You don’t need anyone’s permission to write fanfiction!
Gretta Duleba
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Causal inference diary: skiing causes snow
Thank you! I’m laughing because I first read this as “wow, how could one person manage to make so many mistakes in one post?” :D
I have never hired or managed a research team and I am interested in what you have to say about how it’s different. Elaborate if you feel like it!
Difficulty, I claim.
How to Hire a Team
See also: https://aella.substack.com/p/good-at-sex-inside-her-are-two-brains
I think your theories and Aella’s line up reasonably well. Ladybrain runs the show a lot of the time.
by a very long shot
… by a sniper?
I worked in engineering at Google from 2007-2015. I conducted … I can’t remember, definitely more than 100, maybe something like 200 in-person onsite technical interviews. (In addition to loads of phone screens, but I couldn’t see those people.)
Not a single person wore a suit.If anyone had, I would have been very surprised and I would have immediately started wondering what other memos that candidate had not received.
I was a little surprised there’s not more in land. “The only thing they’re not making more of,” etc. etc.
A little light poking showed that the most expensive land in the US is in high-end residential real estate, which is largely owned by rich individuals rather than by corporations.
I guess businesses know better than to build on expensive land. They build on cheap land—or land containing something much better than dirt and rock that they can extract—and then they make stuff on that land.
The only exception would be for hotels and high-end retail, I suppose? And it looks like hotels didn’t make the cut and high-end retail was dwarfed by commodity retail.
So, uh, never mind.
Absolutely yes. Nate is that spokesperson, and he is carrying a far heavier load of interviews and appearances during the book tour than Eliezer is. We are actively passing the torch.
No, you will not miss much, carry on reading!
The Problem
… I don’t think so?
Urs wants DRM-free.
Hachette likes DRM.
We’re working with Hachette.
Therefore Urs shouldn’t hold their breath.
I think that all just straightforwardly adds up? I certainly wasn’t aiming to be sarcastic.
Per Nate’s best guess without re-reviewing the contract: unfortunately, you’ll have to take it up with the publisher; they own the relevant copyrights (as is standard in any trad publishing deal). [Note: I originally overstated Nate’s confidence here; the error was mine.]
I can add that at least in the US, I wouldn’t hold my breath; Little, Brown is a division/imprint of Hachette, which is famous for supporting DRM.
Eliezer says: “There are always infinite policies to consider. I didn’t consider that one and neither did young Hermione.”
Eliezer’s reply, sent to me and copy-pasted in:
Riddle having set up Hagrid, having asked Dumbledore for an introduction to Flamel, and his general demeanor etc, was more than sufficient info for Dumbledore. There were not two candidates for who Voldemort could possibly be.
Eliezer says he doesn’t recall ever contemplating either of these questions. (Sorry!)
Eliezer’s reply, sent to me and copy-pasted in:
Voldemort was flatly not expecting Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres. He was expecting Tom Riddle Jr. Jr. Voldemort knew how to handle Himself v2, and it at no point occurred to Voldemort that, for example, Harry would run off and tell McGonagall about the Parseltongue whisper telling him to seek out the Chamber of Secrets. It’s not like Voldemort had ever previously been a dad, and he was not calibrated on kids being surprising.
I had exactly the same thought. I didn’t write the same comment, though, because:
1) He did say the genome is part of what makes a squirrel a good object, and
2) The genome is a very natural dividing line between “part of this squirrel” and “not part of this squirrel,” and natural dividing lines are useful!
A “good object” is in the eye of the beholder—indeed, you spend most of your comment beholding and talking about how you and your brain chunk up the world around you, and that all makes sense. But “in the perception of a particular human” is not the only way to judge what a good object is.