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NonZeroSumJames

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About NonZeroSumJames

artist and game dev creating interactive blogs at http://nonzerosum.games which explore win-win games, effective altruism and cute animals.

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    Comment #46509835

    Most browsers have a reading mode button in the URL bar. Apparently these sorts of fonts are actually easier for people with dyslexia to read. But I'm more interested in creating a…

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    Yes, I don't advocate for this. I advocate for UBI, so we don't incentivise pointless jobs, and we give people the freedom to do meaningful work. I also advocate, once a UBI is est…

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    Comment #46509780

    There's quite a lot of positive-sum energy the enters the environment from the giant nuclear reactor in the sky, which we have a few billion years lease on. Money may be constant-s…

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    Some of us would be advocating for this, but at present there are many who refer to taxes as theft because they take money from wealthy "deserving" people and give it to poor "unde…

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    Comment #46494417

    OP here: I'm not sure I advocate for "rewarding pointless, Sisyphean tasks", I even identify as a Utilitarian within the post. Effortocracy points to effort as a good predictor of …

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    Comment #46494241

    A long way of saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".

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    Comment #46449258

    I love this response.

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    Comment #46449213

    Thanks unholiness—fair point on the footnotes, I'll put that on my to-do list. As you can see, it's all very hand-made, so some of those basics are missed sometimes.

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    Comment #46449201

    Thanks max-amb, it's a bit clunky in places.. but with a little crowd-sourced bug-fixing it's getting there!

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    Comment #46449196

    I think I've fixed it now... it's working in my reader, please let me know if it's still not working for you.

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    Comment #46449186

    Thanks ultrasounder!

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    Comment #43605202

    While travelling in Tanzania, I noticed a few unique game-theoretical scenarios, most notably the driving in Arusha, which is basically a game of perpetual chicken, a surprisingly …

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    Show HN: Contagious Beliefs–Simulating Political Alignment

    This is a simulation that allows you to test how beliefs are adopted based on pre-existing beliefs and how they spread through a population. It is entirely editable, so you can tes…

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    Comment #41695035

    A Shapley Value calculator, that breaks down and simplifies the process, with cats.

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    Comment #41454633

    Colorizes your text based on the length of sentences.

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