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by rfv6723 1mo ago
Ostrom didn’t “debunk” the tragedy of the commons. She showed that it can be avoided when you have stable communities, clear boundaries, repeated interactions, monitoring, and real consequences for free riders. The problem is that those con
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by rfv6723 2mo ago
That sounds nice on paper, but you’re assuming Nvidia wants to play fair. Nvidia is never going to share future microarchitecture secrets, so the moment they drop a new chip and update the compiler, everyone playing the compatibility game
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The bubble of the age; or, The fallacy of railway investment (1848) [pdf](dn721608.ca.archive.org)
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs in Mathematics(chrishayduk.com)
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The Four-Color Problem and Its Philosophical Significance (1979) [pdf](thatmarcusfamily.org)
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by rfv6723 2mo ago
Toddlers do not actually start with a highly advanced "superchimpanzee" mind. Instead, adults project their own mature logic and thinking onto a child’s simple, playful actions. > "The basic topic of my address today conce
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by rfv6723 3mo ago
The only underlying issue is an evolutionary mismatch: human evolution is too slow to keep pace with the modern abundance of food. What we now call food addiction is exactly what kept our ancestors alive during famines.
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by rfv6723 3mo ago
Armchair philosophy without empirical data is just stuck in a loop of endless thought experiments. LLMs basically nuked the Chinese Room argument out of existence. John Searle treated understanding like some magical binary property you eith
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Railroads are unnecessary: no ship in Liverpool waits for Manchester goods (1826)(hansard.parliament.uk)
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by rfv6723 3mo ago
Is it different though? If we look beyond written languages which are late inventions of human civilization, oral languages are continuous and build with blocks not words. Chomskyan school misled the entire field of linguistics for decades
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by rfv6723 4mo ago
The employees are on Sam's side. Employees works for money and Sam brought money in.
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by rfv6723 4mo ago
Human spoken conversation doesn’t really work like file buffering. People can tolerate missing words surprisingly well. If a phrase is slightly clipped, masked by noise, or dropped, the listener can often infer it from context. That happens
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by rfv6723 5mo ago
I think this conflates atheism with a much stronger form of causal rationalism. Dawkins-style atheism is not “reject anything without a complete causal model.” It is a rejection of hypotheses with no explanatory gain, no empirical constrain
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The anxiety surrounding AI-generated "slop" mirrors the frantic warnings of late 15th-century clerics who viewed the printing press as an engine of spiritual decay. Johannes Trithemius, a prominent Benedictine abbot, famously argu
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The concept of a valuable service falls apart if players can influence the actual event. Without equal footing and basic honesty, you aren't measuring reality so much as you are subsidizing those with the power to manipulate it.
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The logistical nightmare of hydrogen makes its production price almost irrelevant. Using surplus wind energy for carbon capture to create synthetic fuels is much smarter because these liquids are compatible with our current global infrastru
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Solid state batteries are overhyped because their production complexity makes them a pricing nightmare for the average consumer. Sodium ion batteries are the practical choice for short distance transport because they are affordable and char
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Dismissing massive capital expenditure as "hypeland" ignores the historical reality that speculative bubbles often build the physical foundation for the next century. The Panic of 1873 saw a catastrophic evaporation of debt-driven
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Focusing exclusively on the physical decay and replacement cycle of hardware is a classic case of tunnel vision. It ignores the fact that the semiconductor industry’s true value lies in the evolution of manufacturing processes and architect
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Dismissing "objective probability" is a convenient philosophical retreat that strips Polymarket of its only legitimate function. If the market isn’t an attempt to aggregate information toward a binary, external "ground truth,
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Reality might stop a transaction, but it cannot kill a drive. Sublimation reroutes our infinite hunger into the scientist’s obsession or the artist’s lifelong pursuit of beauty. These are not finite market choices. They are the redirection
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The "PS5" analogy fails to account for how "useless" hardware often triggers the next paradigm shift. For decades, traditionalists dismissed high-end GPUs as expensive toys for gamers, yet that specific architecture beca
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Augustus established the Vigiles Urbani and the Urban Cohorts, creating a state-funded police and firefighting force to replace the chaotic and often violent system of private client-patron justice. These were the bold, persistent experimen
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Modern bureaucracy provides the institutional architecture and political recourse needed to check such arbitrary local tyranny. Without a central legal authority, an HOA or a town council becomes a lawless fiefdom. In those "freer&quot
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The massive investment in power grids and data centers provides a permanent physical backbone that outlives any specific silicon generation. This infrastructure serves as a durable shell for the model design knowledge and chip architectural
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
This outlook is as short-sighted as the 2000 fiber optic bust. Critics then thought overcapacity meant the end, yet that infrastructure eventually created the modern internet. Capital does not walk away from a fundamental shift just because
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Rural surveillance was far more suffocating because every single action was subject to the community gaze. This is exactly why classic literature frames the journey to the city as a liberation from the crushing weight of the village eye. Th
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
The 19th century was the true cradle of mass surveillance. Civil registration, property tracking, and institutionalized police forces provided the systemic oversight required to manage dense urban life. These administrative tools served as
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
History shows that whenever surveillance gaps appear, chaos follows. The explosion of crime during early urbanization was the specific catalyst for the creation of modern police forces because traditional social bonds had failed to provide
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by rfv6723 7mo ago
Your reaction actually proves the point. Aggression thrives in anonymous spaces because the lack of oversight removes the weight of accountability. When people feel unobserved, they quickly abandon the social friction that once held tribes

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