Eliezer

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by Eliezer 14y ago
Foundations can get tax-deductible gifts, they just have slightly different other rules.
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The Biodeterminist's Guide to Parenting(squid314.livejournal.com)
4 points by Eliezer 14y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 14y ago
So is your new-found family named Sahashi? </reference so incredibly obscure that I'll be impressed if anyone gets it even on HN>
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by Eliezer 14y ago
T-shirt: http://thenerdiestshirts.com/site/math-t-shirts-banach-tarsk... I suggest buying two and wearing them both. When somebody laughs at the T-Shirt, well, you do the math.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
What do you mean? It worked perfectly well for Best Buy; they paid out far less in the judgment than they stole in revenue.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
A brief bullet-point list of the ones you can talk about (both those you have and haven't written up already) which have been statistically validated at YC sounds overwhelmingly valuable. Including the Ns would be even more overwhelmingly v
427.
by Eliezer 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/1138/ - the per-capita data is useful, but the overall map is a classic population heatmap.
428.
by Eliezer 14y ago
Oh God I know the answers to all those interview questions and I remember using all those features and it seems like an unimaginable Cthulhoid horror now.
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It's suspicious that our universe doesn't allow time travel(lesswrong.com)
2 points by Eliezer 14y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 14y ago
What string could possibly be more random than the one which says "RANDOM_STRING"?
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Maybe there's a scheme here to prevent good DRM by flooding the market with highly inflated impressive-sounding claims attached to laughable security. The Old Media crowd won't be able to solve the Design Paradox ( http://www.paulgraham.co
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Forgive me, but if some other VC had said this, I would have thought, "The blowing-up startups aren't the primary revenue stream - this VC is solving the wrong problem, i.e., optimizing the hedonic profile of failing startups instead of opt
433.
by Eliezer 14y ago
What we need is a Kickstarter for this stuff, or some sort of prize or bounty system. I don't even know how long I've been reading about individuals online trying to design Random Vibrators (changing speeds in an un-learnable pattern to pr
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I don't think this guy understands the debate. A quick summary: If you think statistics is a big toolbox, some of the tools give different answers that are better or worse in various ways, and you can just take out whatever tool you like,
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by Eliezer 14y ago
It might be that my standards are too high - I'm accustomed to reading how-to-write books written by the likes of Orson Scott Card - but I'm a bit worried that the article itself isn't as well-written as it should be. Maybe you need unnece
436.
by Eliezer 14y ago
I wonder if this is due to graduating people who can't code Fizzbuzz.
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Logical Pinpointing: Making numbers meaningful(lesswrong.com)
2 points by Eliezer 14y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Doesn't run on Intel HD 3000 graphics, apparently. Alas.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
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by Eliezer 14y ago
If you know the word "utility", the people who actually seriously try to figure out the answer to that question live at: * http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ * http://www.givewell.org/ * http://80000hours.org/ None of these groups recomm
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by Eliezer 14y ago
It can be local in many-worlds. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/q2/spooky_action_at_a_distance_the_n...
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by Eliezer 14y ago
All numbers are equal to six, but not all sixes are equal to each other.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
The Center for Applied Rationality's in-practice corporate culture, by virtue of literally every person in the building being an explicit rationalist, has an even more powerful and valuable property - people know they won't be punished for
444.
by Eliezer 14y ago
I've considered selling T-Shirts. How much time do they take to create? How much income do you make, for how much effort?
445.
by Eliezer 14y ago
A common misconception. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/
446.
by Eliezer 14y ago
My top three: 1) Give me back my physical pageturn buttons that I can tap without moving my fingers! Why, Amazon, why? 2) Make the LED whiter, maybe even yellower, instead of bluish. I'm not a color expert, I just know that this color l
447.
by Eliezer 14y ago
Everyone knows how software works. You have a program, and you give it to a computer, and the computer conforms itself to the program and instantiates all the rules and carries out the program's instructions. The universe works just the s
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Title is incorrect. There is no evidence presented anywhere that any of the drugs were "bad". According to the article, the FDA has claimed that they were "potentially" fake, meaning that they didn't even try to verify that anything was a
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Surely I'm not the only one thinking "Shadow ships! Aiiieee!"
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by Eliezer 14y ago
My hope is that if the spun-off Center for Applied Rationality takes off, we can all get out of the business of "Trying to explain to people why this an urgent problem that needs funding" and get back to "Actually researching the problem."

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