Brihaspati

Glenn Beck dis­cusses the Sin­gu­lar­ity, cites SI researchers

• BrihaspatiMar 17, 2012, 1:45 PM

  6 points

  on: What are YOU do­ing against risks from AI?

  I think it may be time for Less Wrongers to begin to proactively, consciously ignore this troll. Hard.

• BrihaspatiMar 14, 2012, 1:29 AM

  10 points

  in reply to: Scott Alexander’s comment on: Risks from AI and Char­i­ta­ble Giving

  I’m afraid I had the same reaction. XiXiDu’s post seems to take the “shotgun” approach of listing every thought that popped into XiXiDu’s head, without applying much of a filter. It’s exhausting to read. Or, as one person I know put it, “XiXiDu says a lot of random shit.”

• BrihaspatiSep 16, 2011, 5:42 AM

  46 points

  2

  on: Schol­ar­ship: How to Do It Efficiently

  If a book exists in PDF on the web somewhere, I estimate a 90% of chance of finding it by at least one of the following four methods, which altogether take only a few minutes if you’re practiced at it:

  1. Search library.nu. (You’ll have to sign up for a free account the first time.)

  2. Search Library Genesis.

  3. Search Scrapetorrent.

  4. Use a custom Google search and keeping clicking through links until you find a filesharing site link for the book—one that isn’t broken yet.

  What links here?

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• BrihaspatiSep 16, 2011, 5:33 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: Teal_Thanatos’s comment on: Your in­ner Google

  “All that your brain does when you ask it a question is hit “search” and return the first hit it finds” is saying roughly the same thing that Stanovich and other researchers have said about ‘default to Type 1 processing’, as explained recently in this post.