Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 16 March 2015 03:30:48PM 2 points [-]

It takes some time for the Wiki accounts to get in sync with the LW account, just wait some time (a day?). I guess its some Troll protection.

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 March 2015 05:22:18PM 8 points [-]

You're giving this advice to that account handle?

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 March 2015 02:22:00PM *  4 points [-]

In Our Own Image: Will artificial intelligence save or destroy us? by George Zarkadakis was published by Random House on 5 March. I haven't read it, but from a search on Google Books, there's no mention of "Yudkowsky" or "MIRI", while "Bostrom" only appears once, in a discussion of the Simulation Argument. I nearly gave up at that point, but then I thought to search for "Hawking", and indeed, there is a discussion of the Hawking/Tegmark/Russell/Wilczek letter; this seems to me to be evidence on how carefully the author looked into the issue before writing the paragraphs dismissing it. In summary: *sigh*.

Edit: The author was aware of MIRI in 2013.

Comment author: malcolmocean 16 March 2015 03:41:21AM 3 points [-]

I have tried this. Mixed results.

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 March 2015 12:31:46PM 2 points [-]

I definitely find that I can handle more of what life throws at me when I've brushed my hair.

Comment author: bramflakes 13 March 2015 11:13:36PM *  9 points [-]

One of the most common complaints about the old Sequences was that there was no canonical default order, especially for people who didn't want to read the entire blog archive chronologically.

I was tricked into doing this. Years ago someone posted an ebook claiming to be the Sequences, but was actually just every single Yudkowsky blog post from 2006 to 2010 -_-

It took until noticing that only Yudkowsky's side of the FOOM debate was in there that I realized what had happened

Comment author: ciphergoth 14 March 2015 01:08:54PM 5 points [-]

It wasn't meant as a trick! Organising them would have been very hard.

Comment author: Transfuturist 13 March 2015 06:38:17PM *  1 point [-]

I see nine stones, not ten.

Comment author: ciphergoth 14 March 2015 01:08:10PM 1 point [-]

Three at the back, three at the front, one to one side, one standing up... the question is whether it's standing on one stone or two.

Comment author: Coscott 13 March 2015 03:17:28PM *  22 points [-]

The cover is incorrect :(

EDIT: If you do not understand this post, read essay 268 from the book!

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 March 2015 04:19:37PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: RobbBB 12 March 2015 06:03:27AM 10 points [-]

The sequences eBook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, will most likely be released early in the day on March 13, 2015.

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 March 2015 08:29:42AM 6 points [-]

This has been published! I assume a Main post on the subject will be coming soon so I won't create one now.

Unless I am much mistaken, the Pebblesorters would not approve of the cover :)

Comment author: philh 10 March 2015 12:25:30AM *  3 points [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hpe/how_should_eliezer_and_nicks_extra_20_be_split/ ?

edit: no, I don't think that's it. I think I do remember the post you're talking about, and I thought it included this anecdote, but this isn't the one I was thinking of.

edit 2: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jgv/even_odds/ is the one I was thinking of.

Comment author: ciphergoth 12 March 2015 08:22:41AM 1 point [-]

Great—thanks! (Thanks to badger below too)

Comment author: chaosmage 11 March 2015 12:25:31PM 6 points [-]

Wiki says the idea has been suggested in earnest as one of the forms a mosquito laser could take, and was rejected in favor of a better one.

I don't think there is any quadcopter that can fly for more than 30 minutes on one battery charge - and that's without mosquito recognition and zapping systems drawing on that same battery.

Comment author: ciphergoth 12 March 2015 07:41:00AM 0 points [-]

Right, this sort of thing is only practical given fully automated battery replacement.

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 March 2015 09:22:39PM 6 points [-]

I remember reading an article here a while back about a fair protocol for making a bet when we disagree on the odds, but I can't find it. Anyone remember what that was? Thanks!

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