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compartmentalization 19 Mar 2020 0:18 UTC
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on: COVID-19′s Household Secondary Attack Rate Is Unknown
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30462-1/fulltext

compartmentalization 27 Feb 2017 20:06 UTC
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in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: [Error communicating with LW2 server]

How many people could we educate this way, for the price of having one study at USA.

Many, but that assumes that the actual quality of the education matters (the most), and not something else, like the opportunity to meet other people who will make up the elite class in the future.

It would even make sense for US citizens to study abroad for economical reasons, if they can’t get admitted to an elite US school, but how many future political leaders aren’t elite school graduates?

Imagine a 3rd world country, where if the person graduates their best university, most people with real influence won’t even be aware of its existence, or of the existence of the city where it’s located. How much can that person do? How much more could they do with better networking opportunities?

compartmentalization 12 Jul 2016 22:03 UTC
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in reply to: SquirrelInHell’s comment on: Secret Rationality Base in Europe

except climate

Care to elaborate?

prices

It seems to be cheaper than anything west and north of it, except the Baltics. Going by the prices listed here.

compartmentalization 12 Jul 2016 22:00 UTC
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in reply to: MrMind’s comment on: Secret Rationality Base in Europe
Good (frequent/cheap) flight connections are more important than location itself. Flying e.g. from Tallinn to Athens takes about 5 hours (about 3 hours of actual flight time).

compartmentalization 13 Mar 2016 0:42 UTC
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in reply to: DanArmak’s comment on: After Go, what games should be next for DeepMind?

being far better at parallelizing and reaction speed

Something like this?

compartmentalization 14 Jan 2016 17:06 UTC
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in reply to: ZoltanBerrigomo’s comment on: What can go wrong with the following protocol for AI containment?
If you use the entities’ preferences to decide what’s ethical, then everything is (or can be), because you can just adjust their preferences accordingly.

compartmentalization 6 Jan 2016 0:36 UTC
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in reply to: Gunnar_Zarncke’s comment on: Polling Thread January 2016
Can’t vote, not enough karma. Got 79%.

compartmentalization 3 Nov 2015 23:48 UTC
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in reply to: turchin’s comment on: A Map of Currently Available Life Extension Methods
Short search for “black pepper carcinogenicity” doesn’t turn up anything except a few studies on rats and mice, and one of them shows no adverse effect. Do you have anything better?

compartmentalization 8 Jun 2015 22:30 UTC
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in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: 16 types of useful predictions
This is the reason I have mixed feelings about making predictions of events that I can influence. I’m curious whether there is any research about this ‘jinxing’ - does predicting low chances of success at a task make people less likely to succeed? Or (maybe) the opposite?