Eliezer

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811.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Not an exact quote, but E. T. Jaynes: "If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon."
812.
by Eliezer 16y ago
This seems like a perfect response from Microsoft. I don't see what more anyone could reasonably ask of them.
813.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Scientific papers about politically controversial topics that involve billions of dollars of money flowing around in firms that can potentially hire the author later, need to be taken with a grain of salt. A large grain of salt. Sad but t
814.
by Eliezer 16y ago
As an infinite set atheist, I think it's important to distinguish people who say "infinite" when they want to talk about the limit of unbounded finite behaviors ("a Turing machine has an infinitely long tape") and people who say "infinite"
815.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Thanks, but note that OP is by Anna Salamon. Mysterious Answers and Methods is by me. Didn't know which of those you meant.
816.
by Eliezer 16y ago
That is a completely ridiculous reason to not let people give away apps. Just change the frickin' counter system.
817.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> If no one is pushing it, it shouldn't move at all. Thank you, Aristotle. Objects not being pushed on continue with constant velocity, they do not stay motionless.
818.
by Eliezer 16y ago
But gravity isn't curved space, it's curved spacetime. Think of a graph that shows both space and time, so that it shows constant motion as a straight line (four units of space per one unit of time with the slope constant). Then accelerat
819.
by Eliezer 16y ago
FYI: Singularity Institute has been going through Paypal for around 9 years or so, no problems yet.
820.
by Eliezer 16y ago
This headline seems rather prejudicial to Ressi in light of what he says was the story, and in light of the fact that he was interrogated for an hour, not arrested - there's a huge difference. "Arrested" means Ressi did something terrible
821.
by Eliezer 16y ago
It's not good for the Internet, but it'll be good for the writer. Depends on how selfish you are.
822.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Write write write write write write. You have to write one million words to throw away before you can write anything good. Yes, one million. Start now. I recommend choosing something that lets you publish small bites of work as you finish
823.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Yours is easier to read. Wasn't wasted.
824.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Let me know when you're done!
825.
by Eliezer 16y ago
If things get bad, many productive young people will be finding a country with less debt and moving there. If you stay behind to pay it off, you're a sucker. If you buy government bonds from a government in lots of debt, you're a sucker i
826.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Human beings are incapable of deliberately solving coordination problems larger than 50-person hunter-gatherer tribes. Anything that happens on a larger scale is driven by mob physics and the decisions of individuals and small groups who a
827.
by Eliezer 16y ago
You missed the part where the taxi gets rated. Problem solved.
828.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> there are women... who complain about how there are too few women in tech, and then there are women who just go out and start companies Never heard it put quite that way before, but very well said.
829.
by Eliezer 16y ago
They're all betting they can sell those bonds on a liquid market a week before the market officially wakes up and realizes a disaster is coming.
830.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I can see how you could tell that most of the people she told you to hire ended up as non-assholes, but how do you know that the people she tells you not to hire would actually have been assholes?
831.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Is this guy actually talking about _Nanosystems_? I don't think he read the same book I did. I want my 60 seconds back.
832.
by Eliezer 16y ago
See, at LessWrong we have a saying about this sort of thing, which runs, "How much are you willing to bet on that, at what odds?"
833.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I'm 1 in 1,000,000 but your page didn't work for me! It must be broken.
834.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Well, that fixes the problem. There is a sense of despair that comes from reading news about people who have no discernible motive for what they do except deliberately trying to be as stupid as possible. I have started to disbelieve in Han
835.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, Portal is an awesome game. But he considered Planescape: Torment too, and went with just Portal? Where's Fate/Stay Night or Tsukihime? I can't respect this college.
836.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I endorse this reply. EDIT: I endorse all of ewjordan's other replies too. There's no need for me here.
837.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I usually find that random blogs online are far more truthful and clueful than the mainstream press.
838.
by Eliezer 16y ago
So I'm reading and thinking, "this information is useless, I can't get a likelihood ratio out of this"... and then someone actually provides the Bayesian posterior probability! Woohoo! Rationality prevails! Could this be the dawn of a ne
839.
by Eliezer 16y ago
THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH FACEBOOK APPROACHES BORN TO A STARTUP THAT HAS THRICE DEFIED THEM... oh, never mind
840.
by Eliezer 16y ago
I like this headline because if we sent it back in time 30 years it wouldn't make any sense at all.

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