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While he is still uses the pseudonym Scott Alexander, he has told his real name in Astral Codex Ten so I don't believe it's supposed to be a secret anymore.

I think the question is about technologies that help to reduce the abuse of power, even if they don't prevent the abuse entirely.

One way I use figure out if addiction is harmful is to consider: if I could freely edit my brain to make this thing no longer pleasurable, would I do it? I think some of the activi…

One additional reason for reducing addiction is that addictions like video games can make your baseline of 'fun' too high, so doing productive things doesn't feel fun even though i…

> Unfortunately, the more you focus on advertising the less you focus on technical knowledge. If the law of diminishing returns applies, it's better to spend time on improving mult…

If the original developer didn't care if the variable will be reassigned, in which situations can it be useful to know of that intent? >The problem with these arguments is that the…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967716 has some good resources. I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device)…

The police only kills about 1000 people per year in the USA, and some of those kills are justified. Including it in the same list as global warming is IMO an example of 'Availabili…

I wonder if some of these are just complete images picked from the training set. For instance, this seems too good to have been generated: https://twitter.com/GoodKingSolomon/statu…

Assume I want to do something that is only for fun but which has a minuscule risk of endangering someone's health. For example, meeting people face to face during this pandemic, wh…

That statement could mean at least two things. If someone doesn't care about his own privacy (but avoids endangering others' privacy when sharing information about himself), then t…

An another study [1] suggest that the effect could be rather small. > We find that when a user’s cookie is available publisher’s revenue increases by only about 4%. This correspond…