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by philh 11y ago
Zooming back in, do you disagree with the mechanism I described, by which your cheating hurts people?
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by philh 11y ago
It hurts, to a small extent, the people who don't cheat. They have six fewer hours to work in, their work gets compared to work which was created under different (easier) conditions. Even if there's no curve, it increases your gra
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by philh 11y ago
Finding the exploit and taking advantage of it are different. "I discovered that if you rip the tags out of a library book, you can just walk out with it and the alarm won't go off!" For some people, that would be a significa
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by philh 11y ago
> intense economic coupling to slavery, very large regional identity defined by slavery, &c If we wish this to be relevant to the current discussion: do you think the US has intense economic coupling to few-women-in-tech? Large regio
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by philh 11y ago
> instead of just downvoting me like the others did FWIW, I downvoted your original comment on this thread (and only that one) for being vague, snarky and dismissive. If you wish people to engage with you, I recommend not starting off li
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by philh 11y ago
You've gone from there being only a "remote chance" that the rules were followed, and "I don't trust anyone involved" - to there being "a chance" that they were broken. Under common interpretations of
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by philh 11y ago
We have Eliezer winning three games as an AI. That's at least four people who you think are just outright lying. Plus, the other two players who won as gatekeepers - Eliezer would presumably have tried to cheat against them, too.
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by philh 11y ago
> If you think you know how to win, then go out and win. There's no shortage of people willing to play as gatekeepers against you. My impression is that most people think they could win as gatekeepers, not AIs, and there are fewer p
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by philh 11y ago
FWIW, I've spoken to someone who claimed to have won as an AI. I don't remember how she said she did it, but it wasn't like this. I'm pretty sure she was playing in-character. She also said it was emotionally exhausting.
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by philh 11y ago
> The easiest way to inoculate yourself against a persuasive technique is to be aware of it ahead of time. Or you can avoid being exposed to it. If you think you know all the techniques an AI might use against you, you're less likel
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by philh 11y ago
Throwing an idea out there - I haven't received many thank-you comments, but my favourite along those lines came through my anonymous feedback form, http://sayat.me/philh . If there was a community norm of people havi
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by philh 11y ago
I looked too, and solve's comments all seemed to be either at the bottom, or below every comment that wasn't downvoted or dead. Do you have a counterexample? I think it's reasonably likely that rank-banning is real and that s
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by philh 11y ago
Something I've long been curious about: Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, but he got the test backwards, and, when the sense switch was turned on, the program would cheat, winning every time. This doesn'
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by philh 11y ago
When I've had people explicitly say "thanks", that's meant more to me than upvotes. There's a danger of arms races, and I wouldn't want an explicit thanks to be the default way to express approval, but it doe
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by philh 11y ago
That sounds to me like PH's community standards are very close to "be civil", where they've unpacked the word "civil". Can you give an example of something that you think would be considered civil by HN standar
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by philh 11y ago
> it takes twice as much evidence to be 99% sure as it is to be 98% sure. Not twice as much evidence. Evidence needs to be measured logarithmically. (Otherwise you'd say it takes twice as much evidence to be 67% sure as 50% sure (2:
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by philh 11y ago
It's second to IE in both those metrics, but "percentage of bugs that are high severity" seems like a strange thing to be measuring in any case.
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How to submit a drive-by patch and get it accepted(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by philh 11y ago
My bad. It looks like the link was to a pre-publication draft, but it has indeed since been published.
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by philh 11y ago
> Man can be far from being best fit for raising children and still forward his genes to next generation. This would seem to predict that men show less variance than women in whether or not they forward their genes. They actually show mo
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by philh 11y ago
I think so. I've heard (and repeated) it many times, and I don't recall ever hearing it disputed. I'd be surprised and embarrassed if it was untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intell
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by philh 11y ago
In the sense that they guessed the rule correctly. The correct answer was the dominant hypothesis in my mind before I tried any sequences, and others here report the same.
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by philh 11y ago
Yes, I'm curious what heuristics it used there. Playing the confirmation bias game on "playthroughs of the confirmation bias game": it looks like you get that message if you have a 'no' answer, and the word 'in
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by philh 11y ago
If you're taking that from the article, I think you misread it. > Remarkably, 78 percent of people who have played this game so far have guessed the answer without first hearing a single no. Some of those 78% probably got it right,
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by philh 11y ago
If that rhetoric had never been used to justify a genocide, would you decide it was actually true? If not, then the fact that it has, doesn't make it false. (I make no judgment about the claim itself, just about the argumentation.)
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by philh 11y ago
> Ireland would have vaguely similar rents to the UK discounting London At first, this seemed wildly implausible. But back of the envelope, it requires house prices to be about 3x higher in London (15% of the UK) than elsewhere. That see
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by philh 11y ago
To clarify, I was careful not to call ESR a racist. (I was attempting to describe his positions in terms that I think he'd agree with.) And I haven't seen anyone else explicitly do so on this thread, which is good going for HN.
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by philh 11y ago
> ESR's political views call much of his work into question. Presumably this question, whatever it is, can be answered by looking at his work. Do you think ESR's technical work and technical writings fail to stand up to scrutin
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by philh 11y ago
Political in the sense that they have been politicized. And in the sense that a lot of people seem to believe the questions are Settled For Good, and anyone who disagrees with them is Just Plain Ignorant and/or Lying For Personal Benef
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by philh 11y ago
If someone writes something, it's "true" or "false" regardless of their political opinions. On the other hand, someone's political opinions change what they're likely to write, so if you don't know wh

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