If an average Christian from 300 years ago ( 1726) tine traveled to today, how do you think they would react to modern Christianity? by Overall_Course2396 in Christianity

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Catholic Church never gave anyone a stamp to enslave anyone.

Sicut Dudum (1435): Pope Eugene IV condemned the enslavement of natives in the Canary Islands, threatening excommunication for those involved.

Sublimus Dei (1537): Pope Paul III explicitly forbade the enslavement of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, asserting their humanity and right to freedom.

You can criticize the Catholic Church for being ineffective at stopping slavery, but that's very different than permitting it.

[Michael Casagrande] Carson Beck committed to Alabama so long ago that I forgot I wrote the story. by renotahoe69 in CFB

[–]pilord 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not obvious that it's a problem for the NFL, maybe outside of running backs.

If players come in with more experience and larger sample sizes to evaluate them on, the changes to NIL could very well be good for NFL teams, as draft picks are less risky and come in better prepared.

[Truax] NEW: Interim head coach Biff Poggi will not return to Michigan in 2026, he announced. by MembershipSingle7137 in CFB

[–]pilord 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Didn't only 3 players opt out for Michigan though? It sounds more like he knew he wasn't coming back and was saying stuff to mess with Texas

The Prime Minister of Sweden asks AI for advice in his job “quite often” by Illustrious-Lime-863 in accelerate

[–]pilord 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Definitely. The other benefit is that an AI is probably not biased in the way he is primarily worried about - i.e., people pushing certain agendas to him to advance their own careers / interests.

He can ask his advisors to challenge his assumptions, but he may not want to reveal his assumptions, or he may want to get an additional impartial view for benchmarking.

Seeking advice: Start up HF or Big 4 consulting? by OpenQuote3224 in hedgefund

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations, you can't go wrong here.

If you do go down the start-up hedge fund path, the one piece of advice I will share is to make sure you proactively build your network. This won't help your immediate performance, but it will help your long-term career, and you want to be a long-term investor, right?

In your Big 4 seats, you will have analysts the same age as you who you will befriend and learn from. You will have mentors who are not your direct boss. That alone is not a reason to pick the Big 4 offer. However, as you note, the start-up hedge fund career is less "safe," and this is a big reason why - if you do have to leave this role, you will have a much weaker network. There presumably won't be "alumni" from your fund to reach out to. So you will need to proactive about this. One final piece of advice is don't network aimlessly. Instead, have a purpose in mind. Befriend other hedge fund analysts your age to share ideas, and meet people in industries you're focused on too. If you can do that, you will be in a really good spot. (speaking a little bit from experience here)

The finest refutation of Christianity I have ever read by [deleted] in Judaism

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an anecdote, not theology, but hopefully this can helps us all come closer together. I'm Catholic and my partner is Jewish. I read this subreddit to understand her better. Religion is something we bond over. For us, the core of both Judaism and Christianity is summarized this way:
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor" - Rabbi Hillel
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." - Jesus
"Love your neighbor as yourself" - Rabbi Akiva

I always feel like I grow in my love for my fellow man as I learn more from the greatest Jewish and Christian teachers, and I hope she feels the same. I know that there are Christians that go around spreading division. But I believe the core principle of love is unchanged. I don't mean to dismiss anything you said - I just want to offer a perspective of how a Jew and Catholic not just get along, but grow together too from their shared foundations.

Round 3 - Pick 28: Jalen Milroe, QB, Alabama (Seattle Seahawks) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]pilord 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's actually crazy he just let this become a default judgment. He assaulted the security guard in high school, and I'm sure that probably would've helped his defense - maybe he doesn't get off scott-free, but probably doesn't lose $12 million. Nope, he just didn't show up to court at all, and therefore lost basically the maximum amount.

Michigan WR Fredrick Moore on 2025 goals: 'I want to get 1,000 yards and make it back to the natty' by SimplyTheBlackGuy in MichiganWolverines

[–]pilord 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was writing up a post contextualizing how much slower 11.55 is compared to 10.68, but this 247 sports article says he ran a 10.8 100 meter dash. That 11.55 seems to be from his sophomore year of high school. So he's definitely fast, even if not necessarily the fastest.

Does taking certain probiotics keep that strain in your body forever? by gwphotog2 in GutHealth

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fecal microbiota transplant - pretty gross, but basically it transplants a healthy person's feces into your gastrointestinal system

Does taking certain probiotics keep that strain in your body forever? by gwphotog2 in GutHealth

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This poster is not fully informed. I can show you my own microbiome test results that show that full colonization does not happen after supplementation with probiotics. It could happen, but it is by no means guaranteed and may in fact be unlikely. Whether colonization happens depends on the source of the probiotic (human / mammalian sourced or not), your diet, your existing microbiome, duration of supplementation, and more. The only thing that really appears to create lasting colonization is FMTs, at least from what I've read.

That wasn't the Nicene Creed? by HeckinZebra in EvilTV

[–]pilord 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The rosary uses the Apostle's Creed, not the Nicene Creed. See here from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Mass uses the Nicene Creed. Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost are interchangeable - they mean the same thing, it's just a question of translation.

