IsaacL

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by IsaacL 10y ago
The article is here: http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (click 'here' to remove the purple overlay). I disagree with Graeber. Most "memo-shuffling" jobs serve a purpose -- organising thousands
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by IsaacL 10y ago
The price is at its highest point since 2014. The last time it was this high was an obvious bubble, whereas the current price is after a sustained rally. http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-trading-highest-level-...
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Funny to see you here! By the way, what happened to shintolin.com?
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Amy Hoy wrote a great comment about burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063 I wrote a comment about her comment on another article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157608 I remember her
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I went down this same rabbithole - Bayesian rationality to 'postrationality'. ('post' implies 'better than', but literally means 'not'. Still, Chapman knows a lot more about AI than Eliezer, and has a
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Intellectuals vs. Pragmatists(thoughtandactionblog.com)
1 points by IsaacL 10y ago|0 comments
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I'll have to remember that "playing scales" analogy. A year ago I was trying to level up my writing ability and wrote a medium-length article, with proper outlining, attempting to explain an abstract idea through concrete exa
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I made this mistake. Bought £1500 worth of btc a couple of years ago, and they've appreciated nicely. I didn't feel so clever during the year-long downswing, though. I've started putting most of my money in an index fund and
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by IsaacL 10y ago
"I am not comfortable making half-ass s..." Agile and Lean both contained good ideas, but they've been misinterpreted. "Flexible processes" became "no processes", "rigorously test your assumptions&q
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by IsaacL 10y ago
"What you call reality is actually a collection of statements that you believe to be true." "I believe that my position is consistent and the one that most successfully models reality, with the least ad-hoc adjustments.&qu
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by IsaacL 10y ago
It's kind of interesting, you are the second person recently to tell me that I am espousing Wittgenstein's ideas. I never read the man's works or know much of his philosophy, though I know others. Interesting. It's pro
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Reading your other comment: "I am finding that everything we say about consciousness is just an artifact of our language. If we are careful to always include the subject of the sentence as well as the unspoken assumptions then I have n
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I also practiced meditation (Vipassana) for several years, and, like you, realised that positing the non-existence of consciousness is a dead-end. Buddhism seemed to go deeper than many other philosophical frameworkss for this reason. Howev
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Here's an interesting test case for "context-aware" machine perception: the UK's Hazard Perception test for new drivers. You sit at a computer and are shown 15 recordings of everyday road scenes, from the drivers view, a
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Tony Hsieh of Zappos was a big fan, and recommended it to all his execs.
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I bought her book as a gift for my teenage sister, who is smart but also kind of a rebel. She loved it. Amoruso went from freegan anarchist going dumpster-diving to running a successful business, and so had lots of unique insights and persp
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I'm guessing the ambassadors on both sides are hyper-aware of cultural nuances like this. A non-story.
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by IsaacL 10y ago
"The fact is, when you really get down to it, most people are subconsciously racist. Not a joke - most people." If this is true, why the moral outrage towards the professor?
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by IsaacL 10y ago
We (as outsider observers) lack the evidence to judge this story objectively. It sucks to be unfairly accused of plagiarism (it happened to me once in high school). However, we don't know why the professor came to the conclusion that s
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by IsaacL 10y ago
This is a great post. "Early on, when a reporter asked me how I came up with the idea for Anybots, I answered honestly that I made a list of all the ideas I thought might really change the world in the next 20 years, and picked the on
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Coastal cities are unlikely to be flooded in our lifetimes. We're looking at about 1m [1] sea level rise in 100 years, or 50cm in our lifetime. That means coastal cities will face more severe storms, not ending up submerged. [2] "
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by IsaacL 10y ago
Software developers can easily "export" (i.e., take remote jobs for foreign companies), and a cheaper pound makes them more attractive. I doubt many tech jobs will move to Berlin -- from what I've heard, despite the hype, Lon
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I posted a list of them a while ago. For several years I was interested in alternative worldviews -- grand sweeping theories of reality. Here's my list: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki&
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I remember puzzling over the mathematical definition of "implies" in first year CS. I understand why it is defined the way it is in the context of mathematical logic, but I always puzzled at a deeper issue: when were we going to l
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I've never been to Burning Man but for a few years I was heavily into meditation, dabbled in psychadelics, and was reading Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and any other mind-expanding literature I could get my hands on. I get the s
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by IsaacL 10y ago
The thesis of the article isn't the point of the article? What? You sound quite defensive for a throwaway account. (If you're the author, your article has lots of good research on the details of Asian empires, but making broad cla
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by IsaacL 10y ago
It's not a subreddit - it's the world building stack exchange, for people creating worlds for novels and games. I was surprised to see an answer by an actual mercenary, and thought it might be of general interest. It's a part
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Why do private military contractors stay in politically-unstable places?(worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)
213 points by IsaacL 10y ago|35 comments
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by IsaacL 10y ago
I read Joel's blog back in university, this must have been around 2010. I was very inspired and I remember binge-reading his archives during several late night coursework sessions in the CS lab. This seems to have been around the time
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by IsaacL 10y ago
The author states that people are too mercurial to know their own long-term desires. This is true for many young people - it was true for me - but you can and should define long-term goals for yourself. I spent enormous time in the last few

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