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by trevyn 8y ago
> Water in the lungs is never good. Should I stop showering and going in steam rooms too?
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by trevyn 8y ago
It does require continuous readiness to launch nuclear ballistic missiles from a surprise location, otherwise the “mutual” part of mutually assured destruction is less assured: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine-
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by trevyn 8y ago
It sucks for the people being detained right now, but geopolitically there’s not yet a pressing need to stop the Chinese government — the world knows China is without meaningful long-term allies and is weakening on top of that. Xi only seem
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by trevyn 8y ago
> Figuring out what the best content for me for the time I have is the problem. And, of course, sometimes the best choice is no content at all. I do wonder how increasing quantity and quality of content will effect markets and create ne
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by trevyn 8y ago
I find works of philosophical non-fiction written by horror fiction writers useful for not romanticizing the present: “Like many who have tried their hand at metaphysics, Bahnsen declared that, appearances to the contrary, all reality is th
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by trevyn 8y ago
It’s adorable because initiatives like this are designed to get fresh blood into a system, but the people running the system are afraid of fresh blood, so you get selection criteria like this. :)
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by trevyn 8y ago
My personal experience with rich people (including several billionaires) is that there is typically a lot of pressure for their time and attention, both externally and within their own brains. Certain activities, including physical exertion
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by trevyn 8y ago
No, just an indication of available degrees of freedom and evolutionary pressure. It is useful for DNA replication machinery to have error-correction capabilities, does this mean DNA replication machinery has free will?
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by trevyn 8y ago
Sadly, Patrick Collison does not have relevant experience in these areas.
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by trevyn 8y ago
Yes! IMO, it starts making more sense when you start to see why and how delusional cultural beliefs are actually evolutionarily adaptive for the species, and you can start looking for the neurological structures of belief and consciousn
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by trevyn 8y ago
But be aware: The free-will model can be uninstalled from your brain, and this may have interesting side-effects. (Including possibly temporary DPDR, though I wouldn’t necessarily call DPDR a bad thing, just... atypical. And it helps to hav
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by trevyn 8y ago
Consider: It is useful to other human organisms to install a model of free will into you and make you believe that it is a thing that you have.
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by trevyn 8y ago
What if there is no evidence that the path matters, and on top of that, there is evidence that human brains and society are biased toward unjustified belief that the path matters?
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by trevyn 8y ago
There’s a difference between content people “don’t like” and content with a mediocre, but broadly acceptable level of quality. It seems like the real magic is the capability to make a particular piece of content the “thing that prople talk
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by trevyn 8y ago
Read, sure, but skimming for the things that moderators call people out for took me about 30 seconds.
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by trevyn 8y ago
I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big. Metafilter is another example of a small-ish, highly moderated community that does
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by trevyn 8y ago
I think they still serve a purpose — to feed the dictator’s ego.
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by trevyn 8y ago
Well, we’re judged by human brains every day, which are even more opaque.
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by trevyn 8y ago
The carrot to those still living of a beautiful afterlife and the mythos surrounding that seems incredibly useful evolutionarily. That said, it could also just be an implementation quirk. There’s some interesting work out there on what exac
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by trevyn 8y ago
Intentionally focusing conscious attention on the immediate actions you’re taking, preferably the immediate physical actions. Breathing, typing, moving papers, whatever it is. The premise being that a lot of stress is produced by the mental
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by trevyn 8y ago
See the “Zero waste jurisdictions” subhead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_waste#Zero_waste_jurisd... Austin, Vancouver, San Francisco, Boulder. Can personally confirm that it’s a big public propaganda and policy
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by trevyn 8y ago
A friend once said that he tried to design UIs for people who were drunk, high, and tired, all at the same time. They were pretty awesome even when sober and well-rested.
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by trevyn 8y ago
This is just a language issue. A fun technique: try to have this discussion with someone while banning the word “life” and its derivatives from the discussion. It usually turns out that you’re arguing over the preferred definition of an Eng
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by trevyn 8y ago
> Get married, buy a house, have kids. Then you know you have to finish your work because you are responsible for others. That’s like shooting yourself in the leg because you want stronger arms, and putting yourself in a wheelchair will
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by trevyn 8y ago
Jurisdiction.
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by trevyn 8y ago
All developing countries have ineffective enforcement of laws, as well — that’s one of the defining criteria.
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by trevyn 8y ago
You might be even more shocked if you leave first-world countries. Human brutality runs deep, and you can still find it displayed openly on the majority of Earth’s land mass.
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by trevyn 8y ago
Hey, if Stalin could do it: “The scientists and engineers at a sharashka were prisoners picked from various camps and prisons and assigned to work on scientific and technological problems for the state.” - https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by trevyn 8y ago
I think this is less true and/or relevant than you claim. If a 10 on the Yudkowsky ambition scale is “I think I know how to hack the computer that the universe is running on”, I propose 9.5: I know how to hack the computer that my per
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by trevyn 8y ago
In action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg

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