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811.
by trevyn 7y ago
Determinism and predictability are distinct concepts, it is epistemically dangerous to conflate them.
812.
by trevyn 7y ago
Not believing in free will does not inevitably lead to a nihilistic funk. Funks are often caused by an abrupt shift in worldview without a corresponding set of tools for integrating that worldview into the rest of your life.
813.
by trevyn 7y ago
> The jury is out on whether the world is fundamentally deterministic...but suppose it is. This does not necessitate that the world is also deterministic at some higher level of description. Ah, so there can exist counterfactual levels
814.
by trevyn 7y ago
Superdeterminism implies that people’s actions are fully determined for their entire lives, but we would likely not be able to predict them in any meaningful way even if we had access to all the necessary information, because the comput
815.
by trevyn 7y ago
Possibly but not necessarily; one of the models is where the fabric of spacetime itself is constructed from an automata where individual graph edges reconfigure as part of the evolution of the automata; this could be responsible for relativ
816.
by trevyn 7y ago
Einstein also personally believed in complete determinism and lack of free will, but did not formulate a solid argument before he decohered. See also superdeterminism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism I
817.
by trevyn 7y ago
> Unless someone prefaces their statements with a disclaimer (like "just for the sake of the argument"), I will assume in good faith they believe their own statements. That is perhaps an unusually... mechanical... way of conve
818.
by trevyn 7y ago
While I am glad to see and encourage the production of more material on the topic of intentional attention, I found this particular book amateurish and much more of an angry clichéd rant about active resistance against certain qualities of
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by trevyn 7y ago
> Basically, the laws of nature are written in calculus Calculus is a tool that powers certain specific useful predictive models of our observations of nature in certain specific domains. Having a mental model in which the laws of natur
820.
by trevyn 7y ago
Calling S3 and (single-datacenter!) B2 “nearly equally reliable” with a footnote that “science is hard” strikes me as... unprofessional.
821.
by trevyn 7y ago
Jack Szostak does a pretty good job of outlining how life might have arisen. It’s less mysterious than it intuitively might seem: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqPGOhXoprU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5jh
822.
by trevyn 7y ago
A reminder that if you are a US citizen, they can deny your devices entry, but cannot deny your body entry.
823.
by trevyn 7y ago
Also great if you have a partner: Reading aloud to each other.
824.
by trevyn 7y ago
I got a lot of freedom when I realized that other people’s judgements are often designed (sometimes subconsciously or culturally) simply to get you to do what they want you to do. It is quite in the benefit of other people and groups fo
825.
by trevyn 7y ago
Even if the overall trend is to reduce many human freedoms in the aggregate, there are always individual humans who are outliers and can use technologies and policies in ways other than as “designed” — and I’m sure this forum has many of th
826.
by trevyn 8y ago
(2018)
827.
by trevyn 8y ago
For alcohol use, huge in comparison to peer influence, though?
828.
EU's Juncker Says Poland Unlikely to Leave the European Union(reuters.com)
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by trevyn 8y ago
A lot of today’s housing stock was originally built as higher-end units, and moved down the chain as it got older. The idea is that when higher-end units are built now, the wealthy vacate some of their current units, which then have downwar
830.
by trevyn 8y ago
Possibly a better article, including a reference to the actual filing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/apple-fac...
831.
by trevyn 8y ago
There is a video of them moving; it’s a rock, rotate 180, rock, rotate 180, etc. sequence.
832.
by trevyn 8y ago
> Retirement systems, for example, need a certain ratio of productive workers for each retiree, and I can't figure out any math that makes sense for the next ~20 years. Long-term systems like this are generally constantly adjusted
833.
by trevyn 8y ago
Are Boeing and SpaceX complication rescheduling timelines usually comparable? (Serious question)
834.
by trevyn 8y ago
Offense and defense technologies are not symmetric.
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by trevyn 8y ago
When one company dominates a technology, it reduces incentives for other companies to join or be founded to address that space. If Qualcomm did not exist, there would be a market vacuum of that size, and it is impossible to predict how that
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by trevyn 8y ago
Perhaps the essential components of pirate defense can be provided more inexpensively with today’s technology than in the past, and large organizations move slowly to adopt efficiencies without an external forcing function.
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by trevyn 8y ago
There are certainly criticisms, grains of salt, and hucksterism involved, but I think it would be premature to entirely dismiss neurofeedback. Importantly, there is not “one kind” of neurofeedback, and the specific EEG patterns to optimize
838.
by trevyn 8y ago
Not sure about this article, but there is some work using ultrasonic transducers that I don’t see mentioned frequently. (Magnetic stimulation has a longer history.)
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by trevyn 8y ago
Things are different at that high level. Not always “vesting” technically, but various retention bonus payout milestones.
840.
by trevyn 8y ago
I’ve seen rent control utterly destroy people who end up “not being able to move” once their rent becomes severely under-market. It seems to freeze them in time, and they tie their identity to their apartments, removing any ability to grow

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