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by closedloop129 4y ago
>what to do about simulations and models posing for reality? It is or will become indistinguishable from thinking. We can ask the same question about our thoughts. The science trick is that it requires models that can be falsified in rea
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>How do you know if your network is the truthful one You don't know. Evolution will decide if your seed group was good enough. >how do you guarantee it is the person in question? You can't. You have to role back if an identi
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by closedloop129 4y ago
How is that possible? You start with a group of people whom you trust. Then you check papers where those people are co-authors. You add everybody to your group who is on an acceptable paper. On the other hand, you degrade or even remove tho
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by closedloop129 4y ago
In general, times get better. Where does that come from if humans don't mutate that fast? It's also visible in gymnastics and similar sports where routines become more advanced. There are other factors, like a bigger global popula
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Is your lifetime not enough or could the resources to become an expert be better? Looking at sports, it becomes obvious how much can be achieved with the right training. Unfortunately, right now, only the most promising talent in a field re
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by closedloop129 4y ago
You still have the social graph of the authors. Professors are the gatekeepers of the next generation. Like venture capital, you will have to hustle your way to the top for an introduction if you are an outsider.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>It just doesn’t make sense for the average person to start their own cooperative, especially in any competitive domain. What do you mean by 'competitive domain'? State of the art like Amazon or many competitors like Ben and Je
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by closedloop129 4y ago
What's the bottom line? How cheap could housing be?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
They argue this this in section 2. >Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, only one towing company is operating at this moment. The driver wants $1000 to tow your car. The normal price, which obtains when the towing companies have to
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by closedloop129 4y ago
This should strengthen the position of Facebook and their social graph. If everything can be faked then only content with known origin will be valuable. It should also give rise to micropayments. If views can't be trusted as currency t
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Thanks for your honesty. Is 'being awesome' awesome if at its core, it's the negation of losing?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
He is ignoring the black swans. Before the invention of cities and companies, there was hardly any cooperation besides hunting together. >(1) After playing this for 3 years, I’ve learned that you have to learn about your team mates style
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by closedloop129 4y ago
ITP is a key part and a good start but I wouldn't call it the ultimate tool. Thought is more than logic. Logic operates on a model, after things have been named and conceptualized. As the saying goes, there are two hard things in compu
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Why are we still guessing how our emotions work? With 5 billion people online, there could be instant feedback on all models and hypotheses. What is needed to coordinate humans to figure out how humans work?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Domain needs www: https://www.scriffer.com/
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It's offline. Hug of death or not yet published?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
For business software, there are various sites where alternatives are suggested and debated. Why does this not exist in a general form for bookmarks? I want to bookmark articles and apps and then see how they rank and if I could read a bett
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Have a look at https://searchaggregate.com/ I wouldn't hide the list of search engines behind options. The macros are a good idea. Looking forward to when you allow people to share them. I would add one macro by defaul
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>You're going to have to pay a lot more. The model can't be sustained at this price. It will be much cheaper once there are self-driving cars. You don't have to pay for the drive, just for somebody doing the final delivery
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It would be nice if users could mark predictions as true. I would love to see how the predictions trade on prediction markets like https://manifold.markets/ . Could you automatically create an entry for every prediction?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Don't forget that you are living in a democracy. If the tenants can make the rules they don't have to repeat history. However, as the zoning laws show, they are short-sighted, and most likely will repeat history.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Regarding my last statement: People like to invest into multi residentials now, but are those investments still profitable when the zoning changes? How do you protect your investment when there is innovative pressure and housing units compe
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>The western world gets cheap food because it exploits the labor and resources of the less fourtunate. This is true for vegetables and fruits. But the core calories come from corn and grain that is cheap because of industrialization. The
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It's stoppable because we have the internet and social networks. >To bemoan the securitization (not commoditization, for not all real estate is equally fungible) of real estate is, ultimately, to bemoan that certain properties are c
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It's counter-intuitive but the majority of housing has to be non-owner-occupied for prices to fall. >making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property. >but everyone who owns property would be against it
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by closedloop129 4y ago
> because city governments zoned everything wrong for the actual demand This is the core problem. Commoditization, or rather, people cornering the market is secondary. City government is doing this because it is elected by those who own
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Looking at all the things that can be improved in various Google or Facebook products, there is not too few work for developers. The problem is that the classical management structure is not suited for developer companies. Google and Facebo
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Exactly. However, the incentives are different. Academics do not necessarily care about the same questions. They are also not personally affected but just research a topic. With a social network, people with problems can come up with their
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>When I’m consuming non-fiction content, I try to write down specific experiments I can try that put the things I “learned” into practice. Could you turn this into a social network where people cooperate to do these experiments? It could
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>... in the age of the internet? Your children will *know* more ... Facts vs thinking. Where do you go to learn how to debate and how to structure knowledge?

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