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us free marketers have already lost...capitalism, greed, these are terms invented by anti-free market ideologues. the free market existed before the term capitalism was coined by Marx, what is greed but self-interest? those who pretend to be concerned with something other than their own welfare are in denial at best, and manipulative liars at worst.

If we only ever debate on their terms we can not hope to avoid the stupid Randian take on liberty and markets that dominates most people's thoughts about capitalism.
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Here is a summary of Krugman's work leading to the Nobel Prize with all the references for you to follow up on. If you don't have journal access, email me with a link to the paywall site and I can send you the articles you want.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Research/wp/pdf/paper423.pdf

Basically, you have to separate his work as an economist from his politics or make a general distinction between quantitative and literary economics. Quantitative economics involves functions and calculus. Literary economics involves English words. I respect Krugman's intuitions even if his predictions are often wrong. It's hard to predict the future, even for a noted economist.
Krugman's contributions aren't widely discussed because they are in the realm of quantitative economic analysis. Heavy in math and not prone to simple explanations. Most of quant econ revolves around trying to use mathematical techniques to derive a more accurate model of what's going on with large scale scale economic aggregates (GDP and CPI are the most well known due to the media).

Of course the critique of the entire field is that it is blatant curve fitting, descriptive rather than prescriptive.

P.S. The nobel prize in economics was not one of the prizes originally enumerated by Alfred Nobel.
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Krugman was very influential in the development of a theory of international trade not involving perfect competition. Whatever you think about economics in general, it seems to be a pretty clear step towards more closely modeling reality.
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Don't cross purpose each other.

In fact it's somewhat interesting, that quadratic error decay equals exponential precision growth:

0.1^2 = 0.01
0.01^2 = 0.0001
0.0001^2 = 0.00000001
...

Value equals error; number of zeros equals precision measured as number of digits.
"How'd Krugman ever get accepted as an economist? He seems to be a massive doomcrier who is consistently wrong, and uses a lot of anecdotes and very few hard numbers."

You need to separate Krugman's work as an academic economist from his work as a "popular economist" and political commentator. I'm not an economist, but my understanding is that his academic work is outstanding and has contributed significantly to improving the models for understanding international trade. He also correctly predicted that fixed exchange rate regimes would be dangerously unstable (a lesson that not everybody has learned yet).

As you point out however, he was incorrect in his prescription for how to deal with the currency crisis. I'm going to postulate here that economists don't have really good models for studying how to recover from crisis events because they are relatively rare in comparison to their complexity, so the mathematical tools of economics are unable to explain them well. When you're placed in a situation in which you do not have enough information to make a good recommendation, the correct action is to admit that fact. That goes for the current crisis as well. Krugman seems to have very strong idealogical tendencies, given that he wrote a book called "The Conscience of a Liberal," and thus expresses his opinion about how to handle these matters much more forcefully than is warranted by the information that is provided by economics. In my opinion, this is an abuse of the natural authority provided by his economic credentials, and he should probably stick to writing articles for the academic community and not the popular press.
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You're missing the point.

Technical learning of any sort (looms or calculus) is really the least important consequence of schooling - if it takes 20 years, fine.

The fundamental error is to assume that socialization (for which nearly all humans are genetically optimized) and training in symbolic methods (for which most humans are rather ill-suited) should proceed apace.
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the problem is that it is impossible to audit said models. unlike real science the social sciences can't isolate variables in order to test predictive power.
You mean CSP-style, like Alef and Limbo from Bell Labs? Have you come across PyCSP? It has multiple backends, including greenlets which are nice and lightweight. http://code.google.com/p/pycsp/
And remember that Gordon Gekko was Oliver Stone's foil for Carl Fox (the father of the main character) who was meant to embody the evil of the 80s takeover era. This speech was based on a University of California speech given by Ivan Boesky, in which he said: "Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself."
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What do we want to achieve?

Markets, with all of their permutations, are just a few tools in our toolbox. I completely agree with you that the debate needs to be made much less ideological and much more precise, but we cannot pretend these discussions are happening in a vacuum.

