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Philosopher Kings in Blue?(overcomingbias.com)
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I think there's an intrinsic human drive to be useful. It makes sense evolutionarily: the tribe can't kick you out if they rely on you for something. It's no guarantee of safety or success, but it's a bargaining chip. Ke
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I rather like the Max Landis Dirk Gently series, albeit as its own thing: a drastic reimagining only loosely inspired by the source material, similar to The Shining. The 2 1/2 Dirk Gently books are Adams' finest in my opinion. HHG
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I used to read The Illuminatus! Trilogy [0] once every year or two, though that's slowed down; I feel like I've gotten something new out of it every time. I'm now taking a second pass through Unsong [1], simply because I enjo
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by lukifer 6y ago
This is a classic market failure / coordination problem. Most of us understand the articles don't write themselves (AI summaries and fake news bots notwithstanding), first party research and fact-checking is time-consuming and exp
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Metcalfe's Law [0] dictates that the value of a network service scales exponentially with its number of nodes. This tilts the table in favor of winner-take-all ecosystems; moreover, in terms of both political soft power and cultural in
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by lukifer 6y ago
I believe they've done it twice now: once for the Daily Stormer [0], once for 8chan [1]. I'm fairly impressed that they host criticism of those decisions on their own website [2]. [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/wh
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I was describing how it works already. Disenfranchisement can also swing the other direction (such as the Supreme Court intervening to stop the Florida recount in 2000). The main point is: while there's no mechanism for citizens to pas
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They'll die if they can't make enough returns to pay for the electricity (and I'd be happy if we helped make that a reality through a tax on carbon and/or POW mining itself).
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Nature is full of examples of intentional waste as a form of signaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory That said, IMO Proof of Work is indistinguishable from Proof of Stake with extra steps. And consid
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by lukifer 6y ago
Funny you should mention it! I actually prefer Approval voting, partially for its simplicity, partially because it elegantly represents Consent of the Governed. I sometimes don't bother mentioning Approval, because RCV has greater mind
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Electoral reform. Every state manages its own electoral processes, and the vast majority of states have some mechanism for direct democracy through ballot initiatives. There are many potential improvements, from algorithmic redistricting to
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Obligatory plug for Jonathon Haidt: https://righteousmind.com/ People start with moral intuitions first and work backwards to find reasons. Fallacies, ignorance, and sloppy thinking is quasi-deliberate, to satisfy a priori
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It's got the AppleScript problem: incredibly close to pro-sumer zero-code development, but in practice still requires some prior tech knowledge. I'd love to see pre-packaged Node-RED binaries for Mac and Windows. Requiring an inst
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by lukifer 6y ago
True. As overloaded/charged as the term has become, it's hard to describe Buckley's reaction to Vidal as anything other than "triggered". :)
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+1, I also fell down a rabbit role of old Firing Line episodes recently. Buckley can be condescending and paternalistic; but he nonetheless engages in good faith with the other side, letting them sink or swim by their own words, which is
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There's a relevant engineering axiom, that a sufficient quantitative difference amounts to a qualitative difference (sometimes phrased as "quantity has a quality all its own"). At some ineffable point, a "private platfor
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As mindless replicators, viruses are also incentivized to mutate into less deadly forms over time, so as to spread more effectively.
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Battles over freedom of expression have nearly always occurred at the boundary of the vile: see the obscenity battles over the rap group 2 Live Crew [0], or Chomsky's vociferous defense for the right of Europeans to express Holocaust d
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The Bill of Rights only covers negative rights: what Congress is explicitly forbidden from doing. Free Speech is a social norm as well as a legal construct; there are components of a civil society and Enlightenment values that have nothing
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Im 1000% in favor of mandatory parental leave, but that's the risk: it incentivizes companies to try shift their labor force into gigs and contract roles as much as they can get away with. In 2012, I was canvassed by a McCain supporter
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I don't know about its efficacy, but my favorite means of mass energy storage is a gravity battery: literally stacking heavy blocks in a huge tower, which are raised and lowered based on energy demands by automated cranes. https:&#x2F
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I think I failed to emphasize the "If". :) I wasn't offering a comparison, so much as posing a framing device in order to ask a question: if minimal abstraction is 1, and highly abstracted is 10, what's the best-practice
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I can't say enough good things about a multiple clipboard manager. Not only is it useful to copy/paste multiple items in sequence, but it's a game changer to be able to quickly retrieve a code snippet, or URL, or CLI command
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It is a very very loose analogy ;)
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My (very fuzzy) understanding is that NZ is going to be hit hard by global warming and rising sea levels during the next 50 years: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/alarming-...
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If vanilla HTML/CSS/JS is "Assembly", and heavy frameworks like React/Angular are "Java", what's the web app equivalent of C (light abstraction and close to the metal)? Svelte?
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...so long as you don't live near the coastline :/
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Governments don't exactly bat 1000 on all laws being just. Crime is not a-priori evil. But even outside that use case, crypto-assets are a perfectly reasonable hedge as a store-of-value; there's a case that an asset guarded with p

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