I am very familiar with python, and a little bit familiar with C. (I am also a sophomore, not freshmen :P) I spent an hour looking at lisp once, but never got into it. As for Haskell, I have seen it, and it looks weird. I’ve’n’t done much real algorithmic work. I wrote a (Warning: shameful self-plug) parser for Lojban, but it only works through trial-and-error and dumb luck.
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Because lame community college isn’t all that great. I hope Berkeley agrees with you. :)
I want bob to think he gets what he wants.
it’s possible that schools aren’t doing a good job of preparing people for typical office jobs
The highschool I went to attempts to prepare students for modern jobs. I hear that the educational model (project-based learning) is spreading to other local schools.
It’s a threat, not a fallacy. And if I understand LW correctly, few would notice random want-ads because they wouldn’t gain enough votes to make it to the front page.
I’m pretty sure the problem is EY. He could post pictures of his cat, and they’d go all the way up. (And if he doesn’t have a cat, then he should know that there are several in my neighborhood who might be happy to be adopted. And kittens! Omygosh!)
Require new top-level posts to use a tag that indicates which facet of LW’s interest it lies with. So each new post would have to choose on (or maybe more) of tags like “bayes”, “selfimprovement”, “philosophy”. So, if I think that Lesswrong should really dedicate itself to the study of Victory and nothing else, I might read only posts with selfimprovement tags.
I’d like to be able to read the LW archives when I’m without internet. So, it’d be nice to have a dump.
I think best would be a git repository with a file for each article, and another file for the comments.
When you say that something is so by definition, what you (most likely) actually mean is that something is so by default. If a human is defined as “a featherless biped”*, you can’t say that Hermione, who has just had an unfortunate accident with Hedwig and a polyjuice potion, is no longer human because she’s grown feathers. “A feathered biped” is only by default not human!
*I don’t think you’ll ever find a definition like that in a dictionary. “homo: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage”: If you’re mentally disabled, stuttering, and hunch-backed, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t, by definition, human. You’ve got bad genes (or bad nurturing), but they’re still Hominidae genes.
Sharing a list of running processes and DNS lookups would be more privacy-sensitive. (I have no idea how to implement the latter, but the former could at least be done on Linux, and possibly Windows, using ksysguard) You might not want to share your screen with a random stranger, but would you share process names and DNS lookups? How about open sockets?
Why should I believe that the way you describe the hypothetical meat-fuck in your head is how it would have really turned out? (I imagine Bricky could have pulled it off)
The probability of some action costing delta-utility x and resulting in delta-utility y, where y >> x, is low. The Anti Gratis Dining modifier is x/y. These things I conjecture, anyways.
The apple-salespeep who says, “Give me $0.50, and I will give you an apple” is quite believable, unlike the apple-salespeep who claims, “Give me $3.50, and I will give apples to all who walk the Earth”. We understand how buying an apple gets us an apple, but we know far less about implementing global apple distribution.
Suppose I have a Holy Hand Grenade of FAI, which has been carefully proofed by all the best mathematicians, programmers, and philosophers, and I am (of course) amongst them. And am randomly selected to activate it! Sadly, there is an ant caught in the pin. I can not delay to extricate it, for that means more deaths left unprevented. I pull the pin and kill the ant anyways.
So, the more understanding you have about the situation at hand, the less the AGD factor applies to the situation.
This sounds fun! Where do I sign up? Here?
Hiding the names of the players, that is, knowing only the country, would likely make pre-game contracts impossible
My first thought is that LW got haxXxed, but ping tells me that LW and the other site are both hosted by amazonaws. I suspect the cause is amazon’s cloud service making sure I won’t use it.
The following reminded me of Arguments as Soldiers:
Statistics for the enemy. Anecdotes for the friend. —Zach Weiner
I’m sorry to have not found his blog sooner.
I’m sure the designer would approve of being modified to enjoy answering stupid questions. The designer might also approve of being cloned for the purpose of answering one question, and then being destroyed.
Unfortunately, it turns out that you’re Stalin. Sounds like 1-person CEV.
A variant of Alexandros’ AI: attach a brain-scanning device to every person, which frequently uploads copies to the AI’s Manager. The AI submits possible actions to the Manager, which checks for approval from the most recently available copy of each person who is relevant-to-the-action.
At startup, and periodically, the definition of being-relevant-to-an-action is determined by querying humanity with possible definitions, and selecting the best approved. If there is no approval-rating above a certain ratio, the AI shuts down.
Our multitude of voices exalting Rain’s donation rebound off the faster-approaching towers of the Singularity!
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Hi. I see that the first point is free.
I am a Bay Area (California, United States) 19 year-old Computer Science student. I imagine I’ll actually be taking actual CS classes next year. I’ve been lurking about for about a month.