I am a fan of Rawls' "veil of ignorance" line of reasoning. This is probably because I want to embrace "luck" not as an excuse for domination, but as something orthogonal to control and subjugation: diversity necessary for us to successfully traverse the fitness landscape, hopefully enabling us, collectively, to move towards the stars and friendly posthuman intelligences.
Same question: SICP of neuroscience?
Gekko was the embodiment of capitalism itself and therefore amoral, not evil.

The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!
If not yet exists, it could be due anytime now, considering the explosive advancement of the field.

I found On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins very enlightening.
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I'm not a Krugman apologist, and can't bear to read his NYT columns, but he does actually have academic credibility ( even though it is from work he did a fair while ago).

This is a good analysis of Krugman's contributions to international trade from when he won the John Bates Clark medal in 1991 - http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/dixit.html. I'm not sure he's done anything too groundbreaking since then.

He's also co-written the textbook most undergraduate economists use (including me) for international trade - http://www.amazon.com/International-Economics-Theory-Policy-...
Perhaps you meant sin(x)+x^2?
"...those who pretend to be concerned with something other than their own welfare are in denial at best, and manipulative liars at worst."

True, but some people view self-interest much more narrowly than others. For example, some oppose welfare for the poor because they do not want their money going to people who do not work as hard. This is a narrow view of self interest. Others support welfare because they believe that in the absence of welfare, the poor will engage in illegal activities, such as robberies, which will inevitably cost more than taxes that go towards paying for welfare. This is a much broader view of self interest.

Capitalism, unfortunately, has come to be identified with the narrow view of self-interest.
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How will Twitter self-organisation fare if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard decides to start shooting?

It's great that the Iranian people can self-organise despite all the attempted censorship of the government, and certainly the free flow of information is a powerful tool in the hands of the people... but guns are powerful tools too.

It's also curious why they did not clamp down on Twitter. After all, the Chinese government had no trouble shutting down Twitter along with all the other tools of communication.

Here's another thought: if things like Twitter are such a powerful agent of change, perhaps there should be a non-profit that exists for the sole purpose of providing rapidly changing and shifting anonymising proxies to people everywhere, to make it so that it is effectively impossible for any government in the world to block something like Twitter.

With all that said, I wish the best of luck to the Iranian people, and I hope they prevail. This is a historic moment, and I hope their victory without bloodshed.
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markets are not really a thing. they are just what happens in the absence of people shoving guns in other peoples faces. in the absence of force the only way to get what you want is to offer other people things that they want in exchange. this is civilization, the alternatives are barbarism.
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Alberts is very often held as the "standard text" (much like Grey's in Anatomy, Atkins in Physical Chemistry, or SICP). I would also recommend "Molecular Genetics of Bacteria" by Snyder and Champness (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Genetics-Bacteria-Snyder/dp/...). As you'd expect, it's very focused on Bacteria, but it's current and goes all the way from the basic to the very in-depth.

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Yes it does avoid many problems, but it's unsuitable for other important scenarios. We need both. Message passing should be a design choice, not an excuse for a limitation in some language runtime.
I second the vote for VmWare ! I use it extensively with 4G RAM. You should have no problems running three environments concurrently if not more. I prefer NFS rather than CIFS due to better retention of permissions, etc. I use Python and wxPython in my line of work and it's almost freaky watching the same program run from NFS share on the three environments. Just need to watch some Win32 compatability issues, most are well documented.
We are self-interested creatures. We are selfish. Evolutionary psychology will go as far as to say that altruism is selfish. The question is, assuming that each for his own self is a natural state of being, is it a good thing?

If we all act for our own interest, then there is competition and I suppose the more adapted will win, which as it happens is the foundation of evolution. So to speak of checking our own moral compass is empty rhetorics because morality as such does not even exist. Only jusgments as to what is right to do for my own interest and what consequences there are.

