Eliezer

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   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Of course it's art inside, it's just that people don't buy it for the elegance.
2. 542.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   I wanted to scream out loud while reading this. This. This is why we can't have nice things. BECAUSE NOBODY CAN TOLERATE RISK ANYMORE. YES, if you make investing possible, some investors may get exposed to swindles! Deal with it! It's
3. 543.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! I help supply and demand equilibrate everywhere! If nobody can find good programmers to hire, it means that programmer salaries are too low! Raise programmer salaries until... ...erm, actually, st
4. 544.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Ced, the part about the significance calculation is a problem with the A/B test, not a problem with the Bayesian bandit version. The post you're looking for is http://lesswrong.com/lw/1gc/frequentist_statistics_are_frequ...
5. 545.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Good stuff, but the thought occurs to me that what you really want to know is when the user has stopped learning - i.e., when proficiency stops increasing as a result of doing more problems - and how much each individual problem increases
6. 546.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   (Reads links.) I've been going around telling people for a while that A/B testing is non-Bayesian but I didn't realize there was an off-the-shelf solution! You need to pimp your wares more often.
7. 547.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! I help supply and demand equilibrate everywhere! If you're turning away customers it means you've set your prices too low! Raise your prices until you have exactly as many customers as you can han
8. 548.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   Erm, I could be wrong but wouldn't the icosahedron be the maximum "evenly spaced" set of people on the surface of a sphere (that weren't all confined to a great circle)? Lots of regular polygons, rather fewer regular polyhedra. (Of course
9. 549.▲
   by Eliezer 15y ago

   As an autodidact (I never dropped out of anything, I just didn't go to high school after 8th grade) allow me to say that I have never, ever wondered how successful I could've been if I'd gone to college, nor yet suffered from impostor syndr
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    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Dropout? I beg your pardon. I completed 8th grade and then didn't go on to high school; I never "dropped out" of anything. The term you're looking for is "autodidact".
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    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Increases in the money supply don't reach everywhere at once; inflation is not evenly distributed. It's distributed, often, through hedge funds that can borrow large amounts of money from banks. You're looking at the effect and the mechan
12. 552.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    But then they found the error afterward. These physicists were looking for an error, hard.
13. 553.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Yeah, the horror of war without lost life is something I think the survivors of, oh, say, the Hundred Years War, would call (in the modern parlance) a First World Problem.
14. 554.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    It's sad, because I remember when the name meant something else, but... I just wouldn't trust Google with my files. By which I mean, I wouldn't trust that I wouldn't wake up one day and find myself locked out of Google Drive with no way ba
15. 555.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Yes. That is the primary reason why I would pick Dropbox over Google.
16. 556.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    This strikes me as written by someone who knows a lot more about programming than about writing. The title would be a lot less objectionable, by the way, if it said, "What programming has in common with writing." They're really not much al
17. 557.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    sleepinagiantrowofhibernationcapsules.com
18. 558.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Voldemort vs. the Foundation? Don't go giving me ideas.
19. 559.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    > Either consumption is encouraged via inflation or investment is encouraged That's not true except in an economy already operating at maximum capacity. The argument for a depreciating currency is that it encourages people to spend or
20. 560.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    You ever actually been reported on by a "capital J journalist"? Their quality standards look a whole lot different when you're the one being reported on.
21. 561.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    I'd guess Doomsday Argument (sigh).
22. 562.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    At this point I'd probably bet 10:1 against the Higgs, even taking into account risk aversion.
23. 563.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    It's too early to call this one for sure, but still, I'm proudly on the record as betting against the Higgs. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Bets_registry
24. 564.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Have an interesting startup, one that's doing something that will make a large difference to a large number of people and doesn't look just like every other startup begging for coverage.
25. 565.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    My reaction is "RUN!". If you aren't an experienced writer, you haven't co-written before, your potential co-author is a possible idiot, and you already have two jobs, then NO. Dear heaven, NO.
26. 566.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Here at the Singularity Institute, our motto is "Be less evil than Google."
27. 567.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she'll die...
28. 568.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    Congratulations, you just wrote "Terminator 2 and the Methods of Rationality".
29. 569.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    I have abandoned my path. I have forsaken my role. I have forgotten my name. I have lost my soul. -- unpublished fiction
30. 570.▲
    by Eliezer 15y ago

    And here I was expecting the surprise moral to be, "Functional code looks better than average, just because only smarter-than-average programmers can manage to work in FP languages."