niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

There are Pareto worsenings: you make everyone worse off by their standards. But are there Kaldor-Hicks worsenings?

The naive version (everyone is worse off, and there is no way of making a single person better off through distribution) doesn't work: you can always push a guy into huge debt and make everyone else super happy

Perhaps we just negate: everyone is worse off and there is no way of making everyone better off through distribution.

@Paradox Yeah :-/

@Paradox The one that makes things extremely better

I mean the other kinds would also be interesting, but not as hopeful

Although if someone could explain black hole geometry in poetry I'd celebrate that

There is surprisingly little post singularity poetry

I didn't expect breaking up with someone to feel this bad

Does the human mind do second-order prediction to steer towards grokking? I remember that there's a way to feel when you're about to understand

@nixCraft true, but you're missing out on math

Copy of Grand Futures: acquired.

@nyx getting bitten by girlthings 💅

@amy This somewhat makes sense:

0==false, by the Anna Karenina principle one should return 0
Every other number designates a failure state, I guess?

2nd original sin in computing was 1==true 1==false