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by zmgsabst 2y ago
That’s not inability to reason though, that’s having a social context. Humans also don’t tend to operate in a rigorously logical mode and understand that math word problems are an exception where the language may be adversarial: they’re tra
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Horses never recovered from mechanization.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
A general graph solver has to be a general intelligence, since it would be able to successfully model category theory.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Amazon can be held up as contributing toward the death of the small business Amazon does more than most of those to let you buy from small producers, which also feature in their catalog. The volume SMBs ship on Amazon was in the double
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Amazon discusses that every dollar of salary produces $2.5 of local economic activity, eg, because their workers buy coffees that then pay the salaries of baristas who then… That money comes from many communities and is distributed to a han
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t think “efficiency” is the only priority. A few reasons: - market diversity matters, and we have a more functional market with many smaller actors - similarly, a smaller local actor is more accountable for their behavior - efficiency
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I couldn’t have predicted 2024 from 1624 — so I assume I’m similarly incompetent at forward predictions of 2424. Trying to guess from 1AD what 2024AD would look like would make me sound like I was speaking myths — so again, I have to assume
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Your first link says that in 400 years, we’ll need a second location to continue growing. And…? I think that actually supports the other person’s view: if your entire argument amounts to “in 400 years, we’ll need to have space stations or s
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I largely agree, but a few quibbles: - the Great Pyramid is closer to 4600 years old - we will always have common crust elements, eg 27.7% silicon, 8.1% aluminum, 5% iron, 3.6% calcium, 2.8% sodium, 2.6% potassium, and 2.1% magnesium; so th
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You do — and you know you do, when the opinion is sufficiently controversial. I understand you present that open-minded veneer, but you happily violate it by calling opinions a flamewar or similar slight, then censoring for ideological non-
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I think it’s related, but not in the way you’re implying: He seems to view it as a personal failing that he didnt ignore the awkwardness to “solve the problem” of no one memorializing his friend and thinks about that inability to perform
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
To borrow another quote: Plans are nothing, but planning is everything. The process of building a plan builds the institutional knowledge you need to iterate when inevitably the original plan doesn’t work.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Government generally can’t on a public resource.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You say that as if the recommendations for freedom weren’t based on the initial medical data. But they were and you’re inventing a false dichotomy whereby we had to engage in totalitarianism contrary to evidence of COVID’s deadliness or som
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Okay — but we have more concerns than a single virus. It’s entirely possible to engage in net-negative behaviors because you fixate on a singular goal — a human version of the “paperclip optimizer”: we became “COVID optimizers” and produced
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’ve had diplomatically phrased and cited comments on HN called an “inherent flamewar” because they go against hivemind consensus — eg, pointing out BLM leaders described themselves as “trained Marxists”. I think it’s reasonable people don’
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
My point is that it may just be retained because it’s a positive and hence selected for, not merely because it’s a local optimum.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
They were coerced by the state: they issued mandates which required vaccination to engage in normal rights. That’s the literal definition of coercion. I think it’s interesting how many people deny that — almost as if you know what was done
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
COVID vaccines weren’t believed to be QALY positive for a substantial period of the mandates, according to actuarial estimates. The vaccines hospitalized at a rate higher than they prevented hospitalizations and the mandates applied to grou
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Children are still behind in school.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Those organizations were doing so by government mandate — at the direction of government healthcare agencies. They didn’t invent those policies on their own. That’s “imposing” and it speaks to the lack of ethics in the healthcare system the
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Yes — they were coerced by the state including having normal freedoms removed, which is what generally defines “legal obligation”.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Assessing benefit is complicated: A genetic lineage may both lose resources to adopting and gain them from being adopted at different times — and where that nets out over 1000+ generations isn’t immediately clear. Survival benefits from hav
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
We’re really bad at handling large, complex structures. Mathematics dealing with large primes and their complex structures is likely to find applications in other complex structures, eg in physics or computer science. Mathematics is modern
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Inside Out 2 has a single writer, who also worked on the first. Consulting with SMEs, testing with audiences, etc isn’t “design by committee”. Similarly, “Die With a Smile” seems to have been the work of two people with developed styles wit
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I think it was thematic of the match: The whole time, Ding had failed to seize advantages and been low on time — something criticized by GM Hikaru Nakamura. In this final game, those two things caused him to blunder in a complex endgame see
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Do you have an example? My experience with customer surveys indicates the opposite — that customers prefer you have an opinion.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
A small technical point: Tastes are almost never normally distributed along a spectrum, but multi-modal. So the more dimensions you explore in, the more you end up with “islands of taste” on the surface of a hyper sphere and nothing like th
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Adults launder their crime through kids — the same as any gang. Or to be topical, Lulzsec and Sabu.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Live a thug, die a thug. He made his money killing and maiming people. Why would people mourn his death? — why would people be motivated to find his killer? Criminals kill each other every day.

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