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• dariusJun 26, 2010, 12:57 AM

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  in reply to: Kingreaper’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity & Crim­i­nal Law: Some Questions

  I suspect ‘usual’ there meant not “done frequently” but “according to usage or custom”.

• dariusMar 28, 2010, 9:09 AM

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  in reply to: Jonathan_Graehl’s comment on: SIA won’t doom you

  does that suggest that the filter for life given Earthlike planet is pretty easy to pass?

  Robin argued that it doesn’t in his Great Filter article. If creating us takes several hard steps, hard enough that the expected time is much more than the time up to now, then for us to exist now we’d expect the first step to have happened quickly. (The detailed math is at a broken link.)

  best estimate for when some interesting replicator populated a significant part of Earth?

  There’s evidence for very early life (e.g.) but I gather it’s not nailed down.

  Do we have evidence of any pre-RNA replicator of significance?

  Here’s a pop science article on a plausible precursor (which I can’t competently evaluate).

• dariusMar 4, 2010, 4:14 AM

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  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: In­ter­est­ing Peter Norvig interview

  Same here. I never watch an interview without a transcript, no matter who it is.

• dariusSep 2, 2009, 8:32 PM

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  in reply to: PeterS’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Septem­ber 2009

  You could see that as anthropomorphizing the power of interaction.

• dariusAug 20, 2009, 3:33 AM

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  on: Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

  the brain misfires. It didn’t make me crave liver and shellfish and molasses, it made me crave water in frozen form.

  I think it’s been suggested that this craving made sense when cracking bones with your teeth released iron-rich marrow, and ice cubes were not available. (Hearsay from Seth Roberts’s blog; I don’t have a reference.)

• dariusJul 31, 2009, 2:52 AM

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  on: The Un­finished Mys­tery of the Shangri-La Diet

  I’ve seen Roberts mention once or twice on his blog that he couldn’t get a controlled experiment approved by the review board. (No details.) Also he seemed open to the diet just not working for some people.

  Some variations haven’t been mentioned here, like adding random combos of spices to your food to mix up the flavor. What I settled on, what worked for me without any unpleasantness drawing on willpower over time, was to pour flaxseed oil on toast and eat it noseclipped.

• dariusMay 24, 2009, 1:53 AM

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  on: Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

  I just skimmed the results from it running the last few days at http://​​wry.me:7002/​​ -- it ran through to the end 49 times: 21 times the player got the right rule with no errors, 10 times they apparently got it right but with some errors, and 18 times they got it wrong. Of course I don’t know who was playing or what they may have read just before.

• dariusMay 21, 2009, 9:32 AM

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  in reply to: JGWeissman’s comment on: Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

  Thanks! I’ve addressed your latter two points (perhaps too minimally); though I think 3 input boxes would actually be less usable. I just made it accept both commas and spaces as delimiters instead.

  If anyone would like to make a nice, pretty version, that should be easier now with the rule logic better-factored.

• dariusMay 20, 2009, 11:54 PM

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  on: Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

  A quick-and-dirty server-based webification (no Javascript): http://​​wry.me:7002/​​ with source code at http://​​github.com/​​darius/​​wason/​​ (only lightly tested).

  What links here?

  • JGWeissman's comment on Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram) by MBlume (May 20, 2009, 5:13 AM; 10 points)

• dariusMay 20, 2009, 11:10 PM

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  in reply to: lavalamp’s comment on: Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

  I believe that’s because line 23 should be

  bool mywrongtests [NUMTESTS+1];

  (It’s missing the “+1”.)