Comments on: Chaos Patch (#12)

By: northanger

northanger — Fri, 30 May 2014 21:35:18 +0000

Hard to pronounce, expensive as hell, “Smoke, medicine, sea mist, peat- all there”, owned by the Japanese (long live Satoshi Nakamoto!).

I second the nomination.

By: fotrkd

fotrkd — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:01:05 +0000

Ugh and argh and eww. And why is my tongue so hairy? Northanger drank me under the table. It was Jura by the way, not Talisker. Dock my wages for any damage done to the saloon. I need frozen peas… and fruit.

By: Konkvistador

Konkvistador — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:15:16 +0000

I’m quite confident that I won’t be returning to twitter any time soon. I am at times honestly wondering if this community as a whole is worth engaging at all anymore. As of right now it is both intellectually mostly stagnant, personality driven and outside window-dressing drifting leftward.

My current reactionary ideological position is best described as Pseudo-Jimian with Samoist characteristics.

By: nydwracu

nydwracu — Fri, 30 May 2014 03:32:32 +0000

If neoreaction were to become the sort of thing that would have an official drink, it’d be Laphroaig.

By: NRx_N00B

NRx_N00B — Fri, 30 May 2014 03:16:42 +0000

@Northanger — Agreed, it’s a delicate balance.

By: northanger

northanger — Fri, 30 May 2014 03:10:32 +0000

Precisely how to trigger everyone senseless.

By: NRx_N00B

NRx_N00B — Fri, 30 May 2014 02:57:04 +0000

Rawlsianism, pacifism, fraternism and communalism tends to increase composite carrying capacity via scope enlargement—making room for even more non-productive-useless-eaters. “Scope reduction”, on the other hand, could kick off the mother of all die-offs.

By: northanger

northanger — Fri, 30 May 2014 02:47:00 +0000

Excellent links. Quick search for “carrying capacity” at jstor.org: 23,488 Search Results.

Picking one at random:

Evolutionary Rescue in Structured Populations
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/673914
The analysis is based on the following reasoning: due to the particular migration pattern of the island model, we can merge all patches in the old environment into one habitat and all patches with the new environment into a second one. The number of wildtypes in the old part of the habitat is given by its current carrying capacity; the number of wildtypes in the new part is governed by a single difference equation (eq. [A1]).

Lots of papers on Evolutionary Rescue. Scope Reduction is a great point. I don’t think the idea here is “scope reduction” but puzzling out a evolutionary rescue model that doesn’t trigger everyone senseless.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Fri, 30 May 2014 02:14:09 +0000

The sensible response is to have no idea what’s going on. Praise ye, blissful ignorance.

By: northanger

northanger — Fri, 30 May 2014 01:53:33 +0000

And, I might add, Hyperstition is, by its nature, Beyond Cathedral.