sooheon

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by sooheon 6y ago
To spell out the actual argument: "although it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. [...] Even though it may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, it can restrain him from lynching me.&qu
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by sooheon 6y ago
Which is why you can order more content than an autograph. The personalized message is the fingerprint.
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by sooheon 6y ago
That depends on the supply/demand curves. Almost certainly, there will be some amount of deadweight loss: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadweight-loss-of-taxa...
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by sooheon 6y ago
I feel everything you say, and still don't see a better alternative. They're just too good at the hardware and integration.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Although insecurity leads to less privacy as well.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Clojure sets an unfairly high bar for data manipulation with core, transducers, libraries like supdate and specter.
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by sooheon 6y ago
If you can’t remove elements, you can’t refine design incrementally.
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by sooheon 6y ago
We’re not done with our stochastic gradient descent.
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by sooheon 6y ago
> I hope I would walk away, even at the price of slow starvation. Because to you, Omelas is not net better. Which is perfectly understandable. But what basis do you have for rejecting Omelas, other than that you believe it to be worse?
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by sooheon 6y ago
> any moral system which can lead to these conclusions is not a complete moral system But "these conclusions" are unobjectionable, because they include the premise "things are net better". Because "net better&quo
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by sooheon 6y ago
You've probably seen this, but for those who haven't, Bostrom's written an interesting formalization of this hunch: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
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by sooheon 6y ago
These reductio ad absurdums aren't very absurd, because of this clause: "if that person uses their insane problem solving abilities to increase utility for others, and they're good enough at it". That's a big if, in
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by sooheon 6y ago
Agreed on both, it is a masterpiece and it is newly relevant. What I love most about it is the elegance: the economics behind optimizing for minimum deadweight loss and the morality underlying taxation of monopoly power over enterprise are
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by sooheon 6y ago
The single tax, LVT, and Georgism are synonymous. > Georgism proposes to tax the value derived from land Incorrect, it's almost completely the opposite. The Georgist proposal is rather to tax the economic rent on land, not the value
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by sooheon 6y ago
Henry George's single tax[1] is criminally excluded from the Overton window. Tax rent-seeking, not productivity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by sooheon 6y ago
It embraces the idea that everything is really a graph. Being explicit about the fact that a paragraph is a node allows you do node-level links (called block links in Roam).
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by sooheon 6y ago
I agree, but I think it's overrated as wisdom as it's circular reasoning. Of course doing anything too early is bad, because it is by definition.
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by sooheon 6y ago
For it to be local (causality does not propagate faster than light), it must be superdeterministic (all the many worlds that ever will be, already are). For it not to be superdeterministic (many worlds decohere at the moment of experimentat
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by sooheon 6y ago
If it is true that placing the 45 degree lens third or first does not show the same effect, it is much less astonishing.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Why isn't the MWI another form of hidden variables (a supremely non-parsimonious one at that), where the hidden variable is which of the many worlds you happen to inhabit?
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by sooheon 6y ago
But if you take away the third lens, there is no light of any polarization. How is it that by adding a filter, you create light where there was none?
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by sooheon 7y ago
> Then the complexity goes down again, as it becomes uniformly mixed. This part is incorrect. It requires the intervention of energy by motivated life forms to to un-mix a mixture of coffee and cream, therefore it is very high entropy.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Yes, debts which need to be paid off immediately hardly serve their purpose.
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by sooheon 7y ago
The more complex the encoding of information, the more time it takes to decode and retransmit it. Speed of light may be an upper bound on the speed of information, but anything on the order of memes require complex life forms to communicate
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by sooheon 7y ago
I don't think I can ever forget the first time I read this short story by Ted Chiang on that topic: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
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by sooheon 7y ago
What are the chances of coffee and cream molecules being arranged in just that configuration without the intervention of life forms with caffeine addictions and ceramics factories?
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by sooheon 7y ago
Launchbar ( https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html ) Spotlight on steroids, along the lines of Alfred and Quicksilver, but the best of the bunch, imo. It's a frecency based fuzzy matching searcher that
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by sooheon 7y ago
EDN is great. https://github.com/edn-format/edn
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by sooheon 7y ago
100% agreed. Privatization of profits, socialization of losses needs to stop.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Great points in favor of a good QB. Fat middlement don't disappear with centralization though -- see: defense contractor fraud [1] [1]: https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2019/05/defense-contracting-fr...

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