Notices by verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st), page 15
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verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:52:10 JST 
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko:
@PhenomX6 @Moon @mrsaturday
> under the guise that there would be copycats (there weren't)
actually this is some of the only legitimate (ie made some attempt at avoiding bias) research I've seen regarding mass shootings. it compared it to a social contagion that spreads primarily via the news cycle. naturally such a theory didn't get much attention from the mass media outlets :laugh: -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 20:49:21 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @mario @Kagekokoro @rlier23 @LukeAlmighty @Kyonko802 inductive versus deductive inference -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 20:49:19 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @mario @Kagekokoro @rlier23 @LukeAlmighty @Kyonko802 well you could quantify these things in various ways. I'm not sure what you'd find tho. probably going to be difficult to even select metrics to use. do you account for price in terms of quality versus dollars spent? do you weight by how many copies a game sold? do you split different regions out? do you differentiate perception of game quality by subpopulations within a region? particularly age groups
but anyway you could have people score their perceived quality of a number of different games and examine that for trends in the market over time -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 20:49:18 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @mario @Kagekokoro @rlier23 @LukeAlmighty @Kyonko802 we can measure subjective things across a population. so we can assess trends in subjective qualities at the population level and we can do so in an objective manner -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 20:49:16 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @mario @Kagekokoro @rlier23 @LukeAlmighty @Kyonko802
> for asserting objective qualities
but I don't think anyone is doing that? an objective observation could be made about a subjective quality at the population level over time. that observation would be objective but the quality it is observing remains subjective -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 17:40:06 JST
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@renai @kekkerel @VTArgyle :sob2:
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verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 06:22:01 JST
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@spitfire @Humpleupagus @Ariovistus @Shadowman311 ironically enough with otc drugs it would likely be the opposite. I can purchase alcohol without special approval but I can't drink it in the street (unless I'm in a really bad part of town, anyway) -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 21:40:19 JST
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@r000t @r000t spreading disinformation like
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verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 19:26:06 JST
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@condret @Moon @jeffcliff @thatguyoverthere
> It might create a last-man-standing situation, where everybody lives in poverty except a very few rich ones.
if we're talking about fiat, if and when that actually happens just print yourself out of that hole. but I'm not sure it's a significantly different failure mode than the ultrawealthy lending out and collecting rent. at the end of the day value within society is ultimately relative -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 19:25:16 JST
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@condret @Moon @jeffcliff @thatguyoverthere
> not a monetary inflation
... because M2 is expected to have zero correlation with inflation. and/or various governments didn't just print record amounts of money during covid. riiiiiight -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 19:25:07 JST
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@jeffcliff @Moon @condret @thatguyoverthere I think this thread is confusing bonds sold to private parties with "debt" that exists purely on paper due to money being printed. the feds don't *have* to owe anyone interest if the legislature doesn't want them to
the obvious issue with printing "too much" money is excessive inflation. what constitutes "too much" is open to interpretation but I think most would agree that we're well past anything that might resemble it -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 19:24:59 JST
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@condret @Moon @jeffcliff @thatguyoverthere
> the total amount of debt needs to increase as the economy grows in order to prevent a deflation
deflation is only really bad if it spirals. inflation can get out of control too. I think the bigger issue is that it incentivizes holding on to cash. a low level of inflation provides a certain set of incentives that are convenient if you want to maximize GDP at all costs -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 13:22:35 JST
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@thatguyoverthere @Moon @condret @jeffcliff officially taxing via inflation. what could go wrong? lmao -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 13:21:01 JST
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@jeffcliff @Moon @condret @thatguyoverthere
> puts future generations into bondage
becomes a bit adversarial when you consider freedom of movement. if everyone leaves and then the place defaults on the debt ... -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 13:12:24 JST
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@thatguyoverthere @Moon @jeffcliff
> do taxes actually change the budget under a regime that prints arbitrary amounts of money
a fair question
> All it does is punish people who can't wash their carbon usage
it intentionally distorts the market to disincentivize some class of behaviors. that part definitely works as intended
but yes, such taxes generally disproportionately impact the people at the bottom -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 13:06:49 JST
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@jeffcliff @Moon nah a carbon tax is limited to carbon and doesn't necessarily get allocated to fixing anything. in the simplest form it only exists to disincentivize the release of carbon that was trapped in the ground
an environmental externality tax that could only be spent on efforts to remediate those externalities would be a different beast -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2023 19:34:35 JST
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@rdr @ai @gav @hidden @MercurialBlack when did we accept the premise that consciousness required life? more importantly how are we defining "living"? because that one gets hairy pretty fast -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2023 19:34:34 JST
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko:
@rdr @ai @gav @hidden @MercurialBlack @Yukari_Kajiwara maybe the issue here is that we commonly describe living things as inherently holding value when perhaps we mean to refer to other characteristics. we destroy bacteria and frequently insects without concern. so maybe something more like "complex, apparently conscious processes" instead -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2023 19:34:33 JST
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@Yukari_Kajiwara @ai @gav @hidden @MercurialBlack @rdr
> animals, though they are alive and can do some complex stuff, don't have it
can we prove that tho :think_nyan: seems odd that qualia would just spring into existence out of nowhere all of a sudden. so surely primates should be at least marginally conscious, whatever that word means? and I guess mammals would be expected to be ... -
verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2023 19:34:30 JST
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@Yukari_Kajiwara @ai @gav @hidden @MercurialBlack @rdr the concept of "I" seems different from language usage tho. quite a few animals recognize themselves in a mirror
speaking of language. where do whales and dolphins fall?
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