Intellectual laziness appears in the exact measure and to the exact degree that it will be maximally destructive.
Nov 12, 2014
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Steve Spalding
I build ideas and talk about the Internet all day long. I also write and publish stuff.
Intellectual laziness appears in the exact measure and to exact degree that it will be maximally destructive.
Nov 12, 2014
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Interesting story, almost *all* of the ENIACs first programmers were women. Men at the time thought the software beneath them.
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Seriously @Groupon? http://gnome.org/groupon/ glad you decided to put the kibosh on this before it got out of hand.
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Seriously @groupon? http://www.gnome.org/groupon/ glad to decided to put the kibosh on this before it got out of hand.
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RT @RWW: Raspberry Pi Reveals Tiniest, Cheapest Computer Yet, The Model A+ http://readwrite.com/2014... by @LaurenInSpace
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7/ At the least it would be better than believing we are magical calculating machines capable of understanding our interests over all time.
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6/ These are the tradeoffs we actually make in the real world, I think if we looked at them more explicitely we'd make better decisions.
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5/ "I want to maintain a healthy weight...for the next decade." "I want to have enough savings...to take me through my 50s..."
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3/ Most people would be hard pressed to even describe what their, "best interests," are and would find it impossible to maintain that def.
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2/ At best we are short term maximizers, due in part to the limitations of information, and imperfect ability to process that information.
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1/ I have never really understood why it's such a widely held belief that (most) people do things that are in their long term best interest.
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There is no such thing as bad decisions, merely collapsed waveforms. #nonsensephysics #quantumsomething
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RT @NinjaEconomics: XKCD's creator: Trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to interesting places http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
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RT @motherboard: Exposing fraudulent research could be as easy as looking at language: http://motherboard.vice.com/read... https://twitter.com/motherb...
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RT @LettersOfNote: Jonathan Swift hated the word 'banter' in 1710, long before the Internet was fired up: https://twitter.com/Letters...
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Beggers can be choosers, but they can't be wizards. This is intuitively obvious.
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RT @ijustine: This is awesome! Play @CallofDuty to help put #1000vets in jobs - join the @CODE4Vets Veterans Day Gameathon here: https://www.crowdrise.com/veteran...
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RT @motherboard: Washington D.C.'s billion dollar dystopian fiction farm: http://motherboard.vice.com/read... https://twitter.com/motherb...
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RT @NinjaEconomics: The stark difference between what poor babies and rich babies eat. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...
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RT @thegrugq: ProTip: Don’t use 4square to checkin to the location you admin your darkweb drug marketplace https://t.co/vaXz0qCAvS https://twitter.com/thegrug...
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RT @WolframResearch: Computer-Based Math is a project focused on restructuring maths education. Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company...
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It's Uber but for elective surgery... #startup #milliondollarideas
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It's probably a bad idea to define a "right" as something you want for yourself, but don't really care about for others.
Nov 7, 2014
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These days most existential crisis' are played out in forwarded emails.
Nov 7, 2014
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We might be surprised at how many of our greatest insights were born from Saturday morning television.
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RT @elizalive: correlation ≠ causation: Five Ways to Lie with Charts via @NautilusMag http://nautil.us/issue... https://twitter.com/elizali...
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No one has ever understood anything from a white paper.
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RT @jamescgibson: "It might take you a few months or years to learn the mysteries. That’s fine. LISP won’t change." https://t.co/gKIEsZuyIp
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RT @poorstruggler: starting my once a year project, if you want to lay claim/customize, LMK (example pic, all sold) #art #jewelry - https://twitter.com/poorstr...
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RT @tarynoneill: This is exciting, might need a fieldtrip to Stanford: Experimental Particle Accelerator Boosts Electrons On A Wave http://www.popsci.com/article...
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