Samuel Hapák

Karma: 210

Samuel Hapák Oct 14, 2023, 9:11 PM
1 point
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in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: Is the Wave non-disparagement thingy okay?
I would say it to be quite unusual to not be allowed to say that you are under NDA.

Samuel Hapák Oct 14, 2023, 10:46 AM
7 points
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on: Is the Wave non-disparagement thingy okay?
I am honestly confused with why everyone considers non-disparaging agreements bad in all contexts.

People often end up hating each other, eg sometimes bad break-ups happen. I do think that “I am not going to bad-mouth you, you’re not going to bad-mouth me” is a sensible fair thing to do that allows people a) move on with their lives without a fear of retaliation, b) allows more honest relationships when they work because you don’t have to be constantly collecting “evidence” for potential future defense?

And, the same way this makes sense in relationships, I see it making sense in employer-employee relationship?

Samuel Hapák Aug 3, 2023, 10:26 PM
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in reply to: CrimsonChin’s comment on: Work culture creep
I don’t know how it looks like at your work, so hard to judge. But, I would say that your wife and kids do owe you, and you do owe them. It’s not like you can stop carrying for your wife and kids tomorrow without breaching a strong (though informal) social contract.
And well, your colleagues are paid to do their job, but normally I would expect them to have a lots of freedom in how they do the job and how much of their attention will they spend helping other people? So, it’s still kind of a choice if they do? But, again, I don’t know your workplace, so maybe its more strict and formal?

Samuel Hapák Aug 3, 2023, 10:20 PM
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in reply to: CrimsonChin’s comment on: Work culture creep
I would say that for good workplaces the difference is smaller. Surely, especially in managerial position, you’ll have to help lots of people with their psychological issues, insecurities, troubles, etc… I would say that about 30% of my meetings are closed door, other happen in common spaces. In most of the cases when the meeting is closed door, it’s to provide the other person with privacy and feeling of security.
My oldest one is 6 and sometimes he really needs some privacy and thus we do sometimes close door behind us. It’s not as often as at work because a) I have less kids than employees, b) I suspect older he gets more private talks will he want to have.

Samuel Hapák Aug 3, 2023, 4:00 PM
4 points
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on: Work culture creep

At work people are paid to talk to me. If they like me or not, they kind of need to with with me. In real life, relationships don’t work that way. No one it’s getting paid to help me and every interaction with me is a choice.

Actually, I see it much the opposite way. You can choose to not to talk with people at work, eg by quitting.

It’s much more difficult to stop talking to your kids, wife. Sure, you can get divorce, but that’s kind of extreme compared to quitting the job :-)

Samuel Hapák Aug 3, 2023, 3:56 PM
1 point
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on: Work culture creep
What’s wrong about closed doors meetings at home?

Sometimes your kid needs to have a feel of privacy for a hard conversation and it really helps to seclude from the group and talk behind close doors.

Sometimes you have disagreements with your wife about how to deal with behavior of your kids, again, the conversation you better leave for the time kids are asleep or not around.

Samuel Hapák May 10, 2023, 1:52 PM
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in reply to: Philip Niewold’s comment on: Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems
I am quite confused what the statement actually is. I don’t buy the argument about game ending in 30 seconds. The article quite clearly implies that it will last forever. If we are not playing a repeated game here, then none of this makes senses and all the (rational) players would turn the knob immediately to 30. You can induct from the last move to prove that.

If we are playing a finite game that has a probability p of ending in any given turn, it shouldn’t change much either.

I also don’t understand the argument about “context of equilibrium”.

I guess it would be helpful to formalize the statement you are trying to state.

Samuel Hapák May 6, 2023, 7:23 AM
2 points
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on: Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems
I don’t think this works. Here is my strategy:
1. I set the dial to 30 and don’t change it no matter what.
2. In the second round, temperature lowers to 98.3.
3. In the third round all the silly people except me push the dial to 100 and thus we get 99.3.
4. I don’t deviate from 30, no matter how many rounds of 99.3 be there.
5. At some point someone figures out that I am not going to deviate and they defect too, now we have 88.6.
6. The avalanche has started. It won’t take long to get to 30.
Now, this was a perfectly rational course of action for me. I knew that I will suffer temporarily, but in exchange I got a comfortable temperature for eternity.

Prove me wrong.

Samuel Hapák Jan 26, 2023, 11:26 PM
12 points
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in reply to: Lycaos King’s comment on: Some Thoughts on AI Art
Actually you got it backwards. The so called intellectual property doesn’t have typical attributes of property:

– exclusivity: if I take it from you, you don’t have it anymore

– enforceability: it’s not trivial to even find out my “art was stolen”

– independence: I can violate your IP by accident even if I never seen any of your works (typical for patents), this can’t happen with proper property

– clear definition: you usually don’t need courts to decide whether I actually took your car or not.

Besides that, IP is in direct conflict with proper property rights (right to use your own property freely).

However, having IP is a practical way of overcoming the black passenger problem. But that’s the reason it was created in the first place. That’s the reason it actually expires after some time and works become a part of “public domain”. (Can you imagine a car becoming a part of public domain? See the difference?)

