Eliezer

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by Eliezer 15y ago
All traffic to "Methods of Rationality" is driven by word-of-mouth. Maybe the message here is, "Deliberate social marketing doesn't work."
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I'd find that especially amusing because "Google is an AI company, they just don't advertise the fact." If they can't make money on anything except AI, that would be strong confirmation.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I think what we really need is the patent on approving patents.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
He just got his Hogwarts letter.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
This reminds me of that experiment where subjects who got $10 (or something) if they picked a red jellybean, preferred to pick from a bowl containing 7 red jellybeans out of 100 rather than 1 red jellybean out of 10, because they figured th
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Eyup.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I have generally replied to the question "What are your credentials?" with a simple, confident, "None."
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Citation provided. Thank you, it's just that I had no idea what you were talking about.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
You will hear nothing about Google+ a year from now. You heard it here... well, probably not first, but you heard it here.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
[Citation needed]
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by Eliezer 15y ago
10,000 years from now, I'm going to remind you that you said that, and we'll both think it was pretty funny.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Seriously? Who would be dumb enough to try sending proteins to another star in the first place? See you at Proxima, and I don't mean in the flesh.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
The next six months will be the critical period for Earth. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_%28unit%29 )
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Dear Optimizely: Your statistics do not tell you that B has a 95% chance of being better than A. Your statistics tell you when the excess of B over A has less than 5% probability, assuming B and A are actually equally effective. A Bayesia
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by Eliezer 15y ago
People who found interesting companies are more likely to fail-to-conform in other ways as well, which is why other venture capitalists don't fund them - they want jeans, not someone wrapped in a towel. People who engage in standard trendy
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I was there during some of those dinner-table conversations. Topics that were raised: Number of for-profit and non-profit founders who didn't get all the way through college; how successful founders and interesting people seem to be mis
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I've been reported-on by Wired News. Same guy who invented the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. He wasn't fired for either story.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
So far as I can tell, you're simply wrong. So far as I can tell, this is pretty much how standard journalism works.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
No
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by Eliezer 15y ago
> Hundreds of movie celebrities come to mind. If they're not signed up for cryonics, at their income level, I don't buy that they're actually consumed by anything remotely resembling a quest for technological immortality, as opposed to
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by Eliezer 15y ago
"If I could guess, 100% of the people are male." Thank you for making a testable prediction. Your hypothesis is thereby falsified. "Polyamory is usually one guy and more women and is usually quite the sexist thing. " Good heavens, what sor
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Oh. I think I got caught by a corollary of Poe's Law to the effect that without a smiley, there's no parody of terrible ways to spend money that somebody won't mistake for reality.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Agree with parent, disagree with grandparent. If there's one thing you learn when you're doing philanthropy, it's that people who give to charity this year will probably give to charity next year; and people who are planning to give to cha
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by Eliezer 15y ago
That... honestly sounds horribly pointless to me. As in, I read that and thought "Aaaaiieeee!" Am I the only one who feels that way?
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Yes, it's a synopsis of a lot of stories. But I feel obliged to point out that, in real life , I know a number of people in quest of immortality who lead quite awesome lives on a day-to-day basis, because the same style of rationality and
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by Eliezer 15y ago
> I know people whose lives are so consumed by their quest for immortality Name three. And please note that Voldemort doesn't count because he's not a real person.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
I applaud the perfect precision of the above explanation. One so rarely sees perfectly precise explanations these days.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Thanks! You saved me a lot of time there.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Yes, because inconveniences aren't for rich people. It's sort of like how kids in college don't get drafted.
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by Eliezer 15y ago
Eight Out Of Nine American Bloggers Cannot Distinguish Between The Concept of A "Scientist" (As In Someone Who Devises Reproducible Experiments To Test Ideas To Determine Whether They Are Right Or Wrong, And Rejects The Wrong Ones) And Anyo

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