Adele Lopez

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Adele Lopez 24 Dec 2016 7:15 UTC
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in reply to: Adele Lopez’s comment on: Establishing a permanent off-Earth colony would be a useful way to mitigate x-risk
That was a quick estimate of the timescale where mitigating astronomical black swans becomes worth doing.

Adele Lopez 23 Dec 2016 15:34 UTC
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on: If they spent 100x longer deciding where to donate, then most effective altruists would choose targets with much higher expected impact.
This seems to be highly sensitive to the amount of time EAs currently spend on deciding. I think that most people are likely to end up not donating at all if they feel pressure to spend more than 2 hours making a decision—I’m not sure if EAs are selected enough to mitigate that factor.

I also moderately believe that most EAs will not use the extra time very well (e.g. just pouring the extra time into more detailed analyses of two similar causes).

Adele Lopez 23 Dec 2016 15:18 UTC
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on: Establishing a permanent off-Earth colony would be a useful way to mitigate x-risk
I agree with this on timescales of around 1,000,000 years or so, but disagree with the colloquial interpretation that this is something that would be useful in mitigating the x-risks we currently face.

Adele Lopez 13 Dec 2016 13:48 UTC
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in reply to: Chris Holden’s comment on: Vector arithmetic
Alright, I’ve reworked this part, do you think it is better now?

Adele Lopez 6 Dec 2016 11:16 UTC
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on: Lambda calculus
I think this sentence would be easier to read without the parenthesis around the second sentence.

Adele Lopez 27 Jun 2016 12:39 UTC
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on: Group theory
Shouldn’t this be a child of Abstract Algebra?

Adele Lopez 27 Jun 2016 5:56 UTC
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in reply to: Eric Rogstad’s comment on: Quotient group
right, fixed!