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by drdeca 4y ago
The word "political" is used in a number of ways. When someone says "How could <x> __not__ be political? Of course it is political." in response to someone complaining about <x> becoming political, I think th
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by drdeca 4y ago
I think it is possible to make a coherent distinction between what has been termed “psychological addiction” and what has been termed “chemical addiction” without denying that the brain works by transport of, and reactions between, chemical
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by drdeca 4y ago
Ahhh, yes parts of that sound familiar. So, the reason we can (at least pretty much) ~~rule out~~ a 3-sphere [EDIT: I didn’t read carefully, and missed the “it could be a really really big 3-sphere so that the curvature is close enough to z
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by drdeca 4y ago
So what you do is you form a ordinal-indexed hierarchy of “why”s, And then you go up a universe level so that the class of ordinals in the lower universe level becomes an actual set and not just a class, and then you somehow (exactly how...
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by drdeca 4y ago
What’s wrong with it being (topologically) a 3-sphere ? That seems plenty symmetric to me.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I believe one factor is the amount of time between the submissions.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I agree, with the caveat that an appropriately explicitly flagged as a deliberate reinterpretation which clearly differs from the intended meaning, is something that I think can be artfully done, to good effect. But when doing this, one sho
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by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t think “triggering reward centers” is the reason that e.g. nicotine is addictive. It is because of chemical dependency.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Because the yearning for the nicotine is a result of things being out of whack due to the previous use of nicotine. That’s what an addiction is. With food, the desire to eat is part of the proper functioning, not due to damage due to previo
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by drdeca 4y ago
To say that an outcome is "unidimensionally a good thing" does not imply that all interventions that have that outcome as part of their outcomes, are good interventions. (to say nothing as to the question of whether the outcome in
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by drdeca 4y ago
In what sense is "all food addictive"? If you just mean "if you don't eat, you die", I don't think that qualifies as an addiction. If you mean "if you suddenly eat a lot more for some meal than you usually
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by drdeca 4y ago
Indeed, I think openAI would be more likely to e.g. use the fingerprinting work to make it automatically detectable than to do the opposite.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Just because something is overall not good, that doesn't make it a scam. The person doing it has to have some amount of intent to deceive in order for them to be perpetrating a scam, I think. I'm convinced that Vitalik's inte
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by drdeca 4y ago
Why do you specify "on your phone"? I'm reminded of the "prettiest lady of all those ... in this room ... currently eating a kebab" bit. I don't think the most common use of something being "to make scams
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by drdeca 4y ago
It didn’t refuse to do that? Or, did it throw a warning about possibly violating content policy but still producing it?
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by drdeca 4y ago
Curriculum learning. It is pedagogically useful to teach simpler and easier versions of something before teaching the harder versions. While you likely always have a calculator with you which can do division much more quickly than you can d
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by drdeca 4y ago
“ because browsers change over time and electron helps you get a working offline snapshot of something you created.” If the browsers change in a way that makes the website not work, the electron application will still work.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I found the sign-up process to be, surprisingly, very quick.
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by drdeca 4y ago
If fining them is a problem because the variance of “how much they are fined” is too large, what if uh, had an external organization evaluate the probability of each officer getting fined and use that to price insurance that they have to bu
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by drdeca 4y ago
By definition of “social status” or by definition of “cultural”? That something is malleable doesn’t imply that it is infinitely malleable. Also yes, more work does not correspond to higher status in any monotonic way like that. This doesn’
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by drdeca 4y ago
I’ve seen this, or at least parts of it, yes, but it doesn’t resolve my issue. The thing it lets you tell it “don’t show me these” is limited to a list of 5 things, none of which are “this is for a horror movie” or “this is horny”. The othe
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by drdeca 4y ago
I agree, but also ads which are repetitive and which I can clearly communicate why I am not a potential customer, can be quite annoying. It would be nice, I think, if people who are shown ads could add tags to the adds for the type of produ
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by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t see how one way of checkmating could be worse than another way of checkmating? Do some engines give different scores for different check-mating moves? (Different moves from the same position I mean)
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by drdeca 4y ago
The idea, presumably, is not that an armed populace would win an all-out battle against the government in which the people fighting on behalf of the government are fully motivated and committed. A bee does not expect to kill a dog(or whatev
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by drdeca 4y ago
Huh, does the unexpected hanging paradox come from such an overloading? It isn't obvious to me how it is. I don't mean that in a way to suggest that it seems unlikely to me. It seems quite plausible to me that it is. I just don&#x
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by drdeca 4y ago
I agree that utilities between people aren’t really commensurate in a way that allows adding them to be particularly well-defined/meaningful, and that therefore utilitarianism is not the actual full truth of morality, However, I don’t
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by drdeca 4y ago
I would think so, yes. Like, I know Vitalik Buterin said “stop making me a continued recipient of whatever coin project you are creating and just make those go to an effective charity like givewell and such”, and people followed that instru
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by drdeca 4y ago
And do you think the probability of the thing you describe (or anything analogous to it but still arising from the same intervention) is substantial? I’m not claiming that all charity should be done in such an attempt-to-be-expected-utility
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by drdeca 4y ago
I’m almost tempted to say that in that case you “are invested in them/their success”, but possibly “haven’t invested in them”?
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by drdeca 4y ago
While I don't really endorse it, I understand the objection to a name with the word "Intelligence" as part of it. I don't understand the objection to the word "Artificial". Why do you say that there's noth

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