Notices by Caleb James DeLisle (cjd@mastodon.social)

@taylan Lol they don't ????

@taylan Exactly, nobody avoids cognitive bias :D

@thatguyoverthere @taylan

Also a lot of results are hard to interpret in even the best of cases. Daniel Kahneman's "thinking fast and slow" really clarified how hard it is to NOT misinterpret data.

So my point is that everyone has biases, scientists are supposed to overcome them, and they mostly don't. See: Failure to reproduce results.

@thatguyoverthere @loonycyborg @taylan @lain

The Golden Compass was a epic-length take-down of the scientific community disguised as an attack on religion.

I know everybody likes to bag on NFTs, and a lot of what's happening right now is legit overpriced.

But the concept of cultural artifacts which are owned by people rather than Hollywood media conglomerates. I mean, it's kinda radical.

@lain Have you ever considered like moving to NotGermany?

@lain Tax BS ?

@lain I remember a Swiss lawyer I talked to once said the German tax authority is the second worst in the world. Worst are the Americans.

Dunno is anybody noticed but Consumerism is dead. The idea that people need to be manipulated into buying tons of crap they don't need or else the economy will collapse, it's gone. Not completely sure when it died but it's dead now.

@lain You're probably right, but I'm not sure a fixed money supply is really the most efficient way to run a country. At a geopolitical level the world is a rough place, and you're either dedicating every available resource to military/economic/cultural domination or someone else is...

@lain Like many before you, and I suspect many to come...

@lain Well, everything is somehow under the umbrella of the state, in fact a lot of the relatively peaceful world we live in today exists under the umbrella of the US.Armies don't pay for themselves, or, to be more exact, they do, and that's the problem.

An overwhelmingly powerful army which swears allegiance to an impartial court system which, in turn, swears allegiance to a constitutional democracy, is a Good Thing which ought not be defunded... How to best fund is a hard question though.

@lain In principle I agree, but as long as there is some other guy with an army ready to fund it by plundering, the best we can do is pool our resources and fund one to keep them at bay.

About M1, I fully agree, I think the state should be funded by taxation of risk-free investments, particularly land. Risk-free investments create a dull and idle elite who live off the productive effort of others without contributing anything, even clever allocation of resources.

@lain I call this situation "Proof of War". The obvious solution is world government, but all governments eventually collapse and a worldwide state collapse would be cataclysmic.

A partial solution is to have one country which is more powerful than most other countries in the world combined, but not more powerful than all, so it's hold on power is limited - which is essentially what we have now.

I think the key recognition of anarchism is that it's not about eliminating all rules, it's about eliminating the feeling of being ruled over.

@kravietz Even if someone cut down the trees in their yard, PV is still one of the best sources of energy:https://cleantechnica.com/2020/12/16/mediocrity-is-the-enemy-of-the-solution/

@mithrandir @kravietz Definitely worth investigating to some extent. Scaling properties on solar are hard to beat, but small self-contained nuclear batteries could be competitive.

@mithrandir @kravietz Per the link I dropped, problem with NEW nuclear is it takes like 15 years to bring it to completion. So shutting down nuclear prematurely is probably a bad plan, but spinning it up right now is kind of a case of too-little-too-late. New solar deployment is up within a year.

Also scaling properties. Every solar panel built makes building the next one cheaper. True too of reactors but not many of them are (ever) made so scale doesn't happen.

@mithrandir @kravietz 1. "Naive" economies of scale, bigger more efficient factories, better processes.2. R&D-based economies of scale: more people buy PV, more competition, more R&D investment --> higher efficiency, longer lasting PV made with cheaper materials and processes.

Same story as batteries. It's not govt research that's driving these curves, it's competition.

The guy who forced the hand of the auto-makers and made electric vehicles practically universal just bought a bunch of decentralized-financial-system-not-controlled-by-bankers coins.

Some very powerful people are quite upset.If someone told you this is evil, ask yourself why.