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Prompt Airlines AI security challenge(promptairlines.com)
3 points by finm 2y ago|0 comments
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by finm 2y ago
Yes, I changed the title to the linked page to ‘A path from Seattle’ from ‘Go east from Seattle’ because, from reading the comments here, I agree the original title was too misleading. Just updated the title of the Substack post also.
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by finm 2y ago
Author here — I agree the image is misleading (and added a caveat to be clearer, though I could have made the arrow smaller). I don't think the question requires the reader to ignore what ‘east’ means, however. There is unambiguously o
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by finm 2y ago
Author here. Reading these comments I agree that the title is far too misleading (and unnecessarily so). Changed to “A path from Seattle”.
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Go East from Seattle(finmoorhouse.com)
3 points by finm 3y ago|0 comments
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by finm 3y ago
Nice idea! Just added one: https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/feed.xml
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Where do our atoms come from?(finmoorhouse.com)
121 points by finm 3y ago|71 comments
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Where do people come from?(finmoorhouse.com)
2 points by finm 3y ago|0 comments
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by finm 3y ago
This could become a party trick: memorise 20 seconds of reverse speech, invite others to record and reverse it
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by finm 3y ago
https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/ Effective altruism and such. A recent favourite: https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/
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First clean water, now clean air(finmoorhouse.com)
285 points by finm 3y ago|146 comments
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Amazon killed E-ink innovation. But it's back(youtube.com)
14 points by finm 4y ago|4 comments
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Some Carl Sagan Quotations(finmoorhouse.com)
3 points by finm 4y ago|2 comments
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A contest for criticism of effective altruism(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
1 points by finm 4y ago|0 comments
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Shouldn’t we be paying more attention to the future of space governance?(80000hours.org)
1 points by finm 5y ago|0 comments
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Advice for Starting a Podcast(finmoorhouse.com)
1 points by finm 5y ago|0 comments
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The Edges of Our Universe(arxiv.org)
2 points by finm 5y ago|0 comments
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Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk(hearthisidea.com)
1 points by finm 6y ago|0 comments
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The (almost) impossible chessboard puzzle(youtube.com)
2 points by finm 6y ago|0 comments
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by finm 6y ago
My two cents: https://www.finmoorhouse.com/writing/micropayments The bottom line is network effects, I think.
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by finm 6y ago
+1 for Stanford Encyclopedia. Such a uniquely and consistently excellent resource. Can't think of many things like it for other subjects. https://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achi...
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The first room-temperature superconductor has been discovered(youtube.com)
2 points by finm 6y ago|0 comments
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by finm 6y ago
This reminds me of David Chalmers' 'Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton'? http://consc.net/papers/rock.html
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Saving the Web with Tiny Amounts of Money(finmoorhouse.com)
2 points by finm 6y ago|0 comments
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The first ever web page(w3.org)
5 points by finm 6y ago|3 comments
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Diane Coyle on Tech Giants and Digital Monopolies(hearthisidea.com)
2 points by finm 7y ago|0 comments
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by finm 7y ago
A classic! Seems obviously wrong (see Udo's comment), but nobody can quite seem to agree exactly what goes wrong. Probably Lewis' responses are best – https://philpapers.org/rec/LEWLAM-2
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Goodstein's Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by finm 7y ago|0 comments
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by finm 7y ago
See also – https://sjbeard.weebly.com/parfit-bio.html > Derek Parfit was famously a fast and creative thinker. He used to advise students and colleagues to set up autocomplete shortcuts on MS Word for their most commonly