mako yass

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social system designer http://aboutmako.makopool.com

A Strange Argument about the potential Importance of Multiverse Theory

mako yass2 Feb 2016 4:22 UTC

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The end of public transportation. The future of public transportation.

mako yass9 Feb 2018 21:51 UTC

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[Question] Is there a.. more exact.. way of scoring a predictor’s calibration?

mako yass16 Jan 2019 8:19 UTC

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I found a wild explanation for two big anomalies in metaphysics then became very doubtful of it

mako yass1 Apr 2019 3:19 UTC

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Scrying for outcomes where the problem of deepfakes has been solved

mako yass15 Apr 2019 4:45 UTC

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[Question] In physical eschatology, is Aestivation a sound strategy?

mako yass17 Jun 2019 7:27 UTC

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[Question] If I knew how to make an omohundru optimizer, would I be able to do anything good with that knowledge?

mako yass12 Jul 2019 1:40 UTC

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[Question] Will autonomous cars be more economical/efficient as shared urban transit than busses or trains, and by how much? What’s some good research on this?

mako yass31 Jul 2019 0:16 UTC

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[Question] Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?

mako yass5 Aug 2019 0:12 UTC

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Prokaryote Multiverse. An argument that potential simulators do not have significantly more complex physics than ours

mako yass18 Aug 2019 4:22 UTC

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Lana Wachowski is doing a new Matrix movie

mako yass21 Aug 2019 0:47 UTC

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The Transparent Society: A radical transformation that we should probably undergo

mako yass3 Sep 2019 2:27 UTC

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Mako’s Notes from Skeptoid’s 13 Hour 13th Birthday Stream

mako yass6 Oct 2019 9:43 UTC

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[Question] What do the Charter Cities Institute likely mean when they refer to long term problems with the use of eminent domain?

mako yass8 Dec 2019 0:53 UTC

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[Question] When would an agent do something different as a result of believing the many worlds theory?

mako yass15 Dec 2019 1:02 UTC

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Thoughts about Dr Stone and Mythology

mako yass25 Feb 2020 1:51 UTC

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Being right isn’t enough. Confidence is very important.

mako yass7 Apr 2020 1:10 UTC

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A speculative incentive design: self-determined price commitments as a way of averting monopoly

mako yass28 Apr 2020 7:44 UTC

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misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC

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[Question] Investment is a useful societal mechanism for getting new things made. Stock trading shares some functionality with investment, but seems very very inefficient, at that?

mako yass24 Aug 2020 1:18 UTC

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