King Lear, Interpretability, and AI Doom. In Shakespeare's famous play, Lear attempts to divide his kingdom among his daughters based on their expressions of love. But the king has no reliable way to discern genuine affection from manipulative flattery, leading him to trust his two deceitful daughters—who betray him. I don't know whether I'm a doomer or an optimist. Sorry to remind you that I'm old, I can't do anything about it, and it's your problem.
Congestion Pricing in NYC is Working I hope this isn't true. It might be.
There are matrilineal societies. When they get large livestock, usually cattle, they become patrilineal. The arrow of causation might have worked the other way. It doesn't seem to.
Your ninth-grade social studies book showed migration as the driver of cultural change, because arrow are easy to draw. Throughout the 1900s, the anthropologists increasingly scoffed. It was ideas moving, like technology of pots. Migration was considered overrated as an explanation. DNA, linguistics, and better archaeology are showing it is both, with migration - often by conquest aided by disease - the big ticket. Razib interviews Laura Spinney, author of Proto.
Another major part of my career, Borderline Personality Disorder. I was certain that The Studies Show would get something wrong enough for me to comment on. They didn't. Balanced and up-to-date.
Not a link. Collectors, especially extreme collectors, are often considered to be OCD. Looking at my own friends and family, I wonder is Asperger's might be just as likely. And some of the collectors I know seem to be neither. The desire to put things in order, put them in their place, have completeness may be more aspie than simple accumulation, which is sometimes an OCD trait. Though not always.
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Just to confuse the issue further, Asperger's and OCD are by no means mutually exclusive.
I had to paste the URL into archive.today in order to see the gated article.
I had no doubt congestion pricing would 'work' in NYC, as it undeniably 'works' in London UK. Whether it is equitable to lower-income people living within the congestion pricing area is another question.
Similarly, I recently visited an area of the US where electronic speed limit signs and variable-speed-limits recently were put in place, and spent a lot of time explaining that they'd been in place on the M25 in the UK for years and were quite effective -- if you can delay the number of cars getting to a choke point even a little bit, it increases the throughput of the chokepoint. Not rocket science, but going slower to get there faster does seem counterproductive to many.
Earl, they have enough overlap that i think the diagnostic categories in 20 years will reflect a continuity in some way.
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