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No, That's Not What the Flight Costs
Svyatoslav Usachev1mo10

These charts compare assets, but you talk about revenue, and I don't think it follows.

The value of all future paying passengers is not an asset, it is not included in capitalization and it would be very difficult to present as a collateral. An existing reward program, on the other hand, has a much more tangible value.

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Von Neumann's Fallacy and You
Svyatoslav Usachev2mo13

I promised myself that I would never be satisfied with myself ..

This sounds like self-harm to me.

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My Empathy Is Rarely Kind
Svyatoslav Usachev3mo*60

For clarity, I wouldn't describe it as "empathy makes me feel disgust", I would describe it as "attempts to be empathetic make me feel disgust, which gets in the way of being empathetic".

Empathy is neither feeling kindness nor disgust, empathy is feeling (not necessarily understanding) what the other person feels. Sometimes understanding or being kind can help in being empathetic, but neither is a requirement, strictly speaking.

Disgust can be empathetic, if the other is also disgusted. Otherwise it is something other than empathy.

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Phallocentricity in GPT-J's bizarre stratified ontology
Svyatoslav Usachev2y32

I think it's quite in line with the attitude most porn takes.

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Bayesians Commit the Gambler's Fallacy
Svyatoslav Usachev2y20

You probably meant prefix sums instead of pairwise sums.

In any case, Bayesian reasoning is not symmetrical with respect to any given automorphism, unless the hypotheses space is.

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Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems
[+]Svyatoslav Usachev3y-19-2
A stylized dialogue on John Wentworth's claims about markets and optimization
Svyatoslav Usachev3y30

Real markets mostly have it covered, because they have something close to [aggregated] utilons -- money, and so exchanges between 2 different goods rarely take place.

Also, any business can be seen as a "side-channel trade" -- the market value of one individual's time is often lower than the value they can produce in cooperation with others.

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Gurkenglas's Shortform
Svyatoslav Usachev3y10

What if we suppose that wealth doesn't track merit that well, and accumulating 51% of wealth most likely signals the measurement error due to noise/randomness/luck?

And even inasmuch as it tracks capitalistic merit, it might not track other things we care about, which makes it problematic leaving all eggs in one basket.

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Whole Bird Emulation requires Quantum Mechanics
Svyatoslav Usachev3y34

What if we simply provide a magnetic field detector, aka compass, as an input device to our AI?

If that seems insufficient, how far before simulating full physics of a bird's body as-is would be sufficient? (It also seems that such simulation is completely outside of scope for AI, because it has nothing to do with intelligence per se).

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You Don't Exist, Duncan
Svyatoslav Usachev3y*149

Thank you, Duncan. I've never met you, but you seem very real and very existing to me. I don't quite share the same history as you, I think I got used to defensively ignoring what the world implied about me pretty early, but I am aiming to become a psychotherapist, and attempting to connect with how people actually are, rather than what I think they might be, seems central to my journey. Your post is an inspiration to me.

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