> For the first time ever, I wasnt counting the days until retirement or a long 7+ day vacation. That sounds rather positive. Still 'it was not the dream'?
I instinctively want to agree with you, but isn't it possible that throwing orders-of-magnitude more engineers at these kinds of problems will eventually get them solved, but right now nobody is doing that because the…
Have you? Because the rationalists I know are genuinely well-adjusted people. It's cheap and easy to make fun of the lesswrong community as a cringy cult of AI-obsessed neckbeards. And to be fair, the writing style on…
Most proposals in this direction (e.g. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets", [1]) make reasonable exemptions for basic personal needs, so people don't get thrown out of their (modest) homes or lose their personal belongings…
"Second most popular language in the area" is a gross distortion of reality. It would make zero sense for a local police officer to choose to yell at local protestors or local colleagues in a non-native language that…
The latent space of type design choices is large but very much finite, and concepts like "warmth" consistently refer to features like large curves, low stroke contrast, deliberate imperfections (that evoke physical…
Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
It is being funded – at a small scale, but growing nonetheless. Just yesterday the NYT wrote about $3M from Silver Lining and $4M from NOAA. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/climate/climate-change-ge... [1]…
I haven't listened to them but can recommend the Medlife Crisis episode [0], in which he reviews the scientific literature around the effects of cold exposure, blood oxygenation/acidity from hyper-/hypoventilation, and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial
I don't know about vimagit, but vim's org-mode support is very barebones. Give doom-emacs a try though. You really can have the best of both worlds nowadays.
That's not quite right. Even if there were no gravity or other forces, there would be no incentive for matter to go in one direction vs another, regardless of the distribution of matter around it. Over time you'd get a…
Please provide credible evidence for this claim.
Radiolab has a wonderfully deep episode on this topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-... The main issue is the sheer volume of content. Four seconds – that's their estimate for how much…
That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier)
Yeah, sorry. I should be clear: I didn't in any way mean to imply that a carbon dividend would come close to being a UBI, just that it works the same way: a fixed chunk of money for everyone, every month/quarter/year. A…
Everyone gets back the same amount. You can't even know how much carbon tax you paid, because it's levied at the source. It's a redistribution scheme at the expense of polluters.
> fried his brains from LSD This, too, is an armchair diagnosis and unnecessarily sensational language. According to Wikipedia: > Asked if Barrett may have had Asperger's syndrome, his sister Rosemary Breen said that he…
You're right, changing one's worldview is difficult, and we certainly shouldn't force anyone to endorse views they don't hold. That said, hitching one's identity to unfalsifiable beliefs ("there is nothing science can't…
Insulting people is a bad idea in general, but there is an obvious difference between religion on one hand and sexual orientation/race on the other: you can choose (and change) the former but not the latter.
Bezos' dollars are a lot more fungible than that. What would "owning ancient Egypt" on paper do for you, really?
You've got the right Robin Hanson. The key argument is that there is lots of uncertainty, but variolation is probably worth trying. And if volunteers can be found, why not? One shouldn't need to be a virologist to…
That's a misunderstanding of the problem. Optimizing for engagement tends to favour extreme, simplistic, and highly emotional viewpoints. In other words, it caters to human nature. This tendency is harmful to rational…
> political dialogues That sounds lovely. Fake news (the actual kind), name-calling, absurd conspiracy-theorizing, memes that remove all nuance from complex issues, botnets that amplify anti-science/anti-intellectual…
Just because it's possible in theory doesn't make it a good idea. In org-mode, anything that isn't plaintext is quite painful to set up and to maintain, at least until you've memorized two dozen arcane key chords. I…
> For the first time ever, I wasnt counting the days until retirement or a long 7+ day vacation. That sounds rather positive. Still 'it was not the dream'?
I instinctively want to agree with you, but isn't it possible that throwing orders-of-magnitude more engineers at these kinds of problems will eventually get them solved, but right now nobody is doing that because the…
Have you? Because the rationalists I know are genuinely well-adjusted people. It's cheap and easy to make fun of the lesswrong community as a cringy cult of AI-obsessed neckbeards. And to be fair, the writing style on…
Most proposals in this direction (e.g. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets", [1]) make reasonable exemptions for basic personal needs, so people don't get thrown out of their (modest) homes or lose their personal belongings…
"Second most popular language in the area" is a gross distortion of reality. It would make zero sense for a local police officer to choose to yell at local protestors or local colleagues in a non-native language that…
The latent space of type design choices is large but very much finite, and concepts like "warmth" consistently refer to features like large curves, low stroke contrast, deliberate imperfections (that evoke physical…
Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
It is being funded – at a small scale, but growing nonetheless. Just yesterday the NYT wrote about $3M from Silver Lining and $4M from NOAA. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/climate/climate-change-ge... [1]…
I haven't listened to them but can recommend the Medlife Crisis episode [0], in which he reviews the scientific literature around the effects of cold exposure, blood oxygenation/acidity from hyper-/hypoventilation, and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial
I don't know about vimagit, but vim's org-mode support is very barebones. Give doom-emacs a try though. You really can have the best of both worlds nowadays.
That's not quite right. Even if there were no gravity or other forces, there would be no incentive for matter to go in one direction vs another, regardless of the distribution of matter around it. Over time you'd get a…
Please provide credible evidence for this claim.
Radiolab has a wonderfully deep episode on this topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-... The main issue is the sheer volume of content. Four seconds – that's their estimate for how much…
That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier)
Yeah, sorry. I should be clear: I didn't in any way mean to imply that a carbon dividend would come close to being a UBI, just that it works the same way: a fixed chunk of money for everyone, every month/quarter/year. A…
Everyone gets back the same amount. You can't even know how much carbon tax you paid, because it's levied at the source. It's a redistribution scheme at the expense of polluters.
> fried his brains from LSD This, too, is an armchair diagnosis and unnecessarily sensational language. According to Wikipedia: > Asked if Barrett may have had Asperger's syndrome, his sister Rosemary Breen said that he…
You're right, changing one's worldview is difficult, and we certainly shouldn't force anyone to endorse views they don't hold. That said, hitching one's identity to unfalsifiable beliefs ("there is nothing science can't…
Insulting people is a bad idea in general, but there is an obvious difference between religion on one hand and sexual orientation/race on the other: you can choose (and change) the former but not the latter.
Bezos' dollars are a lot more fungible than that. What would "owning ancient Egypt" on paper do for you, really?
You've got the right Robin Hanson. The key argument is that there is lots of uncertainty, but variolation is probably worth trying. And if volunteers can be found, why not? One shouldn't need to be a virologist to…
That's a misunderstanding of the problem. Optimizing for engagement tends to favour extreme, simplistic, and highly emotional viewpoints. In other words, it caters to human nature. This tendency is harmful to rational…
> political dialogues That sounds lovely. Fake news (the actual kind), name-calling, absurd conspiracy-theorizing, memes that remove all nuance from complex issues, botnets that amplify anti-science/anti-intellectual…
Just because it's possible in theory doesn't make it a good idea. In org-mode, anything that isn't plaintext is quite painful to set up and to maintain, at least until you've memorized two dozen arcane key chords. I…