Now, even the US constitution is aware of this and explicitly states “progress of science and arts” as the only lawful reason to enact copyright.

[The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Samuel Hapák Jan 21, 2023, 6:09 PM
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on: Lost in Innovation: The Case of Phlogiston
Nonsense. The fact that you can see some vague parallels between phlogiston and electrons or energy doesn’t make phlogiston theory any good. The fact that you can’t decide whether phlogiston represents electrons or energy should be a hint here.

Scientific theory should give useful predictions about the world and help us compress information. Phlogiston one does neither.

Samuel Hapák Dec 25, 2022, 10:55 PM
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on: YCombinator fraud rates
I would be careful to discern between fraud and police state allegations of fraud. Aaron Swartz is clearly the latter and it at least deserves to be mentioned in the article.

Samuel Hapák Nov 29, 2022, 9:42 PM
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in reply to: Richard_Kennaway’s comment on: Against “Classic Style”
The line between good and bad is thin. This technique can be and often is misused for manipulation. The white-hat use of this technique is to make the other person stop and think.

Samuel Hapák Nov 29, 2022, 1:02 AM
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in reply to: philh’s comment on: Against “Classic Style”
Of course, my rewrite was a hyperbole;)

But you are right about value subjectivity. “I feel” are an amazing technique to deescalate conflicts and built rapport. You cannot disagree with my feelings! That’s quite powerful.

I agree with you these are useful in dialogues whether in person or in comments section.

I don’t believe they (usually) have a place in books or blogposts. Those are not situations requiring conflict deescalation. The “I think” is filler because it is implied. Of course the author writes what he thinks.

Samuel Hapák Nov 23, 2022, 11:18 PM
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on: Against “Classic Style”
You are taking this to the extreme. The goal is to make text succinct, to get rid of fillers. It doesn’t mean that you can’t make likelihood statements when warranted, just don’t start every sentence with agnostic “maybe”, or “I think”.

I think you might be taking this to the extreme. I guess that the goal might be to make text succinct, or maybe to get rid of fillers. I would probably say that it doesn’t mean that you can’t make likelihood statements when warranted, but it might be better to not to start every sentence with agnostic “maybe”, or “I think”.

Samuel Hapák Nov 6, 2022, 7:42 PM
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on: Has Pascal’s Mugging problem been completely solved yet?
My understanding of Pascal Mugging is following:

Robber approaches you promising you lots of utility in exchange of giving him $1. The probability he is not lying is extremely low, yet the utility is extremely high, so you give him $1.
The above reasoning has one trivial flaw. How do you know that there isn’t a person testing your virtues, which would actually give you lots of utility if you refused to give this person $1? What makes you think that receiving lots of utility when you succumb to the robber is more probable than receiving lots of utility if you stand up to the robber?

Samuel Hapák Oct 29, 2022, 11:30 PM
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in reply to: frontier64’s comment on: Ukraine and the Crimea Question
Agreed. Hitler was total amateur. Commies killed much more people and actually managed to terrorize people for almost a century.

Samuel Hapák Jun 15, 2022, 9:39 PM
3 points
on: Georgism, in theory
The following two points are contradicting each other:
1. In theory at least, Georgism is correct that a land tax will not cause rents to rise.
2. Land will become cheaper to buy, and there will be more pressure to use it in an economically viable way.
I believe the 2nd is correct, whereas the first one isn’t. The extra pressure will result in real rents rising. If the land is under-utilised today (e.g., empty, or a garden where nice big house could stand) the maximum possible rent is not being charged. Possible reason might be that the current land-lord can’t make the required capital investments (building the house) needed to extract the market rent, yet he might not want to sell (speculation on future prices).
This will result in following two effects:
1. The market rent will go down because the pressure on effectivity will increase the supply.
2. The average rent charged in practice will go up because of the land where the market rate isn’t extracted today.

Samuel Hapák Apr 24, 2022, 6:12 PM
8 points
in reply to: Dustin’s comment on: What Is a Major Chord?
The thing here is, that ancient people discovered that notes which have frequencies in a ratio of small integers sound good together. Eg. 2:3.

For a long time, people were creating scales trying to have as many nice ratios as possible. This has problems. I’ll let you think about those yourself.

Then some guy figured out that human ear is not perfect and we can’t really tell whether we hear 2:3 or 2:2.9966. And came up with idea of doing those 12th rootes of 2.

Now, try to do 2^(7/12). Try also 2^(4/12). You see ?

Samuel Hapák Feb 27, 2022, 4:36 PM
4 points
on: Ambiguity causes conflict
It’s more than that, there is no uncertainty about probabilities in the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game) and yet, there can be a conflict.

You might want to fight even if it’s more expensive than compromising, because you are playing a repeated game. You don’t want to send a signal that you are a kind of person who compromises with an aggressor.

Samuel Hapák Jan 21, 2022, 12:51 PM
3 points
in reply to: tslarm’s comment on: Too right to write
Few quick examples:

Why is it “out of curiosity” and not “out of the curiosity”?

Why “see in context” and not “see in the context”? (See the button below this form)

Why “hide previous comment” and not “hide the previous comment”? (See the button above this form)