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ivank160

Excessive returns will possibly get you banned from Amazon for life, with no warning, as many have discovered.

5Gunnar_Zarncke
But probably not for e-books as there is no recognizable loss for Amazon controlling.
ivank20

Could a broken HTTP proxy be in your way? You can look at your HTTP traffic in Chrome by hitting F12 and clicking on the 'Network' tab, or in Firefox by installing the HttpFox addon. You can click around on the requests/responses and see if you're getting any strange error responses.

Also, have you tried ctrl-shift-r to force reload in both browsers? Some broken resource might be cached.

0RobertLumley
Tried Ctrl-shift-R. Didn't work. I didn't really do anything, but it seems to be working now. Very strange set of circumstances though. Neither FF or Chrome would process any AJAX on any site.
ivank00

But at least we finally noticed we're robots, and we can use the skills of rationality to hop off our habit treadmills and pursue our values instead.

How do you determine whether you've really hopped off the treadmill, vs. using higher-order desires as a sophisticated long-term strategy to spread your genes and memes? (Is this covered in the book?)

3[anonymous]
Does it matter? Your genes and memes basically are who you are. They contain most of the necessary information to make you you, you can not exist without the information describing you existing (however hidden or unavailable it may be to any particular mind) as well! Freedom in any reasonable sense is the ability to make the future universe will end up in states that you find desirable. Altering the fitness landscape or letting it stay just as it is are both valid courses of action to this goal, though the latter is very unlikely to be the wise choice for us. Hacking your mind to fool your memes to help spread your genes, or vice versa are also merely a tactic in this goal. Replacing your genes and memes with ones that you are supremley confident will do the job of making the future universe as you'd like, or changing the envrionment they express themselves in seem to be valid as well.
ivank240

gwern told me about PB in January 2011, and given my heavy use, I've spent about two days tweaking it and fixing bugs. If you like the changes, feel free to upvote this comment (I could use more than 0 karma). Note that TrikeApps is responsible for making the database faster, not me.

Also, if you see old predictions with bizarre estimates (e.g. 99% instead of 1%), it's because almost everyone made mistakes due the old copy displaying "99% against" instead of "1%" for 1% - the new version doesn't do this.

1Jayson_Virissimo
I edited the article to give you some credit.