alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

scott survey: "Have there been times that you felt that a group of people was plotting to cause you serious harm or injury?"
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(there are lots of forms of nonmonogamy people try where you awkwardly avoid your partner having contact with the fact you are hooking up with people and that you like and sometimes fall in love with them, i feel like these are probably doomed to failure)

@mutual_ayyde
there's an awkward thing here where i have a strong intuition that most ways to half-ass non-monogamy are probably doomed

given that as it scales up poly becomes less of a thing you decide to mutually explore with your partner and more of a phase transition that happens to your community and sucks anybody who's open to it in well, i think this is going to become a Discourse

poly as a legitimate way to do long term relationships is *very* unpopular among mono people: eg
https://ifstudies.org/blog/national-survey-reveals-generational-differences-in-consensual-nonmonogamy-

i find poly activism hammering on this point pretty cheesy but it's worth pointing out that to people who aren't around poly couples it's like ... not obvious at a gut level

worth pointing out that the mainstream view (esp system 1) of poly genuinely is the same way conservatives view gay people (mostly hedonism and without any real emotional depth) and as this perception changes wouldn't be surprised if it became *a lot* more mainstream.

(i think people underestimate how much of an active ingredient 'i will hit you with this here stick if you touch my women' was in polygamy as practiced historically)

results of poly being more accepted will probably be more polyandry in friendly communities and a lot of op eds by cishet women about how their partner suggested poly to them and they found it to be a terrible idea (going to be disproportionately common among op-ed writing class)

pretty skeptical of the 'acceptance of poly means top men are taking all the women' narrative; my sense is cis/het women are the least likely demographic to enjoy these kinds of arrangements, it's just if you've got a fanbase of thousands of people you'll likely find people.
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RT @mattyglesias
I haven’t done an extensive dive into this but @JoHenrich’s books make me think mainstream acceptance of this sort of thing could have very b…
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1608628747397369856

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RT @MattZeitlin
The UK is like New York and the rust belt with no sun belt
https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1573785508735483908

that awkward moment when you're Britain's Sun Belt
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RT @guardian
Four in 10 junior doctors plan to quit NHS as soon as they can, survey finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/28/four-in-10-junior-doctors-plan-quit-nhs-survey?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1672222535
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1608045636275896321

@johncarlosbaez
(I guess you can still think of these as resistor networks with different resistances)

@johncarlosbaez

it's a bit of a combinatorial exercise but i think if you start with all aspect ratios positive you end up with the rectangles all neatly adding up to the square/rectangle being dissected
(in some sense this feels like it has to be true "algebraically" if you express the area of each rectangle as (x_i-x_j)(y_k-y_l) and consider the sum of these as polynomials in the x_is, y_js)

@johncarlosbaez
so im thinking something like "pick a random rooted planar 2-connected graph, (vertices horizontal lines, faces vertical lines), pick a direction for each edge, knowing the aspect ratio for each rectangle gives us a bunch of equations to solve and if we get a negative number for some edge that means we should have picked the other direction for it.

@johncarlosbaez
roughly the pinwheel above but with the width and height of the central square negative gives you the same pinwheel but reflected

@johncarlosbaez
(I think "some side length is zero" is the only way things can break if we take x= a +ve real root of the polynomial we get, side lengths being negative should still get you a well behaved dissection)

this is re: the mango markets case some people seem to be claiming there are far more ethically questionable things he's done

if crypto exchanges are casinos he's the guy who walks into the casino and makes millions off the house by counting cards.
under the build-financial-institutions-out-of-a-Hobbesian-state-of-nature theory he's operating on the law of the jungle.

the thing about the avi eisenberg case which might confuse onlookers is it only really makes sense as market manipulation under the crypto-exchanges-are-legitimate-regulated-exchanges theory