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by roenxi 2mo ago
The key thing is whether it is legal though. If we allow that people abandon the rules and do what is possible then any system can be anything. But in an undemocratic system the people forcing a change requires arm twisting beyond the forma
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> To this day Iran's Oil Infrastructure remains intact. Just let that sink in. The US was going as far as issuing sanctions waivers to Russia to try and get oil to the market it was so worried about what the war in the middle east w
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by roenxi 2mo ago
An organised army is the most effective coercive tool that money can buy, so every nation has to have one otherwise it'd be crushed by foreign militarys. And an organised army requires a large group of people who obey orders rather tha
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I don't think it is obvious that measure is meaningful though. The US has always been explicit that it doesn't trust the majority of the population to make decisions and has built intentional systems to keep them out. That is stil
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If that were true, wouldn't that mean that politicians are in fact acting in a WYSIWYG manner? They roll in, implement policies that people like, say "I implemented this policy because it has quiet support" and the political
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> For example, continuing to accept anything that remotely passes as protect-the-children politics without understanding that the consequences are worse than the benefits, even for the children themselves. Have you checked the premise? U
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> There are millions of local activists that are improving the immediate lives of their communities in real impactful ways... Most people manage this. It is hard to earn a paycheck if someone isn't improving the immediate lives of t
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by roenxi 2mo ago
What do you want it to be synonymous to? The people who've managed to do great work without generating large investment returns not that large. Compared to the number of ambitious people presently looking for advice it is small.
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by roenxi 2mo ago
FWIW a good trick is to be aware of your thoughts, watch the tension/stress/realisation/anger/effort arising, the sort-of ignore them because they're thoughts and look for the way your mind tenses moving between the
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Because HN was a forum for oil executives to gather and discuss prices? Big fossil isn't in the room here. It would surprise nobody if there were 0 people in the comments who even work in a fossil fuel company.
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> One of these options makes it much easier for the billionaire class to continue extracting money out of the people. I almost hesitate to ask, do you think that is the centralised or decentralised option? And, more directly, that is a b
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by roenxi 3mo ago
You're probably going to struggle to come up with a motive for that behaviour. It is much more likely that they simply aren't very thoughtful. Complex webs of deception in a public argument are certainly possible, but it generally
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> It's that it is possible to resuscitate dormant or shrinking sectors. It is possible to re-industrialise quickly. China managed to go from peasantry in the grip of communism to arguably the biggest economy in history over a remar
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I don't think the author took a position on synchronisation at all. He said you have to pick one to abandon of mutability/concurrency/interactivity and that abandoning mutability is horribly slow (because of the need to copy
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> But again, there is no free lunch: copying data is slow. Very slow. Of course you can optimize data representations, avoid copying binary blobs (they are ref-counted in Erlang) because it would be untenable. But it will still be horrib
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by roenxi 3mo ago
It remains confusing that, after centuries of profiting off capital generally being a much better strategic choice than profiting off labour, workers insist and persist in trying to make labour work. If the unions had dumped their efforts i
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by roenxi 3mo ago
"Your worth" is a bit of a vague and meaningless term (everyone is worth infinite in some sense). But if we want to talk about your general ability to secure more comfortable living conditions then your worth is very much linked t
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Time for a thought experiment! Imagine there are 2 monkeys. One monkey genuinely believes it is a unique and special being. The other monkey is genuinely egoless, believes all monkeys are just a coincidental blob of matter with no fundament
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> Around 12% of the (US) population actually pursues this, in their view, comfortable lifestyle. The rest consistently indicates either same or a larger number of desired children than they have: This is basic economic revealed preferenc
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by roenxi 3mo ago
As theories go, that one makes little sense. At no point in human history has living in miserable conditions caused people to stop having children. And the evidence seems quite suggestive that people stop having children as their material c
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Lowe mentions costs 0 times though, he isn't making an economic argument. If you want to make an economic argument then 90% is probably the consensus on what is optimal given that is what people are doing. > If this try or die menta
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> I’m fond of saying that the most important single statistic about the drug industry is the clinical failure rate, which is (by any reasonable standard) appallingly high. He starts off on the wrong note, there is nothing at all wrong wi
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Yeah, but even in that characterisation it started with 1 ethnicity and the US replaced it with 2. So the result is less ethnostatic.
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by roenxi 3mo ago
That is generally how it works when people don't accept obvious resolutions. If you want to challenge its obviousness be my guest. It is pretty normal for a DnD/board game group to be meeting at someone's house where there is
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by roenxi 3mo ago
It isn't quite a lobotomy, I'm going to butcher the research a bit, but basically what they're finding is that these models create a sort of "bad stuff that I should refuse to engage with" axis in the statistical ve
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by roenxi 3mo ago
"Propaganda campaign" is the wrong term, but there is still an interesting effect - in the 20th century we tried a bunch of things and liberal capitalism underpinned by democracy won the battle of ideas so badly that the alternati
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I don't mind the AI tropes that much, the issue is more that the amount of information is exactly what was in the prompt but the AI manages to add many words saying nothing. > The screen we shipped in January 2016 made two statement
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by roenxi 3mo ago
The gap seems to be so small I'm not sure how much we should care. If we assume that the trend in the graph does continue as a rough linear improvement, the open models will have reached the same level as the present closed models in 6
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Things like the Knesset, attempts to knock out the entire military leadership simultaneously, maybe some sort of attack designed to wipe out a significant % of Israelis although I don't know what that would look like (maybe some sort o
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by roenxi 3mo ago
That is similar to pointing to someone on the street and claiming they want to commit suicide because you see no indication that they want to live. Unless there is strong evidence we can safely assume people don't want to be nuked. &qu

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