qrendel

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   by qrendel 11y ago

   >Did people in the US hold a grudge against Japan forty years later? Well, actually, some of the ones left alive still do. At least among the few remaining veterans. It's not just the people old enough to have been making decisions,
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   There's actually a pop-culture reference to this early on in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. One of the characters replies to another that he did "two years before the mast" during one of the early cut-scenes. I assume the
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   If anyone's unaware, parent is likely referencing the Robber's Cave experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory#Robb...
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   I couldn't answer exactly, but one guess would be that there is more turnover in relationships at very large universities. In high school you largely move through the same classes with the same people in the same grade, versus college
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   I found college to be an exceedingly isolating environment myself. During my entire time there I don't think I made a single lasting friend, and the people I did meet were mostly brief acquaintances who turned out to be completely untr
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   I take melatonin as a sleeping pill whenever I need to get to sleep, it knocks me right out with less grogginess the next day compared to over-the-counter stuff. My doctor later said it was hit or miss with different people, which is why yo
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   The "lizard people" thing seems hard to believe even at 4%. Maybe that's the number who answered that way on a poll because they thought it was hilarious? (Plus a few who actually believe that.) Checking your source now.
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   by qrendel 11y ago

   1) If every site shut down or removed commenting every time someone was personally attacked, even repeatedly, there'd be no one left. I've sustained my fair share of attacks in the past as well (not on HN), and had some abrasive i
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   by qrendel 12y ago

   tl;dr: Author claims the Bilderburgers and other secretive groups control everything. Disappointing article, and it looked promising in the beginning. Too full of conspiracy theories and straw men, position taking, lots of framing and ad-ho
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    Any publicity is good publicity?
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    Ditto. Started reading it a few weeks ago and just caught up two days before the end. Certainly ranks among my favorite novels now. Almost literally could not put it down until I finished. Thanks, Eliezer.
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    That fairly hostile "article" is not accurate and the basilisk portion has already been responded to previously by Yudkowsky. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2myg86/xkcd_1450_ai
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    If you want some possibly-far-fetched but very high-ROI space investment strategies, have you seen the Phil Metzger et al proposal for rapid bootstrapping of space industry[1][2]? Even if off by orders of magnitude it would still dwarf the
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    And just to be clear here, this isn't just because it can't recognize which numbers are the Busy Beavers as it arrives at them while summing ones indefinitely? If T(N) tries to compute BB(N) by summing ones then, since BB(N) is fi
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    1) My submission: modifying Ackermann's function to describe a sequence of Busy Beaver numbers of sequential hypercomputation systems. E.g. ABB(n+1) = BB_n(n) Of course it's the same problem, you could just as easily do AABB(n+1)
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    by qrendel 12y ago

    I doubt that - most users would probably not pay $10 per month to remain on facebook. The more people who left then the more incentive there would be for more people to leave, since part of the barrier to exit is that many of a user's