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I'm still continuing with the use of Anki to learn Python programming language. The method seems useful so far. My Python deck reached >200 cards recently. You can try it here:
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Open thread, 18-24 March 2014
What is your irrational reading guilty pleasure? Whenever I need a cheap laugh, I browse Conservapedia. Where do you go to indulge the occasional craving for high-octane idiocy?
Russian LiveJournal. With the whole Crimea business going on, the shitstorm there is really powerful as of now...
What's a low-hanging fruit in a world where ladders grow on trees?
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Rationality Quotes February 2014
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
--source unknown
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[Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17)
Is there a formal fallacy of taking something that's overrated, and concluding that it sucks? (Because you overreact to the fact that it's overrated)
We can call it Hipster Fallacy, maybe?
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Open Thread for February 11 - 17
Sometimes I feel like looking into how I can help humanity (e.g. 80000 hours stuff), but other times I feel like humanity is just irredeemable and may as well wipe itself off the planet (via climate change, nuclear war, whatever).
For instance, humans are so facepalmingly bad at making decisions for the long term (viz. climate change, running out of fossil fuels) that it seems clear that genetic or neurological enhancements would be highly beneficial in changing this (and other deficiencies, of course). Yet discourse about such things is overwhelmingly negative, mired in what I think are irrational kneejerk reactions to defend "what it means to be human." So I'm just like, you know what? Fuck it. You can't even help yourselves help yourselves. Forget it.
Thoughts?
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Open Thread for February 3 - 10
Would a (hypothetically) pure altruist have children (in our current situation)?
Depends on the utility function the altruist uses.
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Humans can drive cars
Maybe creating a safe AGI isn't as impossible as it looks to me. Maybe it isn't beyond human capabilities. Maybe.
Maybe humans are not safe AGI. Maybe both the idea of "safety" and the idea of "general intelligence" are ill-defined.
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Sucralose works for me as a replacement of actual sugar.