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by api 8y ago
I think you may be confusing the assumption that people are equal (blank slate) with treating people equally (not misapplying aggregate statistics to individuals and not being an asshole). The latter doesn't require the former. Some le
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by api 8y ago
I made that argument largely to show the versatility of sophistry. You can take a proposed fact, like strong heritability of ability, and weave many arguments around it. I have in fact heard people argue for strong socialism on the basis of
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by api 8y ago
This is a straw man, sort of akin to asserting that all right leaning people believe that might makes right.
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by api 8y ago
You could also say it undermines a major tenant of right wing politics too: that wealth is earned. If your wealth results from a genetic lotto ticket, you didn't earn anything. You just got lucky. This could be an argument for wealth r
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by api 8y ago
Interesting... for some reason I thought Taleb was a darling of the alt-right and the biological determinists (but not necessarily that the feeling was mutual).
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by api 8y ago
That would actually solve the problem. The goal is ineffective grandstanding so the problem can keep being used as a divisive get out the vote issue (by both parties) in future elections. Better verification would also cost far less than a
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by api 8y ago
The same logic was used to justify slavery.
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by api 8y ago
I think we are entering a cryptocurrency winter for much the same reason the first AI winter happened: too much promised too fast, and hand waving away really massive unsolved problems.
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by api 8y ago
Now that Mickey is out it should be easier. Disney was one of the most powerful lobbies for extension largely because of the mouse.
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by api 8y ago
If complexity is increasing you are going in the wrong direction unless that complexity maps directly to a real problem or constraint domain. Cryptocurrencies are just simple accounting systems and they run on general purpose computers, s
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by api 8y ago
Biology, game theory, informatics, and complexity are full of ideas that one can pluck out in isolation and look like a hero for injecting into other areas. I think its because those fields are insufficiently studied by those outside them.
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by api 8y ago
If that's it, it's not exactly a novel idea. Are there actually people who argue that brute trial and error with nothing else in play can yield structured knowledge? Note that biological evolution doesn't count because it is
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by api 8y ago
I dunno. An ego size comparison between Taleb and Wolfram would be pretty epic. Get both in a room and the resulting ego singularity could damage local space-time.
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by api 8y ago
I would walk out at "why are you still working?" That is so many layers of ass9.
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by api 8y ago
The main business goal of mobile platforms is to spy on users.
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by api 8y ago
The crypto hate comes from a combination of fatigue and a reaction to the incredible number of total scams in the crypto ecosystem.
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by api 8y ago
> Our present day culture of sophistry and bullshit with its cavalier attitude toward the truth is what you can expect. It's too bad religion is so obsessed with not being gay as the most important of all moral issues. Our culture o
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by api 8y ago
I think there are consequences, but unfortunately they are more subtile, long term, and society wide rather than immediate and felt directly by the liars. Lies told by politicians erode the overall trust basis of society over time, leading
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by api 8y ago
I don't even think cryptocurrency can solve this. It's easier to store a key than a ton of gold, but without the dispute resolution and policing functions of government you are still utterly screwed if your coin is stolen or if yo
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by api 8y ago
There seem to be many politicians including the US Republican Party that just lie. They implement aggressively Keynesian or heavily deficit spending based policies while toting a "fiscal responsibility" line and sounding like advo
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by api 8y ago
There is no stupidity limit. Research flat Earth!
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by api 8y ago
Like many libertarian leaning people I used to be a fan of "Austrian" type economics. In the past few years as a result of watching both the recovery and the cryptocurrency experiment I've changed my mind. I now think that Ke
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by api 8y ago
Its speculation, but not terribly wild. This is the world we live in. The most likely explanation is the holiday effect where people go on vacation and stuff goes wrong.
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by api 8y ago
Looks as if it's basically a wash without the tax incentives, which is kind of amazing really. The cost of EVs will fall, so this means they will be cheaper than ICE cars without tax incentives very soon. This could tip quickly. No won
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by api 8y ago
Yes, but I am picturing something far more advanced.
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by api 8y ago
For a few years I have been predicting the advent of a kind of cognitive weapon of mass destruction, a "propaganda doomsday weapon." This would be a dishonest/manipulative debate AI paired with big data and microtargeting. It
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by api 8y ago
So conservatives are rediscovering anti-trust laws and concepts like natural monopolies then?
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by api 8y ago
Maybe I'm confusing DAME with later mutation engines that had more elaborate ways of transforming the decryptor and payload code. I know there were some pretty sophisticated JIT-type things in the latter part of the DOS virus era.
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by api 8y ago
There was also a ton of medieval and renaissance philosophy and occult/alchemical stuff published under pseudonyms. Well known ones include Hermes Trismegistus and Christian Rosencreuntz (sp?). Some of that stuff was proto-scientific n
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by api 8y ago
Some of the first polymorphic viruses had very advanced code translation engines, basically JITs before they were common. I wonder if any JIT concepts were invented there? One example is the DAME which stands for Dark Avenger Mutation Engin

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