ZhuanXia

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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
Reddit uses machine learning models to maximize engagement. This ruins any of the forum-like qualities reddit had. It’s gross. Every subreddit is constantly in the process of eternal September, which kills the dynamics of getting to know on
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
Fame is a disfigurement. As the costs of fame increase, how will this effect the distribution of people who seek to do great things? This is probably a much more important question than many things we worry about.
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Was she much smarter than average? Von Neumann was reputed to be immune to drink and was the smartest person to ever live.
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Mad-Science IQ Enhancement(reddit.com)
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
>Should we abolish home ownership and have everyone buy into a single rental market such that prices wouldn't be distorted beyond what median area incomes are. Henry George would say so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
It would provide a common prior for any empirical claims. Scott Alexander puts it very well here: A democracy provides a Schelling point, … an option which might or might not be the best, but which is not too bad and which everyone agrees o
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Subsidized prediction markets. Unfortunately, they are illegal
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Neglecting inflation, amortization does not make it any cheaper.
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Just before the ICO bubble went completely nuts, I read the white papers of the 10 highest market cap ERC20 tokens. None of them made any sense from an investor's perspective, from a consumer perspective, from a mechanism design perspe
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On the Significance of Gwern’s Poem Generator(sevensecularsermons.org)
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
Yes. Natural selection does not end when biology does. Anything that has scarcity and variation will have selection effects: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ And should AI go
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
I suppose my point is I distrust your certainty. It's quite possible 20 petaflops may be enough. Maybe we will need many exaflops. We don't really know.
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Estimates vary over many orders of magnitude: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
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39dollarglasses.com is what I use.
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Everyone is jealous of someone. It is amusing to compare Bezos's awe at Yasantha to that of many of his engineers towards him - or for that matter, my awe of anyone who can pass Amazon's recruitment process. See this except from a
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When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video](youtube.com)
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Self-Management of Fatal Familial Insomnia: Case Report(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Even the ability to declare bankruptcy would be nice. Millions are in a state of what amounts to indenture.
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It's not just for amateurs. Much of the 3D work for Man in the High Castle is done in Blender, as Barnstorm VFX is a Blender shop. While not used widely, there are pros using it in big productions.
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Too bad it’s too cold in Canada to live in a van.
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> If you need to postulate such amazing complexity just to say basically nothing in terms of realism, then you’ve already lost. What about many worlds is complex? The Schrodinger equation predicts macroscopic decoherence. Macroscopic dec
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
>What can you do with this power to generate worlds and selves? You could become a billionaire by playing quantum Russian roulette. Quantum suicide isn't exploitable, for reasons I went over in a thread on reddit: >One thing abou