http://trilema.com/2017/promising-and-promises/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:51:12 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2017/promising-and-promises/#comment-122311 Mircea Popescu Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:44:03 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=73458#comment-122311 She has a point. She has a point.

]]> http://trilema.com/2017/promising-and-promises/#comment-122310 Stanislav Datskovskiy Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:43:08 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=73458#comment-122310 Comment from pet today: "If the emperor ALWAYS thumbsdown, he becomes a mechanism; meaningful exercise of power requires variation, otherwise you can just wire the signal to high or low." Comment from pet today: "If the emperor ALWAYS thumbsdown, he becomes a mechanism; meaningful exercise of power requires variation, otherwise you can just wire the signal to high or low."

]]> http://trilema.com/2017/promising-and-promises/#comment-122307 Mircea Popescu Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:08:30 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=73458#comment-122307 Yes, and of course this works in practice, because people are unredeemable idiots within two significant deviations ; but in the etherated, angelic world here contemplated the biasless agents would just allign to this specific pattern in the Universal RNG Machine. And so it "doesn't work". Yes, and of course this works in practice, because people are unredeemable idiots within two significant deviations ; but in the etherated, angelic world here contemplated the biasless agents would just allign to this specific pattern in the Universal RNG Machine. And so it "doesn't work".

]]> http://trilema.com/2017/promising-and-promises/#comment-122306 Stanislav Datskovskiy Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:22:02 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=73458#comment-122306 IIRC the ideal was for gladiator to get nailed after several, perhaps a dozen, close matches; let the audience get attached, 'invested'. Hence thumb up. IIRC the ideal was for gladiator to get nailed after several, perhaps a dozen, close matches; let the audience get attached, 'invested'. Hence thumb up.

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