they do. You seem to be from the beginning assuming I'm opposing an entire worldview and seeing it as some attack.
where a Twitter screenshot calling out Google is incontrovertible 'disinterested' evidence never to be questioned
Behold, the Straw Man! Today for his trick, he turns "However small X's level of evidence is, Y has even weaker evidence" into "X is incontrovertible evidence never to be questioned".
I considered the original tweet, the fact that Google did not refute it, and the claim that Google blocked ape-related tags... (read 392 more words →)
I'm writing this rather nitpicky comment because this is the top comment replying with rather strong wording about sourcing and studies and double standards for reporting...
This is an unnecessarily snarky addition to the comment that's disappointing to see (and doesn't even make sense, since mine is neither a top comment, nor does it mention studies). In case you interpreted the "especially if I'd seen it was from gwern" in a negative way, I meant it as a factual statement that I saw you as a person with high respect and trust and hence assigned high prior confidence to things from you.
... (read more)So, how many third parties reported about the classification and how trustworthy
For anyone not clicking to read the article: its author "was technical leader for Google’s social efforts (including photos)" at the time, and doesn't cite any public sources for the information. So we should at least consider how that's going to colour their interpretation/representation of the information.
They don't mention how often black people were classified as gorillas, and how that compared to white people being classified as dogs or seals. It could be that for every thousand cases of the former, there was one of the latter, or it may be one for one. My sibling comment says "The dataset had a good mix of races in it" (which I take... (read more)
I used the other Anki add-on for Incremental reading enough to be convinced of IR's potential, but unfortunately that addon has enough issues that it's not really usable for me. I've had the one you linked to installed for a while (based on many recommendations on Anki website and reddit), but I never figured out how the UI actually works. For now, SuperMemo definitely seems to have a lead when it comes to IR.
As far as I know, it's just a random person on the Internet saying things that seem well thought-out and with enough research to at least serve as a good starting point. There's also a Hacker News page with critical discussion and other semi-related information, for those interested.
It’s hard to prioritize health advice. I’m told I should limit salt and eat cruciferous vegetables and do cardio and sleep well and limit alcohol and reduce stress and go for regular checkups. But how much do each of these matter? If you’re a fallible hairless ape, what should you do first?
You should put the stuff with the highest return on effort first, and that’s air.
The policy briefing file is pretty useful, a useful summary and then a bunch of neat graphs. (I've been jealous of Zvi's posts on Covid-19 in the US for quite some while, and this is probably the closest we'll get for India.) They also include comparison with other model projections from different groups at the end, which gives some other possible projections to look at.
This is a follow-up to his previous Questions about Trees which was an inquiry "about the puzzling diversity of forest trees."
This one looks into questions like:
The conclusion only mentions effectiveness relative to other liquids, but the actual conclusion seems buried in the text: "Water 3.6x/day led to a 30% reduction in illness (implicitly defined as lacking throat symptoms)".
The text also says
at the beginning though, which at first I interpreted as gargling 3.6 times leads to 30% more drop in illness compared to gargling once a day, but it seems like that may have been just unclear wording?
This is a good season to get this info, thanks for the research and the article.