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by js8 2y ago
> Ukraine was not made a member of NATO - it hadn’t even applied. At no point did Russia even rattle any sabres, offer red lines, or pursue diplomacy. I don't think you're paying attention. Bush's invite of Ukraine and Geo
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by js8 2y ago
Your last paragraph makes a terrible moral argument: Yeah, maybe I am waging a war today, but's in the interest of the future peace! I don't think your hypothetical assumption that 20th century peace could not be made without usin
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by js8 2y ago
You mean like the small guns, right? They are not being used not because society deems it morally unacceptable, but because the gun owners are afraid they will be counterattacked with guns. I just had an argument about madness that is MAD:
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by js8 2y ago
Rocking chair is better than worrying, because rocking chair at least calms your anxiety.
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Isn't "your coworkers are not your friends, and your work is not your life" kind of depressing, capitalism-realistic, take? I don't see why we couldn't live in a world where coworkers are our friends and work is our
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On average, it's actually a good heuristic, because people are mostly clones. You correct for that bias by understanding yourself and others better, but it takes time and effort.
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Haven't read it, but isn't this just logarithmic tables in some form? I am asking not to dismiss it, I genuinely feel I don't understand logarithms on a fundamental level (of logic gates etc.). If multiplication can be replac
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by js8 2y ago
> The dude who invented the MAD doctrine did not get the award No, he didn't win the award, because MAD doctrine (aside from it being immoral) doesn't actually work in the real world. It's an idealized model based on game
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by js8 2y ago
There is an incentive for companies to increase prices, regardless of the price cap, aka "profit motive". That we can agree on. My question is about the incentive to decrease prices (e.g. due to competition). Why it should be affe
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What you're talking about is a market failure, basically admitting that markets don't decrease prices in many cases. Which is a much deeper rabbit hole. My proposal even doesn't say what the ratio should be. If there wasn&#x2
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You have simply rephrased the actuarial rule "don't insure item for more than its actual value". The "premium" you describe just inflated the value of the item.
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The incentive would be for you to have a "happy pillow accident" in which you get $1M. Of course, you might think that's good for you but the rules have to apply for everybody, by definition.
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It's not their job. It would be easy to adopt laws requiring insurance companies to separate insurance pool money (used to pay out insurance) and operational money (used to pay employees and profits), and have these separated when show
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This is also true for consciousness or sentience. No matter how surprising abilities of non-human beings (and computer agents), it is something mysterious that only humans do.
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> > [moral relativism is] not that a difficult idea Actually I mean moral universalism here, but thanks for your comment.
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I think that humanistic moral universalism (or simply humanism) - a moral philosophy which is a basis for e.g. Universal Declaration of Human Rights - requires the moral axiom that "not hurting humans is above all else". This obvi
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by js8 2y ago
Isn't centralized vs decentralized just another case of efficient vs robust? If you want to make an optimal decision, you need to make it in a centralized fashion, in some form. But that also gives you a single point of failure.
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I have a pet theory that the state-planned economies failed not because they were inefficient (as neoclassical economics claims), but rather because they attempted to be too efficient. They tried to exactly calculate which producer needs wh
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I wish there also was a distinction between truthful and whimsical.
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I am not sure why would you want to do this. If I take an example of the bottling pipeline, it seems to me that the best way to process the bottles on an SMP system is to have multiple threads where each thread is doing all the work for a s
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by js8 2y ago
The way they do it is actually to express it in terms of combinatory logic. If we have a combinator Bxyz = x(yz), how can we express combinator Axyzw = x(y(zw)) using only B? The famous Smullyan's book To Mock a Mockingbird is full of
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What about other fantasy works that culturally influenced creation of D&D, like Lord of the Rings or Conan the Barbarian? Are those also anti-medieval?
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> As the typed FP ecosystem is moving towards dependent typing (Agda, Idris, Lean), this becomes an issue, because you don't want the type checker to run indefinitely. First of all, does ecosystem move to dependent types? I think th
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by js8 2y ago
I don't what KANs are, but from the informal description in the article "turn function on many variables into many functions of single variable", it sounds reminiscent of lambda calculus.
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> However, there are far more people being creative and generating "things" with a computer now than when the ZX was available. I think you miss the point. While there are professional programs to do X, overall usability went d
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by js8 2y ago
I agree with the programming part. I just started playing with GForth on Android, but I wonder if people know of other options. (IMHO something like Emacs or Factor would be ideal.)
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by js8 2y ago
I don't use these but you might want to check things like CuriosityStream or Nebula.
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Computronium is the new gold.
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I am not sure if your (and sibling) comment is meant as a polemic, but let me add some context. Of course, communists did exactly that - there was enforced full employment so if you didn't get a job where you lived, you had to find it
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Since my childhood in post-1989 Czechoslovakia, neoliberal economists have been touting supposed benefits of "flexible" workforce sloshing around the country, and the US was often given as an example, how amazingly nomadic it is.

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