Marshmallow tests are more a test of the child’s priors about adult reliability.
If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious.
The test also fails to account for a temperate child that doesn’t actually want more than one in the first place and isn’t playing the researchers game.
Our Man in Havana is a very good book about the topic.
Secrets are a dark illiquid market where there’s high demand for things that don’t exist. So naturally there’s a lot of supply for that information. The fact that is almost all bogus is irrelevant.
Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills.
I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how language processing works for general use, but that’s like saying diagraming a sentence isn’t speaking a language. Technically true but missing the point.
It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it.
I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would be to remove the book from circulation, not destroy the thing that made it interesting.
The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time.
Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person pretending to be an attractive female on LinkedIn.
This has the same pattern as the Vivendi deal with Blizzard back in 2007.
In both instances, the game end of the deal had peaked already, and there was nowhere to go but down. Nothing a few billion dollars can’t fix, maybe some “new content,” says the business guys.
Meanwhile their product becomes worse by the month. The magic is fading. All the people who made it great move on, not wanting to deal with the business parasites who showed up to squeeze a buck. Repeat.
It's amusing watching streaming turn into cable, but somehow worse. At least we got some public access programming out of cable.
Piracy is a service problem. Valve proved digital piracy can be beaten by commercial solutions. The problem is the media cartels being intransigent with digital delivery, not piracy.
With any sufficiently large industry if that industry produces externalities powerful lobbies will emerge to make the harms as unclear and detached from the industry as possible.
We only see the failures of this activity. There are many more big lobby success stories, where the externalities a line of business produces are removed from public discourse. In some cases, veggie libel laws for one, the lobby is so successful that criticism is practically illegal.
The other part is how do you really measure efficacy of these systems? Unless you did some secret shopping, which in this case would be paying people to defraud public services occasionally, how would you really know how effective these systems were at reducing fraud costs to public services?
The first order problem with spam calls/sms is you probably opted in to something. Most spam, like it or not, you asked for, and they can almost certainly prove it.
The TCPA lawsuit business was so lucrative for years that a lot of effort goes into producing proof that the contact is legal. Rather than stopping spam calls these laws basically guarantee spam, but legal spam.
Also carriers have pretty well cracked illegal spam through their own analytics. Some still happens, but it’s cleaned up extremely fast.
One key problem is nobody, none of the suits anyway, want to believe that there are essential, hard problems that can't be outsourced, can't be commodified, can't be shortcut in any way.
It's the business version of the get-rich-quick scam course hucksters. The truth that there's no silver bullets can't compete.
If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious.
The test also fails to account for a temperate child that doesn’t actually want more than one in the first place and isn’t playing the researchers game.