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Comment author: hans_jonsson 05 March 2016 10:47:46AM 1 point [-]

theres a 10% chance hes right after hes to some extent verified my identity? i didnt wish to post my message very publicly cause it embarrassing and awkwardly like i was bragging when i wished to be honest, and hopefully show that im competent. how could my message of offering free education even be scammy? as i said i can prove it to vaniver and he can relay the information. im just looking for a smart person with the right priorities to educate on this so i can justify taking a break, and limit workload in general. i havent taken a single day off since i started aside from the very few days where there generally hasnt been any of the esport games that i focus on. the other message was from my "associate" who i asked to look into ways to maximize value, dont like seeing money go to waste if avoidable

Comment author: Lumifer 07 March 2016 04:47:13PM 1 point [-]

and hopefully show that im competent.

You're kinda failing at that at the moment :-/

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 March 2016 04:07:32PM 1 point [-]

No, you're failing at general competency. For example, you screwed up your introduction to LessWrong.

Competency at esports betting is a hard thing to demonstrate. It's like proving you're a good trader in financial markets: a string of successes is not a proof.

Comment author: hans_jonsson 08 March 2016 05:32:09PM -2 points [-]

yo responded to my line "hopyfully show that im competent at esport betting" saying i failed at that. then i asked how i would fail to show that im competent at it by not even mentioning the subject because the topic was other things in the post at hand. now you try to cover up what you just did and claim you are talking about general competency. which doesnt even have anything to do with what im trying to do with this whole thing which is minimising existential risk by getting more money into the cause that i currently think is the best suited. id say youre the one whos failing at at wherever the hell this thing is going.

do you have source for how hard it is to demonstrate that im good at whatever it is i do as you dont know any details? as i said i aim to show everything i can to hopefully show that im competent. a kindergardener know s that a string of success isnt proof

Comment author: Lumifer 08 March 2016 06:53:15PM 0 points [-]

yo responded to my line "hopyfully show that im competent at esport betting" saying i failed at that.

Not quite. Look at your original comment:

when i wished to be honest, and hopefully show that im competent.

See? There is a full stop at the end. Nothing about esports.

now you try to cover up what you just did and claim you are talking about general competency. which doesnt even have anything to do with what im trying to do with this whole thing which is minimising existential risk by getting more money into the cause that i currently think is the best suited.

LOL. General competency does have much to do with "this whole thing". You are not helping your cause at the moment.

Comment author: SquirrelInHell 09 March 2016 02:33:53AM 1 point [-]

I think talking to this guy has gone past the point where it was amusing.

I propose to from now on, adhere to a fully general Against-People-Who-Don't-Use-Letter-Case policy: ignore any post that contain's only majuscules or only minuscules.

That should do well enough.

Comment author: Vaniver 09 March 2016 02:51:40PM * 0 points [-]

I propose to from now on, adhere to a fully general Against-People-Who-Don't-Use-Letter-Case policy: ignore any post that contain's only majuscules or only minuscules.

One of the startups I briefly worked at experimented with having the receptionist answer some of the founder's email. (He was a popular and busy guy, but a lot of the emails he got could be responded to simply.)

People noticed because she capitalized words, which he never bothered to do.

Comment author: gjm 09 March 2016 09:36:48AM 0 points [-]

sOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA. lET'S DO IT. bUT ARE YOU SURE IT'S ENOUGH?

Comment author: Lumifer 09 March 2016 03:21:25PM * 0 points [-]

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Comment author: hans_jonsson 14 March 2016 10:35:08PM -1 points [-]

i mean you people keep going on and on despite me having proved everything ive claimed and just want to minimise existential risk, while theres just a whole lot of whining about grammar and whatnot from you guys. its not my main language, ive not spent any time trying to improve it, and i may very well have some mental issues in regards to quite a few things

Comment author: hans_jonsson 13 March 2016 11:42:57PM -1 points [-]

"Not quite. Look at your original comment:" where the topic was esports betting. no, i did not attempt to show that im competent in whatever it is you think i was trying attempt to show to be competent in by specifically showing my results in betting.

"LOL. General competency does have much to do with "this whole thing". You are not helping your cause at the moment." what does general competency have to do with this? at the core, the value a person provides is the effect he has on existential risk reduction, and the by far best current way seems to be ai safety research, which is what im trying to do. what does me not typing in ucking capital letters have to do with anything, or how does it even show lack of competency? the only way i can imagine it would do that is if the observers in question truely honestly believed that i does not know better, which we both of course know isnt the case. im not helping my cause in what manner?

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