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by pmichaud 7y ago
The Orthogonality Thesis[1][2] states that the ethics of a given mind is orthogonal to its intelligence. [1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orthogonality_thesis [2] https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content&
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by pmichaud 7y ago
I know nothing, wild speculation follows. I'm pretty sure it's "easy" to tell an entrance from an exit, especially with a hollow point bullet (basically like an explosion out of the exit). Even without the explosion thi
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by pmichaud 7y ago
Programming is more like trades than you think. A bad plumber might occasionally cause a flood, just like a bad programmer might occasionally cause a hard crash during an important sales presentation, but actually bad plumbers use sub par m
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by pmichaud 7y ago
I imagine the person you're asking was talking about fines being regressive in the sense that if a wealthy person receives a $100 fine for speeding or parking violations, it's basically nothing, but the same $100 represents a day
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by pmichaud 7y ago
Pedestrian culture in that area is weird. There's a general region which I think centers on Berkeley, but definitely includes Oakland, in which pedestrians have right of way (in some cases legally, in others just culturally/in exp
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by pmichaud 7y ago
I think the author could benefit from getting feedback from some people who work in ai safety full time.
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by pmichaud 7y ago
Often when children go missing the parents are responsible or complicit in some way. People write things down all the time -- a google account may contain incriminating emails, IM messages, or other documents such as journal entries. I&#x27
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I wish I had more time to write about this, because it's an important topic to me, but I think this actually has shifted over time. I believe it's not a smart phone / social media thing per se, it's a modernity thing, an
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by pmichaud 8y ago
What you're saying makes some sense, but I think you're wrong. I have never nor am I ever likely to read the spec sheet of different shoes to determine which to buy. I don't know what I'd learn by looking at that anyway,
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I think there's social and legal precedent the differentiates between a generally useful tool that can be used in the commission of violence (eg. cars), and a tool specifically meant for the commission of violence (eg. guns).
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by pmichaud 8y ago
This is just false. Cynicism isn't a substitute for knowledge.
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I really strongly disagree with this. I don't have much time to write, but: 1. Photo manipulation has been extremely destructive in a variety of ways. People "know" that photoshop is a thing, yet fake pictures abound at all l
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by pmichaud 8y ago
Look, I really don't want to be antagonistic here, but this is a pet peeve of mine re: science. Plus psychology and group dynamics in particular are a big part of my field... so I'm going to engage here, and I just want you to kno
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I read quite a bit of the discussion here, and I’m struck: People railing against anti-scientific attitudes by spouting the first shit they made up that makes some intuitive sense to them about psychology and/or group dynamics. I wonde
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by pmichaud 8y ago
> If you are able to recruit founders to work with each other, you didn't prove anything that couldn't be just as easily proven by recruiting a VC to invest in you. Eh, I think this is spurious. The specific post you're re
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I think the answer is that peer review is essentially broken for finding specific technical errors, and that most errors like this are never acknowledged and don’t lead to retractions, even when they are found which they often are not.
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by pmichaud 8y ago
We're not really talking about "the average game" either though, otherwise we'd have to include "the average movie" which must necessarily--like games--include amateur and very low budget projects. We're t
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by pmichaud 8y ago
One thing I am confused about (maybe more like suspicious about) is why fines for stuff like this aren't more onerous. There are lots of businesses that just factor in the cost of the fines which are way less than the total margin. If
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by pmichaud 8y ago
Something like this happens, actually. It's often in the clothing of small nonprofits with small teams of people who are brilliant, or who are basically the support department of the 1 or 2 funded geniuses. Question mark on the efficac
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I think the claim is more like the Kardashians play dumb characters [who happen to have their real-life names].
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I suspect the people who complain about various things are not the same people buying those same things. It's not a willpower or hypocrisy problem, it's a coordination problem.
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by pmichaud 8y ago
This thread has sunk into absurdity. I assume at this point that you are a hilarious troll, but in case you are actually serious: virtually everything you said is wrong on a basic level you could verify with Wikipedia or whatever.
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're valuing by reposting versions of this comment in multiple places in this thread, but it seems like you think he should have given more money to science. Speaking as someone who works in a nonprofit trying
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I'm a little surprised that other places with military conflicts (eg. middle east) or paramilitary conflicts (eg. Mexico) aren't higher? Maybe those are counted differently?
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So of course if you get stuck romanticizing them forever, you never quite get over the feeling that something irrevocably lost. One workable strategy is to think of them in a bad light, to consciously say to yourself: they weren't that
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I have issues with this model. I have no doubt that the strategy "works," but I think it lacks a coherent model of why it works. So the recommended strategies are unnecessarily rough or negative, in my view. One thing I agree with
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I found this answer to the Fermi Paradox compelling: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissol...
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by pmichaud 8y ago
It's an interesting idea, but the critical issue with it is that it's not illegal to be bad at driving. That could change, but that's how it is now.
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This gets complicated. At risk of putting something that could be misquoted, I am generally willing to play the game that people force me to play. I want to play the "everyone gets along and supports each others' goals by being re
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by pmichaud 8y ago
The money shot: "The distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence depends on whether the influencer is trying to get someone to make some sort of mistake in what he thinks, feels, doubts or pays attention to." I

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