mjburgess

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by mjburgess 2mo ago
If honest, the error bars would be so large as to make drawing conclusions from these numbers seem pointless. Certainly, both jobs growth and jobs loss are within the CI. What's actually being tracked by people using this data is the d
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by mjburgess 3mo ago
Computer scientists generally struggle with intensional contexts, ie., the sense in which sqrt(4) isnt (1 + 1); or the sense in which I believe(that sqrt(1101) ~10) but I dont believe(that 10^2 ~1101) So they replace everything with extensi
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by mjburgess 3mo ago
It also assumes that "intelligence" is a limiting factor. It's hard to imagine there are any domains today, or almost any, which are bottlenecked on intelligence.
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by mjburgess 3mo ago
Probability distributions don't generate data, they describe our uncertainty about its generation retrospectively. So there is no answer to that question. The lack of such an answer is at the heart of why such inference is hard: in mos
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by mjburgess 3mo ago
If they deleted the blockchain db from the nodes, this is still lost. Blockchain doesn't have anything esp. to do with data loss. It solves exactly one problem which is distributed double spending in accounting ledgers.
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
Possibly but this act of governmental self-harm is useful to The People. We live in a world where if your valuation is ~1T you can more or less just do what you like. And the work of The People is stolen from you and launderd. In such a wor
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
Sanctuary! mercy from grey font
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
I think preferential attachment and the Pareto process world that we live in, means, that its in the nature of wealth to accumulate in proportion to wealth. And the only way to make the world rich is to exploit that process effectively. Div
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
No one has claimed that. You're the only one claiming a border immigration policy needs to correctly quantify over the universal non-citizen class. No state in the world today, nor in all of history, has that view. Nor is it, on the fa
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
Sure, i mean there's lots of highly credible polling. I didnt choose the hypothetical carelessly. Western states are by far and away the only places that maintain these liberal island of virtue, and even so, vanishing and small. The id
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
If citizenship isnt a line between two classes of people to which states owe obligations, then why isnt the USA obligated to pay for the healthcare of everyone in the world? Why does medicare/medicaid end at the US border?
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
States are not the creations of the enlightment I'll await your grant of medicare to the population of africa
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
State policies do not operate in this fashion. See, for example, the reality of importing 1 million people. The existence of a state pressuposes two "classes" of people: citizens and non-citizens. Citizens are those who have lived
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
> cultural and economic phenomenon
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
Right, so what's the state policy you advocate here? Import 1 million people, 800,000 of which are racist, sexist, homophobic and militantly conservative -- and you'll do that because the policy to prevent it is, as you say, &quot
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
I'll refer you to article 50 of the constitution of the USSR, > Article 50. In accordance with the interests of the people and in order to strengthen and develop the socialist system, citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of s
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
So suppose there's a large group of people arriving into your country en mass, you poll them about eg., women's rights and you find that 80%+ of them hold highly regressive views that were rare and fringe in even in the last 100+
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
What's the relationship between race and immigration status? It's not entirely clear what the argument which unites them is supposed to be. This unification is always in the mind of the white matry not the person opposing immigrat
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by mjburgess 4mo ago
The CJ decides who writes the opinion of the majority if in the majority, and the dissent if in the dissent. Its the job of the CJ to bring sides together in clear oppositions, and "horse trade" between bits and pieces of a decisi
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
No one is curating vast amounts of data for them in other domains. Programmers send programs with fixes
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
If we take the video game example literally, we establish a fictional context for the language in question, so we read all questions as in-game.. the answer to the character's question is: the world the character is in. A skyrim NPC ch
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Yes, so your semantics of langauge make such questions incomprhensible. It's like if someone said, "what's the radius of this circle?" and you had defined "circle" and "radius" such that circles could
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Yip, but once you have to explain law-following fixed perceptual fields (ie., that it always seems as if my fixed visual perceptions follow the laws of physics, and so on; that my audial/touch/visual percetions follow geometry exa
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
It doesnt perceive the image of a camera, it's sensor is that image. What it means to perceive is for that image to form. This is the second great fallacies of idealism: (1) the genetic fallacy above that the origin/product of a
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Alas for my interlocutor's argument.
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
It makes the questions incoherent. This isnt a benefit, it's a sign that the semantics you're giving language fail to actually model its meaning. The position isnt self-consistent, unless you engage in the typical idealist peforma
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
It's not a simple answer, because its not an answer to any question. It is "simpler" to assume the thermometer readings exist without any thing to cause them, then they move up and down, and its "simpler" to assert:
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
I've been an idealist. I understand all the arguments. The base fallacy at the heart of all this is the one I mentioned. On the very last point: the conclusion that consciousness is thin, like a photograph, and the world thick -- follo
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Alas, no I am not. They're properties of the world which consciousness measures. A mountain is painted in the ink of a photo, the mountain is not an illusion. You're focused only on the measurement, and not what is measured.
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
You can read my other comment. You're also committing the genetic fallacy. Yes, a hand can measure itself. Yes, consciousness as a measurement process of reality can expose to the conscious agent that its own consciousness is a merely

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