Eliezer

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901.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Recent related thread on LW, with reviews and aggregate scores for suggestions: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1sm/akrasia_tactics_review/
902.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Oh. I temporally misplaced my recognition of Seneca, then. Should have looked it up, I guess.
903.
by Eliezer 17y ago
> We are part of of a Cosmic Whole Bet you Seneca never said that. It's a highly evolved modern form of nonsense.
904.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I wonder who Seneca thought was carefully arranging the universe so that everyone would had enough time if only they had used it properly. They didn't have monotheism back then, did they? Or maybe Seneca was just naturally the sort of per
905.
by Eliezer 17y ago
It's not a question of manipulativeness. A manipulative mind would recognize that this strategy is unlikely to have good results. I would guess that this is more about investors wanting to feel superior and have the founders coming to t
906.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Safe liposuction. (Going to be a few self-righteous "just eat less and exercise" replies to this one by metabolically advantaged folks who haven't got the slightest clue how difficult it can be to lose weight when your body doesn't want to
907.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Congratulations. You attach the lowest value to human life that I've heard assigned in all of 2010 so far. Just to be clear, would you like to state a value in utilons for the tree and a value for each of the 150,000 lives lost in a day?
908.
by Eliezer 17y ago
My father (Moshe Yudkowsky, author: The Pebble and the Avalanche) has a similar thesis about how Star Trek caused the downfall of American engineering: "Well, Captain, you crashed into that planet there and sheared one warp nacelle complete
909.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Well, in point of fact, they didn't need to change it for everyone , just one client .
910.
by Eliezer 17y ago
xxxHoLic is, ironically, not porn or even racy. (Never read, but know the fact offhand.)
911.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Livly. Trying to cure cancer. http://www.livly.org/
912.
by Eliezer 17y ago
There are plenty of methods (cough report Bayesian likelihood ratios cough and publish your raw data cough) that are simple enough for even average scientists to use. They would rather use much more complicated statistics, though, because
913.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Hold on, I'm not sure that's fair. Yes, everyone knows that school is insane, marijuana is safer than alcohol, you shouldn't have different tax treatment for corporate and individual health insurance, et cetera et cetera EXCEPT WE DON'T AL
914.
by Eliezer 17y ago
> including 2 million people in London, 3 million in Rome Is that outside the US? I don't recognize these cities.
915.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I'll tell you what you gotta tell 'em! SOYLENT GREEN IS THERMODYNAMICALLY INEFFICIENT!
916.
by Eliezer 17y ago
If they don't record sales calls, hard sells are predictable - so if they don't record sales calls, they might want it to happen and want plausible deniability. It would be very easy to avoid these types of accusations if they just recorded
917.
by Eliezer 17y ago
"Efficient markets" are better named inexploitable markets or anti-inductive markets.
918.
by Eliezer 17y ago
But evolution doesn't know its being cheated. There has to be some way for people who like sex less to end up with more children .
919.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Okay. Give me an example of a psychotherapeutic technique and cite the evidence it's based on. I know of one form of psychotherapy that has some evidence behind it. The rest has been repeatedly tested and found to work no better than ta
920.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Big lie as far as I can tell. I'd like to see exercise tested against a placebo.
921.
by Eliezer 17y ago
> When your belly hurts, you go to a doctor. Why not ask to a doctor when something in your head hurts? Because when your belly hurts, science understands what the possible causes are. Your real medical doctor may be able to diagnose o
922.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Thank you for your defense, but it is only with respect to probability theory that I can claim to write anything highly researched. Where AGW is concerned I'm an outsider.
923.
by Eliezer 17y ago
In every one of my essays, half the words are unnecessary. Unfortunately it's a different half for every reader.
924.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I'm flattened by the degree to which people assume that, because I'm willing to go along with the guess that anthropogenic global warming is occurring, I must also be in favor of loony policy proposals. Was saying that I was against ethanol
925.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I was actually a teenager when I wrote my contribution to that. Okay, not an ordinary teenager, but I didn't exactly grow up into an ordinary adult either. Remember folks, growing up on the Internet is like walking around for the rest of y
926.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Arigatou.
927.
by Eliezer 17y ago
How odd, you'd think they could have figured it out before trying and failing, then.
928.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Actually, most people do. The official term is cognitive dissonance, and the unofficial term is sour grapes.
929.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Citation if available?
930.
by Eliezer 17y ago
When will people come to their senses? How many more senseless killings are required before we can take action? Ban academia now!

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