joycian

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by joycian 3y ago
What does "indirectly" include legally?
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by joycian 3y ago
Actually, I think it could be said that Pompey did it illegitimately before he did it legitimately (legitimately meaning: with the support of the sitting government in Rome), raising troops in support of Sulla's invasion force. Of cour
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by joycian 3y ago
But can you distinguish those states reliably?
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by joycian 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
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by joycian 3y ago
But how do you know space isn't filled with a network of probes to detect just that? It seems to me you need to be confident you're first on the scene, or at least that the Precursors don't have such a huge lead on you that y
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by joycian 3y ago
I don't understand something about this: how would the civilization that destroys another one know that they don't expose themselves to some even more hidden civilization? Isn't the best option to sit still and hope the Pre
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by joycian 4y ago
I like that you're asking for the mechanics. Many people just repeat their mantras. If QE led to inflation quickly and in a simple way, we could have known that long ago. We didn't even have to do it ourselves: Japan did the exper
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by joycian 4y ago
Balance of payments.
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by joycian 4y ago
Not that uncharted, perhaps. You can look up the Amsterdam banking crisis of 1763. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_banking_crisis_of_...
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by joycian 5y ago
Exactly, you give the government a way to replicate your insight, in return you get x years of monopoly. With the first part being non-existent (didn't inventors even have to supply physical prototypes etc.?) the patent system is easy
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by joycian 5y ago
Are there no widely used flak/AoE weapons that heavily punish tight formations?
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by joycian 5y ago
If it's only that it would be pretty hard. Aggregated data would (probably?) be relatively safe.
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by joycian 5y ago
Well even if you know that nobody can be identified from your data alone, if everyone releases data, it will become easier and easier to cross-reference and still identify people.
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by joycian 5y ago
Yes, I think you're right, I should've written increased. Thanks for the correction :).
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by joycian 5y ago
There's some evidence that around 2B years ago microbes decreased the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere so much by overpopulation that 99% of the biosphere died.
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by joycian 5y ago
No, that was already patched before Erastothenes. Some simple branch predictions based on behavior patterns of the Bronze Age civilizations were enough to get the change through management.
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by joycian 6y ago
I looked this up and it seems very cool. Do you (or anybody else) know any more of these games or environments that can be controlled by code?
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by joycian 6y ago
What's with the bimodal distributions for German there?
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by joycian 6y ago
Could you recommend more like that?
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by joycian 6y ago
If only they could be read by robots! Their formulation is actually quite unwieldy and wasteful: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/bigness-part...
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by joycian 6y ago
Indeed, Arrhenius definitely had a 'slight clue' in 1896. It is probably comfortable to think that we really could not have known, but I think the reality is that it is often so much easier to kick the can down the road than to be
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by joycian 6y ago
I don't know if it's useful to see it as a zero sum game. The sun is beaming practically unlimited energy out towards us (and a whole lot more that doesn't reach Earth but is still available eventually). Even if it is zero su
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by joycian 6y ago
I never got that feeling from Dawkins? Could you explain?
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by joycian 6y ago
Zero-K
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by joycian 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_gas_automaton
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by joycian 6y ago
A neuron contains thousands if not millions of transistor-equivalents in the form of gene level and ion level switches. I'm not saying that you couldn't do it with 100 transistors, or that everything in a neuron is needed for this
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by joycian 6y ago
I think it's more Freelancer
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by joycian 6y ago
Someday, this line of argument is going to conclude that humans are not intelligent.
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by joycian 6y ago
To be fair, our brain is also split into two halves that have limited bandwidth to communicate. It's not clear how much bandwidth is needed to "feel" like a single entity.
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by joycian 6y ago
3) I think their point is that when you are at 10%, it's not probable that it will reverse at that point.

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