Eliezer

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by Eliezer 16y ago
I think I turned out reasonably well, I was known to be a child prodigy, and my parents never pressured me in any way to outperform. (To such a degree that my maternal grandmother was the one who bought me the Childcraft books that formed
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Most telling quote: As long as it doesn't require me to do any math, I will write anything.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Right, and the main character of this story never faces heavy odds, nor tries to do anything ambitious, and nobody in his universe ever accused him of having delusions of grandeur... I gotta ask here, have you read up to Chapter 5?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
That would be Bogdan Butnaru's work. Email me and I'll forward your email to him.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
The characters here don't depart any further than those in, say, A Black Comedy or The Wastelands of Time , both of which are a lot further from canon than MoR, widely acclaimed by some (including me), and not much hated by others that
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by Eliezer 16y ago
"Thanks," he said in the small, awkward voice of someone who'd never quite figured out how to take a compliment like that gracefully.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Actually, it happens to be true that all eleven-year-olds attending wizarding school read preprints of theoretical computer science papers.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
But perhaps it is J. K. Rowling who should get credit for doing the acknowledging. If you write "students are given time machines so they can attend more classes" and no one in-universe points this out as odd, that's Harry Potter. If a fa
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by Eliezer 16y ago
But because it's fan fiction, I wouldn't object if, after the story finishes, someone produced their own edit of it.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
The effects he recorded were small but statistically significant. And this, ladies and gentlebeings, is why you should be very wary of ever believing studies with small but statistically significant effects. Psi is the control group for m
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Faint praise.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Why is this behavior (bullying) tolerated in school? They're just children. They're not going to pay you. They're not going to vote. Their parents aren't actually the ones getting kicked (WOW would you see a different scenario in that
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I want this too. Amazing that we can't get this technology to work.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I went inarticulate while reading this, I was literally making noises that were not English because I did not have English words to express them. These could be the first and only real telepaths upon the face of the Earth. There could be
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Are there any CEOs reading this who think of themselves as Dungeon Masters?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
That does not make it a Role-Playing Game. That makes it primitive Magic the Gathering.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I do it three times a week. Still.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
I should mention that I seem to be one of the substantial fraction of the population who's immune to exercise. I went to a gym for a year, spent two hours three times a week, aerobic and weightlifting. I didn't gain any muscle. I didn't
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by Eliezer 16y ago
After going outside and walking in the sun for a couple of hours, I'm too tired to get any work done the rest of the day. As far as I can tell, everything said about exercise is lies. Or perhaps mileage varies. Just remember, mileage vari
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Feynman wouldn't have said that particular line, was my own reaction.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Singularity Institute founded by someone who went autodidact after eighth grade...
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by Eliezer 16y ago
It's not the time and money they invested, which is a sunk cost, but the prestige they keep on deriving. Paying people to stop out of college is an attack on the prestige you think you're getting from your college degree.
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Intrade market: 90% probability that Republicans take House(intrade.com)
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by Eliezer 16y ago
My very first thought on seeing the title was, "Where is this a problem?" (Didn't realize they were talking about the past.) My second, immediately following thought, was "Pay them to not kill passengers." That's progress - how to get si
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by Eliezer 16y ago
They waited a week, which was long enough to outlast Silicon Valley's attention span, and then nobody talked about it ever again. Except for one "whatever happened to...?" post on HackerNews, which spent a few hours on the front page and t
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Mere words cannot describe the odds at which I would bet against this.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Okay, you're right.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Are you under the impression that a random key fits a random lock?
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Seems to me like the quality of search results is declining too; the SEOs are winning.
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by Eliezer 16y ago
Er, there's a quantitative difference between one mistake and two mistakes.

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