citadel_melon

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by citadel_melon 16d ago
Reminds me of the task “don’t think of a pink elephant.” The first thing you do is think of a pink elephant. The solution is to land on what you want your audience to do in the affirmative. For the pink elephant you can say, “Don’t think of
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by citadel_melon 20d ago
I had aphantasia and then taught myself to see images too. It’s possible aphantasia is something like deafness but there is no way anyone knows for sure either way. People who think aphantasia is definitely similar to deafness probably are
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by citadel_melon 1mo ago
Would you mind sharing your thoughts more?
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by citadel_melon 1mo ago
Public unions are fine as long as there is a counterweight. What do I mean by a counterweight? For example, the MLB owners hold a monopsony over hiring pro baseball athletes, but the athletes have their own monopoly via the MLBPA. The resul
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by citadel_melon 2mo ago
Taxes on income is not usually what people mean by capital controls. Usually they’re talking about free flow of capital between currencies. But even by your unconventional definition, Norwegians have it easy compared to US citizens. The US
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by citadel_melon 2mo ago
Can you share your work? Trust but verify
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by citadel_melon 2mo ago
Is there a valid reason to ban a book? On one hand, I agree there are books which are dangerous. But usually the most dangerous ones are one’s that are more innocuous. I think Catcher in the Rye is dangerous as I have seen grown men misread
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by citadel_melon 2mo ago
Do you track your daily macros/calories and have you done progressive overload strength training continuously for 5+ years, logging your workouts? I find most people will usually hyper optimize things like buying supplements and wrist
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is. Books it’s very obvious when it’s deteriorating or molding, hard drives and such are not to a laymen.
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
You are playing the doors/wheels game naively because you have already overly qualified your definition of what is a door and what is a wheel without realizing it. Have you considered for example if ball bearings wheels? Are gears and
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Determining whether Europe or the US is more diverse is like asking the question: “are there more doors or wheels in the world?” To answer such a question, you need to over qualify your definition to the point where the final answer is mean
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Europeans (and oftentimes Americans themselves) tend to underestimate American diversity. Even on this AC issue where I would admit that there is less national variance compared to the EU. Yet still, about 90% of the US has AC but there are
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
This other article mentioned that France’s left party was anti-AC but are now starting to change their policy positions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661506 From this limited sample, I’d imagine there was a grou
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Maybe we can each get assigned an AI government goon to look over our shoulders 24/7. Maybe each neuron in my brain will have their own subagent goon. Each mitochondria gets their own subagent government goon. The government will perfe
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
VC companies do not dig into the numbers as you suggest. FTX was able to get away with their fraud for a long time for that very reason. VC companies don’t care if some of their investments are fraudulent as they spread their eggs so thin t
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
You have a lot of angry girls texting you?
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Reasonable people could interpret the original comment in many other ways than was probably intended. I like when people are open minded to people who are closed minded/attacking them. It’s an admirable and difficult trait to attain. B
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
As you ironically strawman me. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
When attacking archetypes of people, there is some responsibility to make clear who you’re attacking and why, even to someone who’s not being hyper-open-minded. At least if you want them to learn from you: which may or may not be your goal.
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
I thought I needed something like this a couple months ago, but I instead now use the liminal time to self-reflect or think deeper about my work. I have always valued reflection and encourage others to try it while waiting for your agents.
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Imagine if the US’s left argued for no air conditioning: they would be called Stalinists communists and be excommunicated from polite society. Yet the policy is not completely unreasonable (albeit one I wouldn’t want personally, especially
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Don’t anthropomorphize the lawn mower. He could leave anytime and learn how to enjoy a more modest and less harmful life.
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Some lawyers MSG banned from the stadium tried to sue the venue. these lawyers argued that because MSG was not fully “open to the public” as their liquor licensed required, their liquor licensed should be revoked. The appellate court ultima
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Options (a) and (b) add more bloat to the model’s context window and option (c) seem to reduce to having similar functions that already existed. There is also the option to trick the LLM that it’s using the old function exactly as-is, while
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
I’m curious if you are an Iranian living in Iran or an Iranian who lives abroad? This context will help me better understand your perspective
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
Conjecturing standards of living is going up is overly reductive. Essential costs — housing, groceries, education, etc — have been going up for most people and hit everyday people the hardest.
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
There are many more economic distortions that happen from having massive wealth inequality — too many to list in one comment — but the biggest one is that democracy isn’t possible with a certain level of wealth inequality. In such models wh
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
A perfectly efficient market doesn’t necessarily mean that a good is traded at its marginal price. You’re instead describing a perfectly competitive market. An economy is Pareto efficient (aka perfectly efficient) when resources are allocat
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
This argument you make is the same one Osama bin Laden uses in his 2004 “Letter to the American People”: he argues that because the American people re-elected George W. Bush, the populace was complicit in the policy consequences, self-ratio
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by citadel_melon 3mo ago
There is a spectrum between an employer’s monopoly/oligopoly over labor that Marx’s narrative presupposes and a perfectly competitive labor market your narrative presupposes. Reality varies between these two extremes in different labor

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