they don't incentivize winning

No, I think it's dumb. Just use a fully randomized lottery.

You'll still get contenders trading picks for key pieces, which allows bad teams to draft more and rebuild.

one of the major promises of AI is that it enables much more of this behavior - bespoke solutions to bespoke problems

To go along with your collection of $TRUMPCOIN and MAGA hats m i rite?

He's like a college kid crying back to mommy and daddy after realizing his bank account is running out

People get stuck in their narratives very easily

It does seem like there's a disturbingly large fraction of the population who now simply take as given that capitalism is responsible for society's current failures. I hear the term "late stage capitalism" bandied about a lot.

I saw the exchange. Quite embarrassing.

There are other people on this forum who are critical of Israel and don't get downzapped. So maybe consider why.

All I see are illithids

Yes, this is correct! Congrats

The challenge going forward will be characterizing the function you introduced, $D(a,b)$.

Just as a quick note, I would have written it like this, but your introduction of D(a,b) is also correct.

To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena.

This is an interesting take because some theist philosophers point to mathematical truths about infinity as evidence of the metaphysical. I think the argument goes something like: "Mathematical facts exists independent of any physical reality, which implies the existence of an immaterial mind." I'm not sure how persuasive I find those arguments, but it's an interesting approach.

The clock story is fascinating. I wonder if it's coz they don't have anyone on staff who actually knows how to operate the clock. Maybe there's only like a handful of old timers in the whole agency who know how to do that anymore

Does your business create value or does it just move it around?

You are quite close.

• The flow cost should be $h_{A}c$ rather than $xdc$, since I'm no longer constraining $h_A+h_B=d$ as I was previously.
• You are correct that $V(0,1)=V(0,0)$ because there's no point of Alice mining secretly on C while Bob mines on C-B.
• Where you are incorrect: We cannot say that $V(1,0)-V(0,0)=R$. That's because $V(1,0)$ is the value function of privately mining on C-A while Bob mines on C.
  • Note: We can say that $P(1,0)-V(0,0)=R$. $P(1,0)$ is the value function of publishing C-A when Alice gets ahead. But $V(1,0)\ne P(1,0)$ necessarily.

I’m also not sure why the inline math is not rendering as expected

Inline math needs double dollar signs: $$ y = f(x) $$

Congrats!

I am shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Haha I can't believe you said that because so many people in the comments were saying this proves the magnets conspiracy theory.

To be a bitcoiner, one must be willing to question the official narratives

Magnets

It's a bit advanced in terms of notation. But the answer doesn't require any tricky computation. Once a person understands how to write a Bellman equation, the answer becomes fairly straightforward.