nick lacombe

• nick lacombeFeb 8, 2021, 5:02 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: kjz’s comment on: What are some real life Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria?

  anoter big point is that people who got voted and benefited from first past the post have incentive not to change it

• nick lacombeJan 1, 2021, 9:29 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: JoshuaFox’s comment on: LessWrong/​EA New Year’s Ul­tra Party

  Thank you very much to the organizers and everyone that was present! ❤️ I had a nice time and I loved the online platform/​system I would not have been able to meet some of the people I met if it weren’t for the online event

• nick lacombeDec 31, 2020, 6:16 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Connor_Flexman’s comment on: Norms of Mem­ber­ship for Vol­un­tary Groups

  the other thing to consider is that the internet offers the possibility of less acountability

  when meeting in person it is harder to disguise yourself as someone else

  also, since there is a big transport cost of frequenting a different place (a different library, coffee shop, etc), causing people not to like you means you are increasing your chances of conflict every future time you will frequent that place

  online if you cause someone not to like you in an online space, you can more easily find or create another similar online space where that person is not there, or create a new account and join the same space, or ignore/​block them even if they seek conflict, their impact on you might be less: you can’t really physically hurt someone online and disrupting their actions/​discussions can be more difficult

• nick lacombeDec 9, 2020, 7:26 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: Mati_Roy’s comment on: Sig­nal­ing importance

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• nick lacombeDec 8, 2020, 1:50 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: The LessWrong 2018 Book is Available for Pre-order

  how can I get notified when I can buy the ebook?

[Question] How long does it takes to read the se­quences?

[Question] Can I archive con­tent from less­wrong.com on the way­back ma­chine (in­ter­net archive, archive.org) ?

• nick lacombeApr 25, 2019, 5:17 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Said Achmiz’s comment on: What are re­li­able ways to make a state­ment in such a way that I will be able to prove in the fu­ture that I had made that state­ment?

  you should include a link to https://​​originstamp.org/​​

• nick lacombeApr 25, 2019, 5:15 PM

  5 points

  in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: What are re­li­able ways to make a state­ment in such a way that I will be able to prove in the fu­ture that I had made that state­ment?

  With an asymmetric cryptographic key you can sign messages to prove that those messages came from the same specific private key. You can then create strong evidence of the identity of the key (that you have the key) by using systems/​accounts that are identified to you and that only you have access to share other signed messages that proves that the owner of the account has the private key in question. This is probably more convenient and trusted world wide (some people might not trust authorities of unknown countries but might trust some online systems that are known worldwide) while offering a comparable level of security/​trust to my opinion. The traditional channels of law/​notary/​governments have their benefits too (like physical inspection to match a government provided ID) but it looks like to me that they also have bigger costs (harder to access the data (probably not digitalized or protected from public acces) , higher fees, potentially less recognized worldwide)

• nick lacombeAug 22, 2018, 9:57 PM

  1 point

  on: Y Couchinator

  The idea looks similar to https://​​www.couchsurfing.com to me.