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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • bought in exchange for political capital

    That’s a very uncharitable assumption of his motivations.

    Dropping out of an (FPTP) primary is like awkward manual runoff voting. Once you clearly aren’t winning, you drop out so those votes can flow to the next preferred candidate.

    People voting for Buttigieg switched to Biden because he was the most similar candidate. Of course Buttigieg would support the candidate that best matches his policy preferences – and the preferences of voters.







  • That is not the correct form of a syllogism. The second premise should be “Some C are A” leading to the conclusion “Some C are B”. With the structure you provided, it is easy to produce invalid conclusions from true premises:

    • All planets are round
    • Some fruits are round
    • Therefore: Some fruits are planets

    Whereas a correctly structured syllogism might be:

    • All coconuts are round
    • Some fruits are coconuts
    • Therefore: Some fruits are round













  • Thanks for the link and breakdown.

    It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.

    “Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.

    Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.