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I think it's pretty good to keep it in mind that heliocentrism is literally speaking just a change in what coordinate system you use, but it is legitimately a much more convenient coordinate system.

Mmm, that does seem reasonable.

To be clear, I don't really think of myself as libertarian these days, though I guess it'd probably look that way if you just gave me a political alignment quiz.

To answer your question: I'm two years older than my brother, who is two years older than my sister.

I think that is probably not a good reason to be libertarian in my opinion? Could you also share maybe how much older were your than you siblings? If you are not that far apart, you and your siblings came from the same starting line, distributing is not going to happen in real life economically nor socially even if not libertarian (in real life, where we need equity is when the starting line is not the same and is not able to be changed by choice. A more similar analogy might be some kids are born with large ears, and large ears are favored by the society, and the large eared kids always get more candy). If you are ages apart with you being a lot older, it may make some limited sense to for your parents to re-distribute.

Let us know what you think!

the grey text feels disruptive to normal reading flow but idk why green link text wouldn't also be, maybe i'm just not used to it. e.g., in this post's "Curating technical posts" where 'Curating' is grey, my mind sees "<Curating | distinct term> technical posts" instead of [normal meaning inference not overfocused on individual words]

Is this useful, as a reader?

if the authors make sure they agree with all the definitions they allow into the glossary, yes. author-written definitions would be even more useful because how things are worded can implicitly convey things like, the underlying intuition, ontology, or related views they may be using wording to rule in or out.

Whenever an author with 100+ karma saves a draft of a post, our database queries a language model to:

i would prefer this be optional too, for drafts which are meant to be private (e.g. shared with a few other users, e.g. may contain possible capability-infohazards), where the author doesn't trust LM companies

Y'know @Ryan [LW · GW], MATS should try to hire the PIBBSS folks to help with recruiting. IMO they tend to have the strongest participants of the programs on this chart which I'm familiar with (though high variance).

... WOW that is not an efficient market. 

My two siblings and I always used to trade candy after Halloween and Easter. We'd each lay out our candy on table, like a little booth, and then haggle a lot.

My memories are fuzzy, but apparently the way this most often went was that I tended to prioritize quantity moreso than my siblings, wanting to make sure that I had a stock of good candy which would last a while. So naturally, a few days later, my siblings had consumed their tastiest treats and complained that I had all the best candy. My mother then stepped in and redistributed the candy.

And that was how I became a libertarian at a very young age.

Only years later did we find out that my mother would also steal the best-looking candies after we went to bed and try to get us to blame each other, which... is altogether too on-the-nose for this particular analogy.

Yes, it definitely does depend upon local conditions. For example if your grid operator uses net metering (and is reliable) then it is not worthwhile at any positive price. This statement was in regard to my disputed upstream comment "Even now at $1000/kW-hr retail it's almost cost-effective here [...]".

Daniel Schmachtenberger has lots of great stuff.  Two pieces I recommend:

1. this article Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality, which is about how just because two people disagree doesn't mean either is wrong
2. this Stoa video Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger, which is about races-to-the-bottom eating themselves

Also hi, welcome Sage!  I dig the energy you're coming from here.