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TauZero, to memes in Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of.

The credit companies do not insure against fraud, they simply take the money out of the merchant account and put it back into yours. Now it’s the merchant who has no recourse, if they have already shipped the product. So the only difference between CC and crypto is who is typically left holding an empty bag in case of theft - the payer or the payee. Certainly not the banks!

I’d argue in terms of assigning responsibility, it seems more fair to expect you the customer to keep your digital wallet secure from thieves, than to expect the merchant to try guess every time whether the visitor to their online store happens to be using a stolen credit card.

TauZero, to memes in Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of.

Question: do the Japanese actually care about privacy? I know I do, but if you were to ask a Japanese person why does their country use cash, would they say “We have considered a system of payment cards and decided against it for privacy reasons” or would they just shrug and say “I dunno, I’m not in charge of payment systems, I use what I have”?

TauZero, to memes in Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of.

Yeah, for getting kidnapped 🤣

TauZero, to privacy in Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification

I want people to be able to report bugs without any trouble.

Thank you for being aware! I’ve experienced this on github.com. I’ve tried to submit issues several times to open source projects, complete with proposed code to solve a bug, but github shadowbans my account 6 hours after creating it (because I use a VPN? a third-party email provider? do not provide a phone number? who knows). I can see the issue and pull request when logged in, but they only see a 404 on their project page even if I give them a direct link. I ended up sending them a screenshot of the issue page just to convince them this was even possible. Sad to hear gitlab does it even worse now by making phone mandatory.

TauZero, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

Am I the only one for whom "open"subtitles.org hasn’t worked in years? I literally cannot find the download button, like in those okboomer memes. Never used the API. Switched to subscene.com and haven’t had problems since.

TauZero, (edited ) to memes in NWBTCW

German is perfect. Everyone will agree how to spell Schifffahrkarte the moment they hear it.

TauZero, to privacy in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?

far more maddeningly, some sites tell me that my username and password combo are incorrect when I’m using a VPN

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TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

Exactly! Trying to think outside the box in a trolley problem is like wishing you could wish for more wishes in a genie problem.

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

Excellent excellent!

If 6 is rolled, then P(X|R=6) = (N-1 choose 9)/(N choose 10)

Might as well reduce that to 10/N to make the rest of the lines easier to read.

If you don’t flip it, you have a 2/3 chance of dying.

There is also a chance that your switch is not connected and someone else has control of the real one. So there is an implicit assumption that everyone else is equally logical as you and equally selfish/altruistic as you, such that whatever logic you use to arrive at a decision, they must have arrived at the same decision.

No matter what your goal is, given the information you have, flipping the switch is always the better choice.

That is my conclusion too! I was surprised to learn though in the comment thread with @pancake that the decision may be different depending on the percentage of altruism in the population. E.g. if you are the only selfish one in an altruistic society, you’d benefit from deliberately not flipping the switch. Being a selfish one in a selfish society reduces to the prisoner’s dilemma.

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

there’s no way to know which track the trolley is on

It’s a standard trolley meme problem, the trolley will keep going on the main track unless the lever is switched 😁. I thought !science_memes would be familiar with trolley problems, but I guess I get to introduce some of you! You might want to start off on some easier trolley memes first, this is advanced level stuff.

where the real lever sends it

There is not usually ambiguity with the lever. If you wish, you can have an announcement in the headphones “main trackside track…” every time you flip the lever. Your only uncertainty is which track you yourself are bound to, given how you’re blindfolded.

there’s a 0.017% chance

1/6 * 10% = 1/60 = 0.01666… = 1.666…% ~= 1.7%! Careful there!

It’s not really a trolley problem, because in both scenarios a track is empty,

Everything is a trolley problem.

TauZero, (edited ) to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

My guess is that no to the first, since I have a 1/3 chance of being in the forked path, vs 1/15 of being in the straight path and my lever being connected.

Suppose you live in a kingdom where everyone is as selfish as you, and you’ve seen on TV many situations exactly like this one where people were tied to the tracks - usually one at a time and occasionally 10 at a time. (The villain has been prolific.) You’ve seen them all follow this logic and choose not to flip their switch, yet out of ~1500 people you have seen in peril this way, ~1000 of them have died. If only their logic had convinced them (and you) otherwise, 1000 of them could have selfishly survived! Doesn’t seem very logical to follow a course of action that kills you more often than its opposite.

(If you don’t want to imagine a kingdom where everyone is selfish, you can imagine one where x% are selfish and (100-x)% are altruistic, or some other mixture maybe with y% of people who flip the lever randomly back and forth and z% who cannot even understand the question. The point is that the paradox still exists.)

Edit: I can see now how in a 100% altruistic kingdom, where you are the only selfish one and you know for sure that everyone else will logically altruistically pull the lever, it makes sense for you to not pull the lever. Presumably there is some population x% split (44% selfish/56% altruistic?) where your selfish decision will have to reverse. Weird to think that your estimate of the selfishness of the rest of the population has a relevance on your decision!

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

The trolley is like really slow.

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

You are on the side track in scenario A. You die if you pull. Ironically, you’d be killing yourself. The dice are to make the two scenarios not equally likely.

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

Half the fun of trolley problems is adapting them to puzzles for which they are utterly unsuitable:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/ceb35284-fd49-44df-9c0b-723baff1530c.jpeg

TauZero, to science_memes in Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

It’s a standard runaway trolley problem. The trolley is traveling down the main track unless the switch is flipped to send it down the side track. The lever is labeled such that there is no ambiguity which way it is set, the blindfolds notwithstanding. The villain is pernicious and will be equally (though not exceedingly so) delighted to see you die by your own action where inaction would have had saved you. You can somehow trust that the announcement in the headphones is true and not a lie. Such as, for example, you have seen this exact situation happen many times before on TV and survivors/witnesses have described the villain to be truthful every time.

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