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The aims are completely different, though. What portion of this budget is dedicated to solving "the challenge of aging"?
Cancer and heart diseases are part of aging.
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[LINK] Larry = Harry sans magic? Google vs. Death
I'd just like to remind you that the total annual Pharma industry R&D budget is about 70 billion $. That's for trying to cure individual diseases. I wonder how much will Google invest into trying to cure them all at once.
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/biopharmas-top-rd-spenders-2012
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Is humanity a superhuman AI?
No single human can build the pyramids but a single human can design them. Humaniy is superhumanly capable but not superhumanly intelligent.
I disagree. You can design a pyramid only by using a lot of knowledge that other people made for you.
I think a good example of a "single human" is a feral child.
Is humanity a superhuman AI?
Serious question. No single human being can build a nuclear reactor, land on the moon or calculate pi to the billionth digit, but humanity can. Does it qualify?
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Mistakes repository
That thing I'm going to do next month that I don't even know about yet.
Another specific failure mode I have heard about: Choosing a college because your lover is going to the same one.
I wonder if this is indicative of unequal relationship. Why isn't the lover going to the same college as you?
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Mistakes repository
Starting university with chemistry rather than computer science. Started on chemistry because I'd really enjoyed it at school, because my teacher was fantastic; realised I didn't actually like it at all. If I'd started on comp sci (and this was in 1985), I'd have done well, I'd have had much more money earlier, and my ridiculously intensive personal hobbies wouldn't have been affected.
tl;dr unexpectedly hazardous: good teachers.
Hear, hear. I had a teacher who was good enough to get me briefly interested (this being in Israel) in Tanakh, my most hated subject.
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Yet More "Stupid" Questions
How often do you think about death? (Not suicidally.)
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Open thread, September 2-8, 2013
The following query is sexual in nature, and is rot13'ed for the sake of those who would either prefer not to encounter this sort of content on Less Wrong, or would prefer not to recall information of such nature about my private life in future interactions.
V nz pheeragyl va n eryngvbafuvc jvgu n jbzna jub vf fvtavsvpnagyl zber frkhnyyl rkcrevraprq guna V nz. Juvyr fur cerfragyl engrf bhe frk nf "njrfbzr," vg vf abg lrg ng gur yriry bs "orfg rire," juvpu V ubcr gb erpgvsl.
Sbe pynevsvpngvba, V jbhyq fnl gung gur trareny urnygu naq fgnovyvgl bs bhe eryngvbafuvc vf rkgerzryl uvtu; guvf chefhvg vf n znggre bs erperngvba naq crefbany cevqr, abg n arprffnel vagreiragvba gb fnir gur eryngvbafuvc.
V'ir nyernql frnepurq bayvar sbe nyy gur vasbezngvba V pna svaq ba vzcebivat gur dhnyvgl bs frk, ohg fhpu vasbezngvba vf birejuryzvatyl rvgure gnetrgrq ng oevatvat crbcyr jvgu fbzr frevbhf qrsvpvrapl va gurve frk yvirf hc gb gur yriry bs abeznyvgl be fngvfslvat gurz gung gur abez vf yrff fcrpgnphyne guna gurl guvax naq gurl qba'g unir gb yvir hc gb vasyngrq fgnaqneqf, engure guna crbcyr gelvat gb npuvrir frk jnl bhg ba gur sne raq bs gur oryy pheir, be gnetrgrq ng crbcyr jub jbhyqa'g xabj jung "rzcvevpny onpxvat" jnf vs lbh uvg gurz va gur snpr jvgu vg.
V'z nyernql snzvyvne jvgu gur zbfg boivbhf, ybj unatvat sehvg vagreiragvbaf fhpu nf "pbageby fgerff," "qb xrtryf," rgp, naq jr pbzzhavpngr nobhg bhe frkhny cersreraprf naq npgvivgvrf rkgrafviryl. V'z nyfb nppbhagvat sbe snpgbef fhpu nf gur rzbgvbany pbagrkg bs bhe rapbhagref naq ubezbany plpyrf. Jung V'z ybbxvat sbe ng guvf cbvag ner rkprcgvbany zrnfherf sbe guvatf yvxr envfvat zl frkhny fgnzvan gb hahfhny yriryf, vapernfvat ure yriry bs nebhfny naq/be frafvgvivgl, naq fb sbegu. Obgu purzvpny naq abapurzvpny zrnfherf ner npprcgnoyr, ohg V jbhyq yvxr gb nibvq nalguvat yvxryl gb pneel qnatrebhf fvqr rssrpgf, naq vs cbffvoyr V jbhyq cersre abg gb erfbeg gb guvatf gung jbhyq erdhver zr gb trg n cerfpevcgvba sebz n qbpgbe juvyr qvfpybfvat gung V'z hfvat vg ba n cheryl erperngvbany onfvf.
Nal nqivpr jbhyq or nccerpvngrq.
To be honest, you sound a bit like a person who made a billion dollars and now tries to crowd-source a way to make ten billions. :-)
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Heh. It's even worse than that. The idea that Bob is a single agent with terminal values is likely wrong. There are several agents comprising Bob and their terminal values change constantly, depending on the weather.