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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I think the correct URL should be http://www.owl232.net/objectiv.htm
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I don't know how to continue this discussion, because I don't see the part in section 3 where he talks about voter preferences directly coinciding with candidate preferences, nor the part where he says preferences are static. Paul
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
What do you think of the points he brings up in section 3, where he addresses this?
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I think you might be replying to a different idea than reverend_gonzo was proposing. I think he's just noting that not-obviously-useful technological advances can have unexpected applications. I don't read him as saying that not-o
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
It's a great paper, and a great application of machine learning! Though, the FBUs had worse readability than NBUs. I think you're misinterpreting the readability index - higher is worse, not better. From the paper: "Users who
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
You make some interesting points, but there should be a norm against introducing a political topic on a non-political thread. There's a way to get to a political point from most non-political topics, but then every thread leads to a po
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
> Let's just look at the predictable consequences...Banks and other corporations will never lend money to poor people again. Full stop. I'd like to bet against that prediction. I suggest $100 to the winner's favorite chari
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
> pg or my investors wouldn't care about the social issues of the young people working in my sweatshop I think it's rude to accuse people of hypothetical malfeasance. If there's evidence that someone is callous, show us th
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
Nothing wrong with that. From the FAQ: Q: Are reposts ok? A: If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. - https://news.ycombinator.co
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
Reading this: > Rumors of fraud trailed Stapel from Groningen to Tilburg, but none raised enough suspicion to prompt investigation. And this: > The two students decided to report the charges to the department head, Marcel Zeelenber
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
> tell me how the Taliban killing ~130 children and some teachers is just a statistical outlier that people whouldn't pay any attention to. My comment didn't mention people not paying attention to a bombing. My comment was abou
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
I tried to roughly estimate the risk. There are 18,000 theaters that could be targets. Let's say there are 10 showings over the opening weekend that might be bombed, so if you attend, there's a 1 in 180,000 chance you'll be i
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
I like this a lot. I'm even more interested in system-level approaches to the problem. The voting systems of reddit and Hacker News and Slashdot are an improvement over the forums that came before, but more is possible. Are there any t
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
> Give it five to ten years, human-like and beyond-human intelligence will be built That's probably a bit early. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has collected various surveys of experts asked about this question. The one
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
What is a good procedure for determining whether someone has good judgment? Is it never making an investment in a person or company that turns out wrong? Then those who never invest at all have the best judgment. But that can't be righ
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
There are two essays about awful work that I like to contrast. One is George Orwell writing about 1930s coal miners: http://www.george-orwell.org/Down_The_Mine/0.html The other is "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave&quo
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
Tentatively - this might not really be much of a problem? In many situations, we deliberately make sure we have excess capacity because it's better to have too much than too little. For example, I have a server running idle most of the
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
Right. A survey showed that parents usually expect that children want more time with them instead of work, but that that's not usually what children want: "One of Galinsky's more surprising findings centered around a question
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
If there were no government or Friendly AGI doing it for everyone, I imagine it would chain backward through time: those still alive who are friends and family of the cryo-preserved would resurrect them. Then, those people would know older
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by michaelkeenan 12y ago
Future expectations about stocks affect their price today. If a company is known to be in trouble, its shares will already be cheap. (A few people, most notably Warren Buffett, can reasonably disagree with this, because they're already
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
> there's no law of the universe that says that "disruption" is a good thing, and there certainly isn't any clean way to weigh the interests of one big established industry with those of a large, successful, wealthy c
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
> POLITICIANS never lie. So you should not be allowed to lie about them. That seems to be the logic behind an Ohio election law Is that really the logic? This could have benefitted from quoting a supporter of the law on why they like it.
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
> most hilarious thing...Bwahahahaa!...massive hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. Amazing. This insulting style of persuasion has been shown to backfire. Here's a study on this effect - Negative Persuasion Via Personal Insult: h
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
The USA spends about $6.93 per passenger on security. Israel spends about $56.75 per passenger on security. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
> Of all the third-world countries that have developed, they have almost uniformly made heavy use of protectionism, foreign-ownership limitations, etc. Do you have a citation for that? I suspect it might just be trivially true because al
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
If you're interested in effective altruism, you might be interested in the Effective Altruism Summit, which will be held from June 30 to July 6 in San Francisco. All four of the effective altruism organizations mentioned in the article (Giv
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by michaelkeenan 13y ago
> Most of the homeless in SF actually want to be on the streets. To those surprised by this sentence, jarjoura might be influenced by this recent Priceonomics blog post: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/43085729257/the-street-kid...
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by michaelkeenan 14y ago
> a small fraction of one percent controls well over 2/3 of the world's assets Citation for that? Wikipedia says that the richest 1% of adults owned 40% of global assets[1], though that figure is from 2000. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by michaelkeenan 14y ago
> 10,000 years isn't enough time for humans to adapt to eating grains, so we should eat like cave men instead One of the details of that argument is that grains contain phytic acid[1], which humans can't digest. Phytic acid binds with i

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