As a non-USian, my main interest in the election is watching the numbers go up and down on Nate Silver’s blog.
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Even having watched the video before, when I concentrated hard on counting passes, I missed seeing it.
Using Opera Mini, I just delete the cookies (which then requires me to re-login to LW) It was much less annoying when the count-to-nag was 20, rather than 10.
Is this pretty much what gets called ‘signalling’ on LW? Anything you do in whole or in part to look good to people or because doing otherwise would make people think badly of you?
I’m not sure it counts as an origin story, but after I noticed a lot of discussions/arguments seemed to devolve into arguments about what words meant, or similar, I got the idea this was because we didn’t ‘agree on our axioms’ (I’d studied some maths). Sadly, trying to get agreement on what we each meant by the things we disagreed on didn’t seem to work—I think that the other party mostly considered it an underhanded trick and gave up. :(
“One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic.”
If you want to remind people that death is bad, agreed, the death of individuals you know or feel like you know is worse than lots of people you never met or even saw.
Eulogies on arbitrary people might help with motivation, and if you’re doing that you might as well chose one with a minor advantage like not needing a long introduction to make the reader empathize, rather than choosing purely at random.
Are you suggesting that putting eulogies of famous people on LessWrong is a good idea? That sort of sounds like justifying something you’ve already decided.
~150,000 other people died today, too. Okay, Armstrong was hugely more famous than any of them, probably the most famous person to die this year, but what did he do for rationality, or AI, or other LessWrong interests?(which I figure do include space travel, admittedly. Presumably he wasn’t signed up for cryogenic preservation) the post doesn’t say.
Yes, death is bad, and Armstrong is/was famous, possibly uniquely famous, but I don’t think eulogies of famous people are on-topic.
Credit to Bakkot for having tried out and reported on magnetic rings, not me.
Holden Karnofsky thinks superintelligences with utility functions are made out of programs that list options by rank without making any sort of value judgement (basically answer a question), and then pick the one with the most utility.
Isn’t ‘listing by rank’ ‘making a (value) judgement’?
In my recollection of just about any place I have eaten in the UK, there is no choice. They only ever have one cola or the other. Is this different in other parts of the world?
I thought that sensitivity might be the answer. Not that hearing fairly sensitive perception of magnetic fields is possible makes me want the ability enough to stick magnets in my fingers. Yet.
I’ve heard about other superhuman sensory devices, like the compass-sense belt, though, and the more I hear about this stuff, the cooler it sounds. Perhaps sometime the rising interest and falling cost/inconvenience curves will cross for me. :)
I can see X-ray or terahertz scanners missing a tiny lump of metal, but aren’t there a fair number of magnetic scanners in use looking for larger lumps of metal, which I’d think the magnet would interact fairly strongly with?
Judging by previous instances, you ought to put in more than just a link and also put [LINK] in the title, or else you are liable to get a bunch of downvotes.
[edit] OK, watched the first video, with people getting little rare-earth magnets put in their fingers so they can feel magnetic fields… Why not just get a magnetic ring? That way you can feel magnetic fields and don’t risk medical complications and you don’t have to stop for several minutes and explain every time you fly or go through one of those scanners I hear are relatively common in the US. [/edit]
Well, they say that now. We have something that works better than what we had before. I commend Asimov’s essay The Relativity Of Wrong.
Good to read that again. Thanks.
I was wondering about evidence that uploading was accurate enough that you’d consider it to be a satisfactory continuation of personal identity.
I’d think that until even one of those little worms with only a couple hundred neurons is uploaded (or maybe a lobster), all evidence of the effectiveness of uploading is theory or fiction.
If computing continues to get cheaper at Moore’s Law rates for another few decades, then maybe...
More generally, what would folks here consider to be good enough evidence that uploading was worth doing?
Good enough evidence that (properly done) uploading would be a good thing, as opposed to the status quo of tens of thousands of people dying every day, you mean?
[edit] If you want to compare working SENS to uploading, then I’d have to think a lot harder.
Wasn’t that trick tried with Windows Vista, and people were so annoyed by continually being asked trivial “can I do this?” questions that they turned off the security?
I think that the intention is to make forgetting your password as hard as forgetting how to ride a bicycle. Although I only remember the figure of ‘2 weeks’ from reading about this yesterday.
I was under the impression from reading stuff Gwern wrote that Intrade was a bit expensive unless you were using it a lot. Also, even assuming I made money on it, wouldn’t I be liable for tax? I intend to give owning shares via a self-select ISA a go.