jaibot

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by jaibot 8y ago
The example Thiel used in the original "seriously but not literally" argument was the wall. Of course Trump wasn't talking about a literal wall, he said, it was more of a metaphor for, you know, something. This argument was a
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by jaibot 8y ago
They settled on Condorcet , a method almost unheard of outside of electoral/political theory, and your criticism is that they didn't make use of political theory?!
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by jaibot 8y ago
> Facebook is a corporation, what Zuckerberg wants to do as an individual isn't even relevant Zuck is a majority shareholder, so what he wants to do as an individual can actually be fairly significant here.
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by jaibot 8y ago
Brave has built-in support for multiple third-party password managers. Chrome profiles - I dunno.
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by jaibot 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
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by jaibot 9y ago
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by jaibot 9y ago
The Compiz Cube was cool as heck and no one will ever convince me otherwise. I used to have it configured to layer the windows in 3D space based on how recently they had focus, had it snow and rain on my desktop to match the actual weather
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by jaibot 9y ago
Alexander Wales' rationalist take on Superman, "The Metropolitan Man", is great. Text: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man Free audiobook: http://www.hpmorpo
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by jaibot 9y ago
"Renters should have no say in what people are allowed to build - only the landed gentry have that right!"
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by jaibot 9y ago
It's training data. There's 17 suicidal and 17 non-suicidal scans, for a total of 34 scans. They trained 34 models, leaving one scan out each time. Of those 34 models, 31 correctly predicted the left-out scan. IANAStatistician, bu
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by jaibot 9y ago
Letting people make mistakes is important. Letting people be altruistic is important. More specifically: I'm 0% worried about sending money overseas, since I expect that the few people who do so that will be making the world a better p
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by jaibot 9y ago
Nothing is free - someone is paying for it. When you give people specific things instead of money, you're taking choices away from them, insisting that you know what they need better than they do. If you give people money, they can dec
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by jaibot 9y ago
"IQ" is a scalar semi-objectice well-defined metric that predicts some things about the much more complicated and less-well-defined concept of problem solving.
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by jaibot 9y ago
The most important features on Facebook are hide, unfollow, and block.
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by jaibot 9y ago
That post is a remarkable example of victim blaming. "Do you know how hard it is for ME now that you've gone and gotten people violently angry at you? People want to punch you in the face for something they think you said, and tha
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by jaibot 9y ago
Yes, so the rule is slightly misstated. Assuming that your messages are all under n bits and you always use an n-length pad, you will reuse the same pad approximately once every 2^n messages. Not coincidentally, 2^n is also the number of po
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by jaibot 9y ago
Yup!
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by jaibot 9y ago
I routinely pay for things with ethereum - and if the target only accepts btc, then I can just shapeshift. The "Halting Problem" is a red herring here - eth transactions are technically not Turing complete since they automatically
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by jaibot 9y ago
> Moreover, to add further context, the whole basis of Holden's effective altruism work has been around the idea that philanthropic dollars ought to be focused on charities with extremely rigorous proof behind how much they improve
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by jaibot 9y ago
And then there's the next paragraph: > The Open Philanthropy Project typically recommends grants to the Open Philanthropy Project fund, a donor advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Support for the Open Philanthro
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by jaibot 9y ago
It would be really useful if there were some historical example of a sudden increase in intelligence leading to a new class of agents taking over the Earth and determining it's future. Or maybe if there were any evidence that AI capabi
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by jaibot 9y ago
This isn't a GiveWell rec, it's an OPP grant. OPP literally exists to give away Dustin's money. Go to OPP's (or Good Ventures') site and notice the glaring lack of a donate button.
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by jaibot 9y ago
Fun fact: You can apply this template to anyone worried about any potential disaster. "Behold the cult of global warming, who believe that the unclean practices of man will anger the sky gods and bring down furious vengeance. Sad to se
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by jaibot 9y ago
I'm old enough to remember when "cult" didn't just mean "people who have high confidence in ideas that seem weird to me".
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by jaibot 9y ago
"Running an organization" is not the same thing as "owning an organization". Maybe at a company the CEO might have shares, but there's no equivalent at a non-profit. It's just a job that pays below market rates
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by jaibot 9y ago
It's not Holden's money - he works for OPP, he doesn't fund it. The money comes from Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, and it's already in a trust.
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by jaibot 9y ago
I want to make sure I fully understand the accusation here. You're saying that the Open Philanthropy Fund - which is funded by an $8.3 billion grant from Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, also close associates - is funneling $30M money t
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by jaibot 9y ago
"We have to defuse this bomb or it will destroy the city in one hour!" "But there are people suffering right now !"
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by jaibot 9y ago
Holden's dedicated a huge chunk of his career to moving hundreds of millions of dollars to alleviating poverty and disease. He's one of the founders of the effective altruism movement. You may disagree with his decision here, but
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by jaibot 10y ago
What about person-years?

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