Ieghaehia9

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by Ieghaehia9 5mo ago
> in real democracies the populists (facebook, tiktok, chrome) always win. because that's what the masses want Is Friedrich Merz a populist? Was Angela Merkel a populist? This theory seems to have considerable limits.
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by Ieghaehia9 8mo ago
On Linux, too. The headline says "Fix" [blank] "in seconds, not hours".
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by Ieghaehia9 9mo ago
That's the thing: Core War matches last a finite time (after which the match is judged a tie). So you have a finite memory space, finite time, and a finite number of match combinations. And for predetermined constant N, the bounded hal
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by Ieghaehia9 9mo ago
That in turn makes me wonder: Given fixed opposition, finding a warrior that performs the best is an optimization problem. Maybe, for very small core sizes like a nano core, it would be possible to find the optimum directly by SAT or SMT in
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by Ieghaehia9 10mo ago
> There are people who believe that proof-of-work isn't very effective, but none of them have succeeded in spamming the Bitcoin network with blocks they've mined, driving the other miners out of business, nor (for the last seve
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by Ieghaehia9 2y ago
A video I watched not too long ago expressed something similar as "in some RPGs, society exists for you" (e.g. you, a random escaped prisoner, can just waltz up to the local lord in Skyrim and be taken at face value). "In oth
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by Ieghaehia9 4y ago
I'm not sure. Suppose that someone magically woke up to find they had no subconscious, i.e. that they were now aware of everything going on in their mind, and aware of their awareness, etc. Then it doesn't seem like that would its
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by Ieghaehia9 4y ago
Maybe it would be possible to create some kind of equilibrium/fixed-point based AI that, for everything it knows, it knows that it knows, knows that it knows that it knows, and so on. Then again, perhaps not, because PPAD is much harde
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by Ieghaehia9 4y ago
It's a warning if it isn't accompanied by great democratization, because the planned economy concentrates a lot of power in the hands of the planners. Some proponents of planned economy (e.g. Cottrell) suggest that elected democra
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by Ieghaehia9 4y ago
Democracy combined with local units significantly valuing their autonomy also seems to work, e.g. the International Typographical Union example from Union Democracy.
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by Ieghaehia9 4y ago
Even on a reptile-brain level, the article's use of wanting is sort of an equivocation. The brain has different systems for "wanting" and "liking". Cocaine affects the former, opioids the latter. Capital A Algorithm
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
>It does however not necessarily make a simulation a difference that makes no difference, because if we're in a simulation it is possible that we are in one where it is possible to falsify the theory that we're not in a simulat
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> If we're in a simulation, you have no basis for drawing conclusions about any of our observations, whether those observations have taken place, whether anything outside of this moment exists, or anything outside your mind, or both
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> I'm not super up on Star Trek lore, but to my understanding the setting takes place in a post-scarcity universe, where the only thing that is still scarce is latinum. Perhaps it's some material where replicators always add so
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
If you want to do it yourself, you'd get a colorimeter or spectrometer and then software that lets you use them to adjust your screen, like ArgyllCMS and DispcalGUI: https://displaycal.net/ There's a list of hardw
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
Is a Wikipedia author participating in a business when they update an article, thus contributing to the service of a better encyclopedia? Is an open-source programmer doing business when they post their GPLed source on the web? Is gift-givi
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
The problem with this, I think, is that it can always be used to justify volatility. E.g. economic policy after the Great Depression has kept such an event from happening again at that scale. Was there too much volatility in the early half
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
>Change is needed because people want to have jobs and they will make work for themselves if none exists. Traditional jobs must have solved this problem somehow. You don't usually see e.g. windowmakers or installers coming up with w
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
With sufficient access to energy, I imagine you could do Rods from God at significant fractions of c from Alpha Centauri and give Earth a serious bad time. Planetary orbits are kind of regular after all.
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
Discarding with explanation can sometimes be used to effect too. For example, suppose a character sends a spy to accomplish an objective. Meanwhile, another group of people are also trying to do this, which will benefit the main character
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> If you want to start hating your hobby, make it into a business. Or as I've heard it phrased: "If you turn your vacation into your vocation, you'll never have a vacation again".
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
Any distributed system can be simulated by a consolidated one by just running everything internally, but the converse is much harder (unless P=NC). So the distributed system can only win if the consolidated system is vulnerable to abuse of
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> Anyone on the planet will respond to advertising if an advertiser figures out how they identify high and low status markers. It doesn't matter how rational they thought they were before that, on aggregate. Isn't there also so
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
That's why it would need a software equivalent of nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, i.e. open-source firmware. There's still Trusting Trust, but that's rather harder to pull off.
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
That makes me wonder: wouldn't there be a market for a printer that clearly doesn't leak any information? Say one with open firmware that parses PCL5 or Postscript or whatever the modern analog is. "Keep your secrets safe wit
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
There were rumors like that for the Final Fantasy games too, like how to get Leo in FF6 by doing something ridiculously complex (or just ridiculous) for hours on end. And then FWAKs, which satirized the whole phenomenon.
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> And yes, for a really critical system I might consider taking something much simpler and potentially slower but formally proven correct, like seL4. One of seL4's points is that security can still be fast, no? From https:/&#x
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
If you make an optimization system, you can optimize for things besides just raw up/downvotes. E.g. up- or downvotes from a broad selection of people (as deduced from the social graph) could count as more than up- or downvotes from a s
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
> There's a direct relationship between the algorithms human brains used to produce the training data and the algorithms being approximated by these models. Eh. That deep learning networks is like the brain is like saying that cars
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by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
Not to mention all the servers. How would the datacenters, web hosts, and ISPs react if Linux were suddenly forbidden?

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