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by mizzao 10y ago
Priming effects definitely have a huge effect on initial PD play. In one experiment researchers phrased it as "the cooperation game" vs "the wall street game" and saw much lower cooperation. In our case, however, we made
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by mizzao 10y ago
It is true in our experiment that there are players who are consistently nice, and they experience lower daily payoffs than the other players. So, in one sense, "good guys finish last". However, it's not true if you look at i
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by mizzao 10y ago
Really cool suggestions - they actually encompass a couple of ideas that we've had. First, we discovered in the experiment that PD actually has 3 actions. Cooperate, defect, and ... wait as long as possible to defect to punish your opp
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When designing this experiment, we were pretty sure that cooperation would break down altogether based on what people had previously tried. That it didn't and resembles more what we see in the real world (things generally work and peop
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by mizzao 10y ago
Lead author of the paper here; AMA. The main novelty about this work is that we had 100 people play repeated PD for a month instead of <1 hour which is typical in behavioral experiments, in an attempt to make rather stylized cooperatio
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Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma(nature.com)
90 points by mizzao 10y ago|52 comments
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Is there a huge difference between physics PhDs and computer science PhDs in this argument? Both are overspecialized in their research, but both also have a wide range of skills in programming, abstract problem solving, writing, communicat
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by mizzao 10y ago
When they tried this with parents who were late picking up their children from daycare, it actually made them later - since now as long as they could afford it they didn't feel bad about paying. Similarly, maybe those Tesla owners won&
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There is only one social network(pplapi.com)
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I'm surprised there's no mention of Westworld in this article...or what our world might look like if we carried video games through to such a realistic implementation.
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> We are grateful to Roy Levin, Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, for working hard to find the source code and getting permission for us to release it. Ironic as MSR-SVC was shut down a few months after this articl
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by mizzao 10y ago
On the other hand, shopping without a list can lead to significant food waste, unappetizing meals, and more impulse purchases. In our home, we've learned to combine these approaches: use seasonal recipes as a general shopping list (you
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More of a public goods problem (n-player PD).
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The integration with OneNote is quite killer as well - you can plug in your laptop, draw as much as you want (collaboratively) on an infinitely-scrolling whiteboard, and then have all the notes from the meeting saved, digitized, and searcha
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This seems to happen a lot when accomplished academics from other fields discover philosophy.
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If you were an executive, this is how you would hire people, right? (Instead of only tapping people that you already know.)
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Can someone link to a synopsis describing what "COM" is? It's hard to search for. (e.g. microsoft com visual studio )
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My Quest for the Perfect Roast Chicken(medium.com)
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The Inescapability of Uncertainty: AI, Uncertainty, and Why You Should Vote(medium.com)
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I've been running Ubuntu virtualized in Windows 10 on my Surface Book (VirtualBox) and it's a great way to get around driver issues - everything works great on W10 and it just gets passed through to the VM.
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Laszlo Bock's Work Rules! highlights many things that have been tried and implemented at Google to improve recruiting and retention. It might be a bit effusive, but I think the insights generally do apply to many workplaces. https:&
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by mizzao 10y ago
Despite being familiar with most of the material here and agreeing that it is generally useful to know, I still don't know if I'd call this book "Foundations of Data Science". It feels more like "Assorted topics in
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by mizzao 10y ago
I haven't read the book, but is the article arguing that rampant individualism leads to unhappiness, or the lack of detachment and focus on "communities"? It seems to mention both. For those who haven't seen it, this art
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by mizzao 10y ago
Speaking as an academic, "getting into academia" requires some combination of luck, perseverance, and personality fit. It has very little to do with being "smart enough". Also, you end up being a specialist in a very, ve
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Man Scaling Side of Trump Tower in New York Using Suction Cups(abcnews.go.com)
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There was some wisdom written about this, almost 2000 years ago: 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 : "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and und
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by mizzao 10y ago
I think the effectiveness of this strategy also depends on how well you can context switch. For some it is a lot easier than others.
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As a counterpoint, we'd also have the need for fewer roads and parking lots, and hence cities could become even denser.
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I think what the author writes is true if you want to maintain absolute control over the project. However, in this post ( http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html ) and the related HN discussion
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by mizzao 10y ago
The author makes a good point that the reliability of Slack on intermittent connections is indeed pretty horrible. It's nearly impossible to send or receive messages, as I experienced while in foreign countries.

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