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by saulpw 11mo ago
I also believe that in order to bootstrap a viable system, start with system 1. The OP is partially sniping at people who creating all kinds of elaborate structures for systems 2-5, without attending to the first order of business, which i
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by saulpw 11mo ago
ding ding! That is the point of Mag World.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Thank you for this! I put it in my reading queue.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
That's right, you're not producing paperclips unless one minute you have metal wire and the next minute you have a paperclip.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Then you would have other design challenges :)
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by saulpw 11mo ago
You have no idea what my thing is and whether or not I'm doing it via this post on HN.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
In the Viable System Model[0], "doing the thing" is System 1. Yes of course you need System 1 or the thing won't get done. But in any viable system, you also have the "meta-systems", Systems 2-5: - System 2: coordi
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by saulpw 11mo ago
I pronounce it 'mag', which I talk about at length on the parent pages (saul.pw/mag).
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by saulpw 11mo ago
All adults are mag 0 meters. Infants are mag -1 meters. Below that are zygotes. There has never been a human that's 10x taller.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
(author here) Thanks for this comment. I am remiss to not directly address how this ties into Marxist theory. I'll consider how to add references on the next rewrite. A key point in Mag Wealth is that there are several meaningfully di
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by saulpw 11mo ago
No, these are orders of magnitude. It's like a short man who is 5 foot tall, standing next to a 6 foot man and feeling envy. But standing next to a 50 foot tall creature would be abjectly terrifying for any human of any height.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
It's a framework for analysis. If you can use it to promote or discuss free market ideas, please do. There's nothing "far left" about noticing that there are 10+ orders of magnitude difference between the assets of the
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by saulpw 11mo ago
(author here) One of the main points of Mag World is that different orders of magnitude are qualitatively different. Yes, of course, with more assets you can get more credit. But the types of credit are so different as to be incomparable.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
it doesn't allow formulas in cells. everything is a table with rows and columns.
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not a spreadsheet
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Let's do some math. 60x24x30 = 40k AI calls per month per model. Let's suppose there are 1000 output tokens (might it be 10k tokens? Seems like a lot for this task). So 40m tokens per model. The price for 1m output tokens[0] ra
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by saulpw 11mo ago
You can grow your own food. You can't perform your own cataract surgery and you can't make your own vaccines. As to your analogy, yes, the root cause of the infection is bacteria. Yes, there are supporting factors, like the ope
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by saulpw 11mo ago
I agree, capitalism and "free markets" are two separate things. My less judgmental definition of capitalism, is the system where profits go to owners rather than workers. The doctor earns a salary while the hospital owner can ext
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Then don't look? We're all monkeys who are naked under all these clothes. Just focus on yourself and do your business and maybe do a little personal work if you're traumatized by exposed body parts.
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by saulpw 11mo ago
What recipe storing app do you use?
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Some people like Peter Norvig prefer top-down, hackers like me and you prefer bottom-up. Many problems can be solved either way. But for some problems, if you use the wrong approach, you're gonna have a bad time. See Ron Jeffries&#x
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by saulpw 11mo ago
They are donating the entire ransom amount to two universities for security research. I don't care about the words themselves, but assuming they're not outright lying about this, that meant a lot to me. They are putting their (c
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Supposing that it does become part of a new star, and some "nearby" civilization had sufficiently precise instruments...would that be a detectable anomaly? Like some atoms of Plutonium still haven't decayed, and isn't t
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by saulpw 11mo ago
Security fixes maybe. But no one is recalling cars for non-safety issues, no matter how annoying the bug.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Regardless of the legal protections of free speech, the general notion worldwide is that corporations are allowed to create and post whatever nonsense they feel like with utter impunity. It's one thing for a single person to write the
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by saulpw 1y ago
You certainly don't have to! But yet for some reason you're deeply curious. Why?
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by saulpw 1y ago
How can we possibly stop this madness? Will it require draconian legislation and enforcement? Increasingly I think that "free speech" should apply to humans only, not to humans armed with a gas-powered bullshit spewer.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Companies do waste time on interviews when they don't really want to hire, for numerous reasons. 1) To test the labor wage pricing of the market, 2) for legal or tax or optics reasons (in order to get cheaper H1B labor you have to hav
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by saulpw 1y ago
How about starting with the obvious? Doing nothing because you can't figure out how to do everything, is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Or maybe they don't have the incentives, as per the GP.
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by saulpw 1y ago
That's fair. I also made a snappy response because I get frustrated on the other side, when proponents say 1) "you're using it wrong" or 2) "it'll get better" or 3) "I don't understand why peopl

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