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of Bad Ideas in College Decisionmaking
"... Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic have examined a series of legal decisions they consider to be "serious moral errors, " "embarrassingly inhumane decisions, " and "moral abominations. " Departing from their exploration of bad judicial decision making, this paper points ..."
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Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic have examined a series of legal decisions they consider to be "serious moral errors, " "embarrassingly inhumane decisions, " and "moral abominations. " Departing from their exploration of bad judicial decision making, this paper points
Why bad ideas are a good idea
"... What would happen if we wrote an Abstract that was the exact opposite of what the paper described? This is a bad idea, but it makes us think more carefully than usual about properties of Abstracts. This paper describes BadIdeas, a collection of techniques that uses ‘bad ’ or ‘silly ’ ideas to inspir ..."
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What would happen if we wrote an Abstract that was the exact opposite of what the paper described? This is a bad idea, but it makes us think more carefully than usual about properties of Abstracts. This paper describes BadIdeas, a collection of techniques that uses ‘bad ’ or ‘silly ’ ideas
pro-‐ana might be a bad idea
, 2013
"... websites: why censoring pro-‐ana might be a bad idea", Perspectives in Public ..."
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websites: why censoring pro-‐ana might be a bad idea", Perspectives in Public
NICE: mostly a bad idea
"... ‘‘Suspect all those who claim that they are authorised to teach the truth’’ ..."
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‘‘Suspect all those who claim that they are authorised to teach the truth’’
Universally Bad Idea, ” analyzes one such
"... Until quite recently, it was taken for granted in AI-and cognitive science more broadly-that activity resulted from the creation and execution of plans. In 1985, several researchers, including myself, independently realized that plans and planning are not necessary-or necessarily useful-in activity. ..."
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Until quite recently, it was taken for granted in AI-and cognitive science more broadly-that activity resulted from the creation and execution of plans. In 1985, several researchers, including myself, independently realized that plans and planning are not necessary-or necessarily useful-in activity. Since this time, a number of alternatives have been pro-
Universal Planning: An (Almost) Universally Bad Idea
, 1989
"... Several authors have recently suggested that a possible approach to planning in uncertain domains is to analyze all possible situations beforehand, and to then store information about what to do in each. The result of this is that a system can simply use its sensors to examine its domain, and then d ..."
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Several authors have recently suggested that a possible approach to planning in uncertain domains is to analyze all possible situations beforehand, and to then store information about what to do in each. The result of this is that a system can simply use its sensors to examine its domain, and then decide what to do by finding its current situation in some sort of a table. The purpose of this note is to argue that even if the compile-time costs of the analysis are ignored, the size of the table must in general grow exponentially with the complexity of the domain. This makes it unlikely that this approach will be able to deal with problems of an interesting size; one really needs the ability to do some amount of inference at run-time. Alternatively put, an effective approach to acting in uncertain domains cannot be to look and then leap, but must always be to look, to think, and only then to leap. 1 There are too many universal plans In order for us to present a sharp criticism of the a...
Why Programmer-specified Aliasing is a Bad Idea
"... The ISO C standard C99 has added a special keyword, named restrict to allow the programmer to specify non-aliasing as an aid to the compiler’s optimizer and to thereby possibly improve performance. However, it is the programmer’s responsibility to ensure that the annotations are correct. Therefore, ..."
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and potential errors, we conclude that having the programmer specify non-aliasing is a bad idea.
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All
- American Economic Review
"... We quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic, uninsurable income shocks and permanent productivity differences of households. The optimal capital income tax rate is significantly positive at 36 percent. The optimal pro ..."
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We quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic, uninsurable income shocks and permanent productivity differences of households. The optimal capital income tax rate is significantly positive at 36 percent. The optimal progressive labor income tax is, roughly, a flat tax of 23 percent with a deduction of $7,200 (relative to average household income of $42,000). The high optimal capital income tax is mainly driven by the life cycle structure of the model whereas the optimal progressivity of the labor income tax is attributable to the insurance and redistribution role of the tax system.
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