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by zenogais 12y ago
90% of develop skills is trial and error. So in this sense it's not really any different or particularly difficult, I'm certain most people would do ok at it given enough trial and error experience.
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by zenogais 12y ago
This is basically the idea of the algedonic meter that was set to be part of Chile's project Cybersyn in the 1970s [1] before a military coup overthrew the Allende government. [1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine&#x2F
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by zenogais 12y ago
Personally I enjoyed this article. I'm working within several different businesses right now, and the consistent theme I'm trying to relate to the folks I work with is that data-driven techniques can take you right up to the edge
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by zenogais 12y ago
That's what's really going on, it's a great way to make some quick money. But if you were to ask the standard free-market ideology side of it can always be mustered - "we're just trying to get the pesky and ineffici
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by zenogais 12y ago
Game theory is ultimately a drastic oversimplification (a model) of human agency. It happens to coincide with certain popular simplifications nicely, but ultimately it's flawed. In situations where it tries to prove either cooperation
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by zenogais 12y ago
I was going to say this, glad someone already did. It allows you to express or produce a variety of things, one of which is art. You might even try to produce software that is itself art. But software by itself is merely a material to be wo
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by zenogais 12y ago
Warped kinda logic you got there.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Why defend a "highly accurate" approximation that also happens to be oppressive to the people who fall outside of it? So far as I can see learning to incorporate more nuance into our social understanding is the way these oppressiv
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by zenogais 12y ago
This is a reply to another post on here, that I think mistakenly got slotted at the root level.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Why defend a "highly accurate" approximation that also happens to be oppressive to the people who fall outside of it? So far as I can see learning to incorporate more nuance into our social understanding is the way these oppressiv
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by zenogais 12y ago
So far as I can tell your post is actually "casually wrong". The sunflower seed example given by Chomsky seems to be mathematically well supported as a representation of Phi/Fibonacci sequences [1][2]. There's no mystifi
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by zenogais 12y ago
An important distinction. A lot of implementation bugs I saw when researching GA/GP were related to this slight misunderstanding.
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by zenogais 12y ago
My mistake, I meant it as a basis for incorporating computational complexity. The original article posted shows how computational complexity is applicable to non-linear systems, which I think are philosophically more interesting. Deleuze&#x
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by zenogais 12y ago
Philosophy generally has its own language for talking about these kinds of problems, and generally its own starting points. Gilles Deleuze laid a lot of the groundwork for using ideas from chaos theory to work on philosophical problems duri
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by zenogais 12y ago
Just wanted to point out that the lump of labor fallacy is not a fallacy in the same way a logical fallacy is - whether it is fallacious or not is dependent on what economics axioms you choose to accept. In fact, the history of the fallacy
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by zenogais 12y ago
I don't see how legislation could ever be effective against such extreme concentrations of wealth and power. So I'd definitely like some clarification there as well.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Totally agree. It was a fairly naive article. Sam is on the right track, but he needs to self-educate a lot more. The reasoning in the article is pretty garbage. "Software is destroying jobs and enriching a small handful of people...th
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by zenogais 12y ago
I would say that reasoning is a little suspect. This is often considered a uniquely Japanese phenomenon, but there's a growing body of work suspecting that isn't the case. In Japan part of the classification involves unlogged or e
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by zenogais 12y ago
You can read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi There was also a recent case in the London banking industry of a suspected overwork death: http://www.theguardian.com/money&#x2F
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by zenogais 12y ago
100% agree. Really any kind of knee-jerk rationalizing away of deaths, like that by the OP, should probably be taken cautiously.
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by zenogais 12y ago
So far as I know Japan has a category for deaths by overwork in their statistics, but US, conveniently, does not.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Needing to do a thing for another person for "practical reasons", however, could make you a slave.
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by zenogais 12y ago
In my experience a lot of entrepreneurs/entrepreneur literature preaches Stoic philosophies: [1]: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2009/04/13/stoicism-101-a-practi... [2]: http://www.entrepreneur.c
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by zenogais 12y ago
"nature does not produce on the one hand owners of money or commodities, and on the other hand men possessing nothing but their own labour-power...[this] is clearly the result of a past historical development..."
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by zenogais 12y ago
Perhaps Hacker News is more diverse than you suspect.
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by zenogais 12y ago
That book absolutely blew me away the first time I worked through it. Great stuff!
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by zenogais 12y ago
They also thought the efficient-market hypothesis was true, until the financial crisis hit in 2008.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Unfortunately some things fall into the naturally monopoly category ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly ). Figuring out what those are is an ongoing process. Government regulated industries get a bad rap thes
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by zenogais 12y ago
Sounds pretty reasonable rather than cynical to me.
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by zenogais 12y ago
This is the kind of deskilling many philosophers in the strand of technological critique (Heidegger, Ellul, Marcuse, to name a few) have discussed. It's strikes me as a byproduct of the intellectual division of labor - as practices mat

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