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by willguest 1y ago
There was quite a bit of other "insight" around this, but I was paraphrasing for brevity. If you want to read the whole convo, I dumped it into a semi-formatted document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1
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by willguest 1y ago
My go-to for any big release is to have a discussion about self-awareness and dive in to constuctivist notions of agency and self-knowing from a perspective of intelligence that is not limited to human cognitive capacity. I start with a sim
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by willguest 1y ago
no, i am suggesting that economics is primarily concerned with resource accumulation. my point about compound interest is that it is a major mechanism that prevents equitable redistrubution of resources, and is thus a factor in making econo
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by willguest 1y ago
Indeed, but I think it renders your point obsolete, since deeply imperfect resource allocation isn't really resource allocation at all, it is (in this case) resource accumulation. Are you suggesting that compound interest serves to red
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by willguest 1y ago
> There isn't anything here to suggest countries are bargaining in bad faith 1) "...countries reiterated familiar talking points" 2) "Instead of whittling down a draft of the treaty that had been prepared late last ye
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by willguest 1y ago
> You can't "stimulate" a country's representatives to care about something unless you give them an equally important incentive, carrot or stick. I agree with this statement, and the reasons why they don't work,
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by willguest 1y ago
> A norm around consensus-based decision-making discouraged compromise from all countries So, a maladaptive systemic influence was noted, but they continued to focus on lower-level discussions around plastics. When will we start to see t
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by willguest 1y ago
I so wish this were true, but unfortunately economics has a catch-all called "externalities" for anything that doesn't fit neatly into its implicit assessments of what value is. Pollution is tricky, so we push it outside the
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by willguest 1y ago
I think an award ceremony would be the best way to draw attention to the outrageous implications of blindly following artificial "intelligence" to wherever it may lead you. something like the Darwin awards, but dedicated to clanke
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by willguest 1y ago
> The Internet as we have known it for the past three decades is rapidly changing, but one thing remains constant: it is built on trust. I think we've been using different internets. The one I use doesn't seem to be built on tr
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by willguest 1y ago
Perhaps impact would be a better metric for assessing whether or not these 1000s of person-hours are well-spent. I suspect the conclusion would be same. > it's best to think about them as a sort of parallel academic system Doesn&#x2
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by willguest 1y ago
I see it as a preoccupation with the act of voting, in place of actual decision making. Incompetence disguised by paperwork is common feature, especially when the problem feel intractable but there is pressure to "get results". Ru
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by willguest 1y ago
> last year that the U.N. system supported 27,000 meetings involving 240 bodies, and the U.N. secretariat produced 1,100 reports The bureacracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
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by willguest 1y ago
> Actually improving people’s financial wellbeing, for example, will require us to pursue real, slow, piecemeal, democratic solutions. Democratic solutions are, imho, doomed to failure. In order for them to work a significant portion of
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by willguest 1y ago
Is it not a little ironic that, in order to read this article without a subscription, I must agree to share my browser data with 920 interested parties? Needless to say, I declined this unfair trade, but didn't hold out the greatest ho
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by willguest 1y ago
The "confusion" seems to stem from the fact that no-one told the machine that human names are not singletons. In the spirit of social activism, I will take it upon myself to name all of my children Google, even the ones that alrea
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by willguest 1y ago
I made a bedrock onion of death: https://paste.pictures/FgqbwUTCY8.png Couldn't have done it without you
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by willguest 1y ago
Thinking of ways to profit from it is the absolute norm but, yes, it is perverse. I'd happily run it as a non-profit with the purpose of highlighting the value of people's data. Tough gig though, when there are all these "off
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by willguest 1y ago
Thank you for making my point. Here's some research aided by Perplexity, which estimates that the global data market is valued at about $1.7 Trillion, with data monetization growing at about 17.6% CAGR: https://www.perplexit
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by willguest 1y ago
It's amazing to me that the market for data is so well hidden from public view. So many large companies are mining and trading data on a daily basis - you would think that a data marketplace would have been a thing by now, especially w
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by willguest 1y ago
This is a well-written piece, but I generally found the author to lean too much in to the 'we can't be absolutely sure, so we know nothing for certain' type of argument. He points this out himself, saying that the presence of
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by willguest 1y ago
TIL - fertility is used interchangably with birth rate in demographic studies. What I think of as fertility - the ability to have offspring, in a purely biological sense - is apparently termed 'fecundity'. This is only mentioned b
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by willguest 1y ago
This would be a great starting point for a much wider conversation on the various factors that lead to climate events leading to loss of human life (urbanisation, lack of ecological resilience, dependency on fragile supply chains, political
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by willguest 1y ago
You are right that the trend within the area does not point towards a greater risk of flooding. You are right to point out that we should only make claims based on data. You are, again, right to say that climate models do nothing to predict
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by willguest 1y ago
> There is NO EVIDENCE that the central Texas floods are the result of climate change. This isn't how climate science or causality works in relation to climate change. The climate is a chaotic, complex sysem that does not have a sin
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by willguest 1y ago
This post, and presumably its author, is reaching escape velocity, or at least max-Q. A second-order difficulty is that the tools with which we could go about dissecting, reimagining and reconstructing new society are also tainted by the po
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by willguest 1y ago
To have such capacity and drive, as well as critical self-reflection is a rare thing. I would first suggest some appreciation for the interesting and curious state of being that you seem to have developed. Nicely done! My own route out of t
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by willguest 1y ago
I was not going for the semiotic-reductionist interpretation, but it's a fair assumption to think that that's what I meant by 'name ≠ thing named'. My point was more to do with the construction of meaning and the general
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by willguest 1y ago
And we name them 'tree' because they have a certain shape and configuration. Then we created taxonomies and "discover" that tree isn't a single thing We seem to cling too tightly to definition, as the expense of pay
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by willguest 1y ago
I can't resist... Language is, in fact, a matter of common usage. A man is (or was) generally considered to the thing that is (or was) a male human. While I recognise that gender theory has challenged this notion, introducing the idea

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