My impression is that this is a perennial topic not because there isn’t a good answer, but because people don’t like the answer.
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what if it’s just raw size?
No idea.
Buddhist: https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Māna Christian: https://www.fellowshipofthemartyrs.com/articles/60-spiritual-tuneup/191-mere-christianity-chapter-8-qthe-great-sinq-cs-lewis-
and a special shout out to spiritual pride/spiritual materialism, which Milarepa likened to ‘a frozen waterfall’
Good continuation of purchasing fuzzies and utilons separately!
Pride is the deadliest sin, the one that leads to all the others. I see this idea as highly compatible with the Buddhist conception that much of our problems stem from attempts at control and ownership. You have to be the one who has controlled/owned a particular choice in the ways that matter in order to be proud of it or its outcomes.
btw is your blog named after the quip from Nate Soares about the hands that built the tools that built the tools that built these cities?
There were some government funded and philanthropic (gates I think) backstops, essentially guarantees of paying for losses if manufacturing before knowing if it worked turned out bad. There should have been more and faster, as pointed out by Cowen.
Do they have to fill out a lot of paperwork to recruit them
A medical worker who tried to sign up for vaccine administration recruitment was confronted with needing 21 pieces of paperwork showing that they had completed various trainings, many of which have nothing to do with vaccination.
My cursory reading has indicated that every part of the process is fractally like this. We are in a liability liquidity trap of some sort as a civilization.
I appreciate the detailed feedback! Agree with most of what you said but think it applies much more to 3rd and 4th path than 1st. After 1st path there is experiential working with rebirth, but that’s kinda irrelevant for the 99.9% who aren’t there. In the discourses it is claimed that householders can achieve 3rd path, and the Buddha gives quite a bit of practical advice for a happy life, as mundane as things like appropriate savings rates.
Pain as information about option value is a nice compact frame. Thanks.
Audio compression libraries aren’t image compression libraries. Simulacra level 1 compression libraries aren’t Simulacra level 3 libraries. So I might say compression libraries are teleologically situated. Purpose space is upstream of concept and thing-space. This leads to confusion about reductionism vs idealism but that’s just because of how we’re wired.
Aaron Gertler is helping administer crowdfunded award to Zvi for this series. You can PM him for details.
“Under this model we estimated a growth rate of 71.5 per year, corresponding toa doubling time of 3.7 days (95% CrI: 2.4 – 4.9) and a reproduction number of 2.27 (1.84 – 2.73)”
to add to the advice on metformin: berberine has a similar mechanism of action (relevant for COVID: AMPK) and is available OTC.
Philosophy in general abounds with type errors. Many gotchas in gedankenexperiments rely on mucking about with reference-referent relations at different points in the chain of reasoning. Changing language so this sort of switcheroo is more easily seen was Korzybski’s main goal.
The tl;dr version imo (science and sanity is very long):
“Why” can refer to at least 4 different things, and more if you split up the dimensions of time, and variance/invariance. Repeated why steps at different levels of abstraction can switch freely between them.
The to-be verb form is doing lossy compression disguised as lossless compression.
Positive and negative evidential types are freely switched between without us noticing. Consider how much you need to pause to really understand the potential differences between “I perceive that she does not have a cup” vs “I do not perceive that she has a cup.”
Standard set theory problems wrt language ala Wittgenstein.
VIX isn’t something you can buy directly.
Long volatility? VXX or similar?
looks like we’re getting an mrna vaccine for HSV out of all this, so there’s that.
This suggest a great compression. Your parents and teachers incentivized things that made their life easy. This explains some of the idiosyncrasy of the things that seem at odds with material that would have actually helped you prepare for life.
Try to figure out what is causally upstream of what you care about. Recurse.