Someone changed the password on the Username public throwaway account. It’s a shame a troll finally got to it after several years.
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How about make the password reset automatically every X minutes ?
The beauty of the account laid in the fact that it was not publicized, so only people who were long-time lurkers would know about it.
Are index funds still a good idea if you don’t live in the US? In Australia for example, due to differences in things like capital gains tax rates, the existence of franking credits, tax exempt options like your main residence, and whatever else I’m not aware of, I’m not sure.
This is probably obvious for others, but it wasn’t obvious for me that by paying 0.1 to go from the first game to the second one you both decrease your average earnings and increase the probability of high earnings.
The main difference between going to Turkey and going to Greece is that going to Greece requires paying people smugglers a few thousand dollars. A lot of families can’t afford sending all family members to Europe, therefore they send only one, possibly as an anchor, later to be joined by other family members through family reunification programs.
People who are able to reliably create good first impressions when you meet people for the first time, how do you do it? What would you advise?
It’s a well known saying, but is it true? My non-academia friends complain about office politics and cliques much more than those who stayed in academia.
This is contrived, because in your model probability of getting killed does not depend on the length of time spent in a dangerous country. If you send the whole family, you reduce that time for all family members. The longer someone stays in a dangerous place, the higher is the probability of death that during that period of time.
But even that is a moot point, because among Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, number of men and women are more or less equal. Numbers are unequal only among those who attempt to go to Europe. While I don’t know what is the probability of getting killed (let’s say, within a year) in refugee camp in Turkey, but it is significantly lower than 0.1. It is probably even lower than probability of drowning in a sinking people smuggler’s boat. Personally, I find it very unconvincing that it is fear for their lives that makes them go to Europe instead of staying in Eastern Turkey.
If they have addressed an argument, they consider it to be refuted.
A common way to do it is saying “It’s more nuanced than that” without showing if these additional details change anything.
why it’s so weird for Cooney to get upset about donations to arts organizations (rather than, say, wasteful expenditures on luxury handbags)
I think that the reviewer misses one of the main points of EA—that from EA perspective those two are closer to each other than any of them is to an actually efficient charity. People already know that buying luxury goods rarely help the world, there is no point of repeating that.
I want blind tests where people would have to guess which painting was painted by a human and which one by an algorithm.
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Well, if you see something ghost-like, that’s a weak evidence in favor of existence of ghosts. But it’s a weak evidence, it doesn’t trump everything else we know about the world.
There is a danger that the existence of this difference might lead to motte and bailey differences among LWers who do not examine their beliefs about MWI (or their beliefs about what LWers believe about MWI, for a different group of people) carefully.
Scores have always started at 0.
Reddit does it the way that you are describing, with scores starting at 1, but Less Wrong has never done it that way.
Awesome! You should repost this as a top level post.
Is it true?
(having some issues with the standard anon account, so I created another. pass is the same if anyone else needs)
Thanks, this is helpful.
You can’t directly transfuse happiness, but I find tradeoffs come up constantly, with varying rates of return. Doing extra household chores, staying up late when my partner can’t sleep, choosing their preferred activities instead of mine when these differ...
In light of this, point one is hard. As long as there are things I can do, I feel very responsible for their happiness.
Point two is tough because I fear feedback loops if I let it be known that their unhappiness is causing me unhappiness, so I tend to hide it when I’m upset. This is not-great psychologically. On the other hand, they’ve gotten pretty comfortable talking to me about these things, which does help.
We’re extremely strong on point three, which is why I’m flouting Adams’ advice.