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Thank you for your comment. I will try to remember and apply it. I have a similar concept, which is roughly described as "don't extend your own arm onto the chopping block, but mak…

Perhaps I am wrong about Tit-for-Tat. It's been a while since I checked my source. In any case, my point (not to say that you deny it) is not to take any result in an idealized gam…

I do not know your circumstances, but see what you think of this: I have a nascent theory about human feelings, which goes that the basic feelings we experience are usually perceiv…

The optimal decision in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to defect, but in the iterated version, where multiple Dilemmas occur and people remember previous results, Tit-For-Tat is optimal…

As it turns out, maximizing profit for shareholders screws over everyone else...

Same. Somehow there tends to be some "pattern" that stands out, but I guess it's just a mix of the likelihood of "something interesting" and our minds being tuned to pick out "anyt…

So the real test is waiting until the LLMs are inaccessible and then seeing what happens. Empirical testing!

I don't think it's so easy to get true information out of all the noise in the markets, and in any case, I don't see how this helps with the fact that corruption is bad. So what if…

But the market exactly provides a direct way to use power to make money. Why go for more cumbersome methods?

If a lot of people have that as their hobby, and some are careless or malicious, people will be harmed. Now suppose that it's not simple to stop the offenders directly. Instead, re…

I agree that I should understand the other person and take them seriously, and to convey this to the other person. However, sometimes verbal reflection serves the purpose of blind …

Military action would be brutal, but you can only say that it's unnecessary if the alternatives are better. If not now, then how many years down the line? The claims Carney are mak…

> while pushing aggressively progressive ideas The establishment Democrats are not exactly "aggressively progressive" by any reasonable standard. They shunned Bernie Sanders, who s…

Rather, Russia attacked Ukraine as a great power oppressing a smaller power, and had every opportunity to cease, with or without international intervention. No one attacked Russia …

Someone had to take the plunge. Regardless of the other political considerations at present and whatever future events will happen, I respect Carney's initiative. I also appreciate…

I'm not qualified to give a complete answer, but I think two main issues are the proliferation of flags in standard tools (e.g. ls has a lot of flags for sorting behavior) and the …

I think this is an after-the-fact connection, rather than an intuitive discovery. I wouldn't explain memoization this way. Memoization doesn't need to specifically use an array, an…

I'd like to add that, while anything will have some learning friction, learning the Unix CLI is rather unnecessarily painful.

For the time being, I consider alloc and std to be part of the language, and the compiler also has provisions for them if they are used. If the alternative is supposed to be only u…

Other people have given good insights, so I'll instead describe one of my pet theories. Given by how we talk about emotions, I think they are "rational", but operate under a differ…

You described one of my misgivings better than I could (I made a sibling reply to parent), but I don't agree with this in all cases. Anger is easy to perpetuate blindly, but I thin…

I agree with your descriptions of the terms, but I think there's often a divergence between empathy (which I find great) and reflecting people's feelings (which I find good with ca…

I don't think the "complex web of objects to be deallocated" scenario is usually a problem, but I generally agree with your points. As always, careful design and control of the sof…

> It is perfectly possible to deal with hardware in managed languages. Perhaps we're using the words in different ways. What I mean is: in order to interact with something, it must…

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1op6g64/whats_the_sta... This Github thread is also interesting (transitively reached from the above Reddit thread): https://github.com/rust-…