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by larkery 6y ago
This is like a strictly worse kind of s-expression. C.f. (tag "This text node contains" (magic "unicorns") " and " (magic "fairy dust"))
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by larkery 6y ago
There's a factor not considered here: to what extent were Scalia & Ginsberg able to get along because of other material conditions? As supreme court justices we can assume that they had a basic foundation of psychological and mater
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by larkery 7y ago
Yes - I think you're right that the actual interesting result from NFLT is not that 'optimisation is impossible', but that 'uniform priors are stupid'.
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by larkery 7y ago
Hah, interesting - this is a reference I hadn't seen and I like the sound of it. There was me thinking I'd had an idea of my own one time! The reference machine thing would be the next problem to argue if using 2^-K as the weight;
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by larkery 7y ago
I think you're right to bring up the NFLT, but I don't think it is applicable, it just points at the real question. The key assumption to get the NFLT is that each environment vote has the same weight, i.e. we are targeting a unif
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by larkery 7y ago
I guess if you have a limited budget to spend, I would put political action at the top of the list. However, I think typically people have several limited budgets which are kind of incommensurable. For example for me, the decision never to
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by larkery 7y ago
I agree with most of what you have said - we need to exert political pressure by taking action. This action probably needs to be disruptive and unpleasant to work, like the actions taken by the civil rights movements of the last century. Ho
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by larkery 7y ago
A COP of 5 is quite optimistic for a domestic scale heat pump, at least in the climate where I work (UK). Sensible values here would be more like 2 - 3.5 depending on the temperature gradient required. This is a function of how big the radi
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by larkery 7y ago
In dense enough areas you can also do well with heat distribution networks, or mixed heat and cold networks. These are a good low-regret choice because you have a big central plant which you can easily refit if the best supply technology ch
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by larkery 7y ago
As a thought experiment that might point you toward why some people say not: if you make an atom-perfect simulation of two 1kg spheres orbiting each other in an empty universe, would that produce any gravitation?
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by larkery 8y ago
There's another solution to this question (or maybe the same one in different words). I believe something similar, but I still do things - why do I do things? Why write this message? The question seems like a show-stopper. Then again,
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by larkery 9y ago
I guess part of the issue here is that cars are a kind of coordination problem - if nobody else is using a car on the roads, cars are quite a good choice. They are fast and easy, and go where you want. However, each person who uses a car cr
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by larkery 9y ago
I agree with your scepticism about solving the commute traffic with a self-driving silver bullet. The research for traffic flow [1] says that, with human driven cars, a slice of a 4m wide lane will pass about 1000 people/hr in cars, ab
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by larkery 9y ago
It is being a luddite - in a good way! Don't knock the luddites, they had analogous concerns. They didn't hate machines or novelty per se, they hated the specifics of how the machines were affecting their quality of life. Same wit
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by larkery 9y ago
I think there's a case to be made that it is possible to judge whether people's behaviours are helping them to enjoy their lives to the best extent. It is a very extreme position to say that there is literally nothing which can be
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by larkery 9y ago
I don't have any timing data and I don't actually use the autosuggest thing (I wrote that for someone else who asked about it), but I can say that I have months of daily use in mine and there's no noticeable query delay or in
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by larkery 9y ago
I think it would be remarkably weird if the state inside me were entirely uncoupled from 'exterior things'. In the zen view, the 'trick' is that there are no exterior things because the distinction between the exterior a
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by larkery 9y ago
In zen there is the question, who is in control of these feelings? Where is the locus of control, and what kind of a thing is it? Where is the boundary between things inside your mind and things outside of your mind? Where does control ge
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by larkery 9y ago
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by larkery 9y ago
I think that "no different" is a stretch here. The way you choose to communicate with someone to achieve an end is important in itself. For a hyperbolic example, imagine you had a partner who wanted you to lose weight because you&
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by larkery 9y ago
I think the VR world is bothersome because you (and me, and many others) have some part of our value system or moral calculus that isn't a function of people's subjective experience but is to do with the arrangement of stuff in th
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by larkery 9y ago
I think there are some studies from here in the UK which indicate that air quality may actually be worse inside motor vehicle cabins than it is outside [1]. This may be mitigated in newer vehicles with particulate filters, I am not sure. I
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by larkery 9y ago
I have to agree - I think the benefits described for all these AR scenarios really don't sound worth the cost, at least to me. In exchange for replacing all the plain simple switches in my house with a complex tower of software, hardwa
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by larkery 9y ago
It appears I am outside the edit window, but [3] should be https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/histdb-merge (no .zsh). Thanks for pointing that out. I don't use a zsh package manager and don&
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by larkery 9y ago
For those on zsh I have something similar [1-2]. It hooks to zshaddhistory and stores the command, running time, CWD, hostname and exit status in a sqlite database, and provides a simple query command. With a git merge driver [3] the histor
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by larkery 10y ago
I think you have accidentally conflated "whoever wants them most" with whoever is willing and able to pay the most. I am not sure how you would find out whether I want to live on the street where I grew up more than, for example,
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by larkery 10y ago
Responses of this form -- if X were worthwhile, X would already be happening; as X is not happening, it cannot be worthwhile -- are often proposed when talking about the economy. Is this not presuming the answer? It reminds me of Leibniz&#x
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by larkery 10y ago
You are right about the problem that efficiency in one place will potentially cause consumption in another. In the literature, this is usually called a 'rebound effect' or Jevons' paradox. It may be that an emissions / e
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by larkery 10y ago
Unfortunately, the evidence so far: - A consistent exponential growth in emissions - A consistent improvement in GDP/energy and a mild improvement in energy/CO2 raises the question: can technical efficiency gains reduce emissions
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by larkery 10y ago
I think you raise a good question; I further wonder whether the provability of outcomes is even sufficient to justify the kind of total procedural adherence which the ethereum folks (until recently!) advocated. In normal contract law that d

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