consilient

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by consilient 3y ago
> But later philosophers came up with much better solutions Yes, later than both Smith and Marx . Marginalism didn't go mainstream until the 1890s, though the necessary pieces were there waiting to be assembled from about 1870.
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by consilient 3y ago
Unless you're doing math (and are willing to take first order logic as a priori true) you need to start with something. Learning about the world requires data, data requires identifying a data source, and identifying a data source requ
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by consilient 3y ago
> simply be what that conscious thing experiences when a set of neurons is activated in a particular way? That is what it is, but that's totally independent of whether they're physical. One is a sign pointing to the thing, the
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by consilient 3y ago
I'm comparing Afrikaners to the English and to South African blacks who were integrating into colonial society (among whom the Zulu were likely the largest ethnic group, but certainly not an outright majority). Afrikaner national ident
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by consilient 3y ago
> Okay, but this is not at all what Marx himself said. Marx was philosophically opposed in all of his writings to answering even the most basic questions about what a communist economy/government would look like. In his mind he was
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by consilient 3y ago
> But that efficiency of the current state, but doesn't seem to take account of the evolution that happened to get to that point. Has anyone measured the work it takes to get the market to that endpoint? Is there even a name for thi
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by consilient 3y ago
> This kind of shallow dismissal of my shallow dismissal of a frankly idiotic idea that doesn't deserve a deeper dismissal The labor theory of value was accepted wisdom prior to the late 19th century: it originates with Adam Smith a
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by consilient 3y ago
> Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed. Marx believed that planning out the detailed structure of a future utopian society , in the tradition of Owen or Fourier, was useles
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by consilient 3y ago
The LSD essay went way, way over the heads of half of his comment section.
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by consilient 3y ago
> My impression is that they're what scott calls "my dinner guests." Yes, he's pathologically friendly towards anyone to his right: part and parcel of not taking them that seriously. > Seriously I cannot find anyth
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by consilient 3y ago
The relevant outgroups animating Afrikaner nationalism aren't the Zulu (or Xhosa, or Tswana, etc.) as a whole, but rather the rapidly growing black working class on the one hand, and English-speaking elites on the other. Of course Afri
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by consilient 3y ago
> As for e/acc, I have no idea what that means. It's just the latest rebranding of Nick Land's ideology/performance art/shitposting. "Capital will devour human civilization: here's why that's a goo
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by consilient 3y ago
e/acc is an internet meme. The underlying ideological group, to the extent that there is one, is the "reactionary modernism"/"Californian Ideology"/"New Right"/"neoreactionary" clu
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by consilient 3y ago
> Every single human conflict can be described as "small differences" because humans are very similar to each other. He's obviously talking about differences which are small by human standards . The rest of the paragraph:
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by consilient 3y ago
He has a house in Vermont, a one-bedroom apartment in DC, and a lakefront cabin. For an upper middle class octogenarian, that's completely unremarkable. Most American software engineers could easily do the same by middle age.
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by consilient 3y ago
That's not a bunch of separate caveats, it's a few principles illustrated with lots of examples. - Don't use effects for things that aren't genuinely effectful - Put finnicky state management stuff in reusable utils inst
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by consilient 3y ago
I'm having trouble finding a primary source, but here's a paper discussing the issue. Field, A. (2014). Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur. Games, 5(1), 53–89. doi:10.3390/g5010053 https://sci-
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by consilient 3y ago
In practice "Communism" means Leninism and its descendants, or occasionally revolutionary Marxism in general. No one reasonable would ever use it to refer to the likes of Olof Palme.
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by consilient 3y ago
> him having personally experienced Soviet brutality didn't have the luxury of being ignorant of reality. Allied troops didn't reach Hungary until 1944, and the Soviet-backed coup occurred in 1947. von Neumann moved to Germany
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by consilient 3y ago
Somethings are simply bad for you, without qualification, but for the most part it only makes sense to use "healthy" or "unhealthy" to describe a diet, not individual foods. Milk has lots of protein, minerals, and fat. W
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by consilient 3y ago
No, three is just an arbitrary number for their example. The point is not the exact number of roles but the fact that the basic legal unit is the relationship, not the person. For instance a prince-bishop might in principle be subject to an
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by consilient 3y ago
> does HN have some type of special level of skepticism built into it that no where else online does? Obviously not, but there's no general factor of wrongness lurking behind it. HN has a crippling case of engineer's syndrome,
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by consilient 3y ago
> Again Chomsky and other tankies Chomsky is literally an anarchist.
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by consilient 3y ago
They're not. Most protected classes are things like "race" or "marital status" - not "black" or "married". (Age is an exception here, at least federally: young people are not protected.)
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by consilient 3y ago
> Or do you consider wikipedia also propagandist? The Wikimedia Foundation itself is not, but there are absolutely cliques of editors pushing propaganda.
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by consilient 3y ago
> "a subfield of computer science" (computability is a minor concern compared to the statistical underpinnings) Computability theory is not all of computer science. It's just one subfield among many.
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by consilient 3y ago
> From what I remember it's quite easy to have a SVM overfit ... It'd be interesting to understand why SVMs with well-tuned kernels and regularization are reasonably resistant to overfitting. The problem is that you can easily
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by consilient 3y ago
Some of them are: I've run into sections lifted straight of of Lang's Algebra several times.
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by consilient 3y ago
> No, that's not what superposition means a priori. The word was originally used to describe the decomposition of waveforms into sums of sinusoids, which is as canonical an example of a linear system as you can get. > the idea of
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by consilient 3y ago
> Why would we expect superpositions of quantum states to be encoded as a vector sum of the individual state vectors? Because that's what the word superposition means. If you don't have linear dynamics you don't have super

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