I don' understand this line. In a classic RNN hidden state is bounded dimension. In fact it's transformers that technically have unbounded hidden state.

You can't parallelize classic nonlinear RNNs for various reasons but in training both RNN and Transformer depend on the entire sequence history in a way that is unbounded. Of course in practice you just train on a max sequence length.

RNN xhat[t+1]=f(x[t],h[t])

Transformer/self-attention xhat[t+1]=f(x[t],h[t],h[t-1],...,h[1])

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Anyway, I think blaming the 0.01% for how 50%+1 vote is too easy.

Take electoral reform. Is that the 0.01%, or is the case that it's just the only one that could improve elections with electoral reform never has any incentive? Still, if voters really made it their priority and punished parties that run on it and ignore it once they win, it would be more likely to happen.

No doubt there is problems of reproduction of class, and conservatism to preserve existing hierarchies as they are. But is it the 0.01%? Or is it actually a much larger fraction? Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny even if it's 51% lording it over the 49% instead of 0.01% lording it over the 99.99%.

History shows people have a desire for minority scapegoats. We should know that is wrong.

Take housing. Is unaffordability to blame on the 5% of the population that are landlords? The 1% involved in housing development? Or is it maybe the 60%+ households that live in detached homes being insulated from the problem and being NIMBYs in local elections?

For the producer, it's free infrastructure but it's also advertising. Having a large subreddit means your game getting recommended to others and potentially being seen being introduced to more people.

For the consumer, these social media sites do usually do provide a better experience in showing people what they want to see and keeping away stuff they don't.

I'm sympathetic to forums just because I think if someone likes something they shouldn't need to join a potentially social media site with potentially toxic designs and sub-communities. But these are negative internalities that people mostly ignore.

I wonder if victims of religious persecution agree...

Facts do not always win. The evolutionary fitness of an idea is (sadly) not entirely dictated by its truthfulness.

Mandating age verification and the inevitable implementation requirements are bad for freedom.

Behaviour changes and innovations will mitigate some of the negatives, but bad things are bad.

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These drugs seem to change something fundamental that reduces problematic behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect?w...

>Thus no matter what your productive output is per hour of labour, you will always work as much as you can, because you are - presumably - insatiably driven to always consume ever more with no end to it.

No, that's not how marginalism works. There's both diminishing marginal utility from consumption, and leisure.

No doubt there's problematic regulations like exclusionary zoning laws. But you can't say that these regulations are so binding that there is no choice and no expression of preferences as opposed to needs in their choices. Lots of homes still have unmandated second floors, basements, bathrooms, and square footage.

The human brain is great at (ir)rationalizing wants as needs. If you want to live in a nice place in a high-cost of living city, that's a want, not a need.

When a new gaming console comes out and someone works extra shifts to afford it sooner, that's not a distortion.

I think your mistake, based on how you're talking about the "real value of leisure" is thinking there is a single value of x. That's labor theory of value era thinking. There is only marginal utility and marginal rates of substitution.

Trading leisure for consumption via labor is the choice, not a distortion.