Poul-Henning Kamp

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Can you give a hint about the sales-dynamics inside a series of books ? My naïve zero-order model would be that the first volume sells most copies and the rest sells about the same number of copies ? But what...
• Commented on Minor hiccup
  @11: I read that as _some_ universes where P=NP are close enough that you can enlist their help, I didn't read it true for Bobs universe. Ohh dear, I guess I have another excuse to reread TAA now :-)...
• Commented on Minor hiccup
  Have you decided yet if P=NP in Laundryverse ?...
• Commented on The permanent revolution
  It is an incredibly interesting but tricky subject OGH raises, as pretty much all evidence are instances of one known case, which leaves little room for generalization. I do spot one area where we might be able to generalize from...
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  Various random notes: The Teaparty is a "progress-party" in the same shape and mold as we have seen them in Denmark, Norway, NL and other countries: Racist, retronationalist skeptical of anything and everybody that threaten their preconceived notions, and ready...
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  @11: You ask "Well - you're proposing an (interesting!)answer to a slightly different question - what is better than representative democracy." What we have is not "representative democracy", it is "democracy by proxy". Representative democracy would where the elected parliament...
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  @7: Actually, if you look at how Huffington post evolved from a challenger of the traditional media, into a copycat of them, you will see that once your incentive becomes "attracting eyeballs" it all becomes cute kittens, fake outrage and...
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  Simple solution: Pick eligble citizens to parliament using a scientifically backed randomized method. You will get a parliament which truly reflects, in a statistical meaning of the word, the electorate, and you dispense with the "beauty-contest" aspect of modern democracy....
• Commented on The Anthropic Stupidity Hypothesis
  @103: Isn't a major part of the answer that we have used our smarts to lower the darwinian pressure on our own kin ? This is a process which must have started as soon as our language became sufficiently expressive...
• Commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  2013: The year we stop trusting computers with our secrets ? I've spotted a trend amongst really froody dudes: Not trusting your computing devices with secrets any more. People who used to keep everything in their portable computing devices have...