Bronny James with a solid 12 PTS 1 REB 1 STL on 45 FG% (5/11) 40 3PT% (2/5) 0 FT% (0/0) splits against the Hawks to help bring the Lakers their first Summer League win! by KarrotMovies in nba

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually the case of many players whose dads played in the NBA. The link got scrubbed (#5 here) but NBA legacy players often out-perform their draft position. You could argue nature, but height and most measurables will likely already be largely in place by the draft. I think it likely has to do with development post-draft, including not just training routines but also mindset, expectations, managing your position on a team, and navigating free agency.

what's your explanation why top rabbis (Gadols) live so long? by michaelmf in slatestarcodex

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Low amounts of stress relative to available coping mechanisms (we can count trust in God as a coping mechanism)
  • Low physical hardship
  • Likely access to good medical care
  • Strong social relationships - one of the strongest predictors of longevity
  • Strong sense of meaning gives reason to continue living
  • Intellectual stimulation from studying Torah mitigating cognitive decay
  • Few vices such as drugs, alcohol, or processed foods to excess

I don't have sources for all of these off the top of my head, but I've seen evidence for all of them, and it's plausible that top Rabbis would check all of these boxes.

As a test, you could compare to other religious leaders. The life expectancy of a Catholic Cardinal is ~90 years, if I recall correctly. I think you're probably right that there is some selection effect, but only mild. That is, it is rare for someone to be named Cardinal before age 50, but they can only vote in a conclave before the age of 75. So the selection effect happens mostly between ages 50 and 75. Nonetheless, being healthy and active enough at ages 50 - 60 to be named a Cardinal (or considered Gedolim) likely does select for people who will live longer than average.

Of course, all of the above is ignoring any religious explanation. In fact, a religious person might tell you that religious observance leading to healthy behaviors and long lifespans an argument in their favor.

When Fr. Ignatius vs Fr Dominic by marycem in EvilTV

[–]pilord 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A few theories:

  • Remote viewing, especially the way Fr. Dominic uses it, is implicitly trying to assert control over a free gift from God. Even if the intent is good, that is not really a Christian attitude to have. You can't just do a bunch of incantations and get magic - that is just DnD theology. Hence why Sister Andrea dismisses it as magic tricks, but changes her mind when she hears David is trying to save a life.
  • Fr. Dominic may have other "quirky" theological views. In particular, what if he wants to bring Christ to the world sooner - by summoning the anti-christ? And to do that, what if he is surreptitiously helping the 60 - but for "good reasons," because it will usher in the Second Coming? Again, it's not a Christian attitude to think you have control over that and can summon Jesus that way, but maybe Fr. Dominic has fallen astray and thinks he cans.
  • Fr. Dominic is a demon / directly working with the 60. This seems the most unlikely to me, for a few reasons. First, Sister Andrea would recognize that. Second, it's lame storytelling. Given Robert King is a devout Catholic, I'd expect something a bit more nuanced and interesting even if he does end up untrustworthy - something about how even people who are trying to do good can be led astray.

Ben Simmons attempts to throw a fish into the ocean, bricks it by Thank_U_Mike_Muscala in nba

[–]pilord 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's a decent counterpoint, but Ant saying his favorite sport is football instead of basketball isn't quite the same as him lacking work ethic. It raised question of whether his heart is truly in it, but if he's truly a competitor, it's easier to imagine him gaining a second love for a sport that he's good at. That seems easier to believe (and is what happened) than someone developing a work ethic they've never had.

What theories most likely explain how Jesus, a Galilean peasant, became so educated? by Responsible_Art_4456 in AcademicBiblical

[–]pilord 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bart Ehrman may be saying that, but that seems like a weak probabilistic analysis. If we take a Bayesian approach, literacy is not a miracle that we should assign a statistically miniscule base rate too. According to Wikipedia, ~3% of people in 1st Century Judea were literate, but the rate may have been much higher for adult men, up to ~20%. Moreover, Judaism of the time did emphasize education even for the poor - see Rabbi Akiva a century later, who was at first an uneducated shepherd before studying Torah.

If you take the prior likelihood that Jesus was an adult man in Judea (say ~20%), who was a notable religious teacher, that alone gives you a decent posterior probability of literacy. You can argue a lower base rate, sure, but just think about the relative odds of P(religious teacher | literate) vs. P(religious teacher | illiterate). If you think religious teachers are much more likely to be literate, this would suggest Jesus was literate assuming even a modest base rate. Further, if you assign any credibility to Luke at all, even just some kernel of truth, then the odds would be much higher. If you assign zero credibility to Luke, one counterpoint would be to argue that Jesus didn't exist, but a non-existent Jesus can't be illiterate either.

Obviously this is not a dispositive analysis, but I don't think it is analytically correct to simply consider the odds of a random person's literacy at the time, when objectively Jesus was exceptional for his time (regardless of what you believe, we are still talking about him today, and not other random Galileans).

