rebelos

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by rebelos 4y ago
What was your level of practice before going into the retreat? Did you go in 'cold'? What would you recommend for people who are considering it?
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by rebelos 4y ago
I've got a news flash for you about the scientists that America is educating...
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by rebelos 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Sentience is inherently goal-oriented. The goal of a human is to propagate genetic information. AGI will invariably have to be supplied with a goal by us or else there is literally no impetus to act.
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by rebelos 4y ago
> Once you educate yourself more you can make more sophisticated investments. There are countless well-capitalized and mostly underperforming hedge funds that were built on this premise.
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by rebelos 4y ago
I've always assumed that the trouble will begin when we have a model for 'true' AGI and discover that the constraint "do not harm any human" renders it functionally inert.
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by rebelos 4y ago
This is the best answer here. All memories decay unless you practice recall in the appropriate manner. And I agree with the theory that practicing recall is likely to improve your brain's overall capacity for recollection. That would r
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by rebelos 4y ago
Von Neumann had a memory that was considered exceptional even amongst those of the various geniuses of his time. He's one of very few humans regarded as having had close to a photographic memory.
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by rebelos 4y ago
This suggests a good answer for why he’s so sensitive to shadowy conspiracies and bad faith actors (re: the mob rant): he was indulging in some of it himself. Not that we should assume this absolves Stripe. There seems to be some circumstan
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by rebelos 4y ago
> eating a high fiber diet like most humans did for most of evolutionary time Can supplementation be an effective substitute for fiber derived from real foods? If so, are there any particular kinds of supplements you'd recommend?
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by rebelos 4y ago
Some of this is unforgivable, but reflecting on it I also realized that software engineering at quant firms has an almost impossible mandate. You want something akin to the extreme rigor of mission critical software (airplanes, cars, NASA,
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Ask HN: Is anyone else experiencing 'AI dread'?
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by rebelos 5y ago
A simple answer to your conundrum could be how he manages his cadence and deals with pressure. Programming isn't especially difficult in my opinion. In many cases, sheer throughput seems to have a lot more to do with success than raw t
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by rebelos 5y ago
> The key difference is that central bankers were in a very different state of mind in 2008. MMT realy imposed itself post 2008. > So while it's relevant to brace for a small crash due to interest rates adjustments if inflation c
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by rebelos 5y ago
You seem to be implying that an increase in money supply has to be the only catalyst for outsized annual S&P returns, and I'm not following that logic.
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by rebelos 5y ago
This is only a problem if you receive a windfall. Otherwise you should simply be continuously investing some portion of your income at all times.
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by rebelos 5y ago
And that's very relevant when you're talking about FIRE. You shouldn't have to liquidate any substantial part of your portfolio at one time. Once you're no longer on your own income, you should plan ahead with a 1-2 ye
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by rebelos 5y ago
This shouldn't be a problem if you're invested. There's a reason the S&P went up almost 30% this year - a lot of it was an adjustment for the boost in money supply.
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by rebelos 5y ago
You can't predict how things will evolve in 50 years but, as you have suggested, there are various (often simple) ideas and concepts that are timelessly useful. So develop a personal system for storing knowledge, keep adding to it, and
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by rebelos 5y ago
> When they make tests optional they can admit more Black students without having to report their test scores. I want to make explicit that what you're describing here is racism, because I think many people have kind of lost sight o
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by rebelos 5y ago
Very surprised I didn't see this mentioned already: make sure you don't have any kind of sleep problem. If you wake up feeling unrested, look tired, struggle with energy or sleepiness during the day, or otherwise feel like somethi
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by rebelos 5y ago
What's especially stupid about this is that almost nobody knows that we have a quite workable backup plan (solar geoengineering). It's not ideal but at some point it will have to be deployed. It'll be relatively cost effectiv
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by rebelos 5y ago
If you think there's no level of piracy as a fraction of total consumption that would destroy the economics of content production, then I'm afraid you're too unreasonable a person for me to engage with successfully.
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by rebelos 5y ago
This is certainly possible. Watch all of your content in theaters with all copies of the content as heavily secured as possible (physically and digitally)
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by rebelos 5y ago
Please feel free to read the next sentence.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> My recall 20 years later is excellent, so this is not cramming. Then one of the following is true: you have an exceptional memory, have been reviewing the content since then, or are dramatically overestimating your recall. It has littl
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by rebelos 5y ago
It's not hard to see how piracy threatens the entire business model. You can have rampant piracy or you can have financially sustainable content production. You cannot have both. There is some critical mass of piracy that would in fact
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by rebelos 5y ago
If you're looking to work with someone on this, reach out here: revoh98186 at kibwot.com (temporary email). I'm a fullstack dev with an interest in finance/trading and scouting for a side project.
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by rebelos 5y ago
No, you don't understand. A combination of normal housing price inflation and lower mortgage rates can easily explain that result.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> Although Google leaves open the technical possibility for Android consumers to acquire some apps without using the Play Store, this can only be accomplished through a competing app store installed on the device (either through preloadi
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by rebelos 5y ago
> Dubbed the Open App Markets Act, it would let you install apps from places other than Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store, which both come pre-installed on iPhones and Androids, respectively. > The industry calls that

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