suoduandao2

12 ms·

91.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I think it's on of those 'ask three proponents get five answers' things, but here's my take: Game b recognizes that much of the world is subject to coordination problems (more evocatively called 'Moloch traps'
92.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
It's not hard to make the argument that it's a cover for a nefarious plot. Given the timing of when these ideas rose to prominence, that it was a reaction to the 'occupy wall street' movement and the prospect of an under
93.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I don't see it that way - I think of it as a linguistic challenge. Every group's thoughts are limited by the language the group adopts. Learning a group's language makes one more prone to think as that group does, but it also
94.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
Everything handwaving freakoutery (it's a blog) publishes on egregores I found highly relevant and entertaining. Actually, everything contemporary mentioning egregores is probably relevant - they're also called 'AI autocults&
95.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
'leapt on his charger' implies that he attacked very quickly, perhaps after the battle had officially started but both sides were still in fact glaring at each other and getting ready. I imagine it being a bit similar to a boxing
96.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
So The Wire is a subtle endorsement of the 'game B' idea?
97.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I guess I'm asking "the value of everything will drop as measured by what"?
98.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
One of my hobbies is writing conspiracy theories that nobody wants to believe but that have just enough resonance with reality to be hard to ignore. I'm currently working on one that posits a rogue group of white supremacists within Am
99.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I believe Telegram is the private messaging app of choice within Iran.
100.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I see. BTW, it looks like whatever caused your old account to be deleted carried over to this one, I'm only seeing your comments because I have my showdead on.
101.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
What sort of water tech do you predict we'll see, cheaper desalination? I thought sanitation was a pretty mature technology.
102.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
Well I'll go on record predicting the opposite. Meta is an advertising behemoth and has taken a very big bet on metaverse, they can ensure unlimited good press for their baby, especially if their real customers aren't buying as ma
103.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
Surely 'all asset classes' can only drop relative to some exception, where is everyone taking their money? I know we have significant inflation, are people going into cash despite it?
104.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
Regarding the question 'what specific thing is it hard to do without fossil fuels', the answer, from what I've seen of that side of the debate, is that the problem isn't technical but economic. To attempt to steelman the
105.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
But not political stance? Seems a glaring oversight. Unless the people who wrote the regulations like being able to request a payment processor shut off campaign donations to any newcomer with better ideas than them. But that would make th
106.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
antifragility. Regulation through a central authority can only make big mistakes, the harder it clamps down to avoid smaller mistakes, the bigger the mistakes that eventually get made. Much harder to learn when you have full control, etc.
107.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
>If you live in western Europe that is a point in favor of the government. Maybe if history started in 1947 it would. Righteousness tends to do much better at the ballot box than the stock market. And self-righteous as American tech is f
108.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
honestly, amorality seems less scary than self-righteousness to me at this point in history.
109.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
clear rules that decide who's in and who's out seem acceptable to most... if credit card providers had decided that only certain types of porn were banned, that would have caused an outcry as well.
110.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
There's no reason it couldn't be employing a local, but there are an awful lot of reasons it wouldn't . No locals applying chief among them. If the company was explicitly not hiring anyone from Costa Rica, sure, that would
111.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
No, because our culture holds that truth is not held by the culture, but by the individual's instinct for rightness. Clothes may be a cultural construct, but no amount of collective lying can cover the emperor's nudity.
112.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
The sci-fi seried Buck Godot proposed an entertaining solution - allow only a limited number of journalists to exist, and let the aspiring journalists sort it out between themselves. The one living journalist in that story was completely am
113.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
>Especially once they finish the pipeline to ship LNG to Asia I have my doubts that the US will allow that to happen. The resource curse is real.
114.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
I saw a commentary on education - I think on HN actually - where the writer was suggesting that the prime directive for each student should be 'know thyself'. Advertisers know me in a shallow way only, and they aren't really
115.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
No idea why this comment was flagged. It seems a commonsense take.
116.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
HN not being indie would certainly explain it... which begs the question, where's the indie hacker crowd now?
117.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
There's a glaring difference between a digital nomad working remotely and someone on an H1B or an illegal immigrant - the digital nomad isn't participating in the local labour market. Increasing the labour supply (which most assum
118.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
Our current understanding of entropy is probably about as accurate as Newton's understanding of gravity, not something we want to get dogmatic about.
119.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
>Replaced by STEM I cannot let this go because my Engineering undergrad is the one place I encountered a decent course on ethics; studying the subject is necessary for licensure. We didn't displace ethics, Philosophy departments got
120.
by suoduandao2 4y ago
>My experience has been that the value people see in crypto is directly inversely proportional to how much they believe in their government That's an interesting thesis and 'feels' true, but I have a hard time reconciling

More ›