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Milky Eggs
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Milky Eggs is a personal blog at milkyeggs.com about culture and economics. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “What Happened at Alameda Research”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on effective altruism, the FTX/Bankman-Fried collapse, IQ testing, and how AI may change professional pay. One commenter calls a post on AI and career value insightful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Milky Eggs
Most-linked posts?
- What Happened at Alameda Research3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-15
- Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-24
- Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-09
- Programmer Salaries in the Age of LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-16
- Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-16
What Hacker News says?
He has to still be on methamphetamine-precursors. (Was confirmed in an image on his desk[0]; selegiline) [0] https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175
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on “Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself”Submitted What Happened at Alameda Research as a story · 475 points
HN discussionReading this blog post caused me to believe that EA was not a big contributor: https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175 Seems like it was more gross mismanagement and excessive stimulant consumption.
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on “The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?”Submitted Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly as a story · 192 points
HN discussion> clinical trials are typically longer and more thorough than you imagine, they span years I don't know where you get that, most clinical trials last 26 weeks, even in phase III. and about " more thorough than you imagine " no, most are subcontracted to CROs and the way clinical trials are conducted is messy. Below is story from the POV of a PI. But similarly many patients complain about the way they are treated in…
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on “Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes”Submitted On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur as a story · 45 points
HN discussion> spends most of his time playing video games ... badly. This to me is one of the funniest parts of the story. He wasn't even good at it[1][2]. [1]: https://milkyeggs.com/crypto/what-happened-at-alameda-resear... [2]: https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2258-ce03-4fbb-a9b2-7d9ec6e3d...
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on “Michael Lewis's Blind Side”Submitted Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence […] it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia). These are unfortunate myths. See the following on IQ testing, relationship of various tests to general intelligence, and the absence of cultural bias in testing: - Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial or socioeconomic privilege https://milkyeggs.com/society/st…
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on “Intelligence is not like height”Submitted A sociocultural comparison of Japanese and American high schools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI found this article insightful: https://milkyeggs.com/?p=303 When the internet empowered more people to do the lawyers’ grunt work, compensation became bimodal. There is more value in being on the high end, but less on doing the grunt work. I think that’s gonna happen with other professions. Including ours (engineering). If you’re doing grunt work – be afraid. If you’re doing high level work – rejoice, it’s about t…
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on “Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?”Submitted Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne blogger's estimate of their losses: >Voyager/BlockFi acquisition: 1.5b >LUNA exposure: 1b >KCG-style algo crash: 1b >FTT/SRM collateral maintenance: 2b >Venture capital: 2b >Real estate, branding, other frivolous spending: 2b >FTT drop from $22 to $4: 4b >Discretionary longs going bad: 2b >Total: 15.5 billion https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175
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on “The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment Unsealed [pdf]”Submitted Programmer Salaries in the Age of LLMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Final Death of Crypto as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial or SES privilege as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Milky Eggs: Gregory Clark on human intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The West could not have created NieR: Automata as a story · 1 points
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