Eliezer

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by Eliezer 14y ago
Um, no. MWI is simplest in the strict, formal, information-theoretic, Kolmogorov-complexity sense, while fitting the data to equal precision with any competitor. That's kinda the whole point of MWI. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Hi! This is awesome from a technical perspective and was initially fun to play. Being reset when I died was a major problem, especially when joining for the first time in the middle of a round and playing against players who already had l
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Among others, but sure.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Since this uses an explicit model of the world, Rodney-Brooks-style robotics is now officially dead.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I thought it was a pretty cool error. I mean, you've got to not screw up on a lot of boring things before you can screw up this interestingly. Most failures are much more boring.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
In the original historical presentation, perhaps. I've seen this argument on IRC and I assure you it was not taken to be about that.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
We're not even talking about John Baez here, just blogs randomly selected from the set of blogs on the Internet that I actually run across, which is admittedly a biased sample. The thought that any mainstream media could possibly, possibly
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by Eliezer 14y ago
1. Almost never happens 2. Almost never happens 3. The truth is harder to write and the editor wants 700 words in the next hour.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Amateur-run blogs are far more honest than reporting, in my experience. The sympathetic phrasing would be that bloggers haven't had all but the last shreds of their integrity worn away by an editor demanding 6 column inches by deadline, ov
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by Eliezer 14y ago
They outright lie.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Naturally, on any occasion when it is actually possible to check a journalistic report against reality, the journalist will turn out to be lying. This is not absolutely universally true, but it is impossible to appreciate just how often it
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by Eliezer 14y ago
He was right on this occasion. I always wait to criticize other people's methods until an occasion when they're actually wrong.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Are you offering to pay for Java development and maintenance? I mean... someone has to. How is this not a case of demanding things for free? If the petition were asking Oracle to establish a nonprofit that could support Java and offering
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by Eliezer 14y ago
This is the first time I'm hearing anything about TBBT but even watching the show for around 60 seconds (Brian Greene in the coffee shop) made me think that it was terribly, terribly written and terribly, terribly acted. I'm sorry if this
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by Eliezer 14y ago
So half of 279 (=~140) students cheat, and 70 are forced out. Gosh. It makes you wonder what sort of privilege the other 70 cheaters invoked. Who was sacrificed? Who was spared? Selective enforcement of the "law" is no law at all.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
This is why I use Scrivener - it's modular . Scrivener with Track Changes and Etherpad-style collaborative editing would be perfect to the point where nobody would use anything else.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
If they fight on IRC... I can win.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
The ability to collaboratively edit Word documents in realtime a la Etherpad would be huge. Our organization uses Google Docs and Workflowy because they're real-time-collaboratively-editable. Though I use Scrivener for most things these da
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by Eliezer 14y ago
This sounds very important if true. Citation needed? (For fake studies, and for the vast majority of trials not being published.)
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by Eliezer 14y ago
The world doesn't have to be like this. Not anymore. It's too late for my little brother - but Kim Suozzi made it, and it's not too late for you, or any of your loved ones who are still alive. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics
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by Eliezer 14y ago
What? But they only asked for 29 years, not 30!
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AaronSW may have left everything to Givewell, an efficient meta-charity
92 points by Eliezer 14y ago|11 comments
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Aaron Swartz may have left everything to Givewell. This makes it even sadder somehow in ways I can't fully describe. http://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw#c4e7n4h The same page shows that the last Reddit comment he ever made was on /r/HPMOR
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Legitimate banks don't get hacked? Is that true?
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I'm glad I don't live on that planet and that none of my girlfriends' boyfriends have a problem with me. The algorithm here isn't complicated. Ask yourself whether you're someone who can be happily monogamous. If the answer is "no", own u
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Yes, but I'd expect them to at least be able to tell good programmers from bad programmers better than someone who couldn't code.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Once again illustrating that if you practice anything whatsoever for long enough you will acquire eerie-seeming superpowers.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Neither of those are from 2012.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
> How we judge talent is actually one of the biggest problems, and a bias that I've been trying very hard to solve. Is this a major business problem for you? Are you trying to solve it using actual money and process or just winging it
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Simpson's Paradox ftw!

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