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@ndgbntng @Lambda_backlash @godspeed_aflame Yea this guy is aggressively incorrect with self esteem issues

@Lambda_backlash @godspeed_aflame You seem like a jerk. You clearly said that inconsistent systems are incomplete, and now are telling anyone who corrects this that of course you said the exact opposite of that.

godel's incompleteness is maybe the most widely misunderstood mathematical concept. people just seem to have no clue what it actually says

@Lambda_backlash @godspeed_aflame Based on the replies you’ve posted in this thread I do not think you understand this material as well as you think you do.

@variable_leads @godspeed_aflame Compelling. And by compelling, I mean completely useless. Point to the specific claim. Explain why. Use small words if you have to.

@Lambda_backlash @godspeed_aflame This is wrong

@godspeed_aflame close. the theorem says: if consistent → incomplete. It doesn't require consistency to state the theorem, just to make it interesting. An inconsistent system is still 'incomplete' in the technical sense, just not in a way anyone cares about

@FischerKing64 Kinda confused here. You said you don’t support the original meaning of the second amendment. And then you said you want to overturn incorporation doctrine, which was not part of the original meaning. So what don’t you support about the original meaning of the second amendment?

Some people are saying ‘but you want the original meaning of the Second Amendment right to bear arms though!!!!’ No I don’t. What we should do there is overturn the ‘incorporation’ doctrine that allows SCOTUS to apply the Bill of Rights against the states. That only became a thing in the 20th century really. If we let that dumb idea go, then Nebraska could ban porn (sacred speech under current SCOTUS law) but allow gun rights, and Illinois could ban Saturday night specials but allow Pornhub. Everyone would get what they want - and we could have that ‘competition among the systems’ that would show us what works. My money is on Nebraska.

@drStuartGilmour @JohnMic95688430 @jmwooldridge Listen man I’m interested in what you’re trying to say here but no one wants to watch a 40 minute YouTube video. Do you lay out this argument in a blog post or something ?

@JohnMic95688430 @jmwooldridge No it won’t. Pop must be entered as an offset. This is a very basic fact, and it’s very disturbing that economists don’t understand this. Very disturbing!

It seems that there needs to be more consistency in models with a count y. If y clearly increases with population size -- such as a homicide count -- an exponential model for y with log(pop) as an explanatory variable makes the most sense. This allows y/pop to vary with pop.

@Izengabe_ @BuildTrev Could you elaborate on why you don’t like efficiency gap metrics? Isn’t the post you originally made an efficiency gap argument?

This is such crap. The Democrat bill mandated gerrymandering & drawing against compactness & county & city integrity for a BS efficiency gap measurement which they can manipulate to their advantage. What Dems wanted was a national version of Michigan where Detroit gets split & black voters get cracked to elect more white Democrats.

I'm so sick of Democrats falsely claiming what Virginia is doing is somehow a response to Texas. Under the new Texas map Democrats can win 29% of seats with 40% of vote. Under the Democrats Virginia map Republicans can 9% of seats with 49% of the vote. They are not the same.

@xwanyex I don’t see how this analysis of historical compromises somehow makes the electoral college seem more fair.

@xwanyex You ask why did we agree to this particular set of institutional compromises? I mean I didn’t agree to it. My parents didn’t agree to it. The ancestors of many Americans didn’t agree to it either because their ancestors were politically disenfranchised due to their race or gender

Yes, this is an improvement on what I was trying to say earlier. The liberals in my feed proceed from the idea that you can take any collection of people and you already know ahead of time which type of political organization is most fair. Fairness, in this view, is a property of the system that exists independently of how the citizenry formed, the history that collects these people under a single government. But that’s basically absurd! Why are these specific people living under one government? Why do they want to do that? Why would they agree to do that? Why wouldn’t I just kill you and take your stuff? Fairness derives from the sense that everyone living under a given system shares that the system is working well enough for them that it’s an acceptable alternative to violence. Fairness is not a property of the rules and procedures that could be written on a tablet and launched into space and will be true for all time of all people in all places.

@POTUSZuckerberg @djmedinah @MindShiftKQED "my score increased by 5%" is not the same thing as "my score increased by 5 percentage points." The former would imply a compounding effect. The later does not.

A study from Carnegie Mellon University finds that everyone learns at the same rate, although some students have a head start. A group of scientists set out to study quick learners. Then they discovered they don't exist kqed.org/mindshift/6275…

@DerektheCleric @elerianm Literally what the fuck are you talking about

@elerianm Another way the FED manipulates the data, is substitution of goods. Real world substitution, would be subbing Nike with Adidas. It isn't subbing Nike with Walmart sneakers. But the FED treats these the same.

I've been asked repeatedly why the US administration’s approval rating on the economy remains so low among voters even though the US economy has consistently outperformed expectations in terms of growth and jobs. The quick one-word answer is, of course, inflation – and in three ways: Peaking at 9%, and even higher than that for sensitive goods, inflation has eroded purchasing power in a meaningful manner; The recent decline in inflation has not been deemed as sufficient relief given that the rate is still positive at a time when many confuse dis-inflation with prices going; and It has fueled an aggressive and rapid interest rate hiking cycle that has priced people out of mortgages, the housing market, etc. #economy #inflation #econtwitter