Therefore, supposing that morality does not exist, the only way to enforce this "moral compass" is by legislation or culture. The culture in such places is greed and perhaps rightly so as if someone makes money, that money will go somewhere surely, hence making more money, etcetera. If the culture is greed therefore, the only way is imposing a code of conduct supervised by some governing body and or imposing legislation and or, there are ups and downs in life, why should we expect the economy to be up always and never go down.

I think the system is fine, I would have liked to see the banks fail to be honest. If they did not do their job properly they should be out of a job. Otherwise we are just feeding an artificial creature which does not adhere to the laws of evolution and by association competition, perhaps to the detriment of us all.
i'm just a tad confused. if all internet and mobile lines are cut, how can they use twitter?
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That I am not sure. From what I have read they claim to have spent about 90% of their time on the project making it unix compatible. How easy they made it to port I don't know.
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I disagree. There is a huge difference between insider trading and buying a company to sell off pieces of it and make the remainder more efficient through reorganization, even if the reorganization includes layoffs. In the former case, you are abusing your access to information that others do not have in order to make a profit at their expense, and this is why it is illegal. In the latter case, you are making a positive contribution to the wealth of the stockholders of a company, even though this might cause hardship to some of the employees who will have salary/benefits cut or even lose their jobs. Gekko embodies both of these behaviors (as did some of the participants in 80s takeovers), but I don't believe that insider trading properly represents capitalism.
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Surely anything that involves the effect of a new technology (Twitter) on major world events is Hacker News. I don't see how anyone could argue against it.
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Language FAMILY doesn't really make that much difference. Closer relationships like Spanish to Italian or Russian to Polish help a great deal, but it is much easier to learn Bahasa Indonesia or spoken Japanese for an English speaker than it is to learn Russian. Language relations are based on historical development, not always (or even usually) on current similarities that would help a learner.
Twitter will only be any good for this flash mob style communication.

To that end it seems to have replaced pirate radio / ham radio.

:: Back then the problems were the same: Listeners had to be listening on the same channel, they had to have listening equipment, and they needed to act on the information. People broadcasting had the problem of being traced and executed

Strategy, tactics cannot be discussed via an open channel.

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Relating to the blog post, it details a quite lame call-to-action. This had little risk for the participant [tweeter or complier]. It was the tweet equivalent of "Honk if you hate Ahmedinejad":: Honking ensues

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How long will activists be tweeting when @IranianGuard busts down @IranFreeNow ' s door and sprays her with bullets?

@IranFreeNow: Loud knock @ door, maybe my comrades?
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I guess satellite internet? Or maybe the mobile only cut the voice and it didn't occur to them that significant use could be made of SMS?
Twitter is different to Radio. In a worse way ::

A radio transmission is a single-point-in-time event. So once you have broadcast, you leave no trace.

Twitter leaves a trail, which can be monitored post-facto by the enemy. Presumably they could sit and wait and list who reads each tweet too.

Twitter readers aren't going to be happy with this.
The whole interview is worth reading. It's also worth pointing out that Will has created an environment where people aren't punished for asking each other whether they're wasting time. (For the impatient, search for "Ocean Quigley".)
Damn, and I thought the first class suites on the A380 were excessive...

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How long will activists be tweeting when @IranianGuard busts down @IranFreeNow ' s door and sprays her with bullets?

It's when large numbers of people are willing to defy that risk that things change.
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I aim to be a philosopher of computation by then.

Philosophy is what you do when you don't really understand the details. Maybe that's exactly what you meant, though, come to think of it. :)
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Sounds like a story Raymond Chen would tell. I don't know how an IE8 installation would somehow mess with boot.ini, but it would be interesting to find out the true cause of such an odd bug.
This is actually a pretty decent article, despite the exaggerated, link-bait title. Worth a read, some interesting analysis.
There's always quantum immortality.

That's not the best argument for inspiring confidence, to put it mildly.
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I'm very confused by the down-modding here. I'm content that people have decided it is of negative value, but I'd like to understand why.

My anti-virus software gave me a warning about the page, so I passed that on, and then extracted the text so people could read it. Why is that being down-modded? I'd like to know, because if I've breached a guideline I'd like not to do it again.

