habryka(Oliver Habryka)

• habryka 27 Oct 2020 4:59 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Data Se­crets Lox: An Alter­na­tive to Slate Star Codex Open Threads

  Also, this is great, and I am sad I didn’t know about this for the last month!

• habryka 27 Oct 2020 4:30 UTC

  LW: 2 AF: 1

  AF

  on: Dutch-Book­ing CDT: Re­vised Argument

  I… think this post was im­pacted by a bug in the LW API that GreaterWrong ran into, that made it so that it wasn’t visi­ble on the front­page when it was pub­lished. It nev­er­the­less ap­pears to have got­ten some amount of en­gage­ment, but maybe that was all from di­rect links?

  Given the sub­stan­tial chance that a num­ber of peo­ple have never seen this post, I re­posted it. Its origi­nal pub­lish­ing date was the 11th of June.

  What links here?

  • Dutch-Book­ing CDT: Re­vised Argument by abramdemski (27 Oct 2020 4:31 UTC; 46 points)

• habryka 27 Oct 2020 4:24 UTC

  2 points

  on: An­nounc­ing Data Se­crets Lox: An Alter­na­tive to Slate Star Codex Open Threads

  Note: Due to a bug in the LW API that GreaterWrong ran into this post was not visi­ble on the front­page un­til now. I re­set it’s date to make sure that it gets any time in the front­page (even if it’s a month af­ter it’s origi­nal pub­lish­ing date, which was the 12th of Septem­ber)

• habryka 27 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC

  2 points

  on: Book re­view: Age Later

  Note: Due to a bug in the LW API that GreaterWrong ran into, this post wasn’t visi­ble un­til now, but was pub­lished 3 days ago. I re­set its date to give it proper time on the front­page.

• habryka 25 Oct 2020 18:25 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: The bads of ads

  Ok, I now up­dated all the images in the post to be prop­erly re­sized.

• habryka 25 Oct 2020 18:20 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Measure’s comment on: The bads of ads

  Yeah, some of the images are re­ally re­ally mas­sive. I will re­u­pload some more of them with smaller re­s­olu­tions.

• habryka 24 Oct 2020 18:11 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: The bads of ads

  The first one was re­ally im­por­tant be­cause it was shipped with ev­ery front­page load, so I didn’t no­tice the sec­ond one.

  We already com­press images if you up­load them to LW, but this post was cross posted, where we just take the HTML and copy it over, and we don’t have any fancy in­fras­truc­ture set up to re­u­pload and re­size the images for that use case.

• habryka 24 Oct 2020 18:07 UTC

  7 points

  in reply to: Multicore’s comment on: The Dar­win Game—Rounds 0 to 10

  Mul­ti­core gained some fa­vor with me when he did an enor­mous amount of tag­ging dur­ing the tag­ging sprint. Figured I would use my en­try for the good, even if I didn’t have time to write my own thing.

• habryka 23 Oct 2020 18:50 UTC

  4 points

  on: The bads of ads

  Mod note: the first image in the post was 27000px wide, mak­ing it over 10MB large. I re­duced it’s size to safe the poor data plans of our mo­bile con­nec­tions and to make the post (and the front­page) load a bit faster.

• habryka 21 Oct 2020 23:37 UTC

  6 points

  on: Mal­i­cious link!

  Alas, looks like Scott’s old blog that was hosted on raikoth.net is now cap­tured by some ran­dom malware dis­trib­u­tor. I fixed the link on that spe­cific post with a re­post ver­sion, but there are prob­a­bly dozens of other links to that URL all over LessWrong.

• habryka 21 Oct 2020 23:03 UTC

  9 points

  on: Mes­sage Length

  Pro­moted to cu­rated: This re­ally is a quite good and straight­for­ward ex­pla­na­tion of what I think of as one of the re­ally core ideas in the­o­ret­i­cal ra­tio­nal­ity, cov­er­ing sur­pris­ingly much ground in a way that feels ap­proach­able. I re­mem­ber how im­pact­ful read­ing “A tech­ni­cal ex­pla­na­tion of a tech­ni­cal ex­pla­na­tion” was for my think­ing about ra­tio­nal­ity, and this feels like a much less daunt­ing in­tro­duc­tion to some of the same ideas.

