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EvanWard97

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Longtermist. Epistemic infrastructure and AI x-risk strategy.
  1. How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?

    I was pondering how internet latency seems to be just barely sufficient for a decent fast-paced online multiplayer gaming experience. If human cognition were say, 20x faster relative to the speed of light, we'd be…

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  2. Letter from Utopia – Nick Bostrom (nickbostrom.com)
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  3. Ask HN: Should we coordinate to switch to more productive languages?

    It seems that some programming languages are simply better (i.e. overall safer, faster to read/write/compile/run, more expressive and efficient to develop in) than others. Overall worse languages often stick around…

    1 points 8
  4. Ask HN: How do you do probabilistic cost-benefit analysis?
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  5. Show HN: Quickly generate and use the probability distribution you have in mind (probability.dev)
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  6. Show HN: Random Variable Generator (probability.dev)
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  7. Tool that allows you to draw and then download a dataset (drawdata.xyz)
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  8. Syllabus for Long Term Thinking (twitter.com)
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  9. Acts Need Not Be Universalizable (medium.com)
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  10. Guesstimate spreadsheet to estimate the number of ideal dating matches nearby (getguesstimate.com)
    3 points 1
  11. Our Obligation to Add Beings to the World (evanward.org)
    2 points 0
  12. A Counterintuitive Probability Game (evanward.org)
    60 points 68
  13. There Should Have Been Only One Nuclear Power (evanward.org)
    2 points 1