hablog

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by hablog 3y ago
Yeah, a friend of mine found a (non-religious) service like this for help with porn addiction. Not my cup of tea, but I could see it working for many people.
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by hablog 3y ago
So a fortiori, it's true for him too! I wouldn't necessarily exclude myself from the set of people who would benefit from externally managed filtering.
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by hablog 3y ago
> I can't trust myself to see things I disagree with, I am so weak-willed... The thing is, this likely is true for him. Most people are not equipped to deal with the onslaught of aggressive memes from the internet. Unfortunately,
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by hablog 3y ago
"Alignment" as practiced by companies like OpenAI is precisely the extrinsic enforcement of echo-chamber behavior from AIs. You have precisely inverted reality
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by hablog 3y ago
Can't you just count a change like this as constructive termination and demand severance anyway?
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by hablog 3y ago
How is this a tragedy of the commons?
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by hablog 3y ago
Yeah, for an illustrative example of assortative mating effects, consider the stereotype of the rich nerd with the hot wife. Kids are smart and attractive. This plays out at every pareto level in the sexual marketplace. Basically, monogamy
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by hablog 3y ago
> The proper Bayesian response... since both "being male" and any race are very weak predictors (see my other comment upthread). I saw your comment - you don't understand how bayesianism works. Look up "odds ratios&q
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by hablog 3y ago
This would have some extremely interesting population-level genetic consequences if it was accompanied by some sort of social change to allow polygyny. In particular, it would reduce the correlation that exists across all adaptive traits du
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by hablog 3y ago
Every single bayesianism advocate is aware of this. It's so obvious that it's implicit - there's simply no need to state "95% of crime is committed by men"; this is completely uncontroversial and does not need to be
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by hablog 3y ago
I mean, yeah, this is kind of obvious if you think about it. The majority of violent crime in the US is committed by black people, so inherently a marginal increase in any other ethnic group (including hispanic) would (on expectation) lea
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by hablog 3y ago
When exactly do racists/bayesians shy away from this fact?
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by hablog 3y ago
I assume twitter has like 7 million times as many accounts as whatever this website is though
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by hablog 3y ago
People have to internalize that for a site like this, 99% of your traffic will arrive in 0.1% of the time your site is up. Unless you want to lose the vast majority of people who would otherwise read your content, you need to pick a server
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by hablog 3y ago
> what I’m saying is based on your hypothesis we should expect a population-wide boom in socialism Correct, which is also consistent with observed data. > unless there’s a specific environmental factor that exists primarily and only a
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by hablog 3y ago
I think engineers (esp in areas like SF) are especially vulnerable due to their relatively sedentary lifestyle, dietary proclivities (e.g. consuming stuff like soylent, vegetarian/vegan diets deficient in cholesterol and other androgen
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by hablog 3y ago
You responded to my comment in like 8 seconds so you obviously didn't even glance at either study.
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by hablog 3y ago
That's not what I meant, but I suppose there's also a correlation there. I was referring more to the fact that coastal software engineers tend to be testosterone-deficient as a group, which strongly affects political alignment. E.