No idea on details but hedge funds aggressively attack each other over discovered vulnerabilities all the time and this sounds like such a hostile takeover what with Binance selling FTT in a (supposedly) maximally damaging way to FTX liquidity.
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This is interesting, thanks for writing it. It seems to correspond to David Marr’s ‘pushing complexity into the representation vs pushing complexity into the traversal’.
this sounds like it hinges on calling it a lottery and explaining just enough to a friend to cause problems rather than a pithier summary or a longer discussion.
If you think there are some reasonable points mixed in there and are curious for a more academic take I would recommend The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell
Write in order to organize your thoughts, maybe read a business writing course for succinctness, then record yourself giving a short explanation of what you’ve learned about the topic. Go slowly as you need to to avoid filler. Watch the recording and process the emotions/discomforts with your speaking that come up via gendlin’s focusing or core transformation.
My own frustrating story: had weird skin issues diagnosed as a variety of things for years and unsuccessfully treated with a variety of prescription and OTC remedies. During the pandemic I built up some spare capacity to overcome my usual maintenance helplessness around it and decided to throw literally every internet intervention for every possible diagnosis at it at the same time and then do binary search for specific things that worked. What wound up working? Hydrogen fucking peroxide. Something that many people say has no chance of working. It’s been 2 years now and my symptoms are 80+% better. My belated hypothesis is that the underlying cause is something to do with skin ph and just regularly using more acidic washes and lotions (eg salicylic or uric acid) also seems to help and make the peroxide less necessary. This seems to have fallen into the hole of ‘because there’s an adjacent woo thing (ph is often the domain of BS fake medicine) doctors were incapable of thinking anything near it’.
Many buildings are grandfathered. Egress windows have been mandatory since the eighties afaik.
Are you long Meta?
Whether or not details (and lots of specific detail arguments) matter hinges on the sensitivity argument (which is an argument about basins?) in general, so I’d like to see that addressed directly. What are the arguments for high sensitivity worlds other than anthropics? What is the detailed anthropic argument?
Bedrooms require windows due to fire codes. There were a bunch of high profile cases of densely packed housing having fires, people being unable to escape, with resulting big death tolls. This generated a lot of outrage as you can imagine who was living in those sorts of conditions (poor families, lots of kids, etc.). A commercial building that people don’t sleep in has different fire codes because non sleeping people are more able to navigate to safety.
I’d probably agree more if we were both posting on a Mormon forum. But we’re currently urbanizing pretty hard as a species and actually shredding our fertility below replacement.
Agree and there’s a substantial effect due to marginal considerations. Your most marginal bike rides are also your longest bike rides. So if i have an effort threshold where I’ll easily choose bike if it’s within 20 minutes by bike, then the easier effort bike expands that physical range slightly and makes more trips happen by bike on the margin.
I recognize that examples need to be legible, and I would also hope for deep internalization of pulling the rope sideways and investigation of policy areas that are less legible and therefore dramatically easier to shift on the margin.
Taboo ‘smarter’ and ‘ruled by’ and I think you get closer then you might expect. We are haunted by bad political and economic theory
The bike thing is about hedons. It feels directly better in the moment to go faster with less effort such that when you have a better bike you spend more time biking. This also applies to running and is why it is helpful to learn good running form.
Most enjoyable short story I’ve read in the past couple years.
What is happiness? A mental event? What is the relation of that mental event to others?
True, though the negative externalities of consumption taxes are much lower.
Do lawmakers know that money is fungible? That nothing that is going on here is good for anything when compared to changing the income tax schedule for lower incomes?
periodic reminder that the bottom 50% of taxpayers in the US pay 3% of tax receipts. The net gain by USG is negative once all the externalities of taxes are factored in.
I don’t think you need value lock in to get the desirable properties you want here. Avoiding tiling through complexity/exploration gets you most of the same stuff.