khafra

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   by khafra 15y ago

   Rationality can serve whatever values you have. You can rationally optimize the amount of love, happiness, and fuzzy puppies in the world if you want to. You can also rationally strive to keep a company efficient and non-evil. But the bigge
2. 452.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   Write your name and contact information on a Guy Fawkes mask and wear that. They'll be too confused to do anything.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   I wonder if we've ever talked at Defcon.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   Kids these days... Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my comp
5. 455.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   > Edit: At the moment, it's pretty much just you and Knuth. http://cr.yp.to/djb.html
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   by khafra 15y ago

   Alignment: Affable Evil
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   by khafra 15y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
8. 458.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   You're telling people to settle. Settling can make you happy, or at least satisfied; but it's bad signaling to settle too early.
9. 459.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   Yup. Singleton superintelligent friendly AI is pretty much our only chance; and we have no idea how to build one.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    > Given the fact that this has happened repeatedly with the launches of past Apple products, I find it difficult to believe that Apple would have made this "mistake" again This is the part that excludes (c). If they didn't want to leak
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    by khafra 15y ago

    The Anthropic Doomsday Argument says that, since it would take 37 bits to include all the people that have lived so far, it takes about 38 bits to include all the people that will ever live. Many people find this somewhat disconcerting.
12. 462.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    Yes, cloverleafs are necessary for >1 lane per direction.
13. 463.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    It isn't a huge leap forward conceptually, but the boxes to show scope are a whole lot faster for me to read than counting parentheses.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    I appreciate the EV calculation. That would probably raise the marginal value at which someone like Warren Buffett would buy a company, fix its problems, and make it productive again. I doubt he'd shut down Berkshire Hathaway, or that it w
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    by khafra 15y ago

    > Those who do produce the wealth unproductive others live on will decide to not bother (look up "go Galt"). Has this ever happened? Has anyone at any wealth level ever simply stopped making money because he was upset about taxes? I hea
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Gwern wrote in his experimental design that he took Vitamin D supplements in the mornings, when he hadn't taken them the night before.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Is there any way to discover how much selection effect occurs here? I wonder how many people apply insights from study in one field to another, and utterly fail because they weren't applicable at all.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Wow, fascinating ideas. It'd be amazing to have a textbook that had "adaptive abstraction levels" that let you read only the parts you needed detail on in detail, while tying the rest together in a high-level model that made it more useful;
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Any time some psychologist or economist does a test for Base Rate Neglect or other bias on doctors, they perform horribly.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Energy density and materials don't follow a Moore's Law curve. In 10 years, a walker this size will have similar carrying capacity and range.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Also the grand ultimate maneuver: "have friends who are mechanics."
22. 472.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    Interesting idea. Assuming competence on the part of your attacker isn't as dangerous as assuming incompetence, but it can be just as mistaken.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    But that would abridge our first amendment rights, because money is speech. Although for some reason, the police didn't see it that way when I tried $100 worth of talking a lady on the street corner into going on a date with me.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    After buying a $40 premium charger which has very stringent standards (for some reason, any particular NiMh battery has about a 50% chance of being recognized as something chargeable after each use), I gave up on rechargeable batteries. If
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    by khafra 15y ago

    > It allows Super PACs to collect unlimited donations to run campaign ads supporting or opposing specific candidates. That may open the door to corruption in a certain sense, but it doesn't allow quid pro quo on active legislation. If t
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    by khafra 15y ago

    The way I understand it, the Citizens United decision made that type of bribery completely legal.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Considering that anchoring works with completely unrelated numbers, I wonder how well it would work to ask the population of Tallahassee, or the distance in miles to the moon, right before you start talking dollars.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    I've learned sed well enough to replace simple patterns usefully, and awk well enough to do a '{print $2}'. I could doubtless do much more if I really spent some time learning them. But, with the current ubiquity of Python, is there a big
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    by khafra 15y ago

    I think you're right, but I hate that you're right. I wish government could just be sensible without needing a pressure group of sensible people riding herd on them forever.
30. 480.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    > If this sounds new-agey, well, perhaps it is. Actually, it sounds like a heuristic for path cost in AI search.