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by virissimo 2y ago
Perhaps we should have different words for voluntary (choosing to regain your hearing, etc...) and coercive (forced sterilization, etc...) "eugenics", since almost all of the negative connotations of the word are (rightly, IMO) at
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by virissimo 2y ago
jhbadger: But logicism, the idea that all of math can be reduced to logic, is itself a controversial philosophical thesis!
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by virissimo 3y ago
His likelihood of re-offending is low because he now has a near universally bad reputation and so is much less likely to be trusted with other people's money in the first place. Whether that means he should have a shorter sentence depe
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by virissimo 3y ago
There absolutely is a tradeoff between defense and civilian spending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
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by virissimo 3y ago
The books of Samuel and Kings from the Hebrew Bible predate Herodotus' Histories by quite some time.
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by virissimo 3y ago
This scenario is most commonly found in prison.
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by virissimo 3y ago
The principal-agent problem is a fully general problem and is not unique to the USA.
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by virissimo 3y ago
Almost the same fraction of people speak English at home in Canada as in the US.
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by virissimo 4y ago
ChatGPT (at least earlier versions) was deliberately fine-tuned to strongly favor one side of the American culture war. See this paper for an attempt at quantifying its political bias: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12&
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by virissimo 4y ago
> No self-censorship. This is a very common belief, but I don't think it's strictly true. Sometimes people inadvertently speak what they're thinking, so an even surer way to prevent being punished for your ideas is to prev
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by virissimo 4y ago
Yes, the veil of ignorance (original position) is a very important idea. It doesn't come from Rawls though. Both Vickrey and Harsanyi wrote about it earlier (and perhaps better, since they didn't introduce implausible assumptions
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by virissimo 4y ago
Possible, but improbable, since some attributions (approximately) agree across independent sources like Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes, etc...
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by virissimo 4y ago
> Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea. I think it unlikely that Ancient Athens was heavily influenced by US culture
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by virissimo 4y ago
Discrediting Joseph McCarthy is another example of a CIA internal operation: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48603/did-the-c... .
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by virissimo 4y ago
AFAICT, the author nowhere advises anyone to call themselves by the archetype names, nor do I have reason to think that it was their intent for the reader to do so.
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by virissimo 4y ago
And yet, the percentage of the population with a bachelors degree or higher isn't much different between the US and EU.
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by virissimo 4y ago
> No inflation is bad because the economy stops. How much net inflation was there in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the start of WWI? Do you think "the economy stops" is a fair description of this time period?
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by virissimo 4y ago
Our nations were far less wealthy when the existing stock of nuclear power plants were built, the technology available for building them have improved since then, and the raw resources needed as their inputs aren't a constraint, so why
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by virissimo 4y ago
On the contrary, requiring the addition of a disclaimer containing an overall evaluation of an author before correcting someone's misleading caricature of their work would be an extremely tedious community norm. Let's be brief and
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by virissimo 4y ago
You contrast Rand's heroes with those of Vonnegut as if they are all CEO-types, but they also include sculptors, architects, engineers, composers, and philosophy professors. IMO, Rand and Vonnegut are much more similar than their fans
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by virissimo 4y ago
Not only that, but most philosophers who specialize in the philosophy of mathematics are Platonists: https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=Target+facul... . IME, this is also true of working mathematicians, bu
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by virissimo 4y ago
It should be noted that the veracity of that quote is contested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote
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Elizebeth Smith Friedman, America's first female cryptanalyst(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by virissimo 4y ago|0 comments
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by virissimo 4y ago
Good point. The same thing definitely happens in physics too. For example, people attributed important advances in mathematical physics (such as the mean speed theorem) to Galileo despite them having been already developed extensively in th
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by virissimo 4y ago
> As your kids get older, it is harder and harder to give them a proper education. By the time your kids are in middle-school, subjects get harder for a parent (or pairs of parents) to cover in a way that does each subject justice. As a
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by virissimo 4y ago
How do you know whether people you've "had to deal with" were homeschooled or not? Might that method result in selection effects?
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by virissimo 4y ago
IMO, this entire essay is misguided. There isn't anyone going around practicing Stoicism as it was practiced in Ancient Rome. Instead they take their psychological techniques (some of which are shared by Buddhism, Christianity, and cog
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by virissimo 4y ago
On the other hand, unemployment is consistently higher in Europe than in the US (and wages are lower), so pick your poison.
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by virissimo 4y ago
The hardware exercises expect you to use a simple HDL, you write an assembler in your language of choice (I used Ruby, but others have used Python or JavaScript), and you write programs for the computer you "built" in earlier chap
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by virissimo 4y ago
What EU country are you from where someone would be confused by another saying a proposed EU law is "unconstitutional" in the native language? Per the first line from the "Treaties of the European Union" wikipedia articl

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