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OTOH if you've reached a point where you are ready to accept both 'A' and 'not A', you need to go back and re-examine your premises/assumptions (sort of a real life example of redu…

I have been to lots of interviews, on both sides of the table. I find most interviewers unprepared to evaluate the person for the role, and instead exercise their own biases, strok…

It's definitely not perfect, but it's much better than any alternatives I have seen. Would love to take a look if there are any good proposals based on S-Expressions or other compu…

Math notation is actually pretty great and is a result of multiple iterations. Earlier forms were much worse. S-Expressions by themselves are obviously not enough, you have to intr…

This looks awful to my (mathematically trained) eyes. What is the rationale behind introducing this language feature?

This is one of those cases where you can't really extrapolate from history. At least linearly extrapolate.

This is written by a person who doesn't know what he's talking about. Any time people diss Bayesian stats and name Yudkowsky in their argument (a controversial guy without a high s…

> I haven't dismissed the conclusions, just said I disagree with many of them. Earlier: > If they uncover anything, it is the very interesting political foundations of a group of p…

> However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you. Where did I say…

> something Sheldon Cooper would write One might view this as a style/personality jab rather than an issue with rigor. All I'm saying is Sheldon Cooper types have moved things forw…

> They (and his earlier co-author Robin Hanson) also like to reduce things to signaling, basically saying that education is just to show off and raise one's status by acquiring pie…

I'm not here to defend the particular social movement that grew around these guys, even though they are right about some things, like catastrophic risks tied to new tech (which cer…

It's not really a cheat, as it produces the MLE (i.e. most likely) estimate under certain assumptions (e.g. errors are normally distributed, which occurs naturally if the errors ar…

One reason is that people's innate probability engine is broken, so they can't correctly figure out what's best for them (in expectation). This applies both to individuals and to c…

Also from the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

To be fair, Armenia has taken in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. It's not covered anywhere in the news (doesn't fit any convenient narrative, like the one you outlined), but …

> There is virtually nothing in this field that I feel I couldn't learn given books and free time Nah, you just don't know what you don't know. There are subjects that are hard to …

The influence may be negligible, but it's theoretically there. The decision-maker is part of the same system (decision is happening within a system of neurons augmented with electr…

I haven't read the paper, nor am I an expert, but the assumption (i) sounds fishy "the decision of which measurement is performed on a quantum system can be made independently of t…

Armenian. Mostly agricultural terms AFAIK. The word for apple (xnzor) is one that I remember.

That is beyond cool :) Thanks

Fascinating. I speak a language from the area that still uses some Hurrian vocabulary, I always imagined these guys are my distant ancestors. Would be cool to actually hear the son…