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How much more likely is ¬correlation -> ¬causation than correlation -> causation?

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My opinion on immigration is that everyone should immigrate to our country rather than the competitor's. We have good working conditions and cookies
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>studies Urbanomics
>looks for first principal component
>it's Extropy
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>>> Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the station and you are hit with the full blast. The heat of air, traffic and people. The heat of food and sex. The heat of tall buildings. The heat that flows out of the subways and tunnels. It's always fifteen degrees hotter in the cities. Heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky. The buses breathe heat. Heat emanates from crowds of shoppers and office workers, the entire infrastructure is based on heat, desperately uses up heat, breeds more heat. The eventual heat death of the universe that scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around you in any large or medium-sized city. Heat and wetness.

@alea in my experience: postimg mildly funny images

Not worth it perhaps?

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Instead of thanking your LLMs after they've solved your problem give them some really easy text to predict

Or text they can just barely predixt, like a puzzle

Dopamine & serotonin for language models

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@why @georgia >living to 130

That's not very much at all, outliving the universe is the goal

[[Stock picking]] can be useful for the [[value of information]] that one gets:

Imagine if you turn out to be able to beat the market!

One can not search across all of one's chatgpt chats. This is unsatisfying.

@wmclark

> You have a lot more free time now that you don’t have someone in your life who will misexplain how game theory works multiple times a week.

Hey! Those explanations I gave of gains from trade and the fair division thereof was fully consensual! :-D

@rime also it sounds like you're developing a really deep geometric intuition for derivative and integral, which I absolutely don't have

So learning late could be an advantage

@rime tho the construction can be hard if you can't start from the empty set

(if you try to abolish 0 then you're also at odds with the empty set, which is quite tricky)

@rime i might be unhelpful here, but this sounds a bit like you want the upper half of the surreal numbers?

@rime i get cirlces are triangles now! Half circles are overweight triangles

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