Eliezer

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841.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Not since they figured out about decoherence and got rid of the collapse thing, no. http://lesswrong.com/lw/r7/quantum_physics_revealed_as_nonmy...
842.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Apple is still prestigious for programmers . If you're a good programmer and you work at Apple, you're not embarrassed to tell your friends about it.
843.
by Eliezer 16y ago
People who are good at math, but not mathematicians, will get it. There is very little hope of explaining P and NP to people who feel nervous in the presence of math and don't want to hear what a "polynomial" is.
844.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Waste not, want not. Eat the puppy.
845.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Scott Aaronson expresses his confidence that the proof is wrong by offering to supplement the million-dollar Clay prize with $200,000 of his own money if it's correct: http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=456
846.
by Eliezer 16y ago
What do people who completed college know about alternatives to factory education?
847.
by Eliezer 16y ago
One of the first genuinely hopeful bits of entrepreneurial thinking I've clicked to on Hackernews in quite a while, something that applies only to people who are thinking up highly original ideas likely to create lots of new economic value,
848.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Who, considering working their first startup job, can possibly end up in an epistemic state of knowing that their hard work will pay off? How could you reasonably end up assigning a confidence of more than 50% without it being sheer na
849.
by Eliezer 16y ago
And is there any experimental evidence showing that this method actually works?
850.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Most of my friends on Wall Street say you shouldn't trust random top money managers at major Wall Street firms - that's not over the interesting competence threshold. I am, obviously, paraphrasing, but it's the impression I get.
851.
by Eliezer 16y ago
If what you say is true, why is all this free money still lying around? Is there some systematic reason for why hedge funds don't do it, or why too few people bid on courthouse auctions?
852.
by Eliezer 16y ago
No, I think "top money manager at a major Wall Street firm" and otherwise unattributed actually is random people.
853.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Aschwin says it's a reasonable request and he knows they've got those and he'll see if he can make them available. I'll reply again when/if the info is available. Any particular way in which I should contact you, if this conversation goes
854.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Fired off your question to Aschwin de Wolf and got back: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/newtechnology.html (Figure 4 and 5 for the more recent technology, earlier photos are older technology) http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincry
855.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> Honestly, calling yourself an idiot is a huge turnoff. Really? I call it honesty, but maybe I'm just an idiot.
856.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Well, I'm sure there's some economics laureate out there who says that the secret to efficiency begins with comparative advantage.
857.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Fixation? Cryonics involves cryoprotectant and vitrification at liquid nitrogen temperatures, not plastination, and the last I heard the results looked excellent under a microscope. Also, think in terms of the brain being carefully examin
858.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Yes, the conflation of skepticism about UFOs with the general art of figuring out what's true and achieving your goals is part of the problem I'd like to address here.
859.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Cryonics Institute: http://www.cryonics.org/ Membership is $120/year. You'll also need at least $50K of life insurance with them as beneficiary. I pay around $170/year for $250K, and went through Rudi Hoffman who does cryo-compatible li
860.
by Eliezer 16y ago
And if there are lots of programmers who can do that once the algorithm has been given them, then the position will be filled by lower bidders who are willing to take salaries and don't demand slices of the cake. It doesn't matter economic
861.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Non-teaching of explicit rationality annoys me. The most fundamental, elementary, and basic concepts of rationality are not systematically explained anywhere that I know of. It is impossible to engage the average PhD in a dialogue with ag
862.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Death annoys me. People who can afford $300/year for a cheap cryonics membership and life insurance, and who don't sign up, annoy me. A lot of them are probably being held off by the trivial inconvenience of signing a few papers without a
863.
by Eliezer 16y ago
If you are selective about which arguments you inspect for flaws, or how hard you inspect for flaws, then every flaw you learn how to detect makes you that much stupider. It gives you one more chance to fail each time someone presents you
864.
by Eliezer 16y ago
"In the 2010s, the role of angels diminished even further as many enterprising young startup founders realized that they didn't have to give away as much of their company if they knocked over a few banks; it was risky, but not as risky as d
865.
by Eliezer 16y ago
You don't think the Onion is funny?
866.
by Eliezer 16y ago
It's the equivalent of saying "Yes, Madam, and you are ugly, but I will be sober tomorrow." If you're smart but not rich, you can try to get rich. What do you do if you're rich but not smart?
867.
by Eliezer 16y ago
> Assume you have a great idea in a field you have no expertise in. Assume flaming monkeys are crawling out of my nose. How often does that ever happen? I couldn't name three real examples off the top of my head.
868.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Consider "want to want" as "would do in the limit of complete knowledge, infinitely fast thought processes and perfect self-control", i.e., reflective equilibrium. If you had perfect self-control then you would choose to breathe, but not t
869.
by Eliezer 16y ago
As I remarked in my own essay on the subject (linked by billswift below, keyword "superstimuli"), I don't think the problem comes from the edge cases. I think the problem is that if you make a product 5% more addictive than the competition
870.
by Eliezer 16y ago
A gear never breaks after it has been designed out of the machine.

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