Hruss

Are stan­dard­ized tests effec­tive?

• HrussMay 2, 2025, 6:34 PM

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  in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: Roads are at max­i­mum effi­ciency always

  Oh definitely—I don’t think this is practical advice for traffic designers

Roads are at max­i­mum effi­ciency always

I doubt model col­lapse will hap­pen

• HrussApr 21, 2025, 9:42 PM

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  on: Crime and Pu­n­ish­ment #1

  I wonder whether legalizing and reducing penalties for drug use is causal for property crime—drug addicts famously do theft to get substances.

• HrussApr 16, 2025, 7:34 PM

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  on: Kamelo: A Rule-Based Con­structed Lan­guage for Univer­sal, Log­i­cal Communication

  Is there a way to learn this language? I imagine it would be much more difficult for beginners to have to understand an arbitrary tree structure than individual words

• HrussApr 14, 2025, 10:29 AM

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  in reply to: Mati_Roy’s comment on: Thoughts on the Dou­ble Im­pact Project

  As ads are made to encourage people to vote, and some people are more or less concerned about voting, each addition ad dollar has a lower effect.

  A hypothetical $10m in ads could get 85% of x voters, and $8m could get 70%, but $2m would get 50% and $0m would get 25%, so the 8:10m in funding would be preferential to the 0:2m.

• HrussApr 13, 2025, 7:34 PM

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  on: Thoughts on the Dou­ble Im­pact Project

  One issue is that $10m of ads for one party and $8m in ads for the other is not equivalent to $2m in just one, as most ads aren’t for getting people to switch sides, but to just attend at all.

• HrussApr 12, 2025, 12:45 PM

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  on: Mo­ral­ity as Nei­ther Learned Nor In­nate?

  In other words, this would mean that sentient robot rights would be much more likely to be an issue of the Democratic party than the Republican party?

• HrussApr 8, 2025, 6:29 PM

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  in reply to: Arjun Panickssery’s comment on: Amer­i­can Col­lege Ad­mis­sions Doesn’t Need to Be So Com­pet­i­tive

  No, it is not obvious. That is what my comment meant, that the statistic is unclear

• HrussApr 8, 2025, 10:35 AM

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  on: Amer­i­can Col­lege Ad­mis­sions Doesn’t Need to Be So Com­pet­i­tive

  >Further, the SAT used to be much harder. In 1991, only nine students scored a 1600, whereas people estimate that over 500 students achieve a perfect score today.
  
  What do these numbers mean? Surely more than 500 students have achieved a 1600 last year

• HrussMar 26, 2025, 6:17 PM

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  in reply to: Mo Putera’s comment on: Would it be effec­tive to learn a lan­guage to im­prove cog­ni­tion?

  Fixed

[Question] Would it be effec­tive to learn a lan­guage to im­prove cog­ni­tion?

• HrussMar 24, 2025, 11:34 PM

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  on: Policy for LLM Writ­ing on LessWrong

  What about for Quick Takes?

• HrussMar 24, 2025, 6:35 PM

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  on: Will Je­sus Christ re­turn in an elec­tion year?

  Polymarket has a lot of reputation to lose by incorrectly resolving this market

  I imagine that having a “Jesus returns this year” question at 3% affirmative is also not very good for their reputation.

Is CCP au­thor­i­tar­i­anism good for build­ing safe AI?

Hruss’s Shortform

• HrussMar 18, 2025, 11:00 AM

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  on: Hruss’s Shortform

  A strategy I have found to be extremely effective for getting your ideas used is to attribute them to others. Then, you can start a disagreement over a minor part of the idea, so people will want to use their slightly varied version. Note that this will only work when others care about the project, and you are fine with not “owning” the ideas you come up with.