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by moultano 11y ago
I don't think it's obvious that you can't tell whether someone has free will from the outside. Considering the enormous success physics has had with explaining every other phenomenon from the outside, that seems like a very s
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by moultano 11y ago
>Of course you can't tell whether someone has free will looking from the outside. Before quantum mechanics and uncomputability, the "of course" went the other direction.
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by moultano 11y ago
I think Aaronson believes the following. If there are provably no experiments that could differentiate a propery X from "free" then X is equivalent to "free." I think unpredictability passes that test.
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by moultano 11y ago
It helps that we have a rough model of the publication process that we can correct for. It's kinda like assessing the underlying distribution with only access to the tail of it, which isn't ideal, but can be done.
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by moultano 11y ago
You can assess this using funnel plots. If publication bias were not a factor, then you expect effect size to be uncorrelated from sample size. If they are correlated, then it's likely publication bias is having some effect on the resu
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by moultano 11y ago
New buildings? In San Francisco?
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by moultano 11y ago
> and that the city should rapidly rebuild itself to accommodate them. On the contrary, the city should rapidly rebuild to accommodate the current residents that the tech workers would otherwise displace. Building benefits everyone, bu
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by moultano 11y ago
I got a 3dio free space for this purpose, and it is awesome. http://3diosound.com/ https://m.soundcloud.com/moultano/bird-blind-at-the-cincinna...
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by moultano 11y ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ That does a good job of explaining it. Space isn't very far away. The difference between getting to space and getting to orbit is the difference between something you can build in your
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by moultano 11y ago
They didn't go to orbit. Not in the same league.
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by moultano 11y ago
http://soundtracker.com/ Best coding music.
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by moultano 11y ago
80 days is one of the finest games I've ever played.
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by moultano 11y ago
I've already seen groups moving on from slack to other services.
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by moultano 11y ago
I don't think that follows. To beat the machine the move must be both unpredicted and profitable. Random moves are not profitable. Training purely by reinforcement learning rather than on humans could create a policy network that ignor
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by moultano 11y ago
Even more importantly, the policy network that chooses which move to explore must choose human like moves in order to function correctly because it must choose to explore the correct moves of Alphago's opponent.
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by moultano 11y ago
Why would you think that similar people living near each other is the result of a coincidence? Abject poverty is likely to have way more impact on kids performance in school than any level of school funding. Whether you want to lump that in
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by moultano 11y ago
>It doesn't, by any measure, appear to be a consequence of the children's efforts. What basis do you have for saying that?
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by moultano 11y ago
And he's opposing current housing increases, based on a fight over open space that happened decades ago and was resoundingly and permanently won by open space. This is not the issue anymore, and it's an idiotic equivalence. The Ba
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by moultano 11y ago
Open space isn't what gets replaced by development. It's molding crumbling strip malls and lead covered, termite infested, low rise apartments. I think you'll find that every proponent of high density housing is also in favor
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by moultano 11y ago
That's terrifying. How do you protect yourself from that? I'm not familiar enough with my bank's phone tree to distinguish the real one.
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by moultano 11y ago
Childcare in the peninsula is hugely expensive even when it is available. 150 person waitlists for 50 kid facilities are the norm. A dirty daycare will run 2k per month, and a nanny around 3k. I'm not sure what the situation is elsewh
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by moultano 11y ago
Consider the Roth IRA backdoor whereby people who have too much income to directly start a roth can start one by converting a traditional IRA. This is directly in conflict with the intent of the law but is now a standard bit of financial ad
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by moultano 11y ago
I appreciate that there is probably more substance to his beliefs than what is presented here, but reading these preposterous claims without any support made this a really irritating interview to read.
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by moultano 11y ago
Mostly I find that it keeps me from worrying too much. My wife and I can just do our best and not be concerned that we are causing irreparable damage. (It also keeps me from caring about parenting fads like TFA. Whatever works for our famil
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by moultano 11y ago
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/692474630205001728 One of the most consistently replicated findings of behavioral genetics is that the environment shared by siblings (parenting) has no effect.
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by moultano 11y ago
Behavioral genetics research has found that "parenting" has little or no effect on most measurable criteria. The scare quotes around parenting are because the definition of it is precise: the component of the child's environm
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by moultano 11y ago
I think it's too hard to explain what's good about the game without spoilers, so the positive reviews don't have much content.
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by moultano 11y ago
I'm a few hours in and have already had so many moments of pure euphoria. It is a full sensory game. It uses my whole brain. Aesthetically, intellectually, even spiritually. A quote in one of the audio logs is so exquisite that I just
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by moultano 11y ago
> "The Witness is maze puzzles. Full Stop." While this is technically true, I really think it gives people the wrong impression. The colored mazes are the universal UI widget but many of them are switchboards that control the e
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by moultano 11y ago
Particularly since one of the connections they postulate is between antibiotics and asthma, I'm curious how they control for respiratory infections which seems like a much more likely common cause.

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