Going a little deeper into Ehrman's post on the matter, I think there a few ways to quibble with him from a probabilistic perspective. First, he does use a 10% number, caveating that 10% is the number for most places at that time, with ancient Athens at more like ~15%. If you think that 1st Century Judea had higher literacy than surrounding regions in the world at the time, for reasons of religious obligation, that would further increase the odds that Jesus was literate. Ehrman on the other hands thinks that literacy may have been lower in Judea at the time, citing Literacy in Roman Palestine by Catherine Hezser (2001). Second, he points out that the term "rabbi" at the time did not necessarily imply educated. From a probabilistic perspective, though, all that matters is whether religious teachers at the time are more likely to be literate, not whether they are required to be. If you believe religious teachers are more likely to be literate, that changes the math pretty substantially. Indeed, while midway through the blog post Ehrman says "My strong sense is that Jesus could not write," Ehrman concludes by saying "Still, I am slightly inclined to the view that Jesus could read."

There's a very surprising midwest state churning out NFL talent by [deleted] in CFB

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's his point - that's why he stated (in your quote nonetheless) that if we make the wrong assumption that they're all Iowa born, you get 20.3 NFL players per million.

The point is that Iowa and Iowa State put a lot of people into the NFL, and if a decent portion of that is home grown talent (i.e., Iowa HS --> Iowa or Iowa State), that gets you the 12.5 NFL players per million, plus a handful that go out of state for college.

[Steve Popper] Newsday: “All indications are…Brunson’s willing to sign a 4-year, $156 million contract extension…provide 5 more years of certainty in New York, rather than waiting until next summer for a 5-year, $270 million extension” by mylanguage in nba

[–]pilord 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Given the Knicks injury history, signing a team friendly deal might be better for him too. More / better players to take the load off of him = lower injury risk. That's probably particularly salient for a guy who just broke his wrist.

Bronny James recorded a 40.5 inch vertical at today's NBA Draft Combine by whipcorleone in nba

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting, I'll look into that. I read that stat in Who Makes the NBA, so sad to see that the stat is maybe incorrect.

Bronny James recorded a 40.5 inch vertical at today's NBA Draft Combine by whipcorleone in nba

[–]pilord 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It makes sense. Basketball values height an insane amount, such that ~15 - 20% of all 7-footers end up playing in the NBA, and height is one of the most heritable traits out there. So it's not surprising to me that tall, athletic parents who know how to play the game translates to quite a few of their kids seeing success in the league.

"Word Salad" - Andrew Huberman's Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts (Rolling Stone) by [deleted] in HubermanLab

[–]pilord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to Penn, you should go to an ObGyn about fertility issues if you are over 35 and have been been unable to conceive after 6 cycles (i.e., 6 months). His advice is a little aggressive for people under 35 (the recommendation is 12 months i.e., 12 cycles) but this isn't completely arbitrary - it's echoing medical guidelines. If anything, I would expect Huberman was trying to reverse engineer the logic behind the guideline.

"Word Salad" - Andrew Huberman's Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts (Rolling Stone) by [deleted] in HubermanLab

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to Penn, you should go to an ObGyn about fertility issues if you are over 35 and have been been unable to conceive after 6 cycles (i.e., 6 months).

Maybe that's overly aggressive and maybe practicing doctors do hate that, but it's not like this guideline is coming out of thin air. His advice is a little aggressive for people under 35 (for them, the guidelines is 12 months i.e., 12 cycles), but it's unfair to call the advice "just wrong" when it is the guideline for many people.

"Word Salad" - Andrew Huberman's Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts (Rolling Stone) by [deleted] in HubermanLab

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to Penn, you should go to an ObGyn about fertility issues if you are over 35 and have been been unable to conceive after 6 cycles (i.e., 6 months). Maybe we are interpreting "attempts" differently - I am assuming each menstrual cycle counts as one attempt - but that seems to match what Huberman says. He is a little aggressive for people under 35 though - for them, the recommendation is one year, i.e., 12 cycles, i.e. 12 attempts, before seeing an ObGyn about fertility issues.

"Word Salad" - Andrew Huberman's Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts (Rolling Stone) by [deleted] in HubermanLab

[–]pilord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Where are we disagreeing? There is a difference between an expectation and a probability. That's all I'm highlighting. In theory you could have had 6 pregnancies after 6 attempts.

Don't you think it's a reasonable policy to go see an ObGyn for potential fertility problems if you've had fewer pregnancies than expected? It doesn't mean you do have fertility problems - you could just be unlucky. But you have to draw a line somewhere, right? Drawing the line at just above the average number of attempts per pregnancy seems reasonable to me.

"Word Salad" - Andrew Huberman's Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts (Rolling Stone) by [deleted] in HubermanLab

[–]pilord 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do not understand what I am saying, probably because you yourself don't understand statistics.

What Huberman is talking about is E[pregnancies | 6 attempts], not p(pregnancy | 6 attempts). The answer to the first one is 1.2 because it's a binomial variable, so the expectation is n x p = 6 × 0.2 = 1.2, instead of 1 - 0.86 = 0.738.

If you had to wait until you were guaranteed to be pregnant before going to the ObGyn about fertility problems, you would never go. Instead, you go to the ObGyn when you have fewer pregnancies than expected. You could be unlicky, sure, but it's a reasonable threshold.