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Game theory also assumes a fixed set of choices and outcomes. But as I’ve said, people are creative: they can create new outcomes and new avenues to achieve them.
Game theory fundamentally views people as automata mechanically making decisions. Which is gross (and false).
People’s choices aren’t fixed to what some economists think their Rational Choice should be. You can convince people that, say, free riding is wrong and then fewer of them will do it.
@__adamjohnson_
So considering this and also keeping in mind how obscurely he talks on his show all the time, also to a general audience, I find that overwhelming evidence that his paper is meant to obscure.
@__adamjohnson_
Well, it’s like I write in the comment I linked. To elaborate: he explicitly distances himself from academia, then refers to his paper as a work of entertainment. I don’t think that means there are inside jokes, but that it’s meant for a broad audience, like ~all entertainment.
@__adamjohnson_
Yes, I agree that that falls under obscurantism. And that maybe he’s not doing it deliberately. But I’m guessing you underestimate how prevalent obscurantism is in academia, even when subject-matter experts address each other.
Yes, the American government still employs much coercion, unfortunately. But in time, the amount of coercion can be reduced by creating more knowledge.
However, if there's a diffing tool I don't know about that can diff words, not just lines, and visually accommodate this without messing up the flow of the writing, then it could work great.
Sadly, using git for writing doesn't work well because lines get much, much longer than in code (every paragraph is a single line), which obscures the diffs.
But in principle, that problem is also soluble without coercion, like all problems. The US has solved it, for example. Other countries haven't.
If a society doesn't know how to defend itself without coercing its members, it can be argued that a draft is better than death.
But the example is a bit flawed because the evil situation the society and its members are put in is caused by foreign coercion in the first place.
Yes. And it is written for the general public, as Weinstein points out himself. See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-compre…
@__adamjohnson_
It is written for the general public. See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-compre…
To clarify, yes coercion is worse, no you don't just live with it. You find other ways of dealing with it that are better than the status quo.
For aggressive coercion: no. Problems are soluble. Create new outcomes and solutions and try more persuasion.
Brook should have conceded the point. He made a conjectured, Malice immediately offered a refutation. Malice was right and Brook knew it. But I'm guessing Brook feels he has too much riding on looking in the right to people—apparently more than he has riding on pursuing truth.
Later, Brook (paraphrase): "Anarchy can't work because the guy with the biggest gun always wins."
Malice (paraphrase): "Then how come we didn't win in Vietnam?"
Brook, stuttering: "Well, you're taking things out of context."
Disappointing performance by Brook.
Brook: “The only way to achieve a better world is through government.”
That could have been said by a communist.
Dunno why you put persuasion in quotes, but the answer is "no". Persuasion can always work, but there is no guarantee that it will.
Is doing god's work this ginger brother.
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RT @dchackethal:
@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha
Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue individual profit
LOL those pesky…
Persuasion is always possible. And even if it weren’t, that wouldn’t explain why coercion would be morally okay. Nor is it okay when one fails to persuade.
One has two options, really: persuade others or leave them alone.
That’s presupposing that one knows what’s best for others. Which is highly problematic.
When one fails to persuade, it needn’t be because the other person is being irrational or something. It can also be because one sucks at persuading.
Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue individual profit
LOL those pesky group members never going with the program!
I recall that article. Maybe we have spoken before. The strings "persua" and "convinc" appear 0 times in the article, so I'm guessing the article doesn't address what I was saying, nor does it refute the notion that persuasion can solve problems. Or does it?
To be clear, you don't think persuasion works because it can lead to free-riding? Or you're attributing that problem to taxation?
You wrote: "Perhaps you missed the part about ending a pandemic." That sounds to me like you think I don't want the pandemic solved.
Do you think taxes/force are the only way to solve the pandemic, or do you think persuading people could work?
That doesn’t imply that I don’t want the pandemic solved.
What did I say that led you to think I didn’t know ending the pandemic would be desirable?
@TripThomasGames @MarsCuriosity
Doubtful it would be that far. I'm guessing it's the much closer faint pixel, at around 5 o'clock.
Beautiful picture, but ironic that the very technology that leads the way to escaping from this cruel rock one day spreads memes to forever preserve that rock. It claims we're all "connected by earth", although its very presence on Mars is evidence of the opposite. twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/…
Who’s “we”?
If you’re allowed to purchase large quantities of the vaccine, do so, then donate them.
But I have the impression that you’re not. Meaning the government would need to do it. Meaning everyone would have to pay for it, even against their will.
