Eliezer

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721.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I second the question "Which changes?", you know what they say about the higher information value of surprises.
722.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I think this maxim should be qualified as applying only to startup investing, and YCombinator investing in particular. If you're otherwise getting 20% returns, investing 20% more money annually in losing investments will trash those returns
723.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Only if PG becomes as perfunctory as colleges.
724.
by Eliezer 16y ago
A 6.4% bump only buys you back the 6% of equity that you lost if you're selling the entire company during the Series A.
725.
by Eliezer 16y ago
They've probably got the self-charging models.
726.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Free content drives out unfree content.
727.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Well, it's good to see that Taubes also gets people just makin' up this sort of stuff about him, even though his credentials aren't in doubt; and that it's not just me.
728.
by Eliezer 16y ago
If this is a big concern to you, get your money from VCs and angels that aren't in the habit of firing founders. The Founders Fund, as I understand it, has an explicit policy of not funding anyone they think they might need to fire, becaus
729.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Senior in liquidation preference to all other shares? They can do that?
730.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin CMOA
731.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Because it would be impossible to make illegal effectively - that would just drive it further underground and make it even more invisible.
732.
by Eliezer 16y ago
One of my favorite math puzzles. I would've bet quite a lot there just wasn't a strategy for this.
733.
by Eliezer 16y ago
There are non -full-stack programmers? That's a scary thought. I have trouble imagining what sort of mind could be able to write code, but only one kind of code.
734.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I usually compare it to being forced to play through the first three levels of Super Mario Bros over and over again. Then they put up posters saying "Video games are fun!"
735.
by Eliezer 16y ago
We've already got theories which say that the universe is spatially infinite and quantumly branching. One more level of infinity on top of that isn't going to make much of a difference. I suggest you regard all events not part of your deci
736.
by Eliezer 16y ago
No, the premise is, don't glorify dropouts. Sort of a giveaway that it might be about prestige.
737.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Can the self-taught doctor apply Bayes's Theorem correctly, unlike doctors with degrees? Is the self-taught doctor a fan of evidence-based medicine? I'll take them.
738.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Reminder: People who think of themselves as getting prestige from their college education may view something that challenges the prestige of college as an attack on their hard-won status. Reminder 2: College is broken. It needs challengi
739.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> People like Sergey Brin & Larry Page will drop out, with or without Thiel's investment. That is probably precisely the part that Thiel disagrees with you about. Who knows how many would-be Brins and Pages couldn't afford the risk
740.
by Eliezer 16y ago
That is called "being too lazy to break a mental habit".
741.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Okay... I'm probably not the person to take advice from on this issue... but I have to say, if it was me, and if your boss is a nice person, I'd just take what you wrote up there, and copy and paste it into an email. Or just send him the
742.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Don't forget, most aid is actively harmful. http://lesswrong.com/lw/z2/another_call_to_end_aid_to_africa...
743.
by Eliezer 16y ago
A pleasant, useful, highly motivating lie. And it flatly isn't true. There's people who've written ten times as many words as I ever have, and they're still not good writers. It's not fair, but it's what is.
744.
by Eliezer 16y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Generalization_from_fictional...
745.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> You don't change people's minds by releasing 2.8 million pages of documentation, you change it by repeating your slogan over and over and over. Welcome to my quotes file. Do you want a name on that in case I use it sometime?
746.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Well, it is right. Takes around the same size of computer program to print out the library either way.
747.
by Eliezer 16y ago
It requires only a very short program to print out all possible books, and a much longer program to print out one particular book. To look at it another way, by the trivial isomorphism between any class and its complement, the library conta
748.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Study enough information theory, and it will start seeming obvious on a gut level that a library containing all possible books has less information in it than a library containing one book.
749.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I don't even know the name of that fallacy, but it ought to have one. (Yes I know parent is sarcastic.)
750.
by Eliezer 16y ago
This sounds like the right order of magnitude for every individual project I ever worked on that had an impact.

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