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My take is that pattern-matching is thinking. But it's low-quality thinking. High-quality thinking is logic. And higher still is causality, which is to logic what calculus is to al…

Potential violence != actual violence. The potential to commit violence can be reframed as strength. It's useful because it grants you negotiating leverage, regardless of whether y…

> The most energy you can extract from any type of bomb would be if it was converted to energy at 100% efficiency. Under normal circumstances, a bomb's energy is endogenous. But in…

fwiw, Tolkien wrote the trilogy only after fans requested an encore of The Hobbit. The ring's importance/malevolence was a retcon.

To me, the distinction maps onto the Effectual vs Causal distinction. For some path "A to B", some people prefer to consider their present tools/resources (point A) and work forwar…

I tend to frame this in terms of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. It's a trade-off between exploration vs exploitation. It's often impossible to predict beforehand which strategy is…

The retiree example is intended to demonstrate that a wealth tax is inherently perverse, regardless of who is targeted. Savings are just deferred expenditure and debt is just exped…

One benefit of markets is price-discovery. But if you're not participating in a market, determining price is akin to shaking a magic 8 ball. It assumes a Just Price, which is a heu…

The point isn't "matrix multiplication != scalar multiplication". The point is "the process of evaluating a reducible expression inherently discards information about the original …

I tend to think of multiplication as a transformation. "repeated additional" almost makes it sounds like we're merely telescoping an interval within a single dimension. Whereas "tr…

Suppose your friend Alice arranges your wedding. You ask her to arrange the lawn chairs in an arrangement of 2 rows and 3 columns. But she misinterprets your request as 3 rows and …

Bubbles are inductive. Arbitrage is anti-inductive.

I think snarfy is expressing incredulity that meteorology doesn't already account for these types of emmissions. Analogously, suppose the headline had read > Water flows downhill. …

A literal trigger is a lever that fires a gun. A figurative trigger is some event that sets in motion a cascade of events that occur in rapid succession. The root cause of firing a…

> Slowly I became like Gollum. Which is ironic because I love The Lord of the Rings for the exact opposite reasons: calling for adventure, exploration, to love your friends, and to…

IIRC Grant formerly made videos for Khan Academy, and thus uses the same virtual-blackboard as Sal. However, Grant animates with a Python lib whereas Sal draws by hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPgsrfZWOU The Office – How Michael Scott Makes a Sale (7 min video essay) TLDR he's a people-person.

Ideally, the mapping from object to image is injective. What you're proposing will lead to "hash collisions" aka blurriness, since each point in the object will bleed colors into n…

I feel obliged to contextualize "Billionaires Build" on behalf of the unaware. Marc Andreesen published an essay "It's Time to Build" [0]. He claims that ostensibly, COVID-19 infli…

I think Barron92 is drawing a distinction between "lust for power" vs "effective use of power".

If the goal is truth, you cultivate a desire to learn to succeed under diverse scenarios. The incentive is success itself. In a particular scenario, Falsehood can offer greater ben…