Purplehermann

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by Purplehermann 2y ago
Nope. Raising children to be moral and not kill people is good. Stopping people (including by force) from being murderers is good. Restrict AI the way you would if it were human
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
"Your kids should take one for society" is an atrocious pitch. "Your kids should be stuck with people who ruin their lives because criminals are" is also terrible. The correct response is moving problem kids to problem s
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
Well no, the environment is probably easier to deal with than our bodies, and we get replaced gen by gen.
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
The brain is insanely energy efficient, this is not the same as intelligence efficient
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
What if an app allows landlords to easily coordinate on prices?
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
The higher the margins, the more wealthy people will want to build houses to rent them out. At some number of vacant houses the algorithm changes
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
Giving notice is helpful
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
A less quackish way to say the same thing is that a scientific paradigm tells people along which lines to look for answers. Looking at areas the paradigm doesn't recommend are generally not worthwhile, but occasionally you get somethin
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
Well that's it then, we're gonna die
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
How could anything be positively predicted by gender? More seriously, selection effects should be much stronger than gender, age and ethnicity, and yet there should still be some correlation in one direction or another, wish there were powe
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Ask HN: What are the best ways to increase tech capability over time?
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by Purplehermann 2y ago
Link?
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by Purplehermann 3y ago
When things are just.. wrong, there's not much reason to be specific. Especially when gwern.net has multiple long-form blog posts discussing these topics
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by Purplehermann 3y ago
While the author's framing is wrong, aren't there genes that have positive dominant effects and negative recessive effects?
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by Purplehermann 3y ago
On the one hand yes, on the other I want to genetically engineer chickens to lay multiple purple eggs daily
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by Purplehermann 3y ago
Depends how cheap gene editing gets. If you can mass-produce adenoviruses that improve iq 15 points and health significantly, that's going to be way cheaper than nutrition, forget education and of course opportunity. Of course, better