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Link: The Cook and the Chef: Musk's Secret Sauce - Wait But Why
purpleposeidon10y30

Worth reading. Over-repeated some points a bit too much. The "Musk Program" looks wrong in the way that "just brute force a path to victory" is wrong.

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[Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity
purpleposeidon12y130

Here is the paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90
purpleposeidon12y120

This has got me quite convinced that Fred and Fred is going to happen. They are probably connected magically, rather than acoustically, so they might be able to communicate across time. This setup might create the time beacon Harry was wanting.

Or, maybe their connection does not link through time. Send a pair of Weasleys back in time. You now have 4 Weasleys. Wait not-quite-an-hour, and then send 4 Weasleys back in time… 4 Weasleys is twice the number of Weasleys. Are N Weasleys N/2 times as smart as 2 Weasleys? No. It is much more interesting if it is the connections that matter. HE is the Weasley hivemind.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90
purpleposeidon12y50

The narration in chapters 88 and 89 have left quite a bit of room for Weasley Twin shenanigans. They are referred to as "the twins" and "Fred or George" up until one gets beat up by the troll. Additionally, the twins gave a respectful nod to McGonagall's demand that they stay in the Great Hall; they could have stayed there the entire time. Harry might have been accompanied by, say, Future Fred and Further Future Fred during his broom flight. I am not sure what the use of this would be, but it might involve them being a hive mind.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84
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Nonperson Predicates
purpleposeidon14y30

By the time a non-person predicate returns 0, you have already potentially created a person. You'll need something more complicated: If I update this model with this data, does it create a person?

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Recent site changes, Mon 4th July
purpleposeidon14y20

Please do not use target="_blank" for the SIAI and FHI links in the header.

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People who want to save the world
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Our multitude of voices exalting Rain's donation rebound off the faster-approaching towers of the Singularity!

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