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by wycs 8y ago
2%. Seems crazy low to some, but I put very conservative numbers in my MonteCarlo simulations.
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by wycs 8y ago
To match the performance of a market economy, wouldn't that require modelling agents that themselves have access to the same computing techniques you have?
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by wycs 8y ago
The most buzzwordy thing I heard from a blockchain guy was from Vinay Gupta, of Ethereum fame. He said quantum computers can solve the economic calculation problem, so we can get Quantum/Blockchain/AI socialist central planning.
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by wycs 8y ago
I always feel like people are trying to launder blockchain, which appears to me to be mostly useless, with AI, which is highly useful. I fail to see how the two technologies are related in any way.
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by wycs 8y ago
Also, money works pretty well. Bitcoin is not 10x better. Maybe 0.1x. Bitcoin is not even useful for illicit transactions anymore.
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by wycs 8y ago
And permiting indenture is better? College is a signalling racket status good. Cut the loans and watch as tuition magically decreases to maintain equilibrium.
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by wycs 8y ago
In a democracy the electorate must be bribed with there own money. It is in practice nearly impossible to cut spending in any way that matters if you want to stay in office. I suspect there we are just stuck in an equilibrium in which this
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by wycs 8y ago
That and they brutality exterminated many of their most talented mathematicians.
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by wycs 8y ago
Presumably these white collar workers are valuable and employeeing them with confiscated money on a useless task is much worse for the economy than both the counterfactual in which the government does not bid for their labor and the one in
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by wycs 8y ago
My point is Foolrush would.
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by wycs 8y ago
I guess I am worried that as the societal norm for allowing ideological differences to be expressed degrades that it will leak into politics in the form of hate speech laws. We are starting to have fully private struggle sessions on Twitter
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by wycs 8y ago
Ok. So you don’t support laws against hate speech?
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by wycs 8y ago
That’s pretty terrible.
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by wycs 8y ago
Do you care at all about free speech? You are willing kill this beautiful freedom we have for that?
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by wycs 8y ago
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by wycs 8y ago
What exactly is embarrassing about this study: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/01/10/1612113114 .
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by wycs 8y ago
The Flynn effect is mostly hollow gains and seems to have stopped: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028960... . And cognitive genomics is starting to show a decline: http://www.
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by wycs 8y ago
>SAT scores among admitted students is the highest it's ever been. And the GDP of Venezuela as measured in bolívar is the highest it's ever been! "More comparisons on new SAT scores versus critical reading and math score
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by wycs 8y ago
>College education and healthcare /should/ be free for all in this country(USA). They are fundamental to the social mobility and freedom that our founding principles were created for. We had this. It was called high school. But
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by wycs 8y ago
Publicly adjusting your beliefs in response to evidence is super rare and and extremely important skill. I really respect that you took the time to do this throughout the thread.
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by wycs 8y ago
You claim the majority of HIV patients in the United States are heterosexual. Do you have any evidence of this? It cuts against everything I have ever read on the topic and everything I and other people in this thread can churn up.
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by wycs 8y ago
Yes. This matches what I found. Jacquesm writes with such assurance and from such a high ground. It will be interesting to see if he replies.
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by wycs 8y ago
It’s possible I am wrong, but everything I am Googling seems to say that more than 50% of new HIV transmissions are among gay men alone. Perhaps this is changing, as I would not be surprised if extremely unsafe sexual practices are becoming
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by wycs 8y ago
If you randomly select an HIV positive person from a Western country and know no other facts about them, it is correct to update your belief towards thinking they are either homosexual or a user of IV drugs. If their gender is revealed male
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by wycs 8y ago
It is taboo in Western culture to make certain priors explicit, especially when they are accurate.
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by wycs 8y ago
It is a beautifully written book but incredibly dishonest.
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by wycs 8y ago
I would much prefer direct IQ correlates rather than using education as a proxy for something better measured with IQ tests.
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by wycs 8y ago
>This seems to prove that intelligence influenced by genetics but is affected by many thousands of genetic variations. There is no "smart" gene, just lots and lots of randomness. Not quite how I would put it. There is no one sm
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by wycs 8y ago
Money seems like an extremely good coordination mechanism to me. Name something that can perform the purpose of money that is not more coercive and less efficient than money.
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by wycs 8y ago
What a delightfully Kafkaesk way to make a living.

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