That’s a value judgement. He appears to think the risks he places himelf in when he’s not in control are an acceptable price for the utility he derives from his bicycling.
hirvinen
(approximate, my translation)
Blessed are those who believe without seeing. Who wants to be blessed when they could see.
-- Esa Lappi, my high school math teacher when showing us the proof of some theorem.
By applying software patches that detect hardware faults and compensate or work around them.
Did Eliezer or someone else with admin rights just edit the tags? I don’t think this is really relevant to akrasia, as it isn’t about doing something that wouldn’t otherwise be done at all, but ignoring thoughts known to be erroneous(“I’m at the limit of my strength”), making a convulsive effort and doing the winning thing instead of the “sensible” or “rational.”
Ha! Buying a house and even more so moving is hard work, even with hired help. No way I’d do that right away.
As kpreid already said, that’s pretty much Crocker’s Rules, but few people can manage them, so assuming them or expecting people to declare them is a bad idea.
Stereotypes imply lack of individuality, which is usually low-status. As does grouping them as a single entity, especially if that grouping is made with a hint of sinisterity as would often be the case when talking about financial system -controlling jews.
for every enthusiastic fan you produce with a work, you must also produce someone who hates it.
Kathy Sierra arguing along those lines, with emphasis on software expanding on Scott Adams on the subject. Sounds plausible.
ETA: I mean, useful as a general heuristic when thinking about whether something should be done or not for a product. Of course especially in software some things that gain undying love can be added in a fashion that does not distract those who don’t want it.
I’ve seen a lot of talk and advocacy of menstrual cups on all kinds of Finnish IRC channels with widely varying population counts. Anonymity isn’t a strong factor as a very large fraction of people on that network use their real names.
Oh, come on… Of course it’s not just Russia. TV is so last millennium. Never owned one.
sometimes it really is pretty obvious that a particular error has been committed
The degree or lack of obviousness is a fact about the reader’s mind, not about the error.
Thanks to fast internet connections, good web search and online dictionaries, failing to expand an acronym only increases the cost from 5 seconds to 5 seconds per reader...
That “way too many” sounds more like “in retrospect, I can’t believe how much whacking it took to convince me / how thickheaded I was.”
At least that’s how I feel about it WRT myself.
It works in Konqueror and apparently would in Opera if mine didn’t have a general problem with youtube. Not in Firefox, though.
(Osmo A.) Wiio’s first law of communication
Communication usually fails, except by accident
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Less posts by Eliezer is bad.
Less work on Things Not To Be Discussed before May is much worse.
Thank you. It’s been a truly wonderful time. Not thanks to you alone, even if you were the driving factor. It will be difficult for anyone to fill your shoes, but then again, LW has shown many others having great promise, well enough that it can become a community much greater than it already is, and thus meaning success for you in this endeavour.
While I’m sad to see you give up your central role, for yours are the posts that I’ve in general found to be the most eye-opening and enjoyable, it is a also a relief to see you returning focus to the core job of SIAI, as it indicates greater confidence about your chances of success in that. Still it would be interesting to hear why you considered this detour from concentrating on FAI so important to do at the point you did it.
I think we mean here by existential risks something alone the lines of, in Bostrom’s words ” - - either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or drastically and permanently curtail its potential”, making countries irrelevant.
Kind of goes against the very good point
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