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by zyxley 12y ago
It's entertaining to contrast the writer's comments about typewriters to the modern popularity of apps like Hanx Writer.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Stupid password requirements inevitably conflict with the random per-site passwords generated by Safari and iOS, LastPass, 1Password, etc.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I honestly wonder how many of the Pebble Time backers are people who initially got hyped up over the Apple Watch, then decided they didn't want to deal with a watch with only 18 hours battery life.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Given Clarkson's immense popularity and the mention in the article of him having already gotten a "final warning", he must have really made a tremendous ass of himself on set over the last while to now get the boot.
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by zyxley 12y ago
The key parts of Access aren't that it can have SQL queries, it's that it (a) has a UI where you can easily edit tables (without worrying much about schemas and so on), (b) has a UI where you can plug tables into WYSIWYG-edited re
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by zyxley 12y ago
No side jacket? It'd be interesting to see a project like this that uses just the side jackets with the titles to create a "bookshelf poster" that can be laid out wallpaper style.
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by zyxley 12y ago
> The whole point is that the model is bad. That doesn't seem to be Yudkowsky's argument.
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by zyxley 12y ago
What I see here is proof that this is a bad model that produces insane results, rather than it proving that I've made a bad decision.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I care about impact on people, not neuronal activity, and the point I'm making is that there's a minimum below which the real impact on a given person, considered in aggregate with the impact of everything else that's a part
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by zyxley 12y ago
But that's assuming that unpleasantness per individual is a continuous function always distinguishable from normal human experience, rather than something like a line eventually rising from the discontinuous murky soup that contains al
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by zyxley 12y ago
> you do not just publicly publish information hazards that might be real But... for "might be real" to be valid at all, you have to buy into the Roko's basilisk concept in the first place. If you don't, there's
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by zyxley 12y ago
> The basic reason it should follow is that not doing so makes you inconsistent and exploitable I still don't understand whatever framework you're trying to put forward here. How does preferring specks over torture in some absu
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by zyxley 12y ago
> and that point is the point at which I determine that the hurt falls under the threshold I would expect every person to be prepared to sacrifice for any other person. That seems like a good way to put it. The number of people doesn&#x2
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by zyxley 12y ago
Having a speck of dust in one's eye will change the course of life in a tiny way for any given person, true, but unless we're postulating an even more absurd edge case like "everyone blinking at exactly the same time makes a
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by zyxley 12y ago
> If you prefer 10000000000000000000000000000000000 dust-specks over 1 tortures, then you should prefer to continuously blind someone with dust specks over taking a 0.0000000000000001% chance that they will torture someone. I fail to see
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by zyxley 12y ago
> Basically I think you're just rounding something down to zero which isn't quite zero. It's too small to express, but it's not zero Why not? I'm entirely comfortable saying that the lasting lifetime impact of a
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by zyxley 12y ago
He does. He says so explicitly in the comments. > I'll go ahead and reveal my answer now: Robin Hanson was correct, I do think that TORTURE is the obvious option, and I think the main instinct behind SPECKS is scope insensitivity.
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by zyxley 12y ago
> Which - keeping in mind that at the time I had absolutely no idea this would all blow up the way it did - caused me to yell quite loudly at Roko for violating ethics given his own premises, I mean really, WTF? You're going to get
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by zyxley 12y ago
Well, if you reverse everything, you've got predominantly left-handed nega-humans made out of antimatter.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Yudkowsky's "good", at that of his fans, also tends to be naively utilitarian, ignoring modern development of that philosophy (see his whole "it's better for one person to be tortured for 50 years than for a very la
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by zyxley 12y ago
Hah, I just came here specifically to comment about this. As an American tourist, the popularity of those garishly animated pharmacie signs in Paris was one of the subtly weirdest things about a number of countries in Europe that I've
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by zyxley 12y ago
>As long as they don't follow the Final Fantasy route - releasing the same game on 10 different platforms Something in the style of Steam's multiple-platforms-with-one-purchase support would be interesting, though I imagine put
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by zyxley 12y ago
Rent control wouldn't have nearly this much of a distortive effect on the SF housing market if SF actually had enough housing in the first place.
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by zyxley 12y ago
>Do you object that a pin prick is bad? That depends on the context. If it's acupuncture, for example, it can be quite good, even if the precise sensation is exactly the same as the otherwise unpleasant case of poking myself with a
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by zyxley 12y ago
For some reason HN won't let me reply to Houshalter's post, but... > objectively How can pain be objective? The universe doesn't give a shit that some lumpy sacks of meat dislike certain experiences, and exactly the same a
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by zyxley 12y ago
> What exactly are you objecting to? That some arbitrarily minimal amount of subjective pain can be presumed to be actually distinguishable from the general background unpleasantness of being human in the first place. Edit: Rephrased to
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by zyxley 12y ago
> If you round down before multiplying, then you get an invalid answer. Your argument here is based on the premise that the subjectively-inflicted-pain of "a whole lot of specks of dust in a person's eye" can be treated as
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by zyxley 12y ago
So... just saying here, but with "Siri" in the name, the first thing the title made me think was "oh, is it a clever hack to pipe Siri's processed text into a different program?".
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by zyxley 12y ago
Looking at my own typing, my left hand tends to float as far right as N, with the Y/H/B and U/J/N columns changing hand depending the word but my right hand almost universally a bit right of "home row" so my pi
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by zyxley 12y ago
> I think the issue is that people tend to round down "speck of dust" to 0, then multiply, then find of course any amount of torture isn't worth 0. Why not round it down to 0? There's some level of discomfort in every

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