• habryka 21 Oct 2020 22:29 UTC

  6 points

  on: Open & Wel­come Thread – Oc­to­ber 2020

  Really sorry for the down­time for parts of the last hour. The cause was a straight­for­ward merge con­flict that wasn’t high­lighted by Git, and in a par­tic­u­larly sad in­stance of care­less­ness we merged even though our tests told us the build wasn’t work­ing. This was ba­si­cally fully a pro­cess failure on our side to not pay at­ten­tion to the sys­tems we put in place to pre­vent ex­actly this hap­pen­ing, and press­ing big red over­ride but­tons be­cause a pre­vi­ous prob­lem with our CI-sys­tem had forced us to press some over­ride but­tons fre­quently enough that we weren’t think­ing of it as some­thing to be re­ally care­ful with. Again, sorry for that.

  I already made some of the most ob­vi­ous changes to our pro­cess to pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing again, and am work­ing on a bunch of larger changes that will make stuff in this refer­ence class much less bad.

• habryka 21 Oct 2020 5:14 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: seed’s comment on: Stupid Ques­tions—Septem­ber 2017

  I know two peo­ple who I think tri­aled for it, but it never re­ally worked out. But not con­fi­dent about why, or whether MIRI is still in­ter­ested in filling that po­si­tion.

• habryka 18 Oct 2020 18:12 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Hmm, definitely feels core to the art of ra­tio­nal­ity to me. Like, con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goals ap­ply to hu­mans as well. Un­der­stand­ing that just feels straight­for­wardly use­ful for the gen­er­al­ized art of ra­tio­nal­ity.

• habryka 18 Oct 2020 18:11 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: johnswentworth’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Alas, these ones don’t work for me.

• habryka 18 Oct 2020 6:20 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Man, this one is so great. I want to have a statue like this in my gar­den now.

• habryka 18 Oct 2020 6:12 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Scope sen­si­tivity and the cos­mic en­dow­ment. I definitely feel like look­ing at the stars re­minds me of how much stuff there is to op­ti­mize, which sure feels pretty re­lated to ra­tio­nal­ity.

• habryka 16 Oct 2020 0:03 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: waveman’s comment on: Has Eliezer ever re­tracted his state­ments about weight loss?

  Huh, never ex­pe­rienced any­thing like this. CMD+En­ter (on Mac) or CTRL+En­ter (on Win­dows) has always sub­mit­ted a com­ment (and does so on ba­si­cally any web-plat­form that I know of)

  I try and post some­thing start­ing with a copy­pasted quote. How do I get out of quote mode?

  You get out of quote mode by press­ing en­ter twice. Which I think is stan­dard in most text-ed­i­tors. Alter­na­tively you can also se­lect any para­graph in the block­quote and press the block­quote but­ton.

  I want to split a para­graph. How? No idea. Noth­ing seems to work.

  You can split a para­graph by press­ing en­ter with your cur­sor at the place you want to split it, which re­ally seems like the ob­vi­ous thing. What hap­pens when you press en­ter?

  Is there any chance your CMD/​CTRL key is bro­ken? The only way I can think of to ex­plain what’s hap­pen­ing here is to hy­poth­e­size that you must be press­ing CMD+En­ter or CTRL+En­ter a lot, even though there should ba­si­cally never be a rea­son to use those com­bi­na­tions (Shift+En­ter al­lows you to in­sert a man­ual line-break with­out a para­graph break, which is some­thing that some other plat­forms do with CTRL+En­ter, at least on Mac, so maybe that’s what’s con­fus­ing you?)

• habryka 15 Oct 2020 21:38 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Hate9’s comment on: Hate9′s Shortform

  Great! For peo­ple who are both­ered by the bright­ness, this seems like a de­cent solu­tion for now. We are think­ing about cre­at­ing styling for a proper dark mode, but re­ally un­clear what the timeline on that is atm.

• habryka 15 Oct 2020 19:46 UTC

  18 points

  in reply to: AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment on: Covid 10/​15: Play­time is Over

  The model of “sac­ri­fices to the gods” is a very spe­cific gears-level model of how de­ci­sions get made. It’s a rel­a­tively straight­for­ward ap­pli­ca­tion of Han­son’s the­ory of costly sig­nal­ing, and as such has a lot of con­tent to it that can be proven or dis­proven.

  I think it’s re­ally im­por­tant to dis­t­in­guish ar­gu­ments that are tribal and act on an as­so­ci­a­tive level, which I think are gen­er­ally bad, from ar­gu­ments that op­er­ate on a gears-level and make con­crete pre­dic­tions, even if those pre­dic­tions are un­char­i­ta­ble. The first one does of­ten seem bad and to de­te­ri­o­rate dis­cus­sion, but the sec­ond one seems quite im­por­tant and usu­ally moves dis­cus­sion for­ward. It seems to me that Zvi’s use of “sac­ri­fices to the gods” falls into the sec­ond camp here.