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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 …

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?!

> 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 b…

Brave has built-in support for multiple third-party password managers. Chrome profiles - I dunno.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

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…

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.hpmor…

"Renters should have no say in what people are allowed to build - only the landed gentry have that right!"

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…

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 pe…

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 bett…

"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.

The most important features on Facebook are hide, unfollow, and block.

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 t…

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^…

Yup!

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 techni…

> 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 ex…

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 C…

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 fut…

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.…

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 t…

I'm old enough to remember when "cult" didn't just mean "people who have high confidence in ideas that seem weird to me".