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by mrow84 7y ago
I thought it was clear (though obviously not) from the example that it was an idealised case, where "ownership" was referring to exclusive use. Your counter-example does not fit that simplified model - you are effectively describi
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by mrow84 7y ago
Their testable prediction is "no matter how the Public Good game looks exactly, it’s always the case that if endowments are too unequal, you’ll never get cooperation", quoted from the article. They themselves tested that predictio
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by mrow84 7y ago
The study of economics is conducted by a large number of people (many thousands), with (apparently, at least) diverse views. I am interested in your answers to these questions: 1. Do you believe that all economists are engaged in distributi
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by mrow84 7y ago
You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but unfortunately this process is how our understanding of the world has increased so rapidly over the past several hundred years - laboriously proposing new models, often from intuitions we have
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by mrow84 7y ago
> So you're taking a high (100s-1000s) dimensional problem and projecting it onto a 2-10 dimensional space where your conclusions are based on a form of clustering which itself is purely dependent upon your (probably ideologically d
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by mrow84 7y ago
The researcher is not expressing ideology, but rather making a point about the issues of using productivity to assess public good. His point is that by buying your tenth car you will contribute to productivity, but the use value of your ten
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by mrow84 7y ago
Advertising is an arms race with your competitors, so it is difficult to assign a fixed price to it - you simply need to be spending roughly as much as your competitors are. Somewhat similarly, on the matter of choosing between alternative
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by mrow84 8y ago
Whilst it is obvious that increasing the money supply will cause inflation in an otherwise fixed economy, it is important to note that increasing the money supply will not cause inflation if productivity also increases. If you believe that
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by mrow84 8y ago
My summary of the most recent comments in this thread: Dirlewanger: group X have property Y arandr0x: members of group X without property Y might be offended by "group X have property Y" courir: as a member of group X without prop
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by mrow84 8y ago
Assuming the youtube recommendation algorithm is mostly just "people who watched this also watched", then couldn't the asymmetry in the recommendation graph structure simply be a relatively accurate reflection of asymmetry in
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by mrow84 8y ago
I, for one, find that quite hard to argue with. I guess that makes me tiresome company.
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by mrow84 8y ago
I have had similar experiences, though I rarely drive in London. However, I would hope that you would accept that, if you were caught speeding, it would be a fair cop, given the clarity of the signage, the rules, etc.? The acceptance of the
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by mrow84 8y ago
I'm not sure whether I have followed your example correctly, but interpret it as being that the local population was essentially law abiding, because they knew the camera locations both when they were visible and when they were non-vis
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by mrow84 8y ago
This case only really applies in situations where speed limits aren't well established. I will admit that I was talking from the perspective of a country where you are tested on common speed limits before you are allowed to drive, and
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by mrow84 8y ago
I think the principle of non-visible cameras is that, by inducing uncertainty about when you might receive a ticket, you encourage law abiding behaviour across the road network, and not just at those sites where you locate cameras. In princ
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by mrow84 8y ago
My wife's sister is a paediatric oncologist in India. People come to her when their kids get sick, and she does her analysis and gives them a diagnosis, which might be that there is a fairly high probability that their child is going t
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by mrow84 8y ago
The punishment that prisoners are subjected to is the deprivation of their liberty. As noted by other commenters, prisoners should be paid at market rates. This is both fair, and avoids market distortions.
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by mrow84 9y ago
Your supposition seems correct to me, though I may well have misunderstood something. As for the focus on white noise, the history section in the scholarpedia article [0] suggests it's simply historical contingency. [0] http:/&#x
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by mrow84 9y ago
I don't particularly understand why anyone would downvote you, but your comment didn't offer any reason why one would want to point out that Chicago has already had 200 gun homicides this year with its strict gun control laws, nor
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by mrow84 9y ago
The scientific significance of these two events (Arctic warming and the recent US cold snap) is not comparable. If you would like more information, you can start by referring to the wikipedia article on climate change in the Arctic [0], and
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by mrow84 9y ago
As I said, context is important, and other people might perceive your intent incorrectly, depending on your choice of words, and your timing. People should not give a knee-jerk reaction without some effort to understand you, but if you ever
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by mrow84 9y ago
It is only dismissive ironically - the author is not really belittling Slavic languages. Context and intent are important, and it is possible to be unduly sensitive. I think it is worth expecting readers to expend a small amount of effort t
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by mrow84 9y ago
Thanks for a comprehensive reply, and I apologise for not seeing it earlier. To frame what follows, my perspective is that of someone who spends a lot of time learning about and using these kinds of techniques. You seem to appreciate the pr
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by mrow84 9y ago
What position in the distribution is suitably "scientifically rigorous"? Should all children's cartoons represent only the population mean? Or perhaps the median - at least that is guaranteed to actually exist. Maybe the mode
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by mrow84 9y ago
As long as you are vaguely positivist then we are surely only "choosing between algorithms" - the question is rather how those choices are made. When we consider computerised solutions we are nearly always forced to radically simp
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by mrow84 9y ago
The discussion in the paper describes COMPAS as "no more accurate or fair than the predictions of people with little to no criminal justice expertise who responded to an online survey", an assessment that doesn't seem unreaso
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by mrow84 9y ago
It is reported in the paper - age and total number of previous convictions.
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by mrow84 9y ago
This is an interesting paper on a subject that has provoked debate on HN in the past. I would be interested to read criticism of the methods from those who have expressed support for these kinds of automated systems. The most obvious critic
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by mrow84 9y ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can tell there is no advantage to the insurers, with respect only to the returns on policies, in producing accurate assessments of individual risk levels, as compared with only accurately ass
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by mrow84 9y ago
My main point was simply that moral positions that are not human-centric can and do exist. It strikes me that the difficulty with accepting the possibility of human responsibility for non-human parts of reality may simply be a consequence o

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