I've been enjoying reading @rabois's debate with others over past day or two on the importance of hard work.
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Maybe they're useful to disentangle. Latter feels like an empirical question; former is of course just about values and has no right answer.
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@m_druker (thanks!) of this Hamming anecdote from his spectacular You and Your Research: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html …pic.twitter.com/IXgIbfSsLd
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It does feel like a lot of questions in these debates come down in large part to optimizing for the median vs optimizing for tail outcomes.
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