Well done! Just as Jesus spoke in parables, EA must speak in Isekai/litrpg. Read first chapter to my kids, they liked it, but are now distracted by “mother of learning”. I just read books and chapters randomly at bedtime to them.
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In a book by Jeremy Siegel, he gives you the option of investing in an oil company vs IBM back in the very old days.
I do not remember the details, I think it is this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stocks-Long-Run-Definitive-Investment/dp/0071800514
The Oil stock beats IBM by a very large margin over several decades with dividends reinvested.
If you are doing this for investment returns then valuation and stable business is what matters.
There is a common Idea that there is only one soul experiencing reality. So like Feynman manentioned an electron travels back in time as a positron and then starts again as another electron. Similarly a single soul is experiencing all living things. If you are that soul you may compute your utility accordingly to your taste.
Kids these days are comfortable upgrading PCs for gaming etc. I see no reason why they can’t upgrade an open source phone. No one needs customer support anymore, we just swap a part or change software if things don’t work. There is always Reddit for support. Modern kids are not technophobic even if they have no interest in IT careers. Modifying a phone would be no different than accessorising a dress to them.
[Question] Open phone recommendation for Elon.
Which server are most of the cool science and rationality folks at ?
Maybe we need LW users to reply here with their favorite servers.
Don’t overthink this! Go with the feelz!
We are the evil AI we warn ourselves about.
Is the tech to create a gene drive and spread it—something a hypothetical determined person can do from their garage ?
Could such a gene arise spontaneously in nature and be the final reason for the elimination of a species?
Is there an easy to understand explanation about why a sterility causing gene drive will spread through the population?
Move to a better flat. My flat is so well insulated and sun side facing that I do not need heating even in winter.
They may not be completely passively safe?
To me, bacteria are also nanotech. There is already “Grey Goo” trying to dissolve us and make us into copies of itself...
“Chinese officials forcibly detained one
Federal Reserve Bank employee on four separate occasions during a 2019 trip
to Shanghai, including at his hotel. Chinese officials threatened the
individual’s family unless the individual provided them with economic
information and assistance, allegedly tapped the employee’s phones and
computers, and copied the contact information of other Federal Reserve
officials”If you replace them with an algorithm, with human intervention only in a president declared emergency , there wuld be no need for this stuff.
Can we just fire these central bankers and replace them with a simple program? They are political operators rather than calculating economists.
Can’t you just use grad students?
What are the specific microbes found, and also those that should not be found in the stool of a superdonor? Perhaps just culturing these microbes separately is sufficient to make a good insertible pill?
Where can I access and play around with this model and/or its code ?
A collection of EA bedtime stories would be great!