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by ujki1 5y ago
While he is still uses the pseudonym Scott Alexander, he has told his real name in Astral Codex Ten so I don't believe it's supposed to be a secret anymore.
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by ujki1 6y ago
I think the question is about technologies that help to reduce the abuse of power, even if they don't prevent the abuse entirely.
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by ujki1 6y ago
One way I use figure out if addiction is harmful is to consider: if I could freely edit my brain to make this thing no longer pleasurable, would I do it? I think some of the activities that are generally labelled as addictive can still be g
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by ujki1 6y ago
One additional reason for reducing addiction is that addictions like video games can make your baseline of 'fun' too high, so doing productive things doesn't feel fun even though it would otherwise.
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by ujki1 6y ago
> Unfortunately, the more you focus on advertising the less you focus on technical knowledge. If the law of diminishing returns applies, it's better to spend time on improving multiple skills or knowledge instead of focusing on just
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Behind the Wall(restofworld.org)
2 points by ujki1 6y ago|0 comments
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by ujki1 6y ago
If the original developer didn't care if the variable will be reassigned, in which situations can it be useful to know of that intent? >The problem with these arguments is that they tend to fall short of justifying how constraining
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by ujki1 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967716 has some good resources. I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device), so only one player needs to buy the game.
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by ujki1 6y ago
The police only kills about 1000 people per year in the USA, and some of those kills are justified. Including it in the same list as global warming is IMO an example of 'Availability bias means that after we see negativity, we overesti
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by ujki1 6y ago
I wonder if some of these are just complete images picked from the training set. For instance, this seems too good to have been generated: https://twitter.com/GoodKingSolomon/status/12552790818196848...
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Ask HN: Acceptable probability of endangering someone's health for no reason
2 points by ujki1 6y ago|0 comments
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by ujki1 6y ago
That statement could mean at least two things. If someone doesn't care about his own privacy (but avoids endangering others' privacy when sharing information about himself), then that's his personal decision. One can list som