Steve Whetstone

Sellers of education should raise their prices on rich dumb students a lot and also lower their tuition prices for smart poor students a lot.  More poor smart students will get into college, the college will make more tuition off the rich students, and everybody wins.   What you want to do is subsidize poor smart students while raising the prices on dumber richer students.  Then the school makes more money.  See how that works?  for example. 

Tuition price is [$50,000/year] or discount tuition price is [$3,000/year + 1/10 of your families yearly income].  

in the case you're family income is $100,000/yr then you, the student, would pay $13,000/year tuition
in the case your... (read more)

@hybryka,

You're use of the word "clogging" is only valid if you assume incorrectly my long comment has no value. I apologize for "clogging' in your sole opinion, and thought my comment had value. If Dagon, whom the comment is intended for, also found my comment has no value and has read it first and commented to me saying reading was not worth his time, then I would agree with your warning. I have invited the people whom I am in a discussion with to ask me directly if they object. You, who are not a party to the discussion, are the only one to object to... (read 452 more words →)

It occurs to me as a "Notion" that . . .

To formulate fuzzy logic in a boolean top domain environment, I think you would need to use a probabilistic wave form type explanation. Or else just treat fuzzy logic as a conditional multiplier on any boolean truth value. To encapsulate a boolean or strict logic system into fuzzy logic is trivial and evolving. You could start with just adding a percentage based on some complex criteria to any logical tautology or contradiction. By default the truth axis of a fuzzy logic decision or logic tree is going to be knows for some classes of logic systems.... (read more)

I agree and found what you wrote to be thought provoking. I have a thought I want to share with the author. What if?

The basic unit of conceptual evolution is a self evolving form survey that solicits feedback on the survey form design. The minimum conceptual seed topic for a form survey is a story that includes information with multiple interpretations. Short stories and surveys are numbered by default preferred order of presentation, but users can choose their own order. Each photo and story solicits reader contributions with complex meaningful questions to claim time reading, reasoning, and writing about the story. All reader surveys are public and... (read more)

If all true statements are defined as non-contradictory, then you can ask more meaningful fuzzy logic questions about the relevance of several tautologies for applying to a specific real world phenomena. To do this you need a survey or poll of the environment and a survey or poll for determining how much the teutologies matter. For example.

Consider the following boolean true false claims we hold to be true and consider their relevance for use in locating humans statistically: our first rule or fuzzy logic heuristic is to take the first tautology that seems relevant and apply it to see if it matches results.

For example consider these specefic logic systems:

1)... (read 435 more words →)

@Dagon,

I believe your first paragraph is wrong. Consider how it reads equally true or false when I replacing the word time in your example with money in my example and read how everything you claim about time as a currency is also exactly true about money as a currency.

You wrote:

"Time, unlike money, is not fungible. The value of $0.5 hours of my time is close to 0 for some activities and in some of my mental states, and $thousands for other situations. And the value to me does not often match the value to others (leading to sometimes selling time, and sometimes buying time). More directly, why... (read 861 more words →)

Ok, thanks for re-instating my original account. Will that reactivate my discussion topic "discussion of society scale benefits. . . " https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CLMh2Ne7D2H9EaXzy/discussion-re-implementation-of-society-scale-benefits-that ? I see that it did not. Perhaps you decided to renege on your plan to lift the ban?

Sorry for the confusing comments. The information I am sharing was deliberately dispersed into separate channels to prevent them from being casually combined into an active concept with a high viral capacity. Most of the dispersed comments were intended for an answer to a single reply to my topic thread and a discussion with one significant poster who did reply. I also received several... (read more)

If you assume the prior has a computational cost vs computational benefit criteria for communicating or gathering data, or sharing data then doesn't that strongly limit the types of data and the data specifics that the prior would be interested in? As one commenter pointed out, it may be less expensive to simulate some things in the prior channel than create an actual new channel (simulation). We can categorize information that a prior could most efficiently transmit and receive across a specific channel into profitable and not profitable types of information. Non-profitable information is less expensive to discover or produce without opening a channel. Profitable information... (read more)