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> in real democracies the populists (facebook, tiktok, chrome) always win. because that's what the masses want Is Friedrich Merz a populist? Was Angela Merkel a populist? This theo…

On Linux, too. The headline says "Fix" [blank] "in seconds, not hours".

That's the thing: Core War matches last a finite time (after which the match is judged a tie). So you have a finite memory space, finite time, and a finite number of match combinat…

That in turn makes me wonder: Given fixed opposition, finding a warrior that performs the best is an optimization problem. Maybe, for very small core sizes like a nano core, it wou…

> There are people who believe that proof-of-work isn't very effective, but none of them have succeeded in spamming the Bitcoin network with blocks they've mined, driving the other…

A video I watched not too long ago expressed something similar as "in some RPGs, society exists for you" (e.g. you, a random escaped prisoner, can just waltz up to the local lord i…

I'm not sure. Suppose that someone magically woke up to find they had no subconscious, i.e. that they were now aware of everything going on in their mind, and aware of their awaren…

Maybe it would be possible to create some kind of equilibrium/fixed-point based AI that, for everything it knows, it knows that it knows, knows that it knows that it knows, and so …

It's a warning if it isn't accompanied by great democratization, because the planned economy concentrates a lot of power in the hands of the planners. Some proponents of planned ec…

Democracy combined with local units significantly valuing their autonomy also seems to work, e.g. the International Typographical Union example from Union Democracy.

Even on a reptile-brain level, the article's use of wanting is sort of an equivocation. The brain has different systems for "wanting" and "liking". Cocaine affects the former, opio…

>It does however not necessarily make a simulation a difference that makes no difference, because if we're in a simulation it is possible that we are in one where it is possible to…

> If we're in a simulation, you have no basis for drawing conclusions about any of our observations, whether those observations have taken place, whether anything outside of this m…

> I'm not super up on Star Trek lore, but to my understanding the setting takes place in a post-scarcity universe, where the only thing that is still scarce is latinum. Perhaps it'…

If you want to do it yourself, you'd get a colorimeter or spectrometer and then software that lets you use them to adjust your screen, like ArgyllCMS and DispcalGUI: https://displa…

Is a Wikipedia author participating in a business when they update an article, thus contributing to the service of a better encyclopedia? Is an open-source programmer doing busines…

The problem with this, I think, is that it can always be used to justify volatility. E.g. economic policy after the Great Depression has kept such an event from happening again at …

>Change is needed because people want to have jobs and they will make work for themselves if none exists. Traditional jobs must have solved this problem somehow. You don't usually …

With sufficient access to energy, I imagine you could do Rods from God at significant fractions of c from Alpha Centauri and give Earth a serious bad time. Planetary orbits are kin…

Discarding with explanation can sometimes be used to effect too. For example, suppose a character sends a spy to accomplish an objective. Meanwhile, another group of people are als…

> If you want to start hating your hobby, make it into a business. Or as I've heard it phrased: "If you turn your vacation into your vocation, you'll never have a vacation again".

Any distributed system can be simulated by a consolidated one by just running everything internally, but the converse is much harder (unless P=NC). So the distributed system can on…

> Anyone on the planet will respond to advertising if an advertiser figures out how they identify high and low status markers. It doesn't matter how rational they thought they were…