Eliezer

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1411.
by Eliezer 18y ago
"Mystics might say I am entering a new seven-year cycle. I kind of think that's true because I believe there are universal laws and truths. I do know I have been on a journey." Well, she hasn't learned any lessons about trying to get away w
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by Eliezer 18y ago
I've seen The Godfather. I've seen The Dark Knight. Now, maybe I'm just missing the point of that Godfather thing, but I'd say The Godfather had more dramatic tension and The Dark Knight had more philosophical depth. No, stop laughing, I'
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by Eliezer 18y ago
Free content drives out unfree content.
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by Eliezer 18y ago
Okay... on the one hand, I can see how someone could build a successful business around this. On the other hand, if your business idea doesn't create and capture more value for humanity than this, I'd suggest going back to the drawing board
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by Eliezer 19y ago
The extremely embarrassing truth is that I've gotten many of my AI ideas while trying to write science fiction and fantasy stories. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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by Eliezer 19y ago
"True Names and Other Dangers". Reading a remark by Vernor Vinge on his concept of the "Singularity" led to my current career as a Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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by Eliezer 19y ago
I'm really tired of hearing this kind of news. People need to start signing up for cryonics. The following is a public service announcement: PLEASE STOP DYING
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by Eliezer 19y ago
Ooh, that's got to hurt.
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Peter Thiel's Optimistic Thought Experiment: Trading in a world that might end(hoover.org)
12 points by Eliezer 19y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 19y ago
This is excellent stuff.
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by Eliezer 19y ago
You want to make something that someone wants? Fine, I want a way to throw up on these teachers over the Internet.
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by Eliezer 19y ago
The modern-day best-and-brightest work on Artificial Intelligence; but they are obscured by a much larger number of slightly to moderately talented nutcases who are working on Artificial Intelligence because they think it can't be that hard
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by Eliezer 19y ago
Oops, didn't notice original post was from 2004. Still, claims to be able to predict elections are a lot more impressive when the person makes a bet on Intrade and then cashes in on it. Money, meet mouth; mouth, meet money.
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by Eliezer 19y ago
My first impression was that you were doing a lot of work to explain every single exception or near-exception to your theory. The case of Gore winning the popular vote is probably the most damaging. I'd consider downgrading the claim to "A
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by Eliezer 19y ago
In the everlasting words of Pat Cadigan ("Death in the Promised Land"), what you are describing is akin to putting a dirty shirt and a pile of straw in a wooden box for the spontaneous generation of mice. It took an enormous amount of cumul
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by Eliezer 19y ago
This looks an awful lot like my childhood experience with Hypertalk. (In fact, I suspect Hypertalk might be better-developed than this framework.) It was okay, I guess, but Hypertalk wasn't a real programming language and I'm not sure thi
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by Eliezer 19y ago
You're up against hindsight bias here, PG. ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/hindsight-deval.html ) People don't realize how absurd the future looks when you have to predict it in advance. ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/str
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by Eliezer 19y ago
OMFG heroes can be imperfect! Alert the media!
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by Eliezer 19y ago
I want this too.
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Something people want: Read blog from beginning(bobvis.blogspot.com)
4 points by Eliezer 19y ago|1 comments
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Overcoming Bias: Lost Purposes(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by Eliezer 19y ago|0 comments
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by Eliezer 19y ago
Fixed with linky.