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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I don't think so. The nature of systems it that they tend to become corrupt if they can be corrupted.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I'm not talking about money laundering and financial crime, I'm talking about removing people's access to the banking and credit system due to their political beliefs.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> They have been corrected. Based on what are you saying this?
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
In the example of the credit card system, the misplaced trust I am talking about would be misplaced trust in the payment processing networks themselves (e.g. Visa, Mastercard). This could be fraud (unlikely I think) or pathological behavior
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Probably quite favorably when you compare that to the fiat system we have now. Look at SPACs, CLOs, or the Hertz bankruptcy stock buying opportunity, or Nikola Corporation, etc. I could go on forever.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Blockchains exist for situations in which the participants in a transaction or system as a whole do not trust one another. You will always pay a price for that. Centralized systems are much more efficient but they depend on trust. In the ca
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Well at that point we can revisit the discussion. Until then there's no real issue with the prediction.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The "actual epidemiologists" at the WHO waited months to declare this a pandemic after it was already clear it was spreading throughout the world. They did this because they are incompetent and were in the pocket of the CCP. If yo
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
We're sitting at 220k right now so I don't see how that is such a terrible estimate when dealing with a highly multiplicative event like a pandemic. An estimate of 10k or 1M would be something extremely off, not 170k vs 220k. You
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Can you point to where in the article you see this "confidently wrong prediction"?
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I presume this means "deaths due to Covid-19 at a rate one would normally expect from a flu-like respiratory illness".
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I'm not sure why you posted this article when it doesn't impeach his credibility at all.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
What I'm expressing is not a novel or unique perspective. This is a very basic critique of modernity.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> It's means to discredit intelligence No > and expertise Yes > and replace them with shouting loudly No See: Nassim Taleb's IYI (Intellectual Yet Idiot)
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I'm using the term irrational to mean "not within the domain of the rational", not as a synonym for "stupid" or "folly".
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Midwits, not nitwits. Obviously these people are very smart in a particular sense. But yes I agree with you. The super elites with competent financial advisors will just roll over into gold or crypto.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The fact that you're being downvoted is so typical of the kind of midwits that inhabit HN. People vastly underestimate (read: do not even consider) the role that vast monetary manipulation has on a society. It creates so many distortio
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
You're speaking in very black and white terms, but yes in general that is my view and like all historical trends these things tend to decrease or increase in their effect over time. It's not a binary thing. Certainly I am saying t
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
You can place the irrational in a rational frame of understanding, of course. But if you use a heuristic you are saying "I will use this shortcut even though I don't fully understand why it works".
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
People have gotten stupider because the world is too complex (and fundamentally impossible) to understand in a completely rational way. Historically we have relied upon intuition, heuristics, and a network of trusted authority figures (usua
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Hacker culture is about challenging orthodoxies and fostering a spirit of play and irreverence. RegretsReporter at the very least is about reinforcing orthodoxies.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Trusting their intuition.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
That's what it sounds like when you interview a normal human being at the center of something so politically sensitive and dealing with such high level corruption. “When you’re afraid and you don’t know anything about the depth of the
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
You're thinking of libertarians, not conservatives.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Any attempt to bring information to light that is harmful to the Cathedral is considered smearing.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Thank you
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Thank you and yes I should have used a different symbol.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Does anyone know what it's called when the argument is of the form: ∀x. P(x) x Therefore, P(x) Is P(x) "trivially true" in this case? This tends to come up in some political arguments (e.g. about systemic bias where everythin
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Begging the question is about assuming the truth of one or more premises where you may feel like that assumption shouldn't go unquestioned. Assuming the conclusion sounds equivalent to "non-sequitur" or just not making any ar

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