I don't know. The World Happiness Report relies on one simple question, which is easy to criticise but at least it applies a clear and consistent method. The paper referred to does not. It uses a special US dataset for states and a much smaller global dataset for every other country, then treats the results as if they measure the same thing. This setup almost guarantees that US states look unusually good. The authors present this as evidence, but it mostly reflects differences in survey design rather than real differences in wellbeing. In that sense the methodological problems here are more serious than the ones they point to in the World Happiness Report.
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If the subscription cost 5x as much would you still pay and feel you are getting such a great value?
If there are no free alternatives, yes. 100 USD a month for ChatGPT seems great value
dosinga commented on Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix afranca.com.br/why-90s-mo... · Posted by u/jslakro
Also: Recency & survival bias. We remember what became the classics from the 90s and also what came out this year and was available on our last flight
dosinga commented on Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch xnacly.me/posts/2025/buil... · Posted by u/xnacly
At first sight I read Minimal Viable Army - would be a good read for an aspiring evil mastermind
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900k is a large plane flying from Dallas to Sydney and back
This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.
Ideally you have a document in place saying this is how we handle vibe coding, something like: if you have the AI write the first version, it is your responsibility to make it reviewable.
The you can say (and this is hard), this looks like it is vibe code and misses that first human pass we want to see in these situations (link), please review and afterwards feel free to (re)submit.
In my experience they'll go away. Or they come back with something that isn't cleaned up and you point out just one thing. Or sometimes! they actually come back with the right thing.
dosinga commented on The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh pluralistic.net/2025/09/2... · Posted by u/baobun
I mean, sure we're in a bubble, but the trick is to call it, with that old Keynes quote about the market staying irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
But also: > "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
> I said, "Yes, that's right."
that is something different in this case isn't it? those seven companies making up a third of the market do not need to become profitable, they are insanely profitable. Mostly they invest a lot in AI but if that doesn't pay out, all but NVidia have their day job to go back to.
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication
dosinga commented on Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting maalvika.substack.com/p/c... · Posted by u/kjhughes
I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a summary before committing to reading a book. There are just too many books. In fact this article mentions a bunch of books and summarizes them inline. Good. Gives me more information on whether I should read those books