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by eynsham 3y ago
It’s not apparent to me that the use of Schedule 7 powers says particularly much about ‘the state of the West in general’. ‘Where the flame is lit’ does matter as to whether the resultant fire burns in Britain; the flames of 1848 did not.
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by eynsham 3y ago
Er hardly anybody in Britain cares, as much as I am outraged personally.
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by eynsham 3y ago
The US has a very different intellectual tradition arising from a deliberate act of rebellion and a fairly static constitution. Many European countries have a history of fascist dictatorship. Britain has neither, so in my view is somewhat l
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by eynsham 3y ago
I think that’s missing the point that the department fined is unlikely to recover the whole fine and most departments respond to incentives to maximise their longevity and budget, so there is a meaningful incentive from intra-governmental f
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by eynsham 3y ago
And how much do you know about the Indian government?
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by eynsham 3y ago
Cleverness of self-promotion does not preclude cleverness (or soundness) of argument.
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by eynsham 3y ago
HK (pre~2020) had and Singapore has rule of law.
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by eynsham 3y ago
Yes, the most time-efficient form of practice for BP (in my experience) was alternating opening speeches with a friend. 15+14+10 for reflexion≈40 minutes per speech.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Horgan disagrees with adherents of scientism not on their epistemology but on some of their claims. That’s why, apart from a quick mention of falsifiability, he mostly simply negates what, e.g., Dawkins says—on cancer, or genetics, or multi
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by eynsham 4y ago
Presumably this is to be treated as a probabilistic objection, in which case I’d suggest that in expectation actually there are many strategies that will do better than holding cash. Otherwise the wealth tax isn’t exactly a problem given th
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by eynsham 4y ago
> This ensures you can never really retire and you have to continue to work no matter what. Norway has a state pension and isn’t especially notable for late retirement (modulo life expectancy). One usually also invests one’s savings whic
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by eynsham 4y ago
0.99*10 = 9.9, I should think; of course, 0.99^10 ≈ 0.9 but 0.99^n is not in general well-approximated by 1-0.01n.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Presumably the suggestion is to enact legislation under which the state would effect such seizures, which wouldn’t facially be unlawful. It might be unconstitutional, or impermissible in a rechtstaat, or inconsistent with a basic structure,
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by eynsham 4y ago
This is an absurd nitpick. First, nobody would read the claim as a literal one that Putin blew up the relevant gas infrastructure, especially since the background assumptions to the Western reaction include one that Putin would be willing t
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by eynsham 4y ago
Being uninformed enough to think that ridiculing politicians in China simpliciter is taboo is embarrassing. If he is this ignorant of China, he should let someone else decide, or read a book.
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by eynsham 4y ago
AI isn’t the only concern of philosophy. There are plenty who know about ML at least: some in formal epistemology and some in philosophy of cognitive science.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Whether or not Trump was fading away has nothing to do with whether he should be charged, which is a function of his conduct and the law, not his political success or lack thereof.
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by eynsham 4y ago
1.5 onwards I think has been entirely usable; before that I found it bizarrely unstable.
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by eynsham 4y ago
> insist kids should read it It is fairly trivial to leave books in the library without forcing children to read them or recommending that they should. I hope that all school libraries have copies of Rudin, Marx and Kripke too—and that’s
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by eynsham 4y ago
> For example, I often find lots of hyphens and justified text hard to read, so I try to get latex to not use justified text and to never hyphenate. The obvious problem that comes to mind is links; otherwise I don’t see the problem. And
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by eynsham 4y ago
I’ll make sure to remind my friends doing legal research that their informed opinion in fact amounts to ‘mobocracy’.
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by eynsham 4y ago
> SCOTUS ‘…the Southern District of New York will hear…’ > question of merits whether you like IA or not Whether the court ‘likes IA or not’ may be a relevant question in respect of public policy considerations. > rooting is defini
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by eynsham 4y ago
In general, if state laws are unconstitutional, it’s for the judiciary to declare them such, and not for Congress to overrule them in statute.
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by eynsham 4y ago
There’s a danger of confusing the problems with actually existing AI ethics work for evidence that there’s no need to ethically evaluate AI. On any moral realist view, AI will likely be extremely important. And insofar as ethical standards
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by eynsham 4y ago
Oh, you’re right! Well, hm, how about SAT-PRIME' = {φ: φ is satisfiable and its Gödel number (under some scheme) has [some property]}.
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by eynsham 4y ago
If it’s NP it’s polynomially reducible to SAT. There are problems that do not admit a polynomial reduction to SAT, but by Cook-Levin they’re not in NP. It is of course possible to construct a problem that will require strictly more steps th
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by eynsham 4y ago
> SAT is harder than any NP problem This isn’t really true; as any undergrad will have been told, it’s at least as hard as any NP problem, where A is as hard as B when there is polynomial-time computable function f such that we may deter
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by eynsham 4y ago
Yes Minister is a documentary about pre-Thatcherite Britain. 1. The civil service has been hollowed out; it is now largely reliant on external consultancies and outsourcing firms for many important functions (e.g., Crapita). 2. It’s lost po
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by eynsham 4y ago
Are you just here to sneer or do you have an actual point as to how effective this legislation is likely to be? Anything from obviously effective to utterly pointless laws can be derided as an attempt to ‘magically get rid of’ a problem.
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by eynsham 4y ago
> ideally people should be feeding and raiding their own kids 1. It’s unfair to the child to make them suffer for the omissions of the parent. Whilst this principle shouldn’t be applied absolutely, when there’s a relatively easy solution

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