benlivengood

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   by benlivengood 7y ago

   For me, free will is the feeling and belief that if I want my body to do something I have a pretty good chance of making it do that. Additionally, I can decide to train some reflexive behavior and tailor it to be more of what I want my aut
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   by benlivengood 7y ago

   What's really behind improvements in solar and wind efficiency? R&D work. It doesn't matter who pays the bills if the goal is greater efficiency and incentives are aligned to reward it. That capitalism rewards power generati
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   by benlivengood 7y ago

   The central banks can't force anyone to deposit money in negative-interest-bearing accounts, except for relatively small reserve balances that banks can't/won't hold in cash or other short term liquid assets. Without th
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   by benlivengood 7y ago

   Addition and multiplication (i.e. arithmetic) over the integers are all that are necessary to express first order logic and allowed Gödel to express his incompleteness theorems at such a fundamental level. The logical power of arithmetic i