Comment by Roman Malov on [Aspiration-based designs] Outlook: dealing with complexity · 2024-05-02T20:37:34.741Z · LW · GW

maybe you meant pairwise linearly independent (by looking at the graph)

Comment by Roman Malov on [Aspiration-based designs] Outlook: dealing with complexity · 2024-05-02T20:33:22.700Z · LW · GW

Pick $d+1$ many linearly independent linear combinations $f_j$ 
isn't there at most $d$ linearly independent linear combinations of $u_i$?

Comment by Roman Malov on My thoughts on the Beff Jezos - Connor Leahy debate · 2024-02-03T21:19:04.986Z · LW · GW

The current population size that Mars can support is 0, so even 1 person would be overpopulation. To complete the analogy, we are currently sending the entire population to Mars, and someone says: "But what about oxygen? We don't know if it's on Mars, maybe we should work on spacesuits?" and another says, "Nah, we'll figure it out when we get there."