LizzardWizzard

• LizzardWizzardMar 20, 2015, 12:01 PM

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  on: Stupid Ques­tions March 2015

  I had an arguement with my gilfriend about how on earth golden rock doesn’t drop over an edge (http://​​en.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​Kyaiktiyo_Pagoda)

  I said there must be scientific explanation of course, that the rock is somehow heavier on the opposite side of the cliff, and that the monks probably knew some math, or just picked up this one trick from unknown piligrim

  And she continues to argue that this is magic and it is the legendary Buddha’s hair that prevent the Stone from falling...

• LizzardWizzardMar 10, 2015, 9:12 AM

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  on: Stupid Ques­tions March 2015

  But when it comes to messy gene expression networks, we’ve already found the hidden beauty—the stable level of underlying physics. Because we’ve already found the master order, we can guess that we won’t find any additional secret patterns that will make biology as easy as a sequence of cubes. Knowing the rules of the game, we know that the game is hard. We don’t have enough computing power to do protein chemistry from physics (the second source of uncertainty) and evolutionary pathways may have gone different ways on different planets (the third source of uncertainty). New discoveries in basic physics won’t help us here

  Doesn’t the third source of uncertainty violate Fermi Paradox and The Rare Earth hypothesis?

• LizzardWizzardFeb 19, 2015, 2:21 PM

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  in reply to: Viliam_Bur’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ters 105-107

  But quirell knows that Harry possesses the power which kills dementors, so it can’t be related to prophecy from his perspective

• LizzardWizzardJan 16, 2015, 9:43 AM

  1 point

  on: Learn Three Things Every Day

  Thank you for reminder, I’m done with procrastinating for today

• LizzardWizzardJan 15, 2015, 2:32 PM

  2 points

  on: Why you should con­sider buy­ing Bit­coin right now (Jan 2015) if you have high risk tolerance

  It seems that it not so easy to purchase bitcoins in Russia. If you have any reccomendations please contact me

• LizzardWizzardJan 14, 2015, 12:51 PM

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  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

  My choice of words was incorrect. i meant “more likely” to agree and to succeed at surviving

• LizzardWizzardJan 13, 2015, 2:15 PM

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  in reply to: robot-dreams’s comment on: The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

  I’d be very interested in a story that goes into detail about the Cyprus experiment (fill an island with all “alphas”, instead of the usual “alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon” distribution, and see what happens) from Brave New World. Better yet, fill an island with all “rationalists” and see what happens.

  2 rationalists must come to agreement if they are truly rational, so they have great chances of survival, whereas “all alphas” will never succeed at dividing their responsibilities and all will end up doing the same thing and die, because they were just born this way, and there are no lower class people to do low-class kind of work, it’s to difficult for them to reprogram

• LizzardWizzardDec 24, 2014, 8:56 AM

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  in reply to: maxikov’s comment on: LINK: Ne­ma­tode brain up­loaded with success

  I doubt that the experimenters themselves wrote the article. Someone has to popularize science to mere humans

• LizzardWizzardDec 23, 2014, 1:08 PM

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  in reply to: closeness’s comment on: Open thread, Dec. 22 - Dec. 28, 2014

  Thank you, this is awesome!

• LizzardWizzardDec 15, 2014, 2:17 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: JoshuaZ’s comment on: Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014

  I don’t like design and usability of the site. I think topics should be somehow divided, because not everyone is interested in soccer or currencies which are the most trivial things to predict

• LizzardWizzardDec 13, 2014, 9:31 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Gunnar_Zarncke’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2014

  Maybe we should ask children more of these grande questions and gain factual answers instead of taking them as deeper as they are.

  Indeed, I suppose their worldview are much clearer and in some ways unbiased than ours. When child is born he sees the world as it is, not through many prisms including our subjective value judgements

• LizzardWizzardDec 13, 2014, 8:03 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: James_Miller’s comment on: [Re­solved] Is the SIA dooms­day ar­gu­ment wrong?

  I guess you are confusing our universe with parallel worlds. It is very doubtful that there is a planet with the same geography and processes of evolution that completely replicated ours (even giving that evolution on Earth is the only way for life to emerge) so that there are ET humans who named one of their countries USA. So it is obvious that no one up there could share completely same experiences with us

• LizzardWizzardDec 13, 2014, 7:46 AM

  −9 points

  on: Harper’s Magaz­ine ar­ti­cle on LW/​MIRI/​CFAR and Ethereum

  Metamed sounds like a kinda promising startup)

  I failed to understand through text why accused people and institutions are necessarily evil

  I browsed venal tech-trade publications, and tried and failed to read Less Wrong, which was written as if for aliens

  I wonder is this because most humans can’t find joy in the merely real, praising deities and trusting in other supernatural stuff like signs and horoscopes, so disbelieving and living in reality is abnormal?

• LizzardWizzardDec 11, 2014, 1:50 PM

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  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2014

  in a Pickwickian sense everybody does, only their payoffs varies

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg Meetup

• LizzardWizzardDec 10, 2014, 8:36 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014

  Em..change in policy I suppose, isn’t all this protest business about it?

• LizzardWizzardDec 10, 2014, 8:54 AM

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  in reply to: Quarkster’s comment on: Belief in Belief

  Here’s an example of what Doug Hofstadter writes in I Am A Strange Loop. Kurt Goedel discovered that Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell does provide reference to itself. So Russell in his book yields the propositions and their proofs, and then Goedel assigns specific numbers to proofs and therefore proves that there is a proof that they are in fact, provable

• LizzardWizzardDec 9, 2014, 2:42 PM

  −1 points

  in reply to: timujin’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2014

  You forgot that an adjective хуевый means bad, for example instead of saying “I am feeling sick” u say мне хуево, but as parent points it out, the adjective formed from the same root “охуительный” means exactly the contrary - мне охуительно is the russian equivalent of “I am super fine”

  As you can see it is quite complicated, but even people who never went to school are the great masters of the skill

• LizzardWizzardDec 9, 2014, 1:47 PM

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  in reply to: timujin’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2014

  I would argue with you, if someday I ever happen to write fanfiction named something like HP and the Methods of Russian Profanity as you put it, there would be prophecy suggesting “and he has the power of which the other does not know”

• LizzardWizzardDec 9, 2014, 1:25 PM

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  in reply to: gjm’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2014

  Yep, doesn’t it sound awesome (or охуительно?) Your masters will be all kinds of rednecks, prisoners and other honorable authorities of the craftsmanship