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Trembling hand perfection, no regret as an optimization objective, Schelling points…. Its actually a very mathematically sophisticated community that is just starting to be picked up by the machine learning/AI community. see Michael Jordan’s recent presentation about how this is going to become central to ML/AI and presents a very interesting research opportunity.

slightly disrespectful question: is there anything in game theory math that leads to insight that you couldn't get just by thinking about the situation properly?

Do you live in Geneva? If you do, you know that anyone who wants assistance will be helped off the street quickly and efficiently in Geneva. Actual diagnostic research, as opposed to self surveys, in Zürich indicates that 96% of Swiss citizens and legal residents who are homeless have at least one diagnosable psychiatric condition and of course, there is the usual issues with drug addiction. Geneva has a much much lower rate of homeless than the vast majority of cities of similar size , though it is likely the case that Zurich has a lower rate. Most of those who are homeless likely have psychiatric or drug issues and do not avail themselves of the services that are available to them.

@MichaelAArouet Not all is gold that glitters! Look at the tents of the homeless people below the bridge. Not to forget the black Mercedes of your trusted local drug dealer. That is Geneva. too.

I was in Switzerland this week. Each time I go there, it amazes me how perfect, well-organized and safe it is. It’s the last country in Western Europe where one doesn’t have the feeling that everything is deteriorating. Why don’t more countries have direct democracy? It works.

I am an advanced open water diver with about 200 dives, so experienced diver but not a technical diver. I can’t even imagine doing that dive with only nitrox. They were well past the nitrox depth limits and then entering an overhead restriction like a cave at that depth (which makes you go through your air much more quickly) is just madness. I just don’t get it, they all seemed like experienced divers who would’ve known all of this. I hope they find an understandable explanation for what happened as the idea that all of them were aware of the risks is just very unsettling.

@nypost As a lifelong SCUBA diver with more experience than most I guarantee you none of these people were qualified for this dive. They either lost their guideline or never deployed one. Someone kicked up silt and they swam in panicked circles until they drowned.

Oxygen toxicity, panic may have killed 5 tourists on Maldives scuba dive: experts trib.al/iuVY9cU

I really don’t get why people are hating on Grok, I made $75k by working with 4.3 for 12 hours on an extremely obscure international tax issue and it was just phenomenal at interpreting really subtle cross jurisdictional issues, quoting, appropriate precedents, and most impressively keeping the main goal clearly as the focus throughout a extremely broad and wide ranging session. Super impressive and I won’t be all surprised if Grok’s coding capabilities are top tier once they really release. I think they’re taking the right approach by focusing on real world usability rather than artificial benchmarks that others are overfitting to.

The new 1.5T version of Grok arrives in June. Lately, I use 4.3 increasingly for research, search, and sourcing news. I like it. It thinks differently. Elon doesn't mention it in this post, but he also has big 6T and 10T variants in training.

This is just such basic faux intellectualism. All freedom ends where that of one’s neighbors begin… seriously, so stupid, just reverse the roles… Whoever sees in another's freedom a disease has not yet understood what respect for others is… have you ever considered the existence of evil.? Whoever hires you as a lawyer gets what they deserve, extremely shallow analysis.

@Masdemoni @brivael Eres libre de ello, pero toda libertad acaba donde comienza la del prójimo. Quién ve en la libertad ajena una enfermedad no ha comprendido aún que es el respeto al otro ni los limites de su propia libertad, no en consecuencia los limites de la injerencia estatal.

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

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@tleilax___ @ssnacimiento Where do you get this number of 10 K housing from? The Swiss Federal Statistical Office projected net immigration in 2025 I think is 80,000+. It’s nonsense that Switzerland would only need to build one such building per year. Absolute complete nonsense.

The whole country just need an additional 10k housing built per year for real estate prices to come down. Not what I recommand to build, just to point out that your underground tunnels comment doesn't make any sense. This single building in Geneva built in the 1960 houses 10k. It has swimming pools on the roof. The whole of Switzerland would need one project like this per year.

The upcoming votation about hard capping the population at 10 million comes with a lot of risk undisclosed by the people supporting it. Is real estate expensive in places like Geneva ? Obviously, but why don't we build better and quicker ? Is healthcare expensive ? Yes, but that is largely because the population is aging fast. How barring young foreign professionals from working here helps ? Over 50% of doctors and nurses are foreigners in Geneva. They also disproportionaly contribute to the first pillar benefiting the Swiss population. Are foreign workers hurting the economy ? Just look at the graphs from the SECO. 61% of EU workers since 2015 came with a very high level of qualification. The wage evolution of foreigners has shadowed Swiss citizen wages basically forever. Are the relations with the EU that bad ? I mean the EU countries are by far the biggest market for Swiss products, and the US have become unreliable. Switzerland benefits from most of the perks of a EU membership without most of the burden. Killing the bilateral agreements comes as a two way street. The EU has no reason to allow Swiss students in Erasmus, Swiss workers in their job markets either

