DanielVarga

Here is the way-too-late 2014 edition of the Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is last year's.) Thanks Huluk for nudging me to do it. Best of Rationality Quotes 2014 (300kB page, 235 quotes) and Best of Rationality Quotes 2009-2014 (1900kB page, 1770 quotes) The page was built by a...

Vitalik Buterin has a new post about an interesting theoretical attack against Bitcoin. The idea relies on the assumption that the attacker can credibly commit to something quite crazy. The crazy thing is this: paying out 25.01 BTC to all the people who help him in his attack to steal...

Here is the 2013 edition of the Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is last year's.) Best of Rationality Quotes 2013 (400kB page, 350 quotes) and Best of Rationality Quotes 2009-2013 (1600kB page, 1490 quotes) The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the LW...

Scott Aaronson has a new 85 page essay up, titled "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine". (Abstract here.) In Section 2.11 (Singulatarianism) he explicitly mentions Eliezer as an influence. But that's just a starting point, and he then moves in a direction that's very far from any kind of...

I finished creating the 2012 edition of the Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is last year's.) Best of Rationality Quotes 2012 (500kB page, 434 quotes) and Best of Rationality Quotes 2009-2012 (1200kB page, 1140 quotes) The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the...

Overcoming Bias: Was Intrade being manipulated in the last month? The link is good apropos, but the question that interests me is a bit more general. It seems to me that the apparent failure of Intrade to function as a predictor/knowledge aggregator before the US presidential elections was an important...

I created a 2011 update to last year's Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is the original.) Best of Rationality Quotes 2011 (360kB page, 352 quotes) and Best of Rationality Quotes 2009-2011 (700kB page, 706 quotes) The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the...