Eliezer

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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   > However, it is nonsensical for a non-profit startup founder to accept close-to-zero salary. And yet we do, often for years at a stretch.
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   I would suggest that this would be an excellent time for Y Combinator to consult with Holden Karnofsky of Givewell, which has done a large amount of smart investigation into nonprofits. Karnofsky is local to the Bay Area. Caveat: Givewell
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   I second this question. There are good nonprofits which will find it difficult to answer precisely , e.g. one which focuses on basic science research (which has, over the course of human history, contributed rather a lot to human welfare)
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   You have no patience. Plus you could just sign up for cryonics.
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   Why is it so hugely expensive to dig holes? You would think this'd be the kind of work that would be easy to automate.
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   Yeah, "throw a Bayes net at it" doesn't make much sense given the current state of machine learning tech AFAIK. Throw a linear regression or a regularized linear regression, sure. Throw k-nearest-neighbors or naive Bayes EM
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   Dear telecoms: Please give me a credit-card-sized e-ink-based phone which does nothing but send and receive texts and has a standby battery life of a week. Thank you.
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   That's what I came to the comments section to check out - it seemed like a diamonds to doughnuts bet that unless the insurance provider has an exceedingly good reputation, one should assume that the secret to their policy is that they
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   by Eliezer 13y ago

   Did the size of the market more than double over the same time period, for reasons not caused by Microsoft? If so, it is not quite so praiseworthy to have doubled revenue. GP: Talking about MSFT share prices instead of MSFT market cap mak
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Reference to: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain-...
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Are they competent? For that price I'll take 4.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Well those numbers sound wildly low.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Rarely have I wished so much for a downvote button on top-level posts.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Yeah, I hate to be a Luddite but... this is just wrong, wrong, wrong. And I speak as someone who looks forward to Soylent.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    For heaven's sake, if Guantanamo isn't a clear indicator to you, I doubt that secret imprisonment, when it comes or when it's proved to you, will be taken as a clear indicator either.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Let's all hope that this day we have witnessed the birth of the anti-Murdoch.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    How do you know that Paul Graham isn't using slave programmers in his basement to run Hacker News?
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Whenever I see a page selling anything and it won't tell me the price and I can't find it in a click, I move on. My time is valuable, and someone who plays games to waste it is not someone from whom I want to buy anything.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    I've been impressed by the reasoning behind market monetarism (mainstream credibility: good and rising). They also seem to have a pretty good ante facto grasp on events, in the sense that when e.g. Japan commits to a less tight moneta
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    I think the phrase you're looking for is "Historical literacy informs Germans' view of U.S. surveillance programs".
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Black navbar time, yeah. This is a sad day.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    My God, the public understanding of cryptography. Bruce Schneier is spinning in his grave and he's not even dead.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    "Automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination. If the subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and investigation is likely to be thorough. If the subject's car is tampered with, relia
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Thanks! (Reads.) Now that is the spirit.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Slashdotted for me, anyone got a backup link?
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    ...so now we literally have machine algorithms advocating rape without human intervention. I'm glad there wasn't a complex AI algorithm behind this or oh, the backlash.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    I still remember the shock of first encountering someone who was not naturally good at math. If I had one piece of advice to give, it would be, "Only ever try to teach one cognitive motion at a time." Divide the circumference by
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    Is this because assisted living centers have more regulatory barriers or burdens than cruise ships? Intuitively it does not seem like the costs should be the same.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    I was summarizing MIRI's reasoning about how to ethically build Friendly AI as "Don't be a jerk" before I even heard what Google's motto was. I think it's a perfectly good motto and an inspiring one.
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    by Eliezer 13y ago

    "People are stupid. Bureaucrats are stupid with bad incentives." -- Robin Hanson (from memory)