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Start with Praxeology (the methodology of Austrian economics). "Start with a fringe ideology that explicitly rejects empirical evidence" is not exactly a good start. The simple axi…

I half agree. While I respect Pope's artistic vision and the work that went into the aesthetic, I personally found it headache-inducing to actually look at. Especially with how muc…

Void definitely exists in ML. —- Haskell data Void (* Standard ML *) datatype void = Void of void

The government is using tax money to fund the creation of consumer products, while consumers vote with their wallets that they don't want those products. Doesn't sound very democra…

That kind of "stability" is more accurately described as stagnation. It may protect workers in a narrow sense, but it also disincentivizes the kind of productive risk-taking that l…

I may have misunderstood your earlier comment as a claim that minimum size laws are beneficial and should be maintained. If I understand correctly now, your argument is that minimu…

Minimum unit sizes necessarily increase the price of housing and lower supply - there's no free lunch. Small apartments suck, sure, but you have to ask yourself whether it's a good…

That strikes me as a fairly modern thing. I imagine that weevils and/or rocks in flour was a common issue just a few generations ago (or, in many countries, to this day).

In the very long term, yes a large plot of land in a densely-constructed city would be extremely valuable. In the short and medium-term though, the downward price pressure of incre…

> We have had local regulations and NIMBY groups forestall new construction/denser housing, but the state pushed through legislation to forcibly override those local blockers. Ince…

California's permission of converting single-family zoned land into multifamily housing is in name only. It can only be done by owner occupiers - not by developers who want to buy …

The strong scientific consensus is that saturated fats are worse for you than unsaturated fats. The idea that saturated fats are better than unsaturated fats is a small minority op…

I suspect the community will start creating lower precision/quantized versions of the model very quickly. LLaMa 30b quantized to 4 bits is runnable on a 3090/4090.

> I'm happy to hear about your self control. Actually, my self control is really quite bad. I'm terrible at doing difficult or unpleasant things and am very prone to low-effort, se…

> I've encountered several people here claiming that stimulants don't get you high and that they aren't addictive. Just because stimulants _can_ get you high and be addictive doesn…

Stimulant addiction is certainly real, but addiction recovery groups are obviously going to self-select for people that have/had a problem. The reality is that there are millions o…

Talk is cheap - actions are what reveal true preferences. The fact that Teams is so widely used despite it being slow garbage indicates that people actually don't care (enough to o…

My uninformed speculation is that this might be an artifact of the embedding layer (e.g. CLIP), not the image training data. Presumably, the dataset for training the embedding laye…

In my experience ADHD medicine doesn't actually induce weight loss, despite weight loss being a desirable thing for me. It suppresses your appetite, sure, but it doesn't shield you…

Sorry, I imagine you posted this before my edit. I don't think this marketing video contradicts my point at all. For Microsoft to commit a large amount of dev time to rewriting Tea…

I know of mid-size organizations where everyone up to the very top complains at length about Teams being slow and buggy. But they still use it, because it's cheap and doesn't activ…

I think the boring but true answer is simply that no one cares. Users don't care because Teams still basically functions and the performance problems are at most a minor inconvenie…

I wonder what "economically conservative" means here. Usually I would expect someone economically conservative to be against government intervention and prefer market-oriented solu…

It's not, but I didn't say it was. Plus the reasons that "the left" opposes housing are generally quite different than the reasons "the right" opposes housing.

Directly? No. But indirectly? Yes. The rampancy of NIMBY, PHIMBY, and "anti-gentrification" attitudes leads to decreased construction, increased housing prices, and the enrichment …