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This is like a strictly worse kind of s-expression. C.f. (tag "This text node contains" (magic "unicorns") " and " (magic "fairy dust"))

There's a factor not considered here: to what extent were Scalia & Ginsberg able to get along because of other material conditions? As supreme court justices we can assume that the…

Yes - I think you're right that the actual interesting result from NFLT is not that 'optimisation is impossible', but that 'uniform priors are stupid'.

Hah, interesting - this is a reference I hadn't seen and I like the sound of it. There was me thinking I'd had an idea of my own one time! The reference machine thing would be the …

I think you're right to bring up the NFLT, but I don't think it is applicable, it just points at the real question. The key assumption to get the NFLT is that each environment vote…

I guess if you have a limited budget to spend, I would put political action at the top of the list. However, I think typically people have several limited budgets which are kind of…

I agree with most of what you have said - we need to exert political pressure by taking action. This action probably needs to be disruptive and unpleasant to work, like the actions…

A COP of 5 is quite optimistic for a domestic scale heat pump, at least in the climate where I work (UK). Sensible values here would be more like 2 - 3.5 depending on the temperatu…

In dense enough areas you can also do well with heat distribution networks, or mixed heat and cold networks. These are a good low-regret choice because you have a big central plant…

As a thought experiment that might point you toward why some people say not: if you make an atom-perfect simulation of two 1kg spheres orbiting each other in an empty universe, wou…

There's another solution to this question (or maybe the same one in different words). I believe something similar, but I still do things - why do I do things? Why write this messag…

I guess part of the issue here is that cars are a kind of coordination problem - if nobody else is using a car on the roads, cars are quite a good choice. They are fast and easy, a…

I agree with your scepticism about solving the commute traffic with a self-driving silver bullet. The research for traffic flow [1] says that, with human driven cars, a slice of a …

It is being a luddite - in a good way! Don't knock the luddites, they had analogous concerns. They didn't hate machines or novelty per se, they hated the specifics of how the machi…

I think there's a case to be made that it is possible to judge whether people's behaviours are helping them to enjoy their lives to the best extent. It is a very extreme position t…

I don't have any timing data and I don't actually use the autosuggest thing (I wrote that for someone else who asked about it), but I can say that I have months of daily use in min…

I think it would be remarkably weird if the state inside me were entirely uncoupled from 'exterior things'. In the zen view, the 'trick' is that there are no exterior things becaus…

In zen there is the question, who is in control of these feelings? Where is the locus of control, and what kind of a thing is it? Where is the boundary between things inside your m…

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I think that "no different" is a stretch here. The way you choose to communicate with someone to achieve an end is important in itself. For a hyperbolic example, imagine you had a …

I think the VR world is bothersome because you (and me, and many others) have some part of our value system or moral calculus that isn't a function of people's subjective experienc…

I think there are some studies from here in the UK which indicate that air quality may actually be worse inside motor vehicle cabins than it is outside [1]. This may be mitigated i…

I have to agree - I think the benefits described for all these AR scenarios really don't sound worth the cost, at least to me. In exchange for replacing all the plain simple switch…

It appears I am outside the edit window, but [3] should be https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/histdb-merge (no .zsh). Thanks for pointing that out. I don't use a zsh packag…

For those on zsh I have something similar [1-2]. It hooks to zshaddhistory and stores the command, running time, CWD, hostname and exit status in a sqlite database, and provides a …