Eliezer

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by Eliezer 16y ago
I'm not sure this actually is related to FHI. Certainly, don't sign up for it on that basis until you've checked with FHI to make sure you'd actually be working with them. FYI, the Future of Humanity Institute does have an opening for a
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Webvan! You came back! I thought you were dead! (Sobs.) When Webvan died I literally had to buy a car for the first time. It was like I'd been part of an advanced civilization that collapsed. Seriously, they should've tried chargin
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Who on Earth was voting this up? Does nobody comprehend the concept of a not-easily-exploitable market anymore?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Is it just me or does Google seem to be really bad at acquisitions and/or executing this sort of competitor-cloning operation? I don't know if they're below-average, but it seems that a year later, nothing you read about them doing has eve
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Er, that doesn't seem like a good reason to downgrade the UI of something important. I don't know how much money it takes to keep HN running, but would just buying ten times as much computing power really be a significant expense for YComb
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by Eliezer 16y ago
"Originality isn't easy, but it is simple. Just don't do stuff that's already been done."
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Every time I see the phrase "revolutionize everything" I want to find someone to take that bet with me at odds of no worse than 9-1.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I don't expect them to understand that part. Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage is non-obvious. The proposition that Chinese workers are sentient, and therefore objects of moral value, is somewhat more elementary.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I question the assumption that Americans need jobs more than Chinese do. Does anyone else ever read this sort of thing and just get floored by the implicit, unquestioned calculus which says that benefits to Chinese workers are worth nothi
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Fair enough. Well, that'll stand as one hell of a scathing critique of academia then.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
So you left academia to become an HFT programmer because you thought academia was too unproductive in the context of larger society? That's one hell of a scathing critique of academia and, er, um, I can't help but wonder if the money might
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by Eliezer 16y ago
> (I think he should have said "epistemic" rather than "epistemological".) Fixed.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I was wondering if anyone else had that reaction. I'm looking at a story about how Bradley was using elaborate GAs to choose the weightings on a small handful of variables that, from the description, sounds like they should've yielded to
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by Eliezer 16y ago
This surprises me. Citation needed?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
"Berkshire Hathaway is something you can defensibly buy that isn't an index fund."
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Learned to program when I was around five or six years old, by picking up a book of prewritten programs in BASIC for a Sinclair ZX80 (or ZX81? not sure), figuring out how they worked and writing my own. I am not sure what the term "inherent
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by Eliezer 16y ago
It's almost like Feynman didn't care what other people thought of him. I'm a lot like him in that respect: I, too, don't care what other people think of Feynman.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Two words: Berkshire Hathaway.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
This shows that all female authors secretly want to set a low standard for evidence!
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I'm amazed by the similarity between the way some people seem personally offended by the existence of Timothy Ferriss and the way some people seem offended by Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres. I wonder if they're the same people.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Wow is that WhatGuysWant thing way out of date. This is someone looking at the early days of a story site in the early days of the Internet and being horrified at the bad grammar, and from this she decides what guys really want? Give
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I edited the original comment to note that hentai manga (not so much video, though, for some very odd reason) is often of high plot quality, I would guess because in manga the scriptwriter often also is the one who draws it, and when you're
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Certain, eh? Hm. How would we settle that bet?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Thinking that the flood of badly made, poorly scripted porn on the Internet reveals the secret darkness of male sexuality, is like thinking that an endless succession of awful movies from Hollywood reveals that people secretly want a poorly
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by Eliezer 16y ago
People don't really care about whether students learn anything, the resultant catastrophes not being visible for years and then being hard to blame on anyone in particular. But they care about sports teams losing, which they see right away
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Read Heinlein instead.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I repeat, you do not need 1000 times as many subjects to get results that are 1000 times as significant! If 40 subjects gets you results with p < 0.05, then 100 subjects should get you results with p < 0.001. Doing half as many ex
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by Eliezer 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group...
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Bad example. You just never get 100 heads in a row on a fair coin, period.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
If you're going to use highly subjective frequentist statistics at all, p < 0.001 should be the minimum gold standard for extraordinary claims. If the phenomenon is real, and not bad statistics, it only requires two and a half times

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