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Re: A Question of Taste

Gary Basin — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 05:32:14 -0000

In general, I agree. But, something something Kant’s transcendental deduction. Maybe a hint of this is in your conceding to certain innate tastes. If there is pattern there, then...?

Also, this should be good if you aren't following yet: https://samzdat.com/2017/12...

Re: Rationality and Emotional Work · A Rhythm in Notion

Gary Basin — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:41:20 -0000

I think you have system 1 and system 2 flipped there!

Re: In Praise of Low Needs

Gary Basin — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 10:26:25 -0000

I think I understand your perspective but I'm not sure what it implies for this discussion. One can replace "values" with "tastes" and admit there is ideology being adopted, which presumably Robin and Wei Dai wouldn't object to. The core issue seems to come down to different models of how ethics scales with pain vs pleasure, over many beings or over much time, etc. Yes this is ideological and in some sense political, so what? In either case, I guess this is off topic.

Re: All Is Simple Parts Interacting Simply

Gary Basin — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:59:26 -0000

Robin, do you have any opinion regarding current progress on the OpenWorm project? I believe it has some relevance to this discussion, and your interest in EM research

Re: The $1000/Hour Consultant Dilemma

Gary Basin — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:41:13 -0000

There's another solution to the problem, if you can negotiate financing and have patience: buy the company, make the improvements, sell the company!

Re: Introduction to Agent-Based Models with respect to the Future of Macroeconomics

Gary Basin — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:44:52 -0000

Good post. Isn't that argument kind of like saying a neural network can be used to replicate an arbitrary polynomial? Sure, it's possible, but now you have to calibrate a larger set of parameters; giving up parsimony for what exactly? If you have some proposed model of the world that you want to play with, you can always twiddle knobs and measure sensitivities there as well

Re: Open WhisperSystems >> Blog >> The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery

Gary Basin — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:43:35 -0000

Hmm really? It wouldn't be size(email space) * size(phone number space)?

Re: Open WhisperSystems >> Blog >> The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery

Gary Basin — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:18:19 -0000

Why not hash phone number + email address? You will only get a partial contact list in this case (only the contacts that have an email associated with them as well) but it would get you part of the way there. I would bet the space of (phone number string + email address string) is large enough to not be concerned about dictionary attacks

Re: Imagine the Unimaginable

Gary Basin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:39:11 -0000

Before the Fed, the US tended to experience slight deflation over time, hence the outperformance of fixed income instruments.

Re: Portfolio of Risk Premia: a new approach to diversification

Gary Basin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:01:43 -0000

Just read this paper yesterday when it was linked from another blog. I'm concerned that they stopped with end of september returns, very curious to see how this would've done in the past 4 months... I'm guessing something like -40%. Will be tough to replicate exactly what they did though

Re: Some Thoughts on Dark Pools of Liquidity

Gary Basin — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:39:03 -0000

see: millenium front running :)