aantthony

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by aantthony 2y ago
That’s what I thought too. For example if they “control” for factors like IQ or social economic status, then the correlations will be reduced. This isn’t a surprise unless you think the delay of gratification is itself the cause of success
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by aantthony 2y ago
Which one is more respectful is a different question. The lowest entropy option would still be the most likely gender specific pronoun. This would depend on the language, of course.
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by aantthony 2y ago
I’m not asserting why they were developed in the first place. The comment is just about which one is used, supposing that they already exist. Choosing the more stereotypical option (even if it’s only 51%) is a more efficient encoding in an
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by aantthony 2y ago
One interesting thing to do is use a model directly like Llama and then query the next-token probability logits for "he" and "she" (assuming you set up the sentence in such a way). For example: "A doctor was examini
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by aantthony 2y ago
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by aantthony 2y ago
There is also one more kind of undefined, which is undefined as a type: the string value "undefined" for `typeof undefined`
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by aantthony 4y ago
Ah, yes. The definition I tried to use was from Wikipedia, in full: "In mathematics, a set is countable if either it is finite or it can be made in one to one correspondence with the set of natural numbers." I missed the part wher
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by aantthony 4y ago
If a set is countable, then there exists a mapping which is a one-to-one correspondence between the items and the natural numbers (that’s the definition of countable). This correspondence would always allow you to determine the “next” item
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by aantthony 6y ago
I want the staking mechanism to incentivise truth. Binary votes don't provide such a system. Binary votes (aka polls) can be useful to gauge opinions, but are insufficient to aggregate knowledge, and can easily be manipulated. Take for
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by aantthony 6y ago
Hey, thanks. Yes I’ve seen them. Trustory was pretty cool. They started with fact-based statements I think, but then transitioned to any kind of debate. Ended up closing down though: https://medium.com/trustory-app/why-
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by aantthony 6y ago
I agree with you this is important. > verifiably false speech Since social media companies can't be trusted to make that decision, I'm more worried that what they censor was true speech. Why? Because if it was false, they could
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by aantthony 6y ago
> My guess is pretty much never I'm not able to know how often it could prevent such slander in those times, but we can look at the incentives. In those times, the authorities (church, newspapers) had central control over the main n
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by aantthony 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > What is the process for overturning a ruling? The staking is open for 7 days, so discussion and adding more stakes is fine during that phase. But after 7 days, since it's tokens, it cannot reverse
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by aantthony 6y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Just to be clear, its more than a show of hands because you choose how many tokens you want to stake. So in the Reddit example, if those 5% were willing to stake more, they’d have majority. I chose to not go with a
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by aantthony 6y ago
Hey everyone, This is a project I'm working on to get more truth on the internet. If deemed factual by the network, you gain more tokens from those who voted opposite to you. It uses the logarithmic market scoring rule (LMSR), and afte
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by aantthony 6y ago
Yep you are right. I should have said geocentricity.
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by aantthony 6y ago
I also reject platonism. I really don't mean to imply changing these norms was easy, or is only a matter of putting the information out there disregarding material conditions and then just hoping for the best. It seems that having free
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by aantthony 6y ago
Communism collapsed intellectually in the West after the economic collapse of the USSR and the relevant death tolls. I know China is communist, but in democratic countries, for the most part, communism is an idea that died off.
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by aantthony 6y ago
Both flat earth and geocentricity were ideas that died out, but yes, geocentricity.
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by aantthony 6y ago
Yes that is a good point. The link I gave mentions that study, and says it has failed replication attempts. I think the truth is more nuanced - there are ways it can be more effective and yes sometimes counter-effective. But that doesn&#x27
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by aantthony 6y ago
No. stevebmark said "I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it" So I gave examples of some ideas that did in fact die out when people learned about them and scr
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by aantthony 6y ago
> That people thought the Earth was flat before Galileo is a meme. Even Ancient Greeks knew it was round. Well knowledge wasn't spread as easily, and could be lost. People knew, then they didn't and so on. It doesn't detra
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by aantthony 6y ago
My comment wasn't about whether people knew these practices were occurring. People knew they were occurring. The mere public existence of an idea (like in some dusty old book that nobody reads) is not sufficient to change majority opti
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by aantthony 6y ago
I meant they didn't know the truth about them. They obviously knew that slavery was occurring.
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by aantthony 6y ago
Why has the goalpost moved from an idea dying out, to dying out within one day? And who is "we"? > Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years That's not true. People didn't kn
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by aantthony 6y ago
> What evidence do you have for this? I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it. There is a significant amount of evidence for it. For example, one could measure the e
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by aantthony 6y ago
Fascistic/authoritarian control of platforms is not compatible with the principles of free speech that allow our society to be free. Calling for censorship based on any wing, is wrong. People should be allowed to express their views, a
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by aantthony 6y ago
I think the censorship is for political reasons rather than for misinformation. David Icke has been spreading misinformation for years (e.g. lizard people) but that isn't political. COVID-19 is.
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by aantthony 6y ago
Thanks for your response. 3. I agree its not justified to say all authorities by their nature are untrustworthy, and that was an escalation of rhetoric. But I would say this though, that “authorities” (in scare quotes) are untrustworthy if

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