Saturday, April 9, 2016

Taleb Strays From His Expertise: Persowning

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Hint: no . Let's fisk and see if there's any coherence at the end. I hadn't heard of gyrovagues and they do sound kind of co...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Stupidity is a Crime

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In a social species, stupidity is necessarily damaging to others. The point of a social species is to exploit the gains from cooperation. ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Lewontin's Fallacy: Short Version

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I'm very disappointed with explanations of Lewtontin's Fallacy . I will thus write a better one. even if the probability of miscla...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Juxtaposition XI: Nerd vs. Hacker vs. Silicon Valley

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http://weev.livejournal.com/415737.html Ian is dead for the same reason Lance and Jonathan and Aaron are: computing, as an industry, has ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Communist Aristocracy vs. Hypocrisy and Competition for Power

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So . ( Via .) They strike me as natural aristocrats, and I think they would be excellent people in a better world. They are intelligent, ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Shall We Deprecate Social Status?

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I used to believe that IQ didn't make you morally better. @Nick_B_Steves Be sure to check out his recent post: https://t.co/PAmVJO...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Artificial Intelligence => Assisted Intelligence & Friendly AI

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 The second-to-last post, as an experiment, did not totally fail, and I'm going to try it again. The programs that beat chess grandmas...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

We Could Turn Around Now, It's Not Hard

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Mathematical Law time: The body count required to turn things around is directly proportional to the idiocy investing the status quo. ... ...