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by didericis 1y ago
Likewise. I enjoy commenting here because it’s one of the few places online where there’s actually discourse , and I like to think conversations like these have trickle effects/lead to more cross pollination and rational outcomes. You
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by didericis 1y ago
Again, I'm explaining, not endorsing. I believe the reason it feels like I'm pushing is that in a sense, I am: I'm not adding any caveats or disclaimers to that narrative or explaining why other narratives do or don't ma
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by didericis 1y ago
You are correct that there is a lot of distaste for Europe within the MAGA base. Although it’s important to note most of the distaste is about subsidizing their defense so they can have welfare states at the expense of US taxpayers, and a d
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by didericis 1y ago
Yes, this is a real perspective. Again, I’m not endorsing the approach they’re taking, I’m simply explaining it. I also don’t think even a moderate introduction of tariffs would have been viewed favorably. Reindustrialization is I think nec
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by didericis 1y ago
The message is absolutely America first, and the motivation to boost the middle class through reindustrialization is a huge factor. The desire to eventually back out of defense commitments in Europe is not in contradiction to that. The poli
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by didericis 1y ago
The USA already dictates the direction of much of the world economy through its position in the WTO, and you are correct that the tariffs will cause more independent production. That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underprod
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by didericis 1y ago
The current international situation as understood by a lot of people in republican circles is outline in detail here: https://youtu.be/vDBZeHhx3YE > The US reliably enforces international order and global trade now Yes,
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by didericis 1y ago
Because a rising power (China) backed a country (Russia) which didn’t bow to the dominant power (USA) that enables international trade, and intentionally blowing up international trade agreements now allows the USA more time to rebuild stra
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by didericis 2y ago
No, but I will. Thanks. (link isn’t loading for me on mobile, will try again later)
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by didericis 2y ago
"The Matter with Things" by Iain McGilchrist has the same effect. Highly recommend it.
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by didericis 2y ago
I wouldn't be so dismissive of the objection. That loop involves way more flexible goal oriented attention, more intrinsic/implicit understanding of plausible cause and effect based on context, and more novel idea creation than
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by didericis 2y ago
Company is an LLC registered in Austin TX, and am expecting mostly US customers. But I’d ideally like to support as many countries as is feasible. Do you know of any books or guides that outline those sharp edges? Or is it too business depe
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Tax/legal checklist for a subscription and revenue sharing model?
4 points by didericis 2y ago|2 comments
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by didericis 2y ago
I’m not tempted by ungrounded explanations lacking logic or reason, but I am tempted to wander off the reservation. History suggests every theory used to organize our understanding of the world will fail to adequately capture something , a
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by didericis 2y ago
> Features don't need utility to exist. It may be a weird state precisely due to the lack of selection on what happens when death is already occurring. Totally agree. But if you can't use selection pressure to directly explain
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by didericis 2y ago
Thank you, appreciate the compliment. I actually just edited it/got a bit self conscious about the tone and added some references, in part because I think truly grokking the core of what I’m saying (which fits perfectly with what you’r
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by didericis 2y ago
> as you transition to death those barriers are less necessary as the body diverts increasingly scarce resources to surviving just a few moments longer. The more I think about survival based evolutionary explanations for NDEs, the less s
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by didericis 2y ago
> Sorry for the long post. No need at all. I'm very interested in this area too, but didn't know all the OBJ lore. I got into this kind of thing after learning about Hilbert's program, which goes all the way back to the la
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by didericis 2y ago
> Anything else worth knowing? K framework https://runtimeverification.com/blog/k-framework-an-overview
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by didericis 3y ago
And Parmenides would like a word with you. It’s amazing to me people agree on definitions for anything, given people have been having the same basic abstract arguments for what makes thing A thing A and distinct from thing B for thousands o
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by didericis 3y ago
I think the casual dismissal of nuclear war has more to do with the artificial nature of most people's realities than a lack of a direct demonstration of the destruction of nuclear war specifically. People think it can't happen be
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by didericis 3y ago
It will rob people going through the motions and cheating from actually learning. The people who most benefit from education have never been the people just going through the motions and have at least some intrinsic motivation to actually l
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by didericis 3y ago
Thank you, appreciate the compliment. And yeah, are definitely a lot of open questions related to all of this. Love how its brought so many deep questions into focus.
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by didericis 3y ago
> It might have been an interesting argument 20 years ago. It’s just silly now. Is it? These networks are capable of copying something , yes. Do we have a good understanding of what that is? Not really, no. At least I don’t. I’m sure lo
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by didericis 3y ago
> You can actually hypothesize that a soul exists and that intelligence is non-material, its just that your tests would quickly disprove that hypothesis - crude physical, mechanical modifications to the brain cause changes to intellect a
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by didericis 3y ago
Don't know anywhere you could get that for $100, but if you wanted to get hardcore about making that a reality you might be able to convince someone at a science center with one of these to make immersive challenges aimed at adults -&g
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by didericis 4y ago
I’ve had the good fortune to work at a small place where the understanding between R&D disruptor types and get-shit-done GSD types was pretty good. When R&D types contain themselves/keep the playground from spilling over until
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by didericis 4y ago
I’ve got a theory on the fermi paradox stuff I need to flesh out (and research, am assuming this isn’t original), among like a dozen other things I’ve been meaning to expand on that I haven’t: I think we severely underestimate how much we
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by didericis 4y ago
I've examined similar feelings very closely and don't believe it to be a past centric nostalgia. I've found niches that give me that same energy. Most of what I enjoy lies outside of what's recommended to me by most fron
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by didericis 4y ago
That doesn't solve the problem. Documentation of unknown quality is useless noise. People don't understand the unfathomable amount of garbage that's going to be generated in light of all these models. Doesn't matter how

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