@AfJyag @disclosetv
Where taxes are lower. @nomadcapitalist would know better.
Before asking “how can we”, shouldn’t we ask “should we”? twitter.com/royalsociety/s…
@AnnikaJoeres @M_Hundhausen @HolzheuStefan
Aus Ihren Tweets wird nicht klar, ob die Zahlen nun 36 Dezibel zu hoch oder zu niedrig sind. Nur anhand der Bemerkung, dass es Gegnern in die Hände gespielt hat, kann man erahnen, dass sie 36 zu hoch waren.
Correct, but we need an explanation to say either way.
I thought number inputs don’t even let you type values that are outside the specified range?
RT @Replit:
This is the most creative personal website I've ever seen 😍
It injects CSS into the page as it's written: https://t.co/WgS99uC…
Ok but within those constraints there could still be infinitely many ways.
Why couldn’t there be infinitely many ways to make an eye? twitter.com/RichardDawkins…
Holding past generations' mistakes against current generations. A nasty result of collectivism. twitter.com/ElefentJames/s…
In other words, there's a problem we don't yet know how to solve. Is that really an argument against libertarianism?
Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass "zusammenschreiben" und "getrennt schreiben" beide auf sich selbst zutreffen. Sie sind also homolog. Eine schoene Eigenschaft der deutschen Sprache!
The second-handedness level is over 9000. twitter.com/lillianyoung/s…
RT @dchackethal:
@angela4LNCChair
Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have…
Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have cared?
Same logic as when parents impose screen times against their children's will: "They don't know what's best for them, I do."
Very handy for sending form fields over a socket or ajax.
IIRC you can also use it to turn FormData into an object.
Note the official-sounding, proper language they're using to normalize this stuff. Also note their facial expressions of regret here and there, as if to say that they're so sorry to do this, but it's for 'the right reasons.' They're committing evil with good intentions. twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith…
RT @MrAndyNgo:
He was white, so no need to riot.
The @Oregonian, Portland’s paper of record. archive.is/2021.04.16-194… https://t.co/7PTOxMom…
@snipperbytes @nixcraft
The foreach also looks a bit like stack-safe tail recursion.
RT @Lukewearechange:
FAUCI: "I don't look at this as a liberty thing."
JORDAN: "Well, that's obvious!" https://t.co/XqPot9QIqj
Have you tried Tillamook? I didn't know vanilla could be this good. Highly recommended: tillamook.com/products/ice-c…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Initially one feels an enormous wave of happiness. One is complying with the government's wishes! One is accepted by s…
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@kimmytaylor
It has died at many times and places. They are for that reason times and places you don't want to be.
If you want to give minorities money, just do it. Why force others to do the same? twitter.com/nowthisnews/st…
@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger
Brains are made of atoms. And those atoms had to exist before brains existed so that brains could be constructed by evolution in the first place, i.e. before anyone could in principal perceive atoms.
@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger
The whole "does a tree fall if nobody's around to see it falling" is an anti-realist fallacy. It also strikes me as a stolen concept because the misconception presupposes the existence of the tree it then denies.
@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger
In order:
I don’t know what you mean by “quanta.”
Yes. And we currently don’t perceive primality either btw.
@BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger @mynameisChesto
I'm guessing yes and yes, because without humans there would still be, say, solar systems with a prime number of planets, molecules with a prime number of atoms, etc.
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SCOOP: Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a "parasitic system" based on the "invasion…
Wearing a mask while playing the trombone... 🤦♂️
Somebody should install a big light source on the moon that we can see from earth.
It's complicated, but I agree with the sentiment. twitter.com/LPTexas/status…
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"The Impossible Checkbox 🐻"
Now with sound! 🔊
⚒️ @reactjs && @greensock
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@DavidDeutschOxf @mynameisChesto
What makes qualia different from abstractions?
If it was before the lockdown was imposed, how does the word “but” make sense there? I don’t think the first and last statement have conflicting implications.
Lockdown proponents can argue that it was only a peak because of lockdown.
I am told by a doctor that the part about vaccines not protecting from infection is wrong.
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'It Is Still Not Safe To Go Outside,' Says Fauci's Head In A Jar In Year 2739
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Interesting 🤔
”Is the science of public health a religion now, or is science supposed to be about debate? If someone…
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Cake shop in Olympia, WA. https://t.co/RWQe2RZRmW
I wonder if pretty soon entire game graphics will be written in CSS. twitter.com/jh3yy/status/1…
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Of course, after those commercials!