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Correct. Either all soldiers are war criminals or none of them are. The world is black or white, without nuance.

The enemy is both weak and powerful.

Absolutely true. Nothing is guaranteed when it involves other people. Personally, I've struggled with rejection sensitivity. It's been a whole other journey to recognize this, and …

In my experience, it just takes initiative. Think of it this way, if most people want more friends, then the odds are in your favor. It just takes a little vulnerability to bridge …

Whats the rational reason people buy lottery tickets, participate in sports betting, or any other EV<0 activities? Their irrationally is SMEs' edge.

Theoretically, being a SME means having an edge with which one can extract money. Agree or disagree? Why?

Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of trig…

Is there not a prediction market for senator crackdowns too?

The vast majority of lottery winners buy lottery tickets.

We live in a capitalist society, not a labor-oriented society. The way to make big money is through capital - ie: purchasing property and then selling it for (hopefully) profit. La…

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Clean code nitpickers mistake the map for the territory. The rules are the map, maintainability is the territory. The map is a model of the territory, but the territory always cont…

Is this legal advice?

Anyone who thinks that making advances in mathematics implies competency in other aspects of life has never been married to a mathematician.

It doesn't sound like you did it wrong. It sounds like you practiced something more on the concentration[shamata] side of the spectrum and that you became rather adept at it. There…

Does it do what it says on the tin? If so, does it matter that it's made with an LLM? In my own experience, LLMs+TUIs are surprisingly effective. They deal with the tedium of ncurs…

If we want parental behavior to change, we have to change the incentives. Parents must be held criminally liable for exposing their children to social media. Until we change the in…

Child resistant pill bottles are not shown to reduce accidental overdose[1]. 1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6124998/

Great! Now I just have to mechanically convert it to TLA+ and the verification results are hopefully exploitable business ideas.

I can find any number of counterexamples that an AI fails and an intelligent agent would get right. What thermometer of intelligence do we have except the degree to which responses…

It's not intelligent.

You're absolutely right. Recursion is tied to the shape of the data being recursed. It can be expressed a number of ways, but generally having a functor for the data type gives a l…

You have to stop thinking like an engineer and start thinking like a public health official. 'Something impossible for kids to bypass' is not the goal. It's akin to evaluating a fl…

Most of these issues are a consequence of recursion never getting the same codification as the rest of the jmp patterns we eventually turned into control structures - eg: if, for, …