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by carapace 2y ago
> A simple solution has elegance. It is the result of exacting effort to understand the real problem and is recognized by its compelling sense of rightness. I stress this point because it contradicts the conventional view that power incr
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by carapace 2y ago
Are you paraphrasing the Diamond Sutra? (If so, well played!)
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by carapace 2y ago
I'm a fan of self-driving vehicles (can we please call them auto-autos?) because they are, as this article points out, already safer than human drivers. Still, it is and always has been completely and totally insane to test these heavy
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by carapace 2y ago
> then any kind of rational thought is impossible Yes. Rationality is an illusion. Rational deduction depends on "implication" which is not actually a thing in physical reality. > there is no single, unchanging person havi
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by carapace 2y ago
> takes a lot of skills and hard work to break the problem down Same for every programming language. The advantage that concatinative languages have over others is the closeness of their syntax to the semantics of the domain which makes
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by carapace 2y ago
You're missing the point. Economic activity isn't the meaning of life.
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I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're saying.
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It would actually be worse if we accidentally built this machine to trap and drain a generation of their productive capacity? And of course there is a cabal of evil schemers, they have hardly bothered to hide themselves, e.g.: > Mudsil
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by carapace 2y ago
Yes, it's feasible. Wielded well (read "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth") the concatinative languages are very good for eliminating incidental complexity, so code approaches the Kolmogorov complexity of the prob
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by carapace 2y ago
Factor is one of those projects that stands as a huge challenge to other conventional languages and their runtimes (or it would if anyone took it seriously that way.) The compactness and power, the "bang for the buck" is staggeri
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https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
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by carapace 2y ago
> In order to safeguard a sufficient number of species to protect global biodiversity, including humanity, the late American biologist, E.O. Wilson and a new generation of scientists, ecologists, and conservationists concluded that we mu
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by carapace 2y ago
> the degrowth position is that people are inevitably going to lead worse lives than at present, but that we can choose between things getting kind of bad, by systematically pursuing degrowth, and things getting apocalyptically bad, whic
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by carapace 2y ago
Jevons Paradox isn't a law of nature. > we can find additional useful things to do with it Useful for what purpose? > Reducing suffering Yes and no. Existence is suffering (you are already in the Torment Nexus), Gurdjieff spoke
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> Let's say humanity finds a way to build a sophisticated torment nexus ... No. I decline to say that at this time. Thank you. (I keep a little pickled Roko's basilisk in a jar on my bookshelf. I sometimes take it down and s
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by carapace 2y ago
(I haven't read the article yet so apologies in advance if this is just noise, but uh...) A lot of people seem confused about "degrowth". (In quotes because it's a terrible neologism.) Look, people, degrowth is going to
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by carapace 2y ago
No. Total energy dissipation is at best a crude proxy for progress, because efficiency. That is, the goal of progress is not to expend as many calories as possible, eh? Is it not preferable to achieve one's goal with as little expen
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Who are you thinking of?
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Salmon bring a limiting factor to growth (phosphorous if I remember correctly) from the ocean to the land, then the bears and other animals eat them and distribute it throughout the forests through their dung. (The Native Americans around
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by carapace 2y ago
That's a fascinating idea! The original trauma could just be when humanity reached the ecological limits of the Earth and the fundamental nature of life changed from Eden-like simplicity to competition with others for limited food&#x2F
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by carapace 2y ago
Clearly you've never hung out with Quakers. You asked for a counter-example, I provided one, you dismiss it with no evidence. Truly has it been said, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."
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The Quakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
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Yeah I think we're in general agreement. Cheers. > I don’t think anyone should get points for not behaving like a psychopath Absolutely, but what counts as psychopathy has changed over time. We're getting away from the main th
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"Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States: Assessing the relative importance of habitat destruction, alien species, pollution, overexploitation, and disease" https://academic.oup.com/bioscience
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by carapace 2y ago
Adults should be taught to think logically first, then they can teach the children. The problem with the idea that logical thinking will dispel conspiracy thinking is that conspiracy is the norm. Of regime changes in the 21st Century more
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Seems like semantic quibbles to me, but then we're talking about law and computers... The distinction between "conduit" and "publisher" seems compelling to me. Once a company has pierced the veil and looked at the
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I bring up the genocide of the First Nations a lot. Slavery too. The point of the Revolution wasn't that the USA became a utopia instantly, the point is that they threw out the king and then didn't make themselves kings. Establis
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Why do you think they spent $200M?
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Depends on what you mean by "valid". King George probably thought we weren't but not in the way you mean, eh? We could draw a line from the Magna Carta to the Equal Rights Amendment. Democracy is a work-in-progress.
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Have you read Backus' original FP paper "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs"? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579

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