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haha Uranus

A fipple, two gonzies, a stib, borquet and tinch, and I think I also see a couple of goffels

This blog post may be useful, it's a summary of learning strategies: https://becomingoverhuman.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/how-i-lea...

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Well, maybe not the last one, but still an important one. Nick Bostrom has a great story describing the underlying philosophy in …

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy." The entire experience, from the first days when I got triangled by girls half my size (choking my ego as much as choking my…

I think Sam Harris put it like this: for free will, it doesn't even matter if reality is deterministic or random because the determinism or randomness are found at the quantum leve…

That's a good strategy. What if the answer is no to both questions?

As I understand it, AI ethical principles relate to the development of a superintelligence. Talking about unethical usage of narrow AI is like talking about the unethical usage of …

People get upset about relatively unimportant things. I'm pretty sure sexism exists and is bad, but this is just... not it. It's a dumb meme, that's all.

Wow. This is honestly the best analogy I've ever seen. I still think that some particular behaviors are generally good and should be emulated (like e.g. exercise) - but even there …

Why iPhone instead of Android?

Don't know if this is helpful, but Derek Sivers has a giant review page of all the books he has read. Maybe wits.io competes with this by better reviews, maybe not. In any case, I'…

I don't know if it is necessarily signalling, but I too have a dislike for this type of "reading". I think it mostly depends on the book itself - for example, you probably won't ge…