Eliezer

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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   World domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   Don't get me wrong, I admire the hell out of this. But when you think about it, it's kind of sad that our civilization literally took until 2011 to get this far.
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   s /barter/bargain/
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   Sitting next to another person while writing increases my writing productivity by at least 400%. In retrospect it took me way too long to break down and try this. My shot at immortality costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics I
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   Er, hinder us all and lose money.
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   So somebody is paying nontrivial amounts to store oil that they think will be worth more tomorrow than today. If they're right, they win. If they're wrong, they lose money. If what they believe is true, they help us all and make a prof
7. 667.▲
   by Eliezer 16y ago

   If oil is priced above demand, there should be large supplies of unsold oil piling up in tankers. Period, god damn it. If there is no unsold oil piling up in tankers than oil is currently priced at the level where demand at that price eq
8. 668.▲
   by Eliezer 16y ago

   Another day, another imaginary profit using 20/20 hindsight. Yes, stock trading is easy using a time machine. Do you have a time machine? I didn't think so. Next!
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   by Eliezer 16y ago

   I notice that I am confused, and echo the "citation needed".
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Wow did that last paragraph ruin the article.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    AAAAAHHHHHHH there's pictures of kittens at the top of HackerNews!
12. 672.▲
    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Posts we've had to Less Wrong on this topic: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I don't know what quantum computing is doing on that list, but a mere glance around you will confirm that small increases in intelligence and brainpower, such as that involved between humans and the LCA of humans and chimps, can have rather
14. 674.▲
    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Proposal: If it's desirable that votes not be undoable, make them non-undoable after 5 minutes, but undoable until that point.
15. 675.▲
    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Boy, I'd hate to ask them how to become Harry Potter.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Right, so... this? This is the closest thing I can recall reading to "impossible" in at least the last year or so.
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    Boy without cerebellum is learning to walk(aolnews.com)

    12 points by Eliezer 16y ago|2 comments
18. 678.▲
    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Sentence one says that there's no public good being served. Succeeding sentences argue that there's no individual right either.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I see no public good served by an author being allowed to decide what other people do with their characters. Should Tolkien have the right to constrain what people imagine with his characters? The right to constrain what stories I tell
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Yeah, that's like saying that you've got a new approach to writing the world's greatest novel based on using the letter 'y' in place of 'i'. AI is a software problem and if you don't know how general intelligence works, having a new kind o
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I'm afraid you just don't understand the QM experiments in question. For there to be a secret difference between the two particles requires observed reality to be a lie.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Boxers lose IQ. I believe so do football players.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I think it's okay to smack the reader in the face with all sorts of knowledge provided you're sufficiently up-front about it, make sure there's more to the book than that, and give the other side a fair voice . (MoR!Dumbledore, MoR!Quir
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I would be curious as to what you thought of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, if you looked at that.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    http://alcor.org/AboutCryonics/index.html
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I say it's time to send them their Hogwarts letters.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Someday humankind will colonize the galaxies, but by the time we get there we won't give a tinker's damn about "habitable planets". Interstellar travel is not for protein minds.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    That's fundamentally fanfic of Permutation City rather than AFutD.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    I read Vinge but not Stross. Can't begin to tell you how much I hate buzzword fiction.
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    by Eliezer 16y ago

    Personally I'm less likely to apply to YC now - if there's one thing I hate it's giant heaps of money.