Eliezer

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by Eliezer 13y ago
Or the reporter was talking about his previous work, and took the quote completely out of context. Or the reporter was told to deliver the story, and just plain lied. Have you ever dealt with an actual reporter?
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Conventional macroecon says that all effects on aggregate demand are due to sticky wages and prices, which 'stickiness' has also been experimentally verified. That's why the blog of Scott Sumner, from the article, is called
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I'm amazed that anything this obviously correct is entering the Overton Window. Next we'll hear someone advocating land value taxes.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Of course the Fed is a branch of the government, and one of the more powerful ones. Next you'll be telling me that the Supreme Court doesn't legislate civil rights because someone painted a word saying "judiciary" above
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Three cheers for not overreaching one's mandate. I know we rag a lot on Federal Reserve chairpeople for not doing NGDP level targeting, but in a lot of ways it's one of the most sensible branches of government.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Whaaa? Deposits over $100K (now $250K) were uninsured.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
> ... if you have the capital and do the paperwork and follow the regs, you can start a bank and get access to the discount window. Not true. There's this little extra step where first the regulatory authority gets to decide whethe
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Yes, I came here looking for that. The lack of any specifics about the kernel issue at hand and the general attempt to project Age and Wisdom made me immediately suspicious.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Speaking as a relatively qualified epistemologist, I nod.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
The really amusing part is that their trolling represents better economic policy than Bitcoin.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
And do they pay themselves more equity, or are they just being screwed by social expectations?
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I do not 100% trust local police departments to decide whether or not they killed someone.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Only 8?! With so many police officers? That's an amazing performance if true. But I suspect that police-caused fatalities are just being underreported here.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
The true case against the standard deviation is more or less impossible to make without going into the math. For a mathematically advanced Bayesian, the idea is straightforward if you've already been through the lawful derivation of G
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I don't think much of Bitcoin but even I tend to read this and think, "Well, screw the banks, we have Bitcoin."
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I can't see any pixels on the 1080p Nexus 7 screen, even holding it up close to my face and staring, but that's higher DPI than Retina.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
All the voices in people's heads agree: Gwern is Satoshi.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I would recommend against having dealings with the obviously mentally ill. I'm not sure in what sense you might be legally liable (for a civil suit) if they happened to commit suicide a week later and mentioned you in the note. Also,
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Is there anywhere on the planet with a functioning criminal justice system? Where should I live if I don't want to live in fear?
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by Eliezer 13y ago
$.50 at Grocery Outlet in El Cerrito.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
No he couldn't. Microsoft shares have intrinsic earnings, and while the stock price might go down, I wouldn't expect them to go down far enough to generate predictable excess returns. Lots of people want predictable excess retur
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I fiercely applaud Thrun's update on the uncomfortable evidence he gathered, and wish him the best in his pivot. (It still seems to me that MOOC's might be done right with enough effort, like spending $100K per hour of nationwide-
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by Eliezer 13y ago
> This is the only time in my entire programming life that I've debugged a problem caused by quantum mechanics. Technically, all bugs are caused by quantum mechanics.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
The obvious solution would be if we could get Soylent Powder or Soylent Base containing all the nitty-gritty little vitamins and minerals and choline and whatever, and then add whatever fats, carbs, and protein we wanted. I wrote them abou
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by Eliezer 13y ago
> I think that in general you're right Oh, dear. This is very much not a good sign, since answer to grandparent's question is "no" as pointed out above and anyone who knows statistics should see that immediately. (C
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by Eliezer 13y ago
What is non-well-founded paranoia? Is it when you think there's a conspiracy behind the conspiracy behind the conspiracy... and so on indefinitely?
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by Eliezer 13y ago
The question which occurs to me is who took the other side of this trade. You would think market actors would know enough to say, "If somebody suddenly wants to buy my stock right around 2pm and I haven't yet integrated the Fed i
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by Eliezer 13y ago
In the depths of the Great Stagnation, all significant technological progress occurs due to ascended post-exit Silicon Valley moguls personally funding it (with money they own or fully control) out of the goodness of their own hearts. Vent
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I recommend not taking an English lit class, and instead going to your local library and borrowing some well-worn books on how to write by actual authors. And not literary authors either.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I remember the Dean Drive. Does anyone else remember the Dean Drive?

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