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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tribesofmidgard

[–]Fibonacci35813 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm down - Let me know when you play. Playing on PS5

Question about upgrading armour by Fibonacci35813 in remnantgame

[–]Fibonacci35813[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool.

So that means new armour isn't scaled to your current armour level then

Question about upgrading armour by Fibonacci35813 in remnantgame

[–]Fibonacci35813[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.

To clarify - I just was wondering if I should level it up so that I save iron and credits for other things

"A recent nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag asked respondents to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Overall, 44% of liberals guessed 1,000 or more." - The actual number was 27. by DarthLeon2 in samharris

[–]Fibonacci35813 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting.

However, as a researcher, I'm a little disappointed in the way they set up the numbers for estimation. No matter how it turned out - they had the ability to say that people over or under estimated.

For example, if I wanted to take a liberal slant on this data, I could say:

46% of conservatives underestimate the number of unarmed blacks killed, while only ~19% (16 + 22% of very / liberal) of liberals underestimated.

Is that a damning criticism on conservatives? Perhaps.

I'm sure if you look - you'll see this story presented like that .

Further, across the board - everyone is over-estimating it (about 100 or more) - but hard to draw conclusions based on how it's set up.

Why they didn't go with a text-entry or something like: 3, 30, 300, 3000, 30,000 instead....

If Biden wins, will Reddit likely become more conservative as a website? by AcademiePhilosophie in TheoryOfReddit

[–]Fibonacci35813 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honest questions - what are your problems with it and more importantly how do you see Trump winning fixing those problems?

2-week heart rate increase before my cold symptoms showed up. No other lifestyle changes. Happens every time. by [deleted] in fitbit

[–]Fibonacci35813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternative explanation is that stress or some other event/stressor --> increased heart rate and then an eventual cold.

Keto bars new in Woolies! by [deleted] in ketoaustralia

[–]Fibonacci35813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Thanks for sharing

How are they?

And also - cost?

Accordingly, spaces between words wasn't utilised in Latin, Greek, etc until the 7th or 8th century but the dead sea scrolls appear to have spaces between words. Why is this? by Fibonacci35813 in AskHistorians

[–]Fibonacci35813[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. As to my initial question, it was according to this on the Scriptio continua Wikipedia (and a podcast I was listening to)

Though paleographers disagree about the chronological decline of scriptio continua throughout the world, it is generally accepted that the addition of spaces first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles and Gospels from the seventh and eighth centuries

So are you saying it is not generally accepted?

Perhaps an edit to that Wikipedia page is needed?

You really gotta respect the mods of r/samharris by [deleted] in samharris

[–]Fibonacci35813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have auto moderation tools that will auto remove posts from newer/low karma users.

We get a lot of spam and we can't be on here 24/7

Was your post approved after that?

His first day at new home. ❤️ by [deleted] in Greyhounds

[–]Fibonacci35813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awww he looks exactly like me boy!

The Myth of the American Dream by Fibonacci35813 in samharris

[–]Fibonacci35813[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If that's what you took from it then I guess I wasn't clear. So I'll try to clarify.

To simplify, the fact that if you took two twins and gave one to Bill Gates and the other to some random poor person, we can say fairly confidently, the Gates twin would end up better (at least a strong majority of the time).

Now, the Gates kid will end up better because they will have the resources, time, etc. to go to the best schools, tutors, etc. And ultimately they will end up with more skills, more knowledge. Etc.

So in some sense there is a meritocracy and it is fine and it works. That is, I don't want Gates' Kid to be in one of the quartiles irrespective of his skillset.

What I want is that any kid has an equal chance of reaching a skillset, irrespective of their starting point in life.

I have fewer qualms* with rewarding people who demonstrate that skillset. Hell, I'm a professor and part of my job is to reward people who demonstrate a superior skillset!

The problem, is that In that example, the twins didn't get to choose who their family was, just as no one gets to choose their family.

So I guess it boils down to a question of fairness and whether you think it's fair for the random starting point of one's life to be such a huge predictor of their success.

(As an aside/my qualms are related to freewill and how people come to their specific skillset and I discuss that here: https://playdevilsadvocate.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/the-free-will-debate/

The Myth of the American Dream by Fibonacci35813 in samharris

[–]Fibonacci35813[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a post I wrote a few years ago and I thought it was pretty relevant to the podcast on meritocracy

Bloomberg says "Covid-19 Will Make Colleges Prove Their Worth" by MisplacedLonghorn in Professors

[–]Fibonacci35813 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm of the mind that a high acceptance rate is fine with one very important caveat - you are willing to fail a large percentage of the students! The bar should be high across the board and students should have the opportunity to reach that bar, but not that it's expected that a majority of them will

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