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The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed
JJXW8mo80

Another working job market economics paper out of Stanford attempts to measure the degree to which sports bettors are overly optimistic. Results largely what you'd expect: people think they're break even when they're actually losing by ~7% and a subset of those people have self control problems.

Funnily enough the way I found out about this paper is from being recruited to participate in it through a targeted ad on social media when I took a trip out to Colorado to farm sports book new account sign up bonuses.

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Free research help, editing and article downloads for LessWrong
JJXW13y00

Thank you very much for the offer. I am not looking for this text anymore.

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Free research help, editing and article downloads for LessWrong
JJXW13y20
  • Learning Machines
  • How much can machines learn?
  • Faster than Thought
  • Consciousness and Behavior
  • Thinking by Machine
  • Man and the "Thinking" Machine
  • The thinking of men and machines
  • Latest Methods for the Conception and Education of Intelligent Machines
  • Toward Intelligent Machines
  • Can machines be intelligent?

Some more older stuff I am looking for. Any help finding them would be greatly appreciated.

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Free research help, editing and article downloads for LessWrong
JJXW13y00

Thanks a bunch.

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Free research help, editing and article downloads for LessWrong
JJXW13y00
  • Computer simulation of cognitive processes
  • Artificial Neuron
  • Man viewed as machine
  • The brain as a computing machine
  • Of digital computers called brains
  • Machines that think
  • The thinking of men and machines

These papers are relatively old, any help with finding them would be greatly appreciated.

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Rationality quotes January 2012
JJXW13y00

(after laying out the proportions of all the elements that make up the the human body)

Young Walter: I don't know. Just...doesn't it seem like...something's missing?

Young Gretchen: What about the soul?

Young Walter: The soul? There's nothing but chemistry here.

Breaking Bad, Season One Episode Three

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Rationality Quotes December 2011
JJXW14y50

The crucial point to be considered in a study of language behavior is the relationship of language and reality, between words and not-words. Except as we understand this relationship, we run the grave risk of straining the delicate connection between words and facts, of permitting our words to go wild, and so of creating for ourselves fabrications of fantasy and delusion.

-- Wendell Johnson, as quoted in Language Thought and Action

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2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
JJXW14y90

Took they survey. Interested in the results. Interestingly enough, I have had an account for a month or two now, but have not posted anything until now. Thanks for putting this together Yvain.

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9Markets Are Information - Beating the Sportsbooks at Their Own Game
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