Eliezer

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by Eliezer 16y ago
Correction noted. I'm pretty sure though that at least some of the people on the Xanadu team were Drexler-sent.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Ted Nelson was the founder, yes. He was inspired by Drexler, who like certain later transhumanists did human rationality on the side. Do none still remember "Engines of Creation"? It had a whole chapter on hypertext.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
...neither of the problems you cite is actually any individual teacher's fault.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
> You can't easily chop off the bottom 10% each year and bring in an additional 500,000 new teachers. Yes you can. You just have to offer high enough salaries.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Oh ye of little history. Do none remember Xanadu still? Inspired by Eric Drexler's call for hypertext as a way of making society more intelligent, they tried to invent the Web, a decade too early and with standards much too high (cached l
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by Eliezer 16y ago
The amazing thing to me is the extent to which companies can't solve elementary coordination problems, and so stay in a Hobbesian state where entities just randomly attack other entities with patent-clubs and there's nothing resembling law
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Stocks don't react to how results in announcements compare to last year, stocks react to how results in announcements compare with how Wall Street priced the stock yesterday based on their guess to what the results would be. Efficient mark
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I look forward to seeing the rest of Common LISP implemented in C too.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Okay, seriously, how is this advice not a gigantic blatant lie? Read science fiction written by knowledgeable people who put their knowledge in the story, go to science fiction conventions, attend random lectures in your city, read histo
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by Eliezer 16y ago
This is not an experiment. This is challenging the blind assumption of higher education, taking direct aim at the prestige of higher education, and disproving the belief that anyone who can stays in college and that people who drop out are
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by Eliezer 16y ago
That's what I was going to write.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
3 out of 100 applicants is not surprising. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gy/you_are_not_hiring_the_top_1/
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Because if Germany makes fewer nuclear plants, they'll make more coal plants.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I always avoid excessive alliteration as it often annoys an otherwise attentive audience.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Well, it sounds like you know the problem (you haven't found a community you like yet) and have ideas about how to solve it (finding a good creative writing group; I would also try science fiction conventions, hacker dojos, a Unitarian chur
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by Eliezer 16y ago
K - thanks for answering!
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Er, sorry but I don't suppose you've got a link? Let's say you came out even after 100,000 hands. If I randomly divided those hands into two sets of 50,000 each, would you expect one of those sets to be up by 10% and one of those sets to b
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Went to front page. Saw a bunch of photos of food. Didn't see where I could buy food. Left. Saying "airbnb for food" is not a substitute for explaining what you do or having a user interface which visibly allows the actions you want a us
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Still skeptical. What happens when you have pokerbots play against each other? Do they have similar variance across 100,000 hands?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Lucky and unlucky streaks can and do last months to years for people who play thousands of hands per day. This cannot possibly, possibly be true. The expected deviation goes as the square root of the sample size, which means that the pe
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by Eliezer 16y ago
"Choose randomly" is generally understood to mean "choose randomly from a probability distribution containing as much entropy as possible given the problem." I mean, I could choose from the probability distribution {0.001, 0.001, 0.998} bu
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Allow voting. -- Captain Obvious
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by Eliezer 16y ago
We recently figured out that a major problem with the SIAI Visiting Fellows program has been that we don't give Visiting Fellows a context in which they know how well they're doing - they're picking up rationality tricks of the trade, but t
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Act more like a PC, less like an NPC(meaningandmagic.com)
8 points by Eliezer 16y ago|1 comments
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by Eliezer 16y ago
The reality of being dependent on other people. It's not cowardice if that's where your next meal comes from. Try a bit of sympathy here?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Er, actually money sort of does make you immortal if you've got the right sort of attitude toward cheating at reality. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics . Money also buys happiness if you know the right things about hedonic psycho
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by Eliezer 16y ago
The title could not possibly be more wrong. I don't usually presume to speak for Peter Thiel, but pretty damned sure this is his viewpoint as well. Not just Silicon Valley but human civilization needs more people building real companies
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I'll carry your data packets for $50!
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Successful rationalist community formed in New York City(lesswrong.com)
7 points by Eliezer 16y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 16y ago
What Airbnb would need to do is allow renters to rate rentees. Two-way system like eBay used to be.

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