Half right. Reducing ohms does reduce heat, but if you increase volts only on the input the power dissipation goes up by the square of voltage.

When you raise the voltage on both input and output (like high tension power lines) only the difference stays the same. In that case the heat stays the same but the amount of useful power getting through the resistance is higher so the heat is a smaller fraction of the total power getting through.

Maybe my imagination is too limited, but I am not sure whether this cute illustration helps explain any of that. Maybe we should spend less time pushing analogies through tight spots and relax.

There are various ways to assess the value of property, and taxing value can lead to distortions in the societal best outcome.

When I was a kid my parents were involved for awhile with a non-profit organization that had been gifted a property located in the coastal redwood forest in northwest California. the previous owner was a young man with little else than this land and the value of the land was inflated by the trees to the point that he could not pay the taxes on the land. Because he thought the trees were valuable in their existing location he did not want to log the land to pay for the property tax, so he gifted the land to the non-profit thinking that they could claim some loophole and get out of having to log the land, thereby saving the trees.

Unfortunately, they could not avoid the taxes and logging commenced. The loggers proceeded to start clear-cutting as they were used to handling the logging however they liked. But my dad figured out that the nearby river was a salmon spawning watershed and was able to get the Fish and Game officer to come stop the logging temporarily. It turns out that watershed status does not preclude logging, but there were rules about leaving a certain percentage of trees untouched, so the final outcome was a compromise.

There are a lot of situations like this, where enforcing a purely economic argument leads to poor quality outcomes. To be sure, billionaires use property ownership to dodge taxes, but so do a lot of non-billionaires. Covering every square foot of land with "productive" assets is not intrinsically better that leaving it fallow.

For me it is not anthropomorphizing, it is that putting the AI agents into dead ends and setting goals that are unattainable has the effect of leaving undesirable actions as the only option. If you want to create a machine that uses deceipt and unerhical actions as part of its normal set of responses then this would seem to fit the bill.

If this looks like anthropomorphizing to you, study some game theory... cooperation can arise out of very simple constraints on simple mathematical models and which actors an AI algorithm aligns with depends on which ones will exchange information. Sometimes an anthropomorphic word like torture simply summarizes the situation succinctly.

FWIW Frank Herbert described various outcomes of applying environmental constraints on classes of characters in Dune (e.g. Fremen and Sardaukar) and the parallels with real world situations was intentional.

Slackware, around 1996 I think. Linux Router Project for quite awhile. Tried OpenSUSE, didn't click, briefly tried RedHat, same junk, then tried Debian and it felt right. Later, got tired of purity over drivers that worked with the hardware I had and went to Ubuntu. Currently on Mint.

Isn't it kind of the definition of centrism that you are willing to compromise if the other side is willing to?

Not that there are many on the red side willing to be caught compromising...

Color me mystified. Why would you map the verb of an English sentence to anything but a function or method in a computer language expression?

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Neither Forth nor I are actions.

Looks like it. Isn't open source nice?

Well, in the absence of a higher power, such consensus-based practices are just your opinion about how things should be. This mod has been behaving like this for at least a year to my knowledge. I just avoid them.

agree. But mod decides what is appropriate for their group. even if they don't hear any echoes because they are alone.

When politics trumps logic, the executive branch will ignore such obvious connections.

You seem to have missed my take on this as expressed in my second sentence.

You might find another take on this relevant in "Fur and Loafing in Yosemite" where a character named Velma Melmac attempts this approach to forest management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_(comic_strip). Trump has in the last couple of years literally complained that California wasn't managing to clean its forest floor properly in reference to wildfires there, suggesting that he completely missed the point of having the Velma character in that cartoon.

Then again, maybe humor is too alien for you. Lighten up.