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by hntrader 6y ago
I'll put aside your rudeness (I assume you think this is a status contest, or maybe you've just misunderstood my intentions) and try to explain again. Solar being cheaper than nuclear makes it a foregone conclusion for daytime ele
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by hntrader 6y ago
Still doesn't make sense. Even if what you say is true, then the valid comparison is to compare nuclear to wind rather than nuclear to solar.
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Solar doesn't provide off peak power without storage. So comparing nuclear directly to solar in the way you've done makes no sense.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Isn't the point of nuclear to provide power when it's not sunny as a cheaper alternative to storage in batteries? If so then what's the purpose of comparing the cost of solar and nuclear as if they're directly competing
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by hntrader 6y ago
I have seen the incredible results of psilocybin, but these results are on adult brains. MDMA I'm less sure about due to possible neurotoxicity, I'd need to do more research on it, but my mind isn't closed to it.
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by hntrader 6y ago
This is predictably getting downvoted but the available science is tentatively supportive of this view. Marijuana usage as a child or teenager is significantly correlated with declines in IQ by adulthood. Whether it's causal is up fo
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This is the "brain in a vat" thought experiment in philosophy. Also the simulation hypothesis. In short, I don't believe it's falsifiable or testable. We can just reason about likelihoods. Relevant to this is solipsism.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Pigovian taxes are my favourite response to environmental damage. In theory, everyone should be on board. The fiscal conservatives should want it, since negative externalities are a violation of the non-aggression principle, and taxes are
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by hntrader 6y ago
No, I didn't bring up that one example to support the general claim that murder is part of human nature. I brought it up to debunk the notion that only a very small proportion would necessarily engage in these activities in the absence
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Whenever I read Pinker critiques (and I've read a few) they're always dripping with dishonest reasoning that leaves me even more confident in his position. Take Jason Hickel's critique, where he lies about the poverty rate in
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by hntrader 6y ago
It has zero to do with racist research (the same findings apply to historical Europe) and your assertions here are just factually wrong. Here's a study on middle ages Croatia where 20 percent of skeletons showed cranial fractures (whic
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The difference is definitely not known to be due to current environments' relative abundance. Maybe you got that from the Wiki article on bonobos which includes a deceptive quote of a 2014 Nature article. What the article actually says
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by hntrader 6y ago
I get where you're coming from, but modern society is clearly pushing us away from our own nature in this instance, not towards it. To establish this, we just need to ask the question of what would happen if the explicit state punishme
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by hntrader 6y ago
The clear trend from hunter gatherer to modern society is a dramatically declining murder rate. The murder rate has declined by about 50x thanks to modern society. This is what I mean when I say that these actions are human nature. Only bec
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by hntrader 6y ago
It's not accurate that only a very small minority would participate, the murder rate can go as high as 40-60 percent (e.g Waorani, among others). This is what can happen when there's no Leviathan that disincentives murder and when
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by hntrader 6y ago
Yes, that is human nature if we look at anthropological studies. We punish it which creates a disincentive. There isn't any explicit anti-murder training we need to go through that's premised on a flawed understanding of human nat
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by hntrader 6y ago
I don't think there's mutual exclusivity there. The individual can be blamed while also realising that their actions are a result of circumstances/physics/cosmic forces. If a hurricane (individual) kills a person, it&#x2
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by hntrader 6y ago
I wonder if it's because an invented language has a gigantic number of permutations, the frequency of which swamps English-language replies. Then the most likely next word/statement that completes the input prompt is always going
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by hntrader 6y ago
I used the term "justice system" because that's what everyone calls it. If we want to rename it to something else, that's fine with me.
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I believe this perspective is appealing because of our current inability to recognize what are the actual factors that drive psychopath A to become a killer and psychopath B to be a CEO. Agency is like the God Of The Gaps at the moment. We
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I believe circumstance should be taken into account, but not for the purposes of assigning agency, which is a fantasy concept. It should inform the probability of recidivism, the chances that rehabilitation will work, etc, and therefore inf
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The big problem with this is that our recognition that there's extenuating circumstances (e.g a brain tumour in the prefrontal cortex) says more about our capacity to recognise such situations than it does about actual differences in a
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by hntrader 6y ago
I wonder what the observed relationship is if we were to plot energy usage vs price over the last 3 years
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Good to know, appreciate the explanation. So these estimates that it uses about the same energy as Argentina are probably based on a rather old price and we could get to many multiples of that if the price keeps increasing?
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by hntrader 6y ago
Question about energy usage: roughly how much does it increase as a function of transaction volume? If 10x the number of people start getting involved and transaction volume increases 10x as a result, will the network use 10x the energy?
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Would it be interesting to fine-tune GPT-3 on these?
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If "we only hire in our NY or SV head office" tends towards "we hire anywhere, as long as you're good enough" - wouldn't the effect be the opposite? We've been seeing the slow death of rural communities fo
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Speculation - it could create better politicians through two means: (1) More competition for local immigration, which creates selection effects whereby the better run locales attract the largest populations and survive (2) Small local elect
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He's not trying to deal with the question of potential violence, though. As the parent comment said, his books are mostly descriptive and just lay out data pertaining to extant trends. It's not a book about possible existential ri
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Starcraft was solved in the sense that the winrate against top players was high, but the production model often found itself in pathological absorbing states that it couldn't escape from, which no human would ever get itself into. That

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