I also came here to say I didn't understand this hypothetical at all. If I choose $1000 then what happens to users who don't want to pay $1000?
Am I supposed to imagine that I am implementing a paywall on LW and choosing what price I would set it at? Of course I would set it at $0.
I don't think this 10% closeness makes any sense when it's 10% of the "numeric AD year".
Without checking a source, estimate the probability that the answer you just gave is within 10% of the true value. (So, if you guessed 1000 AD, it's between 900 and 1100 inclusive.) Same rules for percents apply as above.
It's a two-place function. When I go to a conference that everyone says this same stuff about, then I usually have the most fun by attending talks and taking my time thinking about the stuff related to the talks, rather than hobnobbing.
Great concept but the pacing seemed strange.
I have been frustrated every year when it's time to vote for the local school board elections and none of the candidates bother saying how they behaved during the most impactful time for a school board in living memory. I really don't get it.
6I think the truthseeking norms on LW are specifically useful for collective sense-making and sharing ideas about things where there isn't already a very confident consensus. As an example, during the COVID pandemic, many of the other groups of intellectuals who were trying to figure things out had various limitations:
- Some had conflicts of interest with regard to their own work.
- Some were published (self- or otherwise) by businesses more interested in engaging than informing.
- Some considered themselves responsible for manipulating people's behavior, rather than purely informing them.
- Some were in sociopolitical situations that constrained what views were acceptable for them to hold.
That makes it difficult to use their output, at least if you are a layperson. Those constraints are less common in well-argued LW discussions about most topics.
Thanks, I was meaning to read this law but procrastinating!
1It's subconscious so it's hard to say but it's clearly not "reading every word in order" and probably doesn't involve reading every word. I think it's a combination of being a fast but not exceptionally fast reader, plus a lot of domain knowledge so I can understand the stuff I am reading as fast as I read it, plus a ton of domain-specific skimming skill / pattern recognition to bring the interesting part to conscious attention.
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Why is it cheaper for individuals to install some amount of cheap solar power for themselves than for the grid to install it and then deliver it to them, with economies of scale in the construction and maintenance? Transmission cost?