nhaliday

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by nhaliday 10y ago
I have no idea what a DMT trip is actually like but I liked the depiction in Enter the Void: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIe9gh84NE .
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by nhaliday 10y ago
People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
This—on a somewhat similar treatment from Japan, unavailable in the US—seems relevant: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/07/the...
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by nhaliday 10y ago
https://danluu.com/
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Alternative viewpoint: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/17/heartmath-considered-in... , "HeartMath Considered Incoherent" Normally I wouldn't attack something that someone else feels is helping
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Economics and Security Resource Page(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by nhaliday 10y ago
What I find interesting is that the labels for the perturbed images aren't completely off in all cases, eg, wool for a shaggy dog.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Interestingly enough, even idealized prediction markets don't produce accurate probability estimates, but generally overweight bad events like collapse of the market itself: https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2011&#x2F
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Unfortunately no, I don't have good evidence. It's an instance of a more general intuition that excessive consumption of fiction distorts people's beliefs about the world. For example, at some point I saw a study that showed
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by nhaliday 10y ago
> Hanson is not breaking new ground; he's recycling SF as economics. World-building for purposes of entertainment generally has little to do with successful prediction. Hanson has made this point in a few places, eg, http:/&#x
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Hanson has actually disparaged science fiction in general for purposes of futurism. I don't think he's been influenced by it much.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
This was an interesting attempt but I think development kind of stalled. The original creator, quarnster, left the project.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
It's essentially copying the UI of Tweetdeck, which is/was very popular w/ power users.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
I think the latter is the intended meaning actually. AI/machine learning seem to be thrown into the "hard tech" bucket in VC jargon.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
It would be pretty hard to separate the effects of nicotine from the effects of a lifetime of smoking + potentially poor dental hygiene (gum disease is rampant https://www.perio.org/consumer/cdc-study.htm ) + aging. Per
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Do you have a source for the first assertion? I can't find any studies on google. I'm skeptical because people so often attribute many of the negative effects of other chemicals in tobacco to nicotine with no evidence (a point the
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Public pre-commitment is a basic building block of human coordination. Criticizing it as "virtue-signaling" is facile.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
That's not true. The returns in happiness are just logarithmic with respect to income (diminishing returns but still positive at each level). The story about no benefit beyond a certain threshold was generated by journalists misreading
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by nhaliday 10y ago
They need to make money somehow. It's not a public service.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Or just pay MTurk workers to annotate texts with intonation cues. I kinda doubt that would be profitable relative to just hiring readers, but in general you don't need to replace workers completely to cannibalize some of their wages&#x
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Economics and Evolutionary Biology Reading List(jasoncollins.org)
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Any comments on how your project compares to https://tonicdev.com/home ? It looks like y'all are really aiming for Bret Victor-style direct manipulation, which is a bit more ambitious, but Tonic has incorporated some si
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Just noting that Scott Alexander (a psychiatrist by vocation) has written some stuff on CBT http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/16/cbt-in-the-water-supply... http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/
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by nhaliday 10y ago
At the moment the majority of the developed world is suffering from underpopulation and an aging population. Immortality would change that but I expect by the time we figure actual immortality out we'll have either gotten off the plane
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by nhaliday 10y ago
On the contrary the position of most people seems to be knee-jerk opposition to any possibility of extending life indefinitely. It's always a good idea to apply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_test . Given y
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Scott Alexander wrote something short but sweet on these kinds of questions: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
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by nhaliday 10y ago
North Korea has also cheated a couple times, so it's a little questionable: https://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-i...
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by nhaliday 10y ago
There's a really great Quora answer along the same lines: https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced...
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by nhaliday 10y ago
I mean https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics exists. Probably very few members if any have any involvement in medicine, but there's a lot of emphasis on randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, etc., whenever av
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Speaking of which, https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

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