Eliezer

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511.
by Eliezer 15y ago
I got a vasectomy, even though I was sad about that, when my primary was reacting poorly to birth control. I wish that this had existed six years ago or that I had known about it. You have the wrong guy friends.
512.
by Eliezer 15y ago
MBlume is right, of course, but I have to ask - Philh, have you donated to any efficient charities / optimal philanthropies?
513.
by Eliezer 15y ago
But - if you create an infinitely large closet, it will collapse into a black hole of infinite mass and pull the rest of the universe in on itself! Not only that, if you start with a completely full closet with numbered hangers and reach i
514.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Einstein. Newton. Leo Szilard. Good day, sir.
515.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Hah. I came here to post, "This makes far too much sense, are we sure Congress really passed this?"
516.
by Eliezer 15y ago
At $2/sqft, people would be snapping these up by the dozens just for crash space. At $10/sqft it's a ludicrously bad deal. This seems so obviously doomed that I wonder if the article is a misprint.
517.
by Eliezer 15y ago
This article is oddly cheering. I wouldn't have thought it would take that much incompetence, or even close to it, to fail.
518.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Yeah! Feynman should write some new stuff already!
519.
by Eliezer 15y ago
RSI began. I switched to Dvorak. It never came back. (Yes, I've read the critiques of Dvorak's research on alleged speed and accuracy . But your fingers definitely don't travel as far - it could hardly be otherwise - and my fingers we
520.
by Eliezer 15y ago
So now if criminals found only in widely available public sources begin dying of heart disease and cancer at correctly distributed but far-above-average rates, L will know that it's somebody who read this article - possibly Gwern himself!
521.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Are you short these companies, then? Or are you buying puts?
522.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Goal-factoring alert! If videoconferencing technology becomes sufficiently advanced or your parents sign up for cryonics, does that mean you can move to the Bay Area? Have you considered asking your parents if they would rather live in th
523.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Jeepers, that's like the 27th time someone has posted a memory-tampering trick to HN in the last week. You don't remember? You must have used one. Incidentally, some of this research was already written into a forthcoming chapter of Meth
524.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Matches my experience. To have one good idea, you must not have one hundred terrible ideas.
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Burning Man underprices, 1/3 of buyers get tickets, Market Economics Fairy cries(blog.burningman.com)
4 points by Eliezer 15y ago|1 comments
526.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Have you ever hired a contractor? They, um, don't always do what you want.
527.
by Eliezer 15y ago
It seems to me like a gesture that Reddit will probably appreciate (though I don't know whether they'd say so out loud, politeness probably requires them to say something like "Why, PG, good sir, you didn't have to do that!") and so I see n
528.
by Eliezer 15y ago
As soon as your company grows beyond the point where everyone else has the same personality type you do, you'd be amazed at how hard it is to run perfect herd over everyone else's ethics. Anyone who thinks that this sort of thing require
529.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Yep, I confess I take a probability-hit on this one. I'm surprised; it's hard to make out who within Google was benefiting by going rogue. (I maintain that if Larry Page knew about this I'll eat a small edible hat.)
530.
by Eliezer 15y ago
You seem to have good and evil confused. Speaking as someone who's just ordered a number of meds online, helping me find the meds I need is "good". Trying to hinder this activity and censor it for stupid damn reasons is "bad".
531.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Anyone who thinks this is an actual plot by Google, seriously, you need to notice your own confusion. It doesn't fit the modus operandi of any other way they make money.
532.
by Eliezer 15y ago
You've got no idea how surreal it was to click through and start reading that.
533.
by Eliezer 15y ago
As a vigilant atheist, I have now immediately decided that I don't believe in pirates. I mean, have you actually ever seen a pirate?
534.
by Eliezer 15y ago
I'd go with "Apology accepted, Captain Needa." Snark aside, I have to say that was my reaction - it's a more sincere apology than we usually get, and can be accepted as such.
535.
by Eliezer 15y ago
I'm upvoting this, not because I think it's a good idea, but because I want to live in a more surreal world, and having startups audition using rage comics seems like a great leap forward.
536.
by Eliezer 15y ago
This is the same team that announced the discovery of 14 previously unknown days in February, I take it.
537.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Obviously no, essentially by definition.
538.
by Eliezer 15y ago
I didn't actually use that one, because it's fundamentally a threat and the real-life Gatekeeper is not actually in any danger - my mental model of all the Gatekeepers I encountered is that they would go, "Ha, no, I'm never letting you ou
539.
by Eliezer 15y ago
The targets are, indeed, selected, by the criterion "You believe not even a transhuman AI could get you to let it out of the box."
540.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Dragonflight was the first grownup-book I ever read, long long ago.

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