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by khafra 7y ago
The Vaporwave aesthetic goes beyond mere 80's nostalgia into a sort of fetishism. Normally, targeting fetishists is a bit niche; but Tesla has hit on a lot of success targeting market segments that everyone else thought were tiny niche
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by khafra 7y ago
Extrapolating from the article and associated research, what you're describing as a mental "flex" may be an ability to consciously weight higher-level models over lower-level ones, and vice-versa. I'd be interested to se
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by khafra 7y ago
> At one point some bats escaped, roosted under a fuel tank, set fire to the testing facility and burned down a hangar as well as the overseeing General's car. I wonder if this was the start of the trope about the experimental subje
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by khafra 7y ago
Drone delivery for all last-mile problems. In fact, I want to buckle on a harness, and have an Amazon quadcopter carry me from the train station to the front door of my house.
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by khafra 8y ago
What about molten sodium energy storage?
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by khafra 8y ago
It doesn't make me want to short Tesla stock. But it does make me want to short my likelihood of owning a Tesla product.
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by khafra 8y ago
It's not just cute, it's an open problem in the theory of recursively self-modifying AI design--there's no general solution to an AI hijacking its own reward channel, so far. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts&#x
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by khafra 8y ago
Sometimes, definitions aren't the most mechanically sound constructs available.
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by khafra 8y ago
> What screaming (or the university equivalent: bad grades) Grades are both an expensive signal, and an adjustment to an incentive gradient: Opportunities to send the signal are limited, and their use is constrained by both written and u
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by khafra 8y ago
This article is a strong volley aimed directly at checklist culture. It has a lot of citations. But checklists were the hot new thing in 2012. They were going to save everyone from iatrogenic harm. This article doesn't explain how al
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by khafra 8y ago
If you take "increase to the minimum wage of $7.25" literally, it'd be $14.50
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by khafra 8y ago
The capacity issue is relevant, but roads require maintenance due to large trucks and weather, not cars. Asphalt damage increases with the cube of the vehicle weight.
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by khafra 8y ago
> Special chairs are more expensive The patient wanted to bring in his own special chair, not get one purchased by the company.
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by khafra 9y ago
As a long-time human, who's worked with a lot of humans, I'd advise you not to underestimate the power of trivial inconveniences. Rational, perfectly selfish agents in an environment of frictionless transactions might still invite
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by khafra 9y ago
Life can be a Red Queen Race, where each innovation keeps you barely above the rising water. Just because people survived* before [X] doesn't mean they can survive after having [X] withdrawn. *For certain values of "survived;&quot
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by khafra 9y ago
It also changes things from "local hidden variable" to "universal hidden variable," it's just a different implementation of universal hidden variables than the Many Worlds Interpretation.
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by khafra 12y ago
But they were focused on object-level problems when they were doing that crystallization. Can you accidentally do philosophy as a side effect?
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by khafra 13y ago
Restrict yourself to explanations which can be rendered as a series of individually simple steps--something you could reduce to math; something you could program into a computer. Note that "magic" does not qualify, here. The shor
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by khafra 13y ago
> ...ending the trials early Note that early termination rules are pretty common in bayesian statistics, as is taking only enough samples for a reasonable likelihood ratio. I'd rather see samples covering different time periods as w
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by khafra 13y ago
Maybe the instructions to the participants were so unclear that they didn't know whether they were supposed to be picking the strad, or their favorite.
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by khafra 13y ago
Write everything in Coq.
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by khafra 13y ago
> Maybe. You seem at heart to be a consequentialist. Although I wouldn't call myself religious, morally I sort of see myself as a straightforward product of Catholic school. Interesting--normally I see neo-reactionaries linking prog
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by khafra 13y ago
> "Read between the lines" - give me a break. I hope that's not everyone's first perspective when they read positions as such. He wasn't talking about everyone's first perspective. He was talking about a j
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by khafra 13y ago
> The logical extension of this software is to replace the phrase 'earthquake report'. You're asking for a principled, rather than arbitrary, place to insert human writers into the mix? I'd say a human writer might b
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by khafra 13y ago
The practical difference disappears when your operating margin is 0. When you have money left over after paying your essential expenses, though, you can do stuff. Like, if you're Microsoft and you have 60 billion in cash, you can have
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by khafra 13y ago
What do you mean by "neuronal activity"? If you're saying it's not just the electrical activity of the brain that constitutes the self, that seems to be true; electrical activity can come to a complete halt and be restar
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by khafra 13y ago
That was my exact thought. I had been waiting for the consumer version; now I'm thinking I'd better get the unencumbered dev kit.
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by khafra 13y ago
Paging tptacek; come in tptacek...
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by khafra 13y ago
This amounts to the "you can't handle the truth!" argument. It may be true that the average citizen, and thus the average jury member, is unaware of what ethically-conducted police work looks like. But that doesn't seem
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by khafra 13y ago
The Reversal Test is a good thing to think about when examining the possibility of Status Quo Bias: If you had the option to make your memory more unreliable, or to give up what videos, photographs, and other recordings of your life that

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