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by colorint 9y ago
You can come up with examples where it's infeasible for a programmer to decide halting, but that's not the same thing, because feasibility is just about the amount of time or resources it would take to do something. One can imagin
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by colorint 9y ago
You have to consider that computer science is soemthing we do; it is, in a sense, a way that we talk about a way that we conceptualize our own ability to solve problems. This issue only comes up because people confuse our theories about pro
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by colorint 9y ago
>However, work on artificial intelligence, especially general intelligence, will be improved by a clearer idea of what intelligence is. One way is to give a purely behavioural or black-box definition. In this case we have to say that a m
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by colorint 9y ago
Indiscriminate visual targeting is a potentially hard problem if you're doing it against adversaries. One of the things that's underappreciated about machine learning is, since it's statistical, it can only be about anomaly d
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by colorint 9y ago
I think they're talking about "Trait entitlement: A cognitive-personality source of vulnerability to psychological distress," based on one of the linked blog posts mentioning Grubbs and Exline 2016. Unfortunately I haven&#x27
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by colorint 9y ago
An essay on banking seemed necessary, since you said that banks "give away money" when lending. It's important to understand that banks create money when they lend, but that's too esoteric to say on its own. As for the q
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by colorint 9y ago
A corporation is also paperwork, which also does not have interests. Only people have interests. Shareholders have interests, but they're usually not privy to the actual inner workings of a business. I mean, even ultra-libertarian fina
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by colorint 9y ago
>the banks started acting differently, and against everyone's best interests, including their own But that's the rub: "a bank" is just some paperwork, it doesn't have interests. The reason a banking executive mig
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by colorint 9y ago
As I said, countries that are sovereign in their currency and don't hold any foreign-denominated debt cannot suffer debt overhang. Or put another way (to specifically address your link, though I only got four paragraphs), there is no i
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by colorint 9y ago
The Reinhart-Rogoff research indicating that there's a public-debt-to-GDP Rubicon was wholly discredited by grad students; turns out there is no relationship between debt-to-GDP and growth. http://darribas.org/WooWii&#x
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by colorint 9y ago
Of those three, the third is the best because Python uses eager evaluation. Or else the list(range(0,1000,12)) approach is fine too.
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by colorint 9y ago
Just like it's outrageous to have state and local taxes in the US, am I right?
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by colorint 9y ago
Fair enough, and that guy's work was pretty close (in time) to the "germ revolution." The accounting of scientific revolutions is that anomalous results start getting common enough that people get uncomfortable calling them n
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by colorint 9y ago
I always feel like the most impressive part of these kinds of discussion is, the following question has already been answered: "Can you devise a mechanical process that can, given an axiomatic system in first-order logic and a predicat
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by colorint 9y ago
The thing that's real about real money is that you can use it to pay your taxes. You may talk about how you could, in principle, barter goods and services and account for everything in terms of chickens, but the IRS doesn't accept
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by colorint 9y ago
This is, if you will, a very germ-theoretic perspective. Why would you notice, by eye, this correlation and not that one? More importantly, why would you collect these data rather than those? Scientific paradigms are "nefarious" b
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by colorint 9y ago
Well, you'll want to start by zeroing in on exactly what you mean by "cognitive performance." The abstract of the study the linked article is about has this to say: >Pre- and post-training, participants completed cognitive
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by colorint 9y ago
>without macros Type systems are macro systems, it's just not obvious because type languages are very different from expression languages. The main "innovation" of Idris is hammering harder on this front. And in any case,
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by colorint 9y ago
Stagflation was associated with two things: high spending on the Vietnam War, and OPEC oil price hikes. To illustrate this, let's take for granted that inflation is "too much money chasing too few goods." That's really a
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by colorint 9y ago
>historical stigmata I only point out typos that are silly, so with that in mind: Stigmata is where you develop sores or bleeding on your hands as some sort of weird solidarity with Jesus. I imagine that would make writing papers harder.
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by colorint 9y ago
The problem is much simpler: logical systems are undecidable, and the Liar's Paradox is the logic analogue of infinite loops. But this does require you understand logic as a process (something people do) rather than having weird dualis
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by colorint 9y ago
What you're talking about is the "low-factor explanation" bias, which we could also call the "all things equal" bias. When we tell stories about our lives, we're really talking about causal explanations, for th
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by colorint 9y ago
Those are all good points. I should say that I don't really believe in "greedy people," or more broadly, I don't believe that people have stable personalities that can be described in that sort of way. I was talking abou
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by colorint 9y ago
I do question the capacity for greed, in the broader sense of, what can happen before a system enters some sort of catastrophic negative feedback? In the immediate term, private debt build-up provokes financial crises. In the long run, ther
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by colorint 9y ago
The arguably more important issue is that spending is income, in both directions. Wages are an expense to companies, but revenue to workers---and likewise, buying goods is an expense to workers and revenue to companies. Those two factors ha
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by colorint 9y ago
You don't have to "find it in the budget" because the government is the monopoly issuer of the currency: the money is always already there. The concern is whether there's enough idle productive capacity (including unempl
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by colorint 9y ago
Are all social services unnecessary because they're created ex nihilo by the government? Most job guarantee programs involve looking at something like that, as well as things like art grants and infrastructure and maintenance and so fo
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by colorint 9y ago
The tricky thing here isn't first-class functions, but closures. For the example to work, the inner function construction has to implicitly capture the argument to the outer function.
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by colorint 9y ago
I think one of the problems is that most people (who live in liberal-as-in-Locke societies) want the world to work on their terms, which includes rationality-as-they've-constructed-it. So most people want things to be "logical,&qu
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by colorint 9y ago
>Once the errors are taken out of the system, observation beats theory hands-down. But how do you go about distinguishing signal from noise? That's ultimately the reason data say far less, on their own, than they seem to: because in

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