epivosism

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by epivosism 2y ago
there are some but only ones which have kept going from before zoning came in in the 40s-60s. that's why they always look old; since then the overhead of zoning means that generally only commercial / managed places have the capit
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by epivosism 2y ago
Ebay has used copies for ~12$. I got a few to give away to nephews & nieces who might be interested in this kind of thing
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by epivosism 2y ago
Robin Hanson reviews Planiverse here: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-planiversehtml which might give you an idea of what some of his work was like! > The book seems crazy wrong on how its mystical quest ends,
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by epivosism 2y ago
+1 I LOVED it. Huge, huge, influential book in my thinking when I read it at 11 or 12. It led to interest in world simulations, sociology and how it relates to physical structures and limits, physics simulations, and so much more.
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by epivosism 2y ago
Yeah, the framing you need to have to understand the comment is dark. How is one to "know" that one ought not to do this, unless the facts about cultural behavior are communicated? Yet those facts themselves, about regions and ris
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by epivosism 2y ago
True. Although most science fiction which would take place over such a long timespan might involve methods of locking things down more firmly, and putting at least part of the world into a kind of stasis. This is almost necessary to explain
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by epivosism 2y ago
I often think about a scifi story where after X million years, somehow familiar humanity survives, and two plates containing land with VERY different natural flora and fauna approach each other - for example, california, home of many native
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by epivosism 2y ago
related: a market summarizing what I know about China's intentional map offset laws, specifically on whether Google will continue following this (only 4 bettors, not very meaningful yet) https://manifold.markets/Ernie&#
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by epivosism 2y ago
To the opposite point: the reply says "women are failing cause the event design is biased" and also "women could do perfectly well if not for society making them not play" Which one is it. If society didn't hold bac
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by epivosism 2y ago
Why have you locked off the easy complimentary answers: "women generally are smart enough to know running 100 miles at once isn't that useful" or "women on average have more important things to do". Nobody crows how
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by epivosism 2y ago
yeah, the author seems to like the guy but still falls into typical prejudicial choices in explaining the actual story. It's so schoolmarmish. Step back man, people can do what they want, they make mistakes, they have grand plans that
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by epivosism 2y ago
> The thing is traditionnally sports have been invented by men with charactetistics/rules that suited men first. Take a look at the history of the concept of marathon; I think your claim is a stretch. Running fast from point A to p
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by epivosism 2y ago
You might like this conversation Laz had with Tyler Cowen a few months back: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/lazarus-lake/
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by epivosism 2y ago
Yes, and MJ has no public API either. Same for Ideogram, I imagine they have at least 10m in the bank, and aren't even bothering making an API despite being SoTA for lots of areas.
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by epivosism 2y ago
+1 on the recs for his main work. I also wanted to mention that I loved his book Tatja Grimm's world, too. It's great, alternate world fantasy, but with Vingean depth of thought about what it all might mean... Looking it up now,
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by epivosism 3y ago
Readers may be interested in this link, which is to all the SBF sentence-related markets on manifold. Caveats: just like twitter follower counts, instagram like counts, hn upvotes, this is "play money", the mana amounts the trader
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by epivosism 3y ago
Freedom of choice means you have the right to try to create such a system. As other people can try what they want, VC funding, astrology, etc. It's all legal and competes. But, if someone is selling a system which doesn't exist ye
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by epivosism 3y ago
I loved Debt for the ideas, but I abandoned this since it seemed to be pushing their politics so hard. I've read Zinn, GGS, later pop science anthropology books, 1491, 1493, as well as kept up with john hawks, razib, etc as far as pale
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by epivosism 3y ago
how long they live before reproduction, reproduction rate, edibility (while you're waiting for them to be tame), in-captivity behavior, what they eat, etc matter a lot since they are the variables going into the equation for how many 1
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by epivosism 3y ago
100% agree w/this recommendation. The title is pretentious and put me off, so I missed out for a few years, but the contents are amazing. He has another related book, The Secrets of our Success, which is good. I'm happy that despi
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by epivosism 3y ago
Another type 2 site I forgot: stackoverflow And another type 1: github
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by epivosism 3y ago
Another problem is that due to fear of lawsuits, you really are not allowed to talk to candidates afterwards. Even innocuous things like "We all really thought you'resmart, and loved your projects, but in the end we thought you ne
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by epivosism 3y ago
This is really great. I want to review this for everywhere I've been, because the variation in how gov'ts do statistics is hiding so much of what's actually going on there.
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How dense is your city?(citydensity.com)
66 points by epivosism 3y ago|68 comments
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by epivosism 3y ago
That matches what I would expect. My normal continuation would be to look at the growth from 2014 til now in global internet users, and at the competitors like youtube, insta, etc. I'd expect to find that many of these sites grew 100 o
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by epivosism 3y ago
I'd definitely agree that changes like that intensify the issue! For me as an amateur contributor, though, even the normal experience was tough - suddenly I returned to find my content removed, with a short, aggressive note, left by wh
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by epivosism 3y ago
Yes, I didn't break them out but I do consider some types of basic filtering to be legitimate because they're both common across cultures, and their limits can be described fairly precisely. These are things such as prohibitions o
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by epivosism 3y ago
I have heard the editor count at Wikipedia has been shrinking for years. Might have been wrong though
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by epivosism 3y ago
I recently have been thinking about UGC site in general, and it seems like they generally go two ways: 1. Allow most legal content to be uploaded and control distribution with algos YouTube, Roblox, Twitter, Tinder, Flickr, Insta, FB, TikTo
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by epivosism 3y ago
Yeah, expanding and making prompts specific via LLMs is a good idea. I would like to be able to see and fight better against the outer prompt in some situations, though. Dalle-3 can be really persistent in certain cases. The whole alleged t

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