Despite being fully cited and a link to the original are people considering it to be plaigarism? I thought my actions were being helpful.

Please help me to understand ...
I'm sure there's no good reason why IE8 messes with this file. I'll take this random bloggers word over the thousands of smart geeks working for Microsoft any day.
Isn't it nice to be able to disagree by modding down instead of engaging in an active argument?
I find this aversion quite disturbing.

And damaging to my karma ;-)
It's not astroturf unless the guy is being paid to do a campaign. I have seen things here and on Digg that can only be explained by active astroturf by the part of Microsoft - the active downmodding of comments, sometimes every comment in a given discussion or every comment in the downmoddable range, after posting something that paints Microsoft or its software in an unfavorable light.

It doesn't surprise me a bit.

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I first took your Same question as Is there a, as you probably intended. But later this thought popped up: Would a SICP of biology and a SICP of neuroscience have to be one to qualify? (thereby implying: exactly same question :)
I am not sure what you are disagreeing with here. If the result is people's machines not booting, surely something must have gone wrong, and it can't be a bloggers mistake. Unless you think that the thousands of smart geeks are intentionally crippling the machines (it's not a bug, it's a feature!)

Remember however,that the worst architectural decisions (coupling windows + IE?) have been taken for business purposes. Legacy and bad management can and does wipe out the benefits of legions of smart programmers.
The sign up process they desibe is right on. You show up, don't see anything, leave, and a while later (maybe months) you come back and it clicks.

Twitter is so vibrant I expect string growth next month, but the absurd speed from the best media coverage possible was clearly unsustainable.
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The united states has a huge vested interest in this reelection failing. I prefer to withhold my opinion till I hear from BOTH sides of the conflict, and not just from the side that aligns with western interests.
Cautionary tales:

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See, that just proves that the browser is an integral part of the operating system.
I don't know that he would agree with me, but EY's argument seems to me to boil down to: without a formal specification of goals, we won't know how to predict a system's actions, and not knowing how to predict a system's actions when that system is better at reaching its goals than you are is very likely to make any bug a (literally) fatal one.

Humans have a vast network of shared implicit goals and norms, such that we know that satisfying a goal of "end poverty" doesn't justify "kill all the poor". It's easy to wave your hands and say that by the time we approach human-level AI it will necessarily have all the features of human intelligence, but what if it doesn't?

Sometimes various people have referred to "optimization process" rather than "intelligence" to try to get this point across. What if it's possible to build an optimization process that is better, or far better, at solving problems than humans? Planes are much better at flying fast and far than birds, but often don't bother with some of the things that all birds have, like movable wings and feathers. I believe that Eliezer thinks that the things that make us human are feathers, analogously.

Even if you think there's only a small chance of this, the chance that a program more intelligent than humans will have things that humans consider bugs is very high, and the consequences are an existential risk.
Twitter will never be the new facebook for a very simple reason: Facebook is conceived so that people that have nothing of interesting to say (a huge percentage, sadly) can still tell a lot of useless things, post photos, take a quiz, comment some stupid thing about the status of somebody else.

Twitter instead is designed for people that have something to say (otherwise no-one will follow you given that there is no the reciprocal bit) and are even able to say it in 140 chars.

As a twitter user I'm very glad of this, since I hope that staying an elite thing twitter will continue to be interesting and worth to use. My claim is that also twitter owners should be happy about this. In the long run it can be more interesting to have 1% of the users but with good content than 99% of users that don't pay a dollar and produce things that are not of interest.
"...perhaps there should be a non-profit that exists for the sole purpose of providing rapidly changing and shifting anonymising proxies to people everywhere, to make it so that it is effectively impossible for any government in the world to block something like Twitter."

Check out tor (http://www.torproject.org/). It's slow, but it's the closest thing we have to that right now.
I don't think he created it, he selected the best performers of an apparently existing species and bred them.
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That's interesting, which scenarios do you consider it unsuitable for?
But code isn't setting you up, human-written documentation (or, in the case of the article, humans) are.