arvinjoar

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by arvinjoar 1y ago
"Doesn't make sense for us but mandated by policy" is a super common phenomenon that you'll sadly encounter all the time in the industry. Especially when it comes to security. In this case it's at least motivated by
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by arvinjoar 2y ago
"it would be cool if ..." runs into "but effort" and dies, while "it sucks that ..." is something that gnaws at you
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by arvinjoar 3y ago
If you're playing Terraforming Mars you want to build your "engine", in terms of resources or points generated per turn. The usual way to achieve this efficiently is to use up as much of your current resources as possible, so
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by arvinjoar 3y ago
https://picrankr.com - upload pictures and have friends rank them. I've already showed it to enough people to know about some of the issues the idea has, and will improve it whenever I find the time . Some issues: - most is
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by arvinjoar 4y ago
Yeah, it's a good example of lindy
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Squaring the Heartland(arvinja.com)
2 points by arvinjoar 4y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 8y ago
Pretty sure that is because of metals. Living things die when boiling anyway
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by arvinjoar 8y ago
FYI: The author of this blog post also wrote "How to do research at the MIT AI Research Lab". While it's fair to suspect he may not be fully up to scratch with how things are done, he should have a pretty good overview
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by arvinjoar 8y ago
You can't look only at track record. Afaik they have an unreasonable amount of infantry for purely defensive purposes. They're #3 globally in terms of firepower, of course they won't create trouble until they're reasonab
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by arvinjoar 8y ago
I got really stressed out by Trump winning, but I still think the backlash against social media and tech companies has a lot to do with the establishment being afraid of losing power. When the Arab Spring happens, the free flow of informa
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
The author can't have listened much to Thiel. He certainly doesn't speak without a filter, most of what he says he will repeat in interview after interview, for years. Every now and then he adds something new, but that thing is se
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Shulgin was pretty weird, but maybe not as weird as some of the others.
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Panasonic must be very happy about this plan
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
When is enough enough? No-one gets to say. For better or for worse, a race to the bottom is a coordination problem where the incentive is always to be the defecting party. This means that however well-intentioned you are, global capitalism
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Yes, a thousand times this. First of all, regex in the wild (e.g. Perl regex) is much more powerful than the CS version (that can only handle regular languages). This point is often conceded though from the "don't use regex to par
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
David Chapman, the author of "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab" is currently writing a book on meta-rationality over at meaningness.com. Highly recommended. A taste from the blog outside of the book: https://meaning
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Recommended by Peter Thiel
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Why give it away? Could be spent on some pretty amazing projects that would otherwise not happen, with enough imagination.
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
Sunk cost, just stop
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by arvinjoar 9y ago
This interests me, who would I contact to sell that slave coal? Do they use external recruiters? Any pointers would be appreciated
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
HN thread from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209228
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“Fake News” Is a Symptom of Bad Epistemology(arvinja.com)
2 points by arvinjoar 10y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
Kind of proving my point? :) He did have to go aginst the grain though[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
If you had read my comment a little more charitably, you might have noticed that I never said you shouldn't consult or listen to experts, but simply that you shouldn't assume someone who is not an expert can't figure things o
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
No, you should definitely listen to what experts have to say. You should then proceed to evaluate it critically. Be mindful of what methodology they use. What assumptions they bake into what they're saying. Ways their model doesn'
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
That's quite a conclusion, given so little data. Priors may vary I guess.
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
I'm not saying Psychology is bullshit, why would you frame what I said as such? I think it's in general super interesting. I'm just saying that you can gain a lot more from it by evaluating things critically than you can from
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
It's not a bad attitude though. Experts with authority granted to them in the form of titles have failed us, and keep failing us in so many areas. Ranging from nutrition to psychology, we really shouldn't put their work on a pedes
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
If you like those you might also like http://slatestarcodex.com It's Yvain's (from LW) blog. It's gotten quite popular, with lots of mainstream media referencing it.
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
The humanitarian with the guillotine...

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