In which case the AI splits the transaction into 2 transactions, each just below a gazillion.
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But I am confused about what this means in practice, due to arguments like “contacts are very important for business success, rich people get much more contacts than poor people, yet business success is strongly correlated with genetic parent wealth” and such.
Keep in mind that people’s genes tend to correlate with their parents’ genes. So even if success in wealth is determined by genetics, we would still expect wealth to correlate with your parents’ wealth.
I know, but the way it does so is bizarre (IQ seems to have a much stronger effect between countries than between individuals).
Why is this bizarre? It simply means that high IQ individuals don’t capture all the value they create.
Edit: another possibility is that smart people tend to move to places that were doing well. I believe there was a thread in the comments to SSC a while back where it was discovered that the average IQ of American States correlated with a rather naively constructed measure of “favorable geography”, e.g., points for being on the coast and for having navigable rivers.
but Nazism and Soviet communism were very different things.
In what way?
Nope. E.g., if some new political movement comes out for Jew-killing, totalitarian control, military expansionism, moral traditionalism, and fostering the Master Race, I’ll be very happy saying that yup, they’re basically Nazis even if they don’t use that term.
Ok, if a movement endorses their entire platform, it’s safe to call them Nazis. Except that isn’t the case for Golden Dawn, which was the movement under discussion.
Another would be that teaching from a particular perspective is (possibly bad but) not the same thing as brainwashing.
And the difference is?
Except then you’d have to use some other criterion to determine the “obvious” cases.
Think of it as an exercise in looking at the incentives people in various situations have. You may want to start by examening the sentence:
At least the corporations have to deliver to their customers on some level, or they go out of business.
I meant not “everyone agrees with this” but “many people with a wide variety of political positions agree with this”. And I didn’t intend to imply that everyone [sic] in their programme other than “kill the Jews” is in that category.
What do you mean by a “wide variety of political positions”? Your definition of “Nazi” currently amounts to “supports the parts of the Nazi platform only Nazis support”. Now obviously stated this way, it is clearly a circular, hense useless, definition. So we are left with how you use it in practice, which brings us back to “supports the parts of the definition gjm doesn’t approve of”.
“The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program” could, in isolation, mean anything from “we’re going to build a lot of new schools and fund a lot of new teachers” to “we’re going to close down the education system entirely” via “we’re going to turn the schools into brainwashing units”
I don’t see the difference between your first and last interpretation. After all if “we” build new school and fund a lot of teachers, “we” are presumably going to have them teach cources on history, social sciences, etc. and do it from our precpective. One could get around this problem by not having education be centralised, but that’s not what either the Nazis or Bernie were proposing.
Well, that’s why the things that tend to get described as specifically Nazi
Where by “specifically Nazi” you mean “the parts that gjm doesn’t approve off”.
that have pretty wide support from all quarters.
Speak for yourself. I very much don’t approve of point 20 from their program. “The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program” is a nice-ish sounding way of saying, “we will ram whatever propaganda we want down all kids’ thoughts and force you to pay for it”.
The corporate world is predatory, and the mercenary class of executives are certainly in it for no one but themselves, but for sheer thievery, I think only the financial industry can even begin to compete with the non-profit world. At least the corporations have to deliver to their customers on some level, or they go out of business.
Not so the non-profit charities and foundations, which often seem to exist primarily to provide those who run them a very good living.
Scholars and media have described it as neo-Nazi[4][13][14] and fascist,[5][15][16]
Well, everyone to the right of Stalin has been described as neo-Nazi by scholars.
though the group rejects these labels.[17]
I guess there goes your “explicitly endorse Nazism” claim.
I know that ‘Nazi’ may be overused, but you surely must see that in this specific instance, that is what the Golden Dawn are.
Weren’t people saying the same thing about the National Front ~20 years ago?
LOL. Seriously, do you have any more evidence beyond “their symbol sotra looks like a swastika”. How about you try looking for the factions in Greece using Nazi-style tactics, like say arresting their opponents on vague trumped up charges. Hint: it’s not Golden Dawn.
What you describe is the winding-down days of communism, during it’s hayday the arrests and torture didn’t happen in the middle of the night, but in broad daylight, to cheering crowds. This phenomenon, not limited to communist states, works as follows:
The official line is not that everybody is happy and everything is perfect, but that everything would be perfect if it wasn’t for the rightists/heretics/sexists/racists/etc. (depending on the society). The insidious thing about this is that anybody who has a different opinion and debates it can be charged with rightism, and is in fact guilty by definition. Heck anyone arrested, even if he wasn’t originally a rightist has almost no way to defend himself without making the charge true. The only chance he has is demonstrating his loyalty by being as fanatical as possible at the next rally.
The Civ 5 AI does cheat insofar as it doesn’t have to deal with the fog of war, IIRC.
Not just that, especially on higher difficulty levels.
Of course, society normally finds it easy to recognize and ostracize such blatantly dishonest Nazism.
What do you mean by “normally” and can you find any examples of society that actually operated like you describe? Keep in mind the word “Nazi” was already being applied to anything and everything the speaker disliked as early as 1942.
(the theory is that on a subconcious level they think ’if I’m a Nazi, maybe Nazism isn’t so bad).
Or the more straightforward, if anyone proposing sensible immigration policy gets called a Nazi, eventually people conclude that “Nazi” means someone in favor of sensible immigration policy.
That’s why I said “AI that could give the human a challenge” not “AI that would demolish a human”. Better yet, have the game difficulty setting actually control the intelligence of the AI, rather than how much the AI cheats.
I don’t expect to see highly sophisticated AI in games (at least adversarial, battle-it-out games) because there is no point. Games have to be fun which means that the goal of the AI is to gracefully lose to the human player after making him exert some effort.
I’m not sure about that. A common complaint about these kinds of games is that the AI’s blatantly cheat, especially on higher difficulty levels. I could very well see a market for an AI that could give the human a challenge without cheating.
Can’t the perception/probability estimate module just be treated as an interchangeable black box, regardless of whether it is a DNN, or MCTS Solomov induction approximation, or Bayes nets or anything else?
Not necessarily. If the goal component what’s to respect human preferences, it will be vital that the perception component isn’t going to correctly identify what constitutes a “human”.
Just look at their flag
Seriously? You’re only argument is that their flag looks like a Swastika if you squint just right?
And assuming IQ captures everything relevant about the difference.