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by adbge 9y ago
> Your response however typifies one reason I'd never call myself a Georgist -- people who call themselves such come off as believing they've discovered the single truth that obtains social salvation, ie religious nuts -- who
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by adbge 9y ago
You might enjoy Bostrom's paper on information hazards: https://nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf
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by adbge 9y ago
Buy Google from Alphabet and have at it.
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by adbge 9y ago
An excellent opportunity to re-read PG's essay, "What You Can't Say". [1] "What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're
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by adbge 9y ago
Indeed, this is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: "Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once d
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by adbge 9y ago
The kernel has been buildable with clang for some time now.
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by adbge 9y ago
> Why do something that can so easily ruin your health? Do you drink alcohol? If so, you're already consuming a harder drug than marijuana. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness
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Reddit 2016 Transparency Report(reddit.com)
2 points by adbge 10y ago|0 comments
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by adbge 10y ago
This is at the intersection of several of my interests. The idea that nicotine improves cognition in schizophrenia is not new and, indeed, several drugs inspired by this idea (nicotinic agonists) are currently in the pipeline for the treatm
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Ask HN: What's the most useful purchase you made in the last year?
4 points by adbge 10y ago|4 comments
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by adbge 10y ago
I won't pretend to exactly understand Urbit, but it seems to be more or less what you're describing: > In an Urbit world, your data is no longer trapped in a jumble of proprietary servers. Your urbit is a permanent, versioned,
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by adbge 10y ago
> The "leader" is an avowed racist and nasty person in general. Oh, good. This again. Curtis has stated publicly, "I am not an 'outspoken advocate for slavery,' a racist, a sexist or a fascist." See: https:
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The man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks, using hearing aids(newscientist.com)
8 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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by adbge 12y ago
+1. I've been experimenting aggressively with different techniques for email capture (e.g. [1]) and, looking at my analytics, the exit-intent popup accounts for 47.27% of all emails. [1]: http://rs.io/behavior-modific
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by adbge 12y ago
Gwern did a convincingly rigorous self-experiment with LSD microdosing. [1] He sums it up as, "No beneficial effects reached statistical-significance and there were worrisome negative trends. LSD microdosing did not help me." [1]
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by adbge 12y ago
If anyone is interested in the PAQ code, I have put one of the stronger-but-open-source variants on GitHub, here: https://github.com/robertseaton/paq8pxd
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Why the Many-Worlds Formulation of Quantum Mechanics Is Probably Correct(preposterousuniverse.com)
2 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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The Science of Problem Solving(rs.io)
120 points by adbge 12y ago|16 comments
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Big Scope Status Bias(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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How the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings Affected This Year's Attendance(rs.io)
1 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Category Theory Matters(rs.io)
2 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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Why I Like Surprises and You Should, Too(rs.io)
2 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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Linear Programming and the Most Affordable Healthy Diet – Part 1(jeremykun.com)
5 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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by adbge 12y ago
> Why is the piece talking about averages, when wealth is distributed as a power curve? 80,000 Hours is explicitly focused on maximizing social good, often by advising people on what career will maximize their "earning to give&quo
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Learning to Love Complex Numbers(jeremykun.com)
90 points by adbge 12y ago|28 comments
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Why Online Communities Decay Over Time(rs.io)
158 points by adbge 12y ago|143 comments
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Why Category Theory Matters(rs.io)
3 points by adbge 12y ago|1 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists(rs.io)
5 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists(rs.io)
15 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments
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Software Tools to Improve Writing(rs.io)
1 points by adbge 12y ago|0 comments

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