Eliezer

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by Eliezer 15y ago
See my reply to PG saying the same thing at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2851797
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by Eliezer 15y ago
These price targets are ridiculous. If S&P actually knows where prices are going, why aren't they running the world's largest hedge fund?
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I seriously wonder what would happen if we ran a similar test on women who'd read lots of Hermione Granger-centric shipping fics in which the male romantic interest is attracted to her because of her intelligence. Of course this wouldn't d
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by Eliezer 15y ago
To beat Etherpad and Google Docs: Let me hit ctrl-I while typing, type something and have it appear in italics, and then hit ctrl-I again to turn off italics. Likewise for bolding, though I use less of that. Let me apply URLs. Do this (whi
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Baseballs are up 2500%. I am not sure these stats mean quite what you think they do.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/871/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa... This is an efficient way of buying fuzzies, for a really cheap price, and it's important to buy fuzzies or you start to fade. If you want to buy u
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by Eliezer 15y ago
When I get small amounts of change, like a nickel, I often leave them on nearby ledges or fences or mailboxes or any object I can find. It's not so much altruism, as making life more like a video game where you can find small amounts of mo
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by Eliezer 15y ago
By this logic, companies should never interview in person.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Another potentially good idea trying to solve an open problem with lots of room for improvement... ...ruined by the ever-spreading concept that everything should be solved using web apps. I mean, heaven forbid that they actually have a phy
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by Eliezer 15y ago
PG, what probability would you assign to the propositions "This time things are different" (empirically: the jobs won't come back 5 years from now) vs. "This time things are not different" (empirically: the jobs will come back 5 years from
581.
by Eliezer 15y ago
That really surprised me until I looked it up, and read in Wikipedia that "At the center of the Sun, theoretical models estimate it to be approximately 276.5 watts/m3, a power production density that more nearly approximates reptile metabol
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Pretty sure the Economist has already run something along the lines of "For %%%%'s sake, let's decriminalize marijuana already." Don't count on government doing the sensible thing after the Economist runs an article on it.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Get one of those patents, start suing politicians. Refuse to license the technology, insist that the website be taken down.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I'd believe this if Patri Friedman were running it, but not otherwise.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
If your employer receives revenue in US dollars, and you pay your expenses in US dollars, committing to pay in Swiss francs adds volatility from both their perspective and yours. This is the essential bar to adoption of any new currency.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
A leftover from the era when searching was about "Do you have the page in your index? Can you find it at all?" and not "Which of these 10,000 results should I return first?"
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I can't believe it, I type "Idempotence" in and hit Lucky and it just takes me to the Wikipedia entry on Idempotence! Even worse, "idempotence idempotence idempotence" doesn't produce exactly the same result in Google as "idempotence".
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by Eliezer 15y ago
"How to define personhood is a legislative issue, and in the U.S. system, of course, laws are made by the Supreme Court." -- Brad Templeton, speaking of Artificial Intelligence
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by Eliezer 15y ago
The alternative to pure electric isn't pure gas, it's hybrid electric vehicles. You can't beat the worst alternative to win, you've got to beat the best alternative. That alone makes me not trust the rest of the study.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I've yet to see a Lucky next to a Safeway. Why are supermarkets different from gas stations?
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by Eliezer 15y ago
That's not a good sign. I mean, ideally, you'd want the incentive to be, "It produces power cheaper than coal!"
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I think it's a perfectly apposite quote. No, the proliferation of laws is not there as the result of an evil conspiracy to make everyone guilty of something. But sometimes you can clearly illustrate harmful side effects in fiction by post
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by Eliezer 15y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ux/traditional_capitalist_values/
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by Eliezer 15y ago
You do live in a different universe if you think there are hidden patterns of rational thinking behind everything that looks dumb on the surface. There are often hidden patterns of selfishness and incentives , sure, and that's probably
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by Eliezer 15y ago
There's Tracey Davis ambitious, there's Draco Malfoy ambitious, and then there's Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres ambitious. The top end of the scale isn't "start an new OS business", it's things like molecular nanotechnology or self-improv
596.
by Eliezer 15y ago
Achievement Badge: Add achievement badges to everything. That was my second reaction. My first reaction was "Die in a fire."
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by Eliezer 15y ago
...yes, that was intended as sarcasm, you can stop downvoting it now.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
But if we refuse to be terrorized, the terrorists have already won!
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Why, I can personally attest that this is true. I went to a meeting of our elites and someone said, "Hey, you want to put the idle resources of the construction industry to work on fixing America's deteriorating infrastructure?" and some o
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I got 37,300. They claim this is not quite 95th percentile, which I am a tad skeptical accurately represents my vocabulary-size percentile relative to the general population. Perhaps this survey is being forwarded around unusually literat

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