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Post by Crunchums » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:50 pm

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daar :loverobot:
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Post by mindwarped » Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:11 am

hey, it's A. E. L'Daar

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Post by Crunchums » Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:12 am

Aeldaar wrote:yeah his short story formats tend to be great
i would add to that
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/21/partial-credit/
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Post by Juri » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:56 am

oh hey you made the SSC thread before I could
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Post by Faceless » Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:57 am

I'm reading Unsong right now. It's cool, but it's confusing to read that and A Canticle For Leibowitz at the same time
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Post by Pershore » Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:38 am

more like aelDONT #owned
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Post by rianalnn » Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:27 pm

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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Post by Crunchums » Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:46 am

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/24/no ... -tradeoff/
hey who remembers the grobot philosophy thread where i wandered about confusingly between utilitarianism and contractualism
because this is right on my main thought of [utility] is the thing that matters, but "just maximize utility" isn't the answer (even once you deal with utility monsters / the repugnant conclusion / etc)
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Post by Rylinks » Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:56 am

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Post by rianalnn » Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:55 pm

Unsong is great. I just hit this, & it is tops.
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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Post by Juri » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:22 pm

rianalnn wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:55 pm
22. UPDATED WHO WILL DIE BY FIRE AND WHO BY WATER, WHO BY SWORD AND WHO BY FAMINE. NOBODY WILL DIE FROM WILD BEASTS. PLEASE STOP REQUESTING THIS FEATURE.
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:58 pm

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Post by Rylinks » Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:08 pm

someone should tell them of the theory that the housing market continuously transfers wealth from black people to white people

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:14 pm

i remember you mentioning that argument before, and it seemed plausible. do you have a link?
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:36 pm

https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/ this would be a better link for that argument than SSC except that I think it's insufficiently dismissive of the dumb parts of what Damore said; annoying
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Post by kouharti » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:37 pm

what's quilette?

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Post by seathesee » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:38 pm

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:44 pm

Dantes posted a thing about it in the politics thread
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ann-221917
which inspired me to read a few of their articles. a few of them (like the ones that i linked above) are about things that SSC has talked about that I appreciate, but actually focused on that specific thing and not so long and meandering
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:47 pm

and both of the above are of the form like "the left incorrectly assumes discrimination is the cause of all inequality"
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Post by Rylinks » Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:42 am

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:14 pm i remember you mentioning that argument before, and it seemed plausible. do you have a link?
I don't remember the source, and it's difficult to search for, sorry


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Post by Doug » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:54 pm

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:57 pm

“Superpermutations” is a term for mathematemical objects containing every possible permutation of some number of items. The field recently received a jolt when a proof of the lower bound of an important theorem was discovered to have been posted by an anonymous user on a 4chan thread about how many different ways you could watch anime episodes.
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Crunchums wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:57 pm
“Superpermutations” is a term for mathematemical objects containing every possible permutation of some number of items. The field recently received a jolt when a proof of the lower bound of an important theorem was discovered to have been posted by an anonymous user on a 4chan thread about how many different ways you could watch anime episodes.
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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:45 pm

ssc linked this http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/real ... -of-detail and it's not that long and i enjoyed reading it
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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:50 pm

i've been thinking about UBI
i recall SSC posted a survey of economists who were down on it because of how expensive it would be, and how it would be less redistributive than the things it would replace (e.g. medicaid)
i wonder about a (progressive) negative income tax instead? that seems to me like it accomplishes the same goals, except you can filter out people who don't need it
i can't recall SSC talking about that specifically
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Post by Rylinks » Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:37 pm

the difference between the two is accounting afaik

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:03 am

meaning, not much?
seems like it would be more politically feasible because you're not giving money to rich people
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