michaelkeenan

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by michaelkeenan 6mo ago
Great list! There's also Leber congenital amaurosis, a form of blindness that now has a (very expensive) gene therapy: https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10-12/fda-panel-endorses-gene...
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by michaelkeenan 2y ago
AGI would be extremely helpful in navigating clashes with aliens, but taking the time to make sure it's safe is very unlikely to make a difference to whether it's ready in time. Rationalists want AGI to be built, and they're
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by michaelkeenan 3y ago
I know you've probably already tried lots of things, and you're also inundated with ideas from others, but: Here's a psychiatrist's guide to solving insomnia: https://lorienpsych.com/2021/01/02&
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by michaelkeenan 3y ago
I tried that a few different ways and couldn't get it to work. I don't think just the title and author are enough. I'd be interested to see if anyone else can find a prompt that does it. Two of my attempts: https:/&#x2F
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by michaelkeenan 4y ago
I've read (most of) the lawsuit[1] and unless I'm missing something, the allegations seem to be entirely guesswork, and the sex worker bans across multiple websites can be entirely explained by the SESTA/FOSTA law of 2018. Th
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by michaelkeenan 5y ago
The same psychiatrist from the hair dryer incident in the link has written about this. He's skeptical about ADHD being a discrete condition, and generally thinks that if ADHD drugs will help you focus, taking them is reasonable whether
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
> The arrogance of being sure you are smart enough to never make a mistake in the ideas you pick up is pernicious and deadly. I actually really like that Slate Star Codex had a page where Scott listed his mistakes, and that he makes publ
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
I wish that writer had spent fewer words describing Plomin as undemocratic, insidious, discredited, simplistic, and regressive, and more words actually explaining why he thinks Plomin is wrong.
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
> Getting down voted for stating facts. I downvoted for the obnoxious phrasing of "Wrong. Try again." It goes against the first paragraph of the HN commenting guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conver
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
> Semmelweis was not very tactful. He publicly berated people who disagreed with him and made some influential enemies. Eventually the doctors gave up the chlorine hand-washing Something Matthew Benjamin wrote stuck with me: "It is
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
That seems covered by this paragraph: "Some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an anti-psychiatry subreddit put out a bounty for any
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
Not just startups (though the focus might have shifted toward them in recent years, not sure). The Wikipedia article says that Fellows are funded to "drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, cr
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
This sounded wrong to me so I googled and according to the first source I found, the layoff and discharge rate is 1.3% in the private sector, and 0.4% across federal, state, and local government. The data come from Bureau of Labor Statistic
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by michaelkeenan 6y ago
That chart shows government spending at about 35.8% of GDP in 1980, and 37.8% now.
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
(I object to you calling revenue meaningless when you brought up country population.) World medicine spending[0]: $1.2 trillion US prescription drug spending[1][2]: $348 billion (29% of world spending) US drug advertising[3]: $30 billion (1
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
According to this chart[0], world healthcare spending was $7.7 trillion in 2016, of which $3 trillion (39%) was spent by the USA. The USA really does do most of world healthcare spending, disproportionate to its population. [0] https:&#x2F
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
> $4.5k will get you a 1 BR in the Bay Area Average one-bedroom rent in San Francisco is $3,520, and two bedrooms is $4,550. It's much cheaper elsewhere in the Bay Area. In Oakland, average one-bedroom rent is $2,470, and two bedroo
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
According to the World Bank's metric, China's percentile ranking on rule of law improved somewhat from 2010 to 2018 (eyeballing the chart, looks like it moved from 40th to 48th). This is of course not quite the same thing as an ab
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
The NYT article we're all commenting on explains: "Studies in San Francisco and elsewhere show that price caps often prompt landlords to abandon the rental business by converting their units to owner-occupied homes." There&#x
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
The review includes 35 experimental studies with control groups. See table 3: "Experimental Personality Change Effect Size Estimates Comparing Treatment to Control".
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
Would it be feasible to genetically engineer trees to neither drop seeds nor release airborne pollen?
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by michaelkeenan 7y ago
I like this one, made by Google - it teaches XSS vulnerabilities: https://xss-game.appspot.com/ It's been discussed on HN twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021869 https://news.yc
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
Robin Hanson wrote about similar experiments in 2010: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/looking-too-good.html As others here have suggested (e.g. jpfed, Tade0), it seems that extreme generosity can be regarded
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
It's too late for me to edit this comment, but I was wrong to dismiss Sans Forgetica based on the review. I checked the paper and it notes: > Although the more general prevalence of “desirable difficulties” (Bjork, 1994) is beyond t
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
I just checked the review with Sci-Hub, and you are correct. I was much too hasty. The memory effect is still plausible, they write: > "Although the more general prevalence of “desirable difficulties” (Bjork, 1994) is beyond the sco
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
There was excitement when the first study showed hard-to-read fonts improved test performance in 2007[1]. Since then, there have been enough attempted replications for a 2015 review to conclude that there's no effect[2]. [1] Overcoming
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
Where did you learn that the whole point of peer review is to detect fraud? The Wikipedia article on peer review says "Peer review...occasionally detects fraud, but is not designed to do so."[1] The article cites a Nature article
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
A problem with directing people toward ineffective solutions is that it may "use up" people's limited willingness to be pro-social. Scott Alexander described a few studies on this phenomenon at Less Wrong: https://
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
It looks like the Golden Gate Restaurant Association endorsed it[0]. I couldn't find a list of which restaurants are members of the GGRA, but the board of directors[1] includes people from the Bluestem Brasserie, San Francisco Soup Com
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by michaelkeenan 8y ago
This is a good question, and doesn't deserve a snarky response. This is the long-term good-case scenario (using USA-focused numbers, but you can extrapolate to the rest of the world): -Car accidents will be reduced to nearly zero, savi

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