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Unfortunately "starving the beast" doesn't seem to actually work. Low tax revenues don't lead to lower spending, just fiscal indiscipline. I personally would prefer a leaner federa…

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 .

People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.

This—on a somewhat similar treatment from Japan, unavailable in the US—seems relevant: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/07/the...

https://danluu.com/

Alternative viewpoint: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/17/heartmath-considered-in... , "HeartMath Considered Incoherent" Normally I wouldn't attack something that someone else fe…

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.

Interestingly enough, even idealized prediction markets don't produce accurate probability estimates, but generally overweight bad events like collapse of the market itself: https:…

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 exam…

> 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 …

Hanson has actually disparaged science fiction in general for purposes of futurism. I don't think he's been influenced by it much.

This was an interesting attempt but I think development kind of stalled. The original creator, quarnster, left the project.

It's essentially copying the UI of Tweetdeck, which is/was very popular w/ power users.

I think the latter is the intended meaning actually. AI/machine learning seem to be thrown into the "hard tech" bucket in VC jargon.

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.or…

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…

Public pre-commitment is a basic building block of human coordination. Criticizing it as "virtue-signaling" is facile.

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 ce…

They need to make money somehow. It's not a public service.

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 w…

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 ambiti…

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.co…