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Hey there, been sporadically reading stuff on LW for maybe ~8ish years? Just created an account today to comment on the animal intelligence thread. I can't remember if I had an account on the old v1.0 site, but in any case I don't remember ever posting previously. Found out about LW via HPMOR.
I'm grateful to the folks at LW for introducing me to cryonics. I signed up a few years back.
I'm interested in animal communication (among other things) — I'm currently building a prosthetic human voice meant for animal use. Would love to connect with anyone who has experience with consumer electronics development.
(new account because I couldn't log in again with github)
Good question — difficult at the moment because I only have the one prototype, and I'm still updating it. Though I'm open to show-and-tell and/or short-term loans for readers in San Francisco.
I commented on the post as well, but repeating here — I think denominating conditional markets in shares of contracts of the event happening (rather than in $) is more natural and resolves some confusions. i.e. denominate a contract that pays out if A conditional on B in shares of contracts that pay out $1 if B.
Shares of (coin comes up heads, conditional on coin being flipped) will then be traded in currency denominated in shares of (coin is flipped).
If everyone knows the coin will be flipped only if the laser scan comes up estimating the bias at > 0.5, then it's no surprise if the market is trading at > 0.5,... (read more)