Moshe_Silnorin

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   by Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago

   Lead is just so awful - it lowers IQ of children by a very large amount, even in low doses. Why not just ban the stuff in bullets? I don't see the problem with outlawing it. These are clear, super negative externalities. Alternatives e
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   by Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago

   Scott Alexander wrote this about Vegas: >Las Vegas doesn’t exist because of some decision to hedonically optimize civilization, it exists because of a quirk in dopaminergic reward circuits, plus the microstructure of an uneven regulatory
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   by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

   >The majority of people (black and otherwise) look for romantic partners that are much like themselves. This doesn't seem to be the case in Canada. My sister is married to an Indian fellow. My girlfriend was born in Xiamen. During h
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   by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

   Nobody is afraid of today's AI algorithms. But if we make machines that are smarter than us and have desires, they will influence the future to achieve their desires. If these desires conflict with our own, things will not end well for
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   Right is the New Left(slatestarcodex.com)

   3 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|0 comments
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   Prediction markets(gwern.net)

   65 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|10 comments
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   I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup(slatestarcodex.com)

   7 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|0 comments
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   by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

   You disagree with the tenets that make "being open to criticism" possible. Arguments do not where the skin of their speakers. They're sexless, skinless things. Your ideology destroys the fungibility of arguments, requiring th
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   by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

   You type so much and say nothing at all.
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    The Thinkers Behind Musk’s Fear: Russell, Bostrom, and Omohundro(medium.com)

    77 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|67 comments
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    by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

    I believe the folks at MIRI spend most their time on Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory now. MIRI is strange. Five years ago, I was convinced they were very misguided or cranks, but I've been reading some of their logic stuff an
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    by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

    Are you attempting reverse psychology?
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    by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

    Does he consider himself a failure? Some percentage of very intelligent people just don't care about "success". They have rich inner lives and hobbies and interesting friends, if they can find some. It could be that he's
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    The Thinkers Behind Musk’s Fear of AI: Russell, Bostrom, and Omohundro(lylecantor.ghost.io)

    5 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|0 comments
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    Meditations on Moloch(slatestarcodex.com)

    2 points by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago|0 comments
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    by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

    Small Gods is what I'd start with.
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    by Moshe_Silnorin 12y ago

    I suggest you give that a try. You will find it nearly impossible, stretching analogies into meaninglessness and then stacking them atop each other.