Your decision to try and learn to become more rational already demonstrates that you are not average.
Regardless of whether or not it’s true, this is a dangerous and self-reinforcing thought.
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Err… minor quibble.
Exponential curves grow at the same rate all the time. That is, if you zoom in on the x^2 graph at any point at any scale, it will look exactly the same as it did before you zoomed in.
Slightly offtopic: reading through Naive Realism… How does one combat this bias? Or rather, how does one know when one has eliminated it?
Nitpick: “You can say more truths about apple2, like “apple2 is dark red”, then you can say that is true of all apples.”
The thirteenth word of this sentence should be ‘than’ rather than ‘then’.
Um… If there’s a particle which does not interact with anything in the observable universe, then the state of the universe would be exactly the same if that particle did not exist. While we can go about postulating the existence of a myriad of such particles, the entire idea of Occam’s razor is that it is easier to just say that things which cannot possibly affect the universe don’t exist.
Without introducing more magic and without there being at least some kind of database, this is an unsolvable problem. I would say use a one-time pad, but the key would have to be stored in a database.
If the technology of the time is at least that of, say, the 1940′s, you could use quantum key distribution to at least be alerted if the crypto is broken (more useful than any other solutions), but would still require a database.
I own a personal server running Debian Squeeze which has a 1Gb/s symmetric connection and 15TB per month bandwidth.
I am offering free shell accounts to lesswrongers, with one contingency:
1) You’ll be placed in a usergroup, ‘lw’, as opposed to various other usergroups for various other communities I belong to, which will be in other usergroups. Anything that ends up in /var/log is fair game. I intend to make lots of graphs and post them on all the communities I belong to. There won’t be any personally identifying data in anything that ends up publicly.
Your shell account will start out with a disk quota of 5g, and if you need more you can ask me. I’m totally cool with you seeding your torrents. I do not intend to terminate accounts at any point for inactivity or otherwise; you can reasonably expect to have access for at least a year, probably longer.
Query me on freenode’s irc (JohnWittle), or send me an email. johnwittle@gmail.com.
Also, while the results of my analysis are likely to go in Discussion, I was wondering if this offering of free service itself might go in discussion. I asked in IRC and was told that advertisements are seriously frowned upon and that I would lose all my karma.
anthropic quantum computing? if i were flipping through the channels and heard that phrase uttered by someone who looked like he was giving a speech, i would be immediate interested in learning more and would definitely stay on the channel. I have no idea what the phrase means, but my immediate guesses are indeed exciting.
Interested in learning Linux? Need hosting? Free shells!
Well, it isn’t your computer; it’s my computer, sitting in a server farm somewhere in Sunnyvale, California. It has nearly 100% uptime (3 minutes of downtime over the last year), a static IP address you can point domains at or use to host your own Counter Strike or Minecraft server, and particularly it has a 1Gb/s (128 megabytes per second) sustained upload and download speed, so you could actually host a high-bandwidth popular media streaming server or website or something. Because it is only accessible remotely, it forces you to use the terminal, which means you will be diving into the ‘real stuff’ right away.
To the layman, this means you can host your very own website! For free, none of this $20/month business!
Also, there’s a small community of users on the server who like to talk to each other using the rudimentary posix ‘talk’ program, localhost irc, etc.
Also, I love teaching people about linux, telling them about all the cool projects they can set up if they only have a linux box with a static IP, and I will talk your ears off if you want me to, while guiding you through learning things.
Or if you aren’t interested in learning and are just looking for a persistent box to use ‘screen’ to stay logged into IRC all the time, I can give you that too (latest weechat git builds, latest irssi source builds, etc)
It’ll also give you a great feel of what it was like to use a computer in the 1980′s.
The benefit here isn’t the operating system, it’s the persistent uptime, the community, the static IP, and the extremely high thoroughput connection.
Indeed, I’ll make the comment now. Bluecomet: please delete.
Reply here with contact information, should you be opposed to email or IRC.
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I already run a tor relay node on the server; luckily most things of this nature require root access, which will not be given.
I will update the OP with relevant information.
He can ‘retract’ it, which is good enough.
Go ahead and sign up!
Apache virtual hosts. For instance:
’johnwittle.com′ is registered and has its A record pointed at the server, so when you type johnwittle.com into your browser, it goes to 98.158.26.222 (the ip of the server).
Now, apache, the webserver, has the following in its configuration files:
<VirtualHost *:80> #look for connections coming in on port 80 ServerName dbaupp.johnwittle.com #if the requested URL is this url… DocumentRoot /home/dbaupp/www #...use this directory as root </VirtualHost>Then you just set up a virtualhost block for every domain/subdomain you want.
the two lines i posted are the bare minimum needed to set a vhost. Things like 404 pages, per-vhost access and error logs, servername aliases (*.foo.com to www.foo.com), etc. are all possible.
Afaik, this is the standard method of going about doing this.
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You are not an active member of the Lesswrong community. You joined solely for this shell account. Go work on your English, read the sequences, and come back.
If you can answer this question, I’ll reconsider:
A bat and a ball, together, cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
First time poster.
I would consider myself typical, whatever weight that may carry. Here is my algorithm for reading LessWrong:
1: Start at the Core Sequences Wiki Page 2: Middle-click every blue link (not purple). 3: Go through and read to the bottom of the page (including all comments), middle clicking on things which look interesting. 4: Satisfy Tier N+1 before moving onto other Tier N articles. GOTO 3
I use a tree-style firefox tab addon pictured here: http://i.imgur.com/rmq2Z.png