sooheon

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by sooheon 5y ago
Consider the physics of the simulator is literally the physics of our current universe. It need not be running on a binary substrate, the computation platform could just be the mass of the universe over time.
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by sooheon 5y ago
That's like a sim saying that their world would be impossible to run on the desktop in their simulated living room. That is tautologically true.
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by sooheon 5y ago
> It pushes the question of the nature of our universe up a level where we have zero visibility The universe does not owe you visibility into its origins, the lack of it does not make the hypothesis any less likely. > If there is a co
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by sooheon 5y ago
Yeah, that's why my favorite way of reading him is via his short stories. Just enough to get the big idea across and not get lost in too much detail.
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by sooheon 5y ago
In the same way software code is digital but the hard drives that hold them are not?
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by sooheon 5y ago
> software is digital; genomes are not False by definition: Digital data is "information represented as a string of discrete symbols each of which can take only one of a finite number of values" https://en.wikipedia.
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by sooheon 5y ago
You're talking about a digital<->analog interface. Take a digitally encoded audio file, read it out and turn it into sound waves using a digital analog converter, play it out on physical speakers, record it back with a microphone
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by sooheon 5y ago
Those are trivial surface level differences relative to the central idea of encoding, storing, replicating, editing digital information, which interfaces with other digital and analog systems.
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by sooheon 5y ago
Rather than assert the negative, can you state some positive facts about one or the other that makes this point clear?
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by sooheon 5y ago
That seems to be the point the parent is making. Tautology is the the only way we can explain the way life happens to be -- it's because it's advantageous for it to be that way.
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by sooheon 5y ago
Georgism is a pigovian tax on individual land ownership and rent collection. It would reduce or remove taxes arising from labor or capital entrepreneurship, and purely tax the zero-value-add rent collected by the "landed gentry".
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by sooheon 6y ago
They gather data and use it to make data driven statistical predictions -- of course they are ML!
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by sooheon 6y ago
Does "Ponzi scheme" just mean "bad finance thing" now? It is impossible by definition for a fund that hasn't had inflows for 30 years to be a Ponzi scheme.
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by sooheon 6y ago
There are many games at different abstraction levels in finance, and I agree to find an edge at the level you're describing is exceedingly difficult. That said, Fama and French won a Nobel Prize with data stewardship and regressions. T
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by sooheon 6y ago
Does this say more about the people who use OP-1 or the people who use Instagram?
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by sooheon 6y ago
Great link, thanks.
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by sooheon 6y ago
This UI change is what may drive me away from a family plan if it doesn't get addressed.
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by sooheon 6y ago
It's worse than avy because avy (and vim-sneak, evil-snipe et al) allow you to input the prefix char(s). Avy in general is insanely powerful, and abo-abo's set of elisp packages contain some of the most well thought out UX, held b
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by sooheon 6y ago
Try breathing through a straw (or two put together) just after your heart rate's been raised (i.e. via exercise). It's very anxiety inducing.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Ted Chiang's Exhalation is one of the very best I've read in this vein (also in the GP's sense of "life on different entropic timescales"). Highly recommended if you haven't read it yet.
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by sooheon 6y ago
quick look spreadsheets when you don't want to wait half a minute for excel to load. Quick look pdfs with nondescript names that you've downloaded to check paper titles/authors, quick look ppts youve been emailed (from within
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by sooheon 6y ago
Was a long time input user until Jetbrains Mono was released: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ To my eyes it's the best font for coding (SF Mono on the Mac being another nice one that I like on the terminal
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by sooheon 6y ago
Can you elaborate what the pence fence is?
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by sooheon 6y ago
Intellij idea for project based coding, nvim/emacs for quick edits. I've gone from "my life lives in emacs and org mode" to "I use a couple made for purpose apps and live with the fact that not everything is a buffe
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by sooheon 6y ago
But people may come up with 80/20 improvements to mitigate the actual source of the virus. Why is improved data a bad thing, in your view?
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by sooheon 6y ago
> From looking at CO2 levels, we will be reaching 1000 ug/m^3 in my lifetime How did you arrive at this number? climate.gov article from last year estimates 900ppm by the end of the century if energy demand continues to increase at
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by sooheon 6y ago
This is the only reason why emacs is no longer my default editor. I value customization, but I learned I value snappiness more.
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by sooheon 6y ago
If by total market you mean the total world market (i.e. MSCI ACWI), that's about as risk averse as you can be while still being in equities. Total US market alone is a higher risk choice: https://www.aqr.com/Insights&#
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by sooheon 6y ago
Great article, they've actually done the "analysis" and "synthesis" wrt the OODA loop, as opposed to Farnam Street's somewhat wide eyed adulation.
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by sooheon 6y ago
The CPI is about as good an index as the DJIA--i.e. it's pretty meaningless but everyone refers to it out of inertia.

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