gwern comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 06:22:56PM 12 points [-]

If you pay nothing for expert advise you will value it at epsilon more than nothing, if you pay five figures for it you will clear your schedule and implement recommendations within the day.

Obviously I need to figure out how to start charging for my website!

Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 06:09:17PM 5 points [-]

I do value your research and writings. I was thinking about offering to buy you a laptop because it sounded like you had an old POS that was hampering said research and writings, but then I decided that would be too weird.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 06:14:42PM *  1 point [-]

I did have a POS, but in July 2010 I finally bit the bullet and bought a new Dell Studio 17 laptop that has since worked well for me. (The hard drive died a few months ago and I had to replace it, almost simultaneously with my external backup drive dying, which was very stressful, but Dell doesn't make the hard drives, so I write that off as an isolated incident.)

Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 06:51:11PM 5 points [-]

Ah, then I only need to buy you a 2-year backblaze subscription, that's far cheaper.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 07:03:53PM 0 points [-]

Backblaze sounds great, but they don't have a Linux client.

Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 07:28:07PM 10 points [-]

tarsnap it is, then.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 09:19:36PM 2 points [-]

Tarsnap is cool - I like Colin's blog and stuff like scrypt. (The latter was relevant to one of my crypto essays.)

Comment author: gwern 12 June 2012 12:13:34AM 6 points [-]

For the record: khafra actually did donate to me and wasn't just cheap signaling. Well done!

Comment author: wedrifid 12 June 2012 12:27:46AM 2 points [-]

Wow. Great stuff khafra. I hereby grant you some portion of the respect granted to gwern for his nootropics research!

Comment author: khafra 12 June 2012 02:22:44PM 3 points [-]

Well, that's a pretty good prestige-per-dollar return, then; thanks! (And thanks to gwern, and keep up the good work).

Comment author: shminux 06 June 2012 07:30:25PM 1 point [-]

Crashplan does.