danharaj

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by danharaj 6y ago
Broke: Describing capitalism as it historically developed through a materialist theory that seeks to uncover the mechanisms of its reproduction, like a fucking moron. Woke: Describing capitalism as an ideal concept that does not refer to it
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
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You've been duped into thinking capitalism is something that it isn't by people who don't want you to know what capitalism has always been.
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Your ignorance of the distinction between cause-in-fact and proximate cause is not a matter of precision.
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> Not as thought-ending as silencing a voice with the threat of legal action. I obviously was talking about "thought-ending" in context of the conversation on what boundaries should be set on speech in which situation. What poi
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Many liberal democracies have hate speech laws and they are popularly supported.
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You don't need to decide up front for every possible statement whether it's true or not. You don't need to decide up front for every possible statement whether it's hate speech or not. When you come across a proposition,
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by danharaj 6y ago
I think we're speaking past each other. What I'm trying to argue is that before we even talk about a scientific experiment, we have to ask "Is this question scientifically well posed?" and that this question is unbelieva
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You can easily adapt the incompleteness theorem to empirical science: take its computational analogue, undecidability. There is no scientific method that can answer whether a computer emulating a turing machine, a physical phenomenon, will
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by danharaj 6y ago
I've seen clash used in production. Old firms aren't going to pick it up but there are upstarts leveraging it.
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The MCAT is a difficult test. It is not clear that the difficulty of the MCAT is the same difficulty as practicing medicine. You can't test that question without having doctors who don't do well on the MCAT.
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The argument is that the amount of attention paid by scholars does not make a field of inquiry more or less valid. It does apply to all science. Do you think science does not suffer from fads and community bias? When did we move past that
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So was astrology at one point.
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Read the article. This is his point about circularity this is literally one of his examples. If IQ measures test taking acumen and there are fields that are gate kept with tests, you will see a correlation with IQ.
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There are a lot of posts complaining about Taleb's tone. I find it refreshing. Too often are statistics and stupid measurements applied to give a veneer of quantitative rigor to stupid ideas or ineffective systems. If a manager ranked
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Taleb is an expert in statistics. This is an analysis of the statistics of a metric and the statistical methodology of the field it is part of.
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Marxism-Leninism was Stalin's etiolation of Lenin's actual thought.
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Clausewitz, Lenin
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One big union babyy
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> it's just you doing the same thing and suddenly being right. That's the whole premise, that inevitably they will be right.
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by danharaj 6y ago
BTW here's the paper by Hartley cited on the first page it is also very readable and insightful. I found it helped clarify some of the subtler points in Shannon's paper to read it as well. http://keszei.chem.elte.hu&#x2
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Yes, I'm just trying to emphasize that there is real serious mathematics behind his point, it's not just a matter of philosophical taste.
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Even computable reals do not have computable ordering. > but presumably they lie somewhere regardless of my inability to do it on a TM. Why? > Zermelo's theorem at that point right? It is declared by fiat in standard set theory
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No.
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It is not reasonable to interpret the notation that way. For one, variable binding becomes incoherent.
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If I give you two representatives of real numbers, say turing machines that write out on their tape the binary digits of those real numbers, in general you will not be able to order them.
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Copyright has the force of the state behind it obviously it's going to beat out any solution that doesn't.
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Maybe you're wrong and markets can be fucked up a lot easier than you think they can?
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> Our personal creative projects over commercial products the world doesn't need It's literally on the page you linked to.
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This is the sort of policy imposed company-wide where trying to get an individual exception is very difficult or impossible depending on how bureaucratic your organization is, possibly even damaging your career and relationships with your m

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