themeiguoren

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   by themeiguoren 8y ago

   It should be noted that you don’t need satellites in GSO to triangulate signals between satellites and the ground. It’s not a much more difficult technical problem to have a table of the full ephemeris data for a bunch of satellites in lo
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   by themeiguoren 8y ago

   So my counter to that is that Givewell only recommends causes which have published evidence demonstrating their efficacy. It completely misses these more speculative “fat tail” causes, such as life extension or existential risk reduction.
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   by themeiguoren 9y ago

   So I was one of the volunteers for this study - they accepted people based on a threshold of an official IQ test, or SAT/ACT scores. I forget if it was 99th percentile or higher. I heard about it on LessWrong way back while they were s
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   by themeiguoren 11y ago

   I have a pair of magnetic finger implants. Afters seeing how detailed their printing was, my first thought was using metal as a medium to send secret messages. A magnetic brail if you will.