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The average person is simply unable to evaluate competence, especially from news clips and "debates". The median voter is not a highly competitive white collar knowledge worker with a background in STEM necessary to evaluate complex topics with objectivity. Instead its the fry cook, the retail worker, the warehouse stocker, blue collar tradesman, liberal arts graduate, etc.

This reads like parody.

Well, if I was black I'd probably like to know if my psychiatrist associated with HBD cranks. Or if I was a woman, I'd want to know if my psychiatrist wrote apologia for incels. And that's just two examples of the countless absurd hot takes hes had over the years.

Siskind dug his own grave here, and the NYT has done his patients a huge service.

5) [It's a wild west...] Respectfully, this is an unkind or perhaps bigoted statement. I have many friends in crypto who are thoughtful, kind people. They think deeply about the ethical implications of the systems we're building. The same is true of many leaders in the space.

Its undeniable that the proportion of criminals among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is far higher than in the population at large. I don't see how its unkind or bigoted to point that out.

That leads me to the question: can anyone here recommend a good Indian author from the same era as Kipling? (Yes I know Kipling was born in India).

While not a direct answer to your question, I think The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha is relevant in the sense that it addresses why your question is difficult (perhaps impossible) to answer.

Because the men that are willing to put in the effort are still having sex. Its not hard for a man to become attractive: eat right, exercise often, groom regularly, dress well, develop a compelling personality, cultivate relationships with interesting people. The fact that people who don't even try aren't able to have sex doesn't seem surprising (or bad).

I mean, yeah? I think you were trying to give an example of a hard to understand notation, but that page is relatively straightforward and concise. In fact, I can't think of a more straightforward (and non-ambiguous) way to express those concepts.

Frankly, I'd expect any CS student at a decent university to be able to parse that page fairly easily.

Vernacular English isn't capable of describing some concepts succinctly enough to be useful to mathematicians. If English was superior people would be using it.

This 'argument' always just seems to be a thinly veiled excuse to avoid putting in the bare minimum effort required to understand a complicated topic.

JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent during the entire financial crisis, they were forced to take bailout money by the government (to disguise which banks were actually insolvent).

Where do all these nonsense memes about the 2008 crash come from?

We have absolutely no evidence that AP is safer than human drivers because Tesla (tellingly) refuses to release information comparing AP miles to comparable miles driven by other luxury vehicles. Their refusal to release that information combined with sky-high insurance rates for Teslas indicates that they are (perhaps significantly) less safe than other modern luxury vehicles driven by humans.

The extreme/rare event is Tesla got hundreds of thousands of people to put a down payment on a car with zero marketing costs.

According to their SEC filings Tesla spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter on marketing costs. Where does the idea that they spend zero on advertising come from?