senekerim

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by senekerim 11y ago
OTOH if you've reached a point where you are ready to accept both 'A' and 'not A', you need to go back and re-examine your premises/assumptions (sort of a real life example of reductio ad absurdum). Related exa
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by senekerim 11y ago
I have been to lots of interviews, on both sides of the table. I find most interviewers unprepared to evaluate the person for the role, and instead exercise their own biases, stroke their egos, etc. It's largely a voodoo practice that
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by senekerim 11y ago
It's definitely not perfect, but it's much better than any alternatives I have seen. Would love to take a look if there are any good proposals based on S-Expressions or other computer-era notations.
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by senekerim 11y ago
Math notation is actually pretty great and is a result of multiple iterations. Earlier forms were much worse. S-Expressions by themselves are obviously not enough, you have to introduce at least first-order logic notation, set notation, etc
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by senekerim 11y ago
This looks awful to my (mathematically trained) eyes. What is the rationale behind introducing this language feature?
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by senekerim 11y ago
This is one of those cases where you can't really extrapolate from history. At least linearly extrapolate.
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by senekerim 11y ago
This is written by a person who doesn't know what he's talking about. Any time people diss Bayesian stats and name Yudkowsky in their argument (a controversial guy without a high school degree), they haven't got a clue what t
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by senekerim 11y ago
> I haven't dismissed the conclusions, just said I disagree with many of them. Earlier: > If they uncover anything, it is the very interesting political foundations of a group of people That sounds like a classic dismissal to me.
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by senekerim 11y ago
> However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you. Where did I say that it follows? Also, AFAIK Robin Hanson is a
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by senekerim 11y ago
> something Sheldon Cooper would write One might view this as a style/personality jab rather than an issue with rigor. All I'm saying is Sheldon Cooper types have moved things forward for the rest of society more often than peo
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by senekerim 11y ago
> They (and his earlier co-author Robin Hanson) also like to reduce things to signaling, basically saying that education is just to show off and raise one's status by acquiring pieces of paper, but if you really want to get things d
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by senekerim 11y ago
I'm not here to defend the particular social movement that grew around these guys, even though they are right about some things, like catastrophic risks tied to new tech (which certain academics are quick to dismiss). And I get the p
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by senekerim 11y ago
It's not really a cheat, as it produces the MLE (i.e. most likely) estimate under certain assumptions (e.g. errors are normally distributed, which occurs naturally if the errors are large sums of many unrelated measurements errors).
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by senekerim 11y ago
One reason is that people's innate probability engine is broken, so they can't correctly figure out what's best for them (in expectation). This applies both to individuals and to civilization as a whole.
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by senekerim 11y ago
Also from the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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by senekerim 11y ago
To be fair, Armenia has taken in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. It's not covered anywhere in the news (doesn't fit any convenient narrative, like the one you outlined), but as far as I recall it's one of the top hosts
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by senekerim 11y ago
> There is virtually nothing in this field that I feel I couldn't learn given books and free time Nah, you just don't know what you don't know. There are subjects that are hard to pick up outside of a real course with an i
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by senekerim 11y ago
The influence may be negligible, but it's theoretically there. The decision-maker is part of the same system (decision is happening within a system of neurons augmented with electronic tools, all of which exist in the same physical rea
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by senekerim 11y ago
I haven't read the paper, nor am I an expert, but the assumption (i) sounds fishy "the decision of which measurement is performed on a quantum system can be made independently of the system". By fishy, I mean obviously false.
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by senekerim 11y ago
Armenian. Mostly agricultural terms AFAIK. The word for apple (xnzor) is one that I remember.
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by senekerim 11y ago
That is beyond cool :) Thanks
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by senekerim 11y ago
Fascinating. I speak a language from the area that still uses some Hurrian vocabulary, I always imagined these guys are my distant ancestors. Would be cool to actually hear the songs...