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by khafra 2y ago
FDA Delenda Est, sure. But I'm still glad that seatbelts and frame strength standards aren't optional for auto manufacturers. Maybe we just need to regulate regulatory capture; have penalties for it that actually hurt the pocketbo
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by khafra 2y ago
Compacts, subcompacts, and microcompacts are very popular in Europe. Is this because Europe has fewer and less restrictive standards for fuel economy, emissions, and safety? I am not an automotive policy expert, but I feel like Europe tends
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by khafra 2y ago
> > Surely there are infinite other possible explanations that fit the finite number of data points available > If you think there are others, please exhibit one. One easy process for generating infinite explanations that fit a fin
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by khafra 2y ago
To be precise, you should precommit to not trading with entities who threaten punishment--e.g. taking an action that costs them, simply because it also costs you. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, given how we would misuse such an abil
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by khafra 2y ago
> If you really believe this then you need to level up your level of education and learning. It is not good. How does your level of education and learning compare to Nobel Prize winner Dr. Geoffrey Hinton (father of deep learning, 10%-50
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by khafra 2y ago
The most illuminating example is, unfortunately, in a controversial area; so please take this as descriptive rather than normative: Back in my city in America, when I heard a loud bang in the night, 4/5 of the time it was fireworks or
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by khafra 2y ago
> the USA is supposedly "the land of the free". The more free private entities are from government oversight, the more carefully they have to read contracts. For example, even the US is not quite so free as to allow people to s
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by khafra 2y ago
This is definitely a topic area where people overly familiar might omit standard safety precautions within their instructions: Do use a burner VM, don't do any of your normal computing on that VM, etc.
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by khafra 2y ago
As long as you have the money to spend on the extra CPU cycles, there's things you could do with encryption, such as homomorphic computation, to stay more secure: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vit9oWGj6WgXpRhce&#
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by khafra 2y ago
Something can be "acausal," and still change the probability you assign to various outcomes in your future event space. The classic example is in the paper "Defeating Dr. Evil with self-locating belief": https:/&#x
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by khafra 2y ago
A decade ago, I bought a bucket of 25 nail clippers. My wife was initially skeptical, but over the next few years, grew to appreciate the low demands of the system: Need a nail clipper? Go to the bucket. See a nail clipper in a weird place?
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by khafra 2y ago
It's easy to remember the early players in the nuclear power/weapons game, with a simple mnemonic song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw
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by khafra 2y ago
Really interesting to see an article on agave roasting without the context of an artisinal mescaleiro.
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The "creepy" vibe is because answering honestly to some of these, for many people, is going to be fairly severe thoughtcrime. You'll need to exude some really strong "not a fed" vibes for those to work.
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by khafra 2y ago
Sure, lots of philosophers talk about lives barely worth living, and what constitutes the line. Lots of public health researchers work on metrics for quality-adjusted life years, and increasing longevity is useful only insofar as it increas
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by khafra 2y ago
That doesn't contradict my point: universal mortality means the potential losses of an oppressor are bounded, and the bound is acceptably low to many people. Immortality removes that bound.
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by khafra 2y ago
It would be interesting to see RL on a chatbot that's the last stage of a sales funnel for some high-volume item--it'd have fast, real-world feedback on how convincing it is, in the form of a purchase decision.
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by khafra 2y ago
You're not going to run out of atmospheric oxygen, no matter how much you breathe. There is, for your purposes, an unlimited amount of it. That may make all your breaths meaningless. But when I'm meditating, or bicycling up a hill
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by khafra 2y ago
This seems approximately as likely as people not having the courage to enact injustices (since their victims will have unlimited time to plot a perfect revenge and gather all the resources that would require).
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by khafra 2y ago
If you can solve the technical problem of ensuring an AI acts on behalf of its user's interests, please post the solution on the AI Alignment Forum: https://www.alignmentforum.org/ So far, that is not a feature of exis
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by khafra 2y ago
> get both parties to only think rationally Sounds like a Causal Decision Theorist. Every other rational decision theory supports suing under some circumstances, and refusing to settle under some circumstances; even when the expected mo
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by khafra 2y ago
Seems to be a pretty strong incentive for companies to make sure that, for anything unethical that they actually want to do, the fines will be large enough to satisfy the median voter, but small enough not to impede their business. Empirica
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by khafra 2y ago
If you have any taste at all other than "maximally dissimilar to anything I have liked before," there should be a feature that predicts songs you would like. If your taste is exactly "maximally dissimilar to anything I have l
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by khafra 2y ago
Land Value Tax would fix this.
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Flying free is a high aspiration; are there easier goals in that direction? Like substantially discounted flights, or business class flights for the price of economy?
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by khafra 2y ago
> Also, there's a long-term question of whether there are any processes within the body are keyed off of the heartbeat, because biological designs are often spaghetti and take full advantage of any random interaction and make it loa
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by khafra 2y ago
If you're interested in games that teach real-world epistemic skills, Jane Street just publicly released Figgie: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PypgeCxFHLzmBENK4/poker-is-a...
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by khafra 2y ago
It can be very music-specific. Look at this video of a former ballerina with very obviously advanced cognitive decline--the only thing she still remembers is her exact routine, when she hears the music: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by khafra 2y ago
Ok, do you think 1000 is way too low, or way too high? E.g., How many life-threatening emergencies do you think happen per hour across the world? How much extra time did it take to reach the average injured person over the outage period? Ho
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by khafra 2y ago
> They just happen to be the best, primarily because of their intel, and you wouldn't believe this but because their sensor has always been very lightweight and easy to manage. I think an important part of their dominance is that th

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