mrow84

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by mrow84 6y ago
Well this is a different topic - the issue I was addressing was the utility of weekly data presented by ciceryadam, which you were questioning. As to you new point - you are drawing your conclusions from disparate data sources, whilst ignor
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What if prosocial behaviour isn't the best option for the individual?
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If you look at the chart the death in 2020/2021 are well outside the extremal values for the previous two decades, and the "mass" contained there is much larger than the cumulative discrepancies for earlier in 2020. At that l
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by mrow84 6y ago
This is something I have wondered as well - I have seen several threads relating this idea on HN and elsewhere, and there are numerous comments here saying the same, but I have never heard of anyone receiving counterfeit goods from Amazon i
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by mrow84 6y ago
The fisarmoniche have a wiggle in the fins, whereas the radiatori don't.
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Information theory provides a way to measure the "size" of probability distributions, which has applications wherever we are interested in quantifying our uncertainties. For example, it can be used to target observations for reduc
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by mrow84 6y ago
EUT can be used descriptively because you can just pick any utility function to fit whatever behaviour you are trying to explain, but that doesn't offer any insight. If the theory was good you could find a utility function that fit a r
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by mrow84 6y ago
> If the problems are different a different utility function may be appropriate. The claim of the paper is that you can derive an appropriate rational solution for each problem using a single technique. > How so? EE works only with an
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by mrow84 6y ago
I do, and no, not precisely, but I would prefer to have more wealth than less at any time step - that is a preference that is invariant. However, what may change is the structure of the problem in front of me - the nature of the bets, or my
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by mrow84 6y ago
I realise I am not explaining my self particularly well, but I don't think it is fair to call it the same assumption. Assuming that we want to maximise growth over whatever our horizon is (be it one period, multiple periods, or an infi
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by mrow84 6y ago
The assumption that one's life will be composed of a series of risky choices doesn't seem to be a very strong one. The use of a single form of bet is just illustrative - the point applies equally well to any series of bets with si
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by mrow84 6y ago
Ah yeah, fair point - I think it would actually be 0.5 log(1.5 W) + 0.5 log(0.6 W), without the additional log(W) term, because the reward is multiplicative, but it works out the same if we let W=1. I read this paper when it was on here pre
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edit: As noted in your other comment, the expectation with a standard utility function is actually negative, thus the premise for part of the below is incorrect, and therefore so are its conclusions. A more faithful reproduction of Peters&#
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by mrow84 6y ago
The problem you have described is a single-step problem, and the process you work through gives a satisfactory answer to the question you have asked. So my answer to > Would you say that there is a problem with EUT up to this point? Is n
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by mrow84 6y ago
> EE claims that, but it's a baseless claim. The growth optimization arguments used by EE can be perfectly used (and have been used) in the usual formulation of EUT. The disagreement seems to boil down to what is considered the &quo
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by mrow84 6y ago
The comment I replied to was discussing the necessity of the concept of expected utility for the success of any economic theory. My points were with reference to that - I am only claiming that it is not a requirement for a reasonable econ
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I think that the errors you are making are that EE does not do away with expected utility, and expected utility is not a strict requirement for the development of a theory to describe economic outcomes. 1) It seems to me that it is only ut
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I guess there are two ways of looking at that question. One is just basic generalisation - do these neurons effectively capture things within their semantic group (whatever that means) but completely outside of the training data. If yes, th
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by mrow84 6y ago
Is that not accommodated by the following point from the "Important points to note regarding this article" section? "This approach of interpreting the stability of the system by linearizing it near the equilibrium does not te
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If the trained network produces common labels for sets of pixel soups that we consider to be semantically related, but are not visually related, then that is interesting.
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The left has largely already been destroyed within the "Anglosphere". Collective bargaining has been undermined, social programs are defunded, and income and wealth inequality is increasing. The "attacks" you are referri
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Pretty shameless (though I don't think against the guidelines afaict), but my mother has written a series of novels that have a similar focus in terms of time period and section of society, for anyone who might be interested: https:&#
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by mrow84 6y ago
Degrees, etc., are better described as positional goods [0], than as more basic luxury goods, but you are right that that largely leaves them as the preserve of the rich (in places where financing is required). I would highly recommend &quo
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Because, as qayxc intimated with "Contrary to conventional power sources", it is more expensive to turn gas turbines off and on again than it is wind turbines. Price will dictate action in a marketplace, so sufficient incentives n
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The types of surgeries performed should be controlled for when performing a statistical study.
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This is a good point - it is essentially a distributed multiple comparisons problem, further compounded by lots of dubious assessments of significance.
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No idea who flagged your next reply but I was going to say that I think the first sentence of it detracted from your otherwise good points in this thread. I have vouched but I doubt it will have any effect, which I think is a shame because
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I also experienced this on mushrooms, and found it quite traumatising as well, though I was already (I think) in a bit of a dark place when that part of the trip began, so that probably influenced my perception of it.
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Surely once caste is established intelligence can't be selected for any more strongly than under any other conditions - the rules of the game are fixed at that point. Your final point about selection via coercion holds more water, but
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I can see two obvious interpretations of what you might be implying: 1. That, because you are unable to think of rules and regulations that would work, there must not be any. 2. That, in order for anyone to legitimately suggest that somethi

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