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I suspect this post tends to produce a burning urge to move to Bay Area, unless you're already there. Or am I the only one?
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Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)
It seems that sufficiently intelligent agent should be able to change sigma. Sufficiently advanced rover might be able to design and assemble new sensors in place, or advanced trading algorithm might look for a new relevant streams of data on the net, or strong AI might modify its sensory mechanisms in various ways. After all, human intelligences do it when they need new tools to make scientific discoveries.
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Game Theory As A Dark Art
Aren't most of these evil strategies effectively combated by good strategies? For instance, the Republicans could promise 1/2 of a stupendous amount of money to the Democrats for all of them voting no and then have one Republican vote yes. The plutocrat pays 1 stupendous amount of money to the Republicans who split it with the Democrats. Shouldn't the business offering $101 a share just offer $105.01 for the first 500 shares and $96.99 for the other half, then redistribute them like the evil offer? Shouldn't a family business establish a managed trust instead of relying on such a weak board of directors? Or not sell 51% of their shares to anyone else? Shouldn't the first bidder for $20 bid $19.99 and slowly build up a wealth in pennies? Shouldn't bloodthirsty pirates invest the $17000 in faster ships and more cannons?
Even better, if party A want to play the game, they could announce to party B that they will vote for 26% of total (assuming 50%+ is what it takes to pass the vote) and to split in case the bill doesn't pass. This way they can be sure that party B wouldn't outvote them without passing the bill and ruining thhe game.
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Game Theory As A Dark Art
In "The Evil Plutocrat" all parties would probably cooperate to vote the bill down, since otherwise they will be sending a message that they could be played in that (and probably other) fashion, which will deminish their future profits, as other lobbyists would try to play them instead of bribing.
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lesswrong.ru domain for translation project?
Maybe we can get ru.lesswrong.com?
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Whole Brain Emulation: Looking At Progress On C. elgans
http://www.computerra.ru/interactive/589824 A. Palianov now works in Russia on nematode brain emulation project
Don't forget the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uV3yTmUlgo
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Free Online Stanford Courses: AI and Machine Learning
Signed. There are plenty of options for collaborative learning today, I had a good expirience with OpenStudy.com (by MIT students) and collaborative learning wikis on PBworks.com.
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Applause Lights
There might be one another case: in casual conversation, something that looks like an applause light, could be just expression of recent insights of a particular person on the subject. Like, he just yesterday deduced (based on some fragments of rational texts on the web) that we should balance risks and opportunities of this. Or, maybe the audience level on the subject is so low that even the applause-like statements do convey some information.
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Less Wrong in Other Languages
We in Russia are cherishing the similar idea. I think it would be great to add to LW engine a feature to switch the language on every article, if any translation is available, like one there is in Wikipedia.
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For those interested in the subject, I would recommend checking out Mindfulness in plain english. Even reading introduction and chapter 1 might provide strong motivation for taking the exercises seriously. It is written by highly regarded buddhist monk but stripped of almost all religious/mythical references.