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by igorkraw 4y ago
So what is the benefit of making it painful to end your life? They'll drown themselves out of sight and hopefully wash into the ocean? What is the solution to the suffering that making killing yourself harder brings?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
This is a weird article to me. It seems to criticize the program for not failing to adequately force people to live in a society that makes them want to die. It even quotes someone pointing out that a high usage rate by people driven to giv
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I'm wondering, does this example work as anti-euthanasia instead of pro-UBI to anyone reading it (or the rest of the article)? It seems excessively cruel to me to try and force people to live in misery big enough to make the want to ki
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Thanks, I think your perspective is very valid and it boils down to what we are more concerned with (and I think diversity helps here). For me, I'm more concerned with high probability manipulators, bad faith players and power seekers
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by igorkraw 4y ago
That you think Elton John isn't masculine says more about toxic masculinity than you might have intended. Why exactly is he not "masculine"?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I think people often conflate empathy and sympathy. I agree it's worth to try and have empathy with billionaires - otherwise, like you said, we can't build useful models of the world. The problem is that we usually can't em
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you, personally are intending to engage in this tradition, but pointing to anyone reasoning out that in general we are very charitable to those in power while very strict to those without. While y
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by igorkraw 4y ago
All of these is just what we call being overcome with passion, fearlessly spreading truth, daring to step into the public arena, demonstrating personal values, cunning political manoeuvring and sticking up for yourself/revenge if we fi
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by igorkraw 4y ago
As I said to the other comment or, you can also pay for therapy. Which maybe Elon is already getting, I don't speculate about his private life. I was responding to a comment which I agreed with except in their in my opinion overly symp
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by igorkraw 4y ago
The sister comment has said it, already but to add to what they said, in our society, these two are intricately linked - think of the fact that most high paying or high jobs are not compatible with participating in personally raising a fa
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by igorkraw 4y ago
They can also buy therapy or relinquish their wealt if they feel empty, but the inverse (relinquishing poverty) is much harder. At a certain point (and billionaires definitely cross that), I still have empathy for them, but I think personal
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by igorkraw 4y ago
While I agree with your last paragraph I would like to quote Robert Caro talking about power: "But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, tryin
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Public records are public records, doubly so if they concern billionaires. Musk has been begging to be a public person for decades now, he does not get to decide the framing
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I did not realize the 18th amendment only banned the possession and consumption of alcohol for the top 0.1% of drinkers, which is what a hard cap at about a billion would introduce. 99% of private wealth is closer to 0 than to a billion. Ca
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by igorkraw 4y ago
How exactly? You can still be rich - but there will be a cap on power. That's like saying "if amazing dictatorial power is made illegal, only outlaws will amass dictatorial power". No, in fact, sometimes systems do what they
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by igorkraw 4y ago
It is a Markov chain. Your input context is your state.
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YouTuber CoffeZilla gets SBF to admit FTX “allowed generalized withdrawals”(youtube.com)
32 points by igorkraw 4y ago|7 comments
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Specifically "generalised withdrawals" which are later referred to "as usual". SBF also admits to "fungibility between buckets" across TOS lines and they didn't want to spend the days of the crash "fr
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Serious question: why? If I understand OP correctly, it's a 1 line math equation which is provided if necessary and you just need to turn into some useable interface?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Sure. Just like Tay, Galactica and other public ooopsies were actually just genius crowdsourcing techniques. Never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity works for genius as well.
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Not really. Public insurance in Germany was explicitly designed to have independent governing bodies, which is why you get to vote on certain decisions. Few people do, but it's one of the examples of non-state democratic governance t
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by igorkraw 4y ago
With what income, which insurance and what type of issue? German public healthcare is pretty comprehensive and cheap (one of the few things I miss) and definitely not on par in terms of price with Switzerland which is even further away fr
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Yes. Because they aren't attacking bloated bureaucracies that have been sufficiently captured and privatised, and the offered solutions might be subtly biased. It's only an ad hominem if after using the heuristic and critically ch
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Ben Recht actually has a line of work showing that we aren't over fitting the validation/test set for now (amazingly...). What I mean is, by chasing higher and higher SotA with more and more money and compute, whole fields can go
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Because the variance can be uniformly high, making it difficult to properly judge the improvement of one method vs the baseline method: did you actually improve, or did you just get a few lucky seeds? It's much harder to get a paper d
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by igorkraw 4y ago
This is one of my default suggestions when I act as reviewer: t test with bonferroni correction please. ML, ironically, has absolutely horrible practices in terms of distinguishing signal from noise( which at least is partially offset by th
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by igorkraw 4y ago
But in the real world, bitcoin and indeed all of crypto is a/are token/s without an army behind it or any form of legal promises except those conferred to them by $L1. Unless you want to go to El Salvador or that one other natio
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Wealth=non democratic power. Fully compatible with OPs characterisation
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by igorkraw 4y ago
On the system level:tax the billionaire? 1. Found a unicorn. Congratulations! 2. Get a tax bill 3. Either loan against your shares (good luck) or(and probably even if you do get a loan) 4. Go public early, selling your shares and let others
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I wrote a whole post because I misread your first line as "while some people think" and set out to "tell people on the internet they are wrong", but since we seem to actually agree with another, I'll post the below

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