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by beefield 5y ago
Out of curiosity, as I do not know enough details: 1. Alice owns one BTC 2. Bob owns one BTC 3. Both send their BTC to Charlie 4. Charlie sends one BTC to David Question: Is there unambiguous way to define whether David got the BTC original
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by beefield 5y ago
Funny that the comment has aged pretty well. Bitcoin has been an utter failure in practically everything substantial it has been ever claiming to be[1]. In addition to being an environmental catastrophe. (This from someone who refused to be
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by beefield 5y ago
> which is famously anti-crypto The threshold to being famously anti-crypto seems to be quite low. Like, not everyone being completely uncritically positive about crypto.
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by beefield 5y ago
Sorry, this may be too inflammable, but there is also evidence that cognitive ability is negatively correlated with conservativity. [1] So, what to do if you are conservative politician and want more voters? Do you try to make poor people b
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by beefield 5y ago
For the curious, the causes listed on the site seem to cover about 44% of all deaths. So there are other significant ways to die as well...
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by beefield 5y ago
How did you cope with the horizontal enter key? That is the single most unpleasant thing whenever forced on ANSI. (I'm not a touch typist)
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by beefield 5y ago
If you get philosophical, I don't think you can really know anything about anything. However, in practice I have every reason to assume that I have been practically dead i.e. non-existent for the vast majority of the lifetime of our un
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by beefield 5y ago
Or they have realized that immortality is actually a dumb idea. Either you talk about real immortality where you live forever. And forever is a really long time. Or you talk about being able to decide when to die. In which case dying acci
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by beefield 6y ago
Don't know about you, but the thoughts in my head are such an unordered and incomprehensible mess that it is really hard for me to see any benefit of direct streaming. Typing the thoughts slowly down and rereading and evaluating conseq
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by beefield 6y ago
Someone must have written a great book with that kind of a plot. Does anyone know such book?
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by beefield 6y ago
I agree that there exists a possibility that superintelligence might want to maximize paperclips or mine bitcoins. I just think it is very unlikely, and that there exists a positive correlation between intelligence of the entity and intelli
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by beefield 6y ago
I'm not terribly terrified. First, I like to think intelligence as the problem space an agent is able to solve. given that this kind of space has approximately infinite dimensions, by any meaningful measure [1] we already have people t
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by beefield 6y ago
I have to admit that occasionally I do think that the most plausible explanation on what I see around me is the simulation hypothesis, us being a educational simulation in some other dimension. And some of us are just preliminary AI school
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by beefield 6y ago
How do I know that even I am conscious? Tautological or non-falsifiable "proofs" do not count. Serious question. I do not think that before this can be answered, there is absolutely no way to answer whether an AI is conscious.
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by beefield 6y ago
What I really, really do not get is why the countries that do have long term solution do not start selling nuclear waste disposal services to other countries. First, you could charge outrageus amounts of money for the service. Second, you c
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by beefield 6y ago
Even for a small retailer, (i)zettle costs 1.75%[1] per transaction. No monthly fees. I honestly can't see how cash can compete with that. You need to spend time managing your change. You need to have some kind of register. You need to
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by beefield 6y ago
> Additional fees for the privilege, not so much. But you understand that as the end customer, you end up paying the fees anyway, even if they are not visible in the bill? If your customers were unhappy about the extra cost, maybe you w
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by beefield 6y ago
> companies will then use your site for lead generation but encourage people to book directly Of course. That would be the whole point. In that case the OTAs would need to start figuring out how to actually produce value to both end cust
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by beefield 6y ago
Funniest is that nowadays card payments are likely cheaper to process for merchants than cash - if you account properly for all costs. So credit card companies should start lobbying to allow different pricing based on payment methods.
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by beefield 6y ago
Well, in my opinion rate parity agreements should be illegal in the first place, as they foster rent seeking behaviour as opposed to fair competition. And if a few large chains drop out of these household names and welcome all small hotels
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by beefield 6y ago
One of the most amazing things to me is that a couple of large hotel chains can't come up with a hotel reservation coop that would compete/throw out with bookin.com et al. If you worry about competition, just found two or three co
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by beefield 6y ago
I'm trying to get rid of my news addiction (so far failing spectacularly...), And one of my plans would be to have a couple of sources that do not push a constant stream of crappy news, but occasional selected high quality articles. At
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by beefield 6y ago
As much as it is worthless to give advice in internet to strangers, I would advice all FIRE people to give a try of RE for a decent amount of time (say at least a year) already before FI. It is way easier to come up with money to live off f
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by beefield 6y ago
Of course, if everyone did that, we would have a problem. But this is not a linear thing. If more people would do this than currently does, rest of the society could enjoy more of some of the scarce resources, thus as a society we would
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by beefield 6y ago
Let's say doubling your holidays means roughly 10% reduction in work time. If a fully dedicated 37.5 h person creates one job per year, could you estimate how many jobs creates a) fully dedicated 41 h person b) fully dedicated 34 h per
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by beefield 6y ago
That's not how amount of money is calculated. If you did, you would end up with a funny result that there is no money at all. As all modern money is debt from someone to someone else.
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by beefield 6y ago
That's the employer's problem. What I find weird is that more people working in high tax-progression countries do not realize that doubling your annual holidays[1] is actually dirt cheap - and require that as a perk instead of the
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by beefield 6y ago
That natural limit is way, way, beyond levels that cause catatrophic disturbances in economy[1], thus the distinction is irrelevant. [1] See your favourite mania, or even crisis of 2008 that can be argued to be because of failure of regulat
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by beefield 6y ago
Sorry, your comment made me laugh a bit. You know, before the smartest guys were incentivized to figure out how to make you and me click ads, they were incentivized to figure out how to circumvent financial regulation. Turned out that it is
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by beefield 6y ago
That's not a fact. Money can and will be created out of thin air regardless if your monetary system is built on central bank money, gold or even bitcoin. A naive example: Alice has a gold coin. she walks to a bank and makes a deposit

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