Over the last few years, Switzerland’s immigration has been averaging about 3% of the population per year, an astounding number. Canada, one of the highest immigration countries in the world, has a rate of 1%, Australia 0.7%, Singapore 0.5%, USA 0.3%. You are ignoring how extreme the current immigration rate in Switzerland truly is. And even with those much much lower immigration rates, these countries have cities with some of the highest real estate prices relative to income of anywhere in the world. Singapore’s numbers are so high at 16+ times income that 75% of the population lives in government provided housing. Is this your brilliant plan for the Swiss? Oh, and of course, Canada and Australia, two pioneers of high immigration are facing strong and growing political opposition to continuing immigration. Recent polls in Canada show that well over 50% of the population thinks that immigration is excessive and that includes second generation immigrants. Is that because they’re stupid and don’t understand the incredible benefits of the high immigration that they’ve been subject to for the last 40+ years? And your idea about immigrants funding pillar one is insulting to the intelligence and abilities of the Swiss. Pillar one is a self funding mechanism, if you use the contributions of immigrants to increase the payout to the Swiss all that happens is that when those immigrants get older, their pensions will be under funded and the fly wheel of every increasing immigration just spins faster. No, the underlying problem is that you have no understanding or appreciation that the low population density of Switzerland is a public good. And all you want to do is rip it off from average Swiss people so that you can pocket it by building housing for new immigrants and diminishing the benefits of low population density to the Swiss population.

@Egregiorum Switzerland, Singapore, Dubai those past 30 years. The US for the past 100 years. Australia, Canada too.

@tleilax___ Can you give me examples of countries that have successfully made their societies better (which does not mean increased GDP or even increase GDP per capita ) by following your suggestions?

My point is that the people promoting this votation are doing their best to hide / not disclose the very real risks and the damage dealt to the swiss population economic wellbeing that this votation will certainly cause. So in a way, those politicians are trying to fool us all by telling half the truth. Real estate won't get cheaper unless building/renovating housing is faster and easier. That is true everywhere in the country. I'd like real estate to be cheaper like most people. This initiative feels like the mad doctor deciding to cut the patient's leg because the shoes are too small and it hurts the feets. Why don't we just get a proper pair of shoes / housing ? Why can't we build more housing ? The reduction of young healthy foreign workers will immediately reduce ressources for healthcare and for the first pillar pensions. This will very directly affect the Swiss middle class. Antagonizing the EU while the US became unreliable is a strategic mistake. The UDC is the one promoting the elitist agenda here.

@ibuybooks Happy birthday, Gavin. Think your release of Generative Energy places your firmly in legend territory.

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@Egregiorum Appreciate you for bringing it to my attention, I foolishly overlooked something, it should work now goat

There are two types of thiamine deficiency, and the second one is very underexplored. The first thiamine deficiency is an input problem. Caused by inadequate intake, malabsorption, alcoholism... it is often detectable with testing, and fixes rapidly with supplementation. The second thiamine deficiency is a consumption problem. Caused by a high tissue seed oil load generating chronic aldehyde load, which destroys thiamine directly, inactivates the thiamine-dependent enzymes through lipoic acid modification, and increases demand through an antioxidant pathway. More in my deep-dive article, link in first reply.

@jack_schroder_ Thank you for all of the deuterium content, very interesting. I’ve ordered a three month supply and I’ll post my n=1 experience.

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Have you compared your symptoms to Loeys-Dietz? There is an ever expanding group of collagen genetic issues that are being identified by geneticist that you might want to look into. Some are very serious (Marfan’s syndrome), some are quite manageable. My daughter has Loeys-Dietz but fortunately she doesn’t appear to have any of the more serious consequences.

Some weird symptoms / things about me I think are just Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: • scoliosis • long fingers & limbs • sensitivity to light & sound • sensitivity to touch / certain fabrics • EMF sensitivity • frequent injuries (mostly knee, ankle, & shoulder issues) as a child • pale & translucent looking skin • very stretchy skin • slipping ribs • chronic migraines / headaches • blue sclera (people have often said it looks like I wear contacts even though I do not) • TMJ • extreme tightness in the traps and neck • randomly feeling almost hungry for air lol • winged scapula • cracking joints • teeth grinding • walking into corners, doorframes, counters, sometimes bad depth perception • needing to sleep with 5 pillows to feel supported • chronic muscle tightness • pain improvement with myofascial release, functional movement, acupuncture • poor temperature regulation • worsened pain with yoga • worsened pain with stretching • pain when sitting for too long • less pain with more movement There’s absolutely more, this is just what comes to mind right now. I’m shocked I didn’t put this together before.

@celestialbe1ng Cavalier King Charles are pretty great if you live in a city. They’ve become incredibly popular here in Geneva and my daughters’ have both been great. Very loving, fairly low maintenance, very easy going.

@waldowaldson @bluewmist Zero affiliation, but after Flents stopped making there’s this is what I use from Amazon a.co/d/03teLdSG

@Egregiorum @bluewmist I heard the wax can accumulate in your ears though and block them so I had to go back to foam

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@waldowaldson @bluewmist Definitely go with whatever works for you, but for what it’s worth I have never actually run into this problem. Sort of expected to, but I think the wax they use is soft enough at body temperature that it just doesn’t accumulate.

@Aster_DEX Anyone who invest their money with a group that rips off the artwork created by a dying girl for SpaceX deserves what they get.

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