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What should our containers do? 2024-04-22T06:17:04.017Z
How I Think, Part Four: Money is Weird 2024-04-20T06:21:53.104Z
Wolf and Rabbit 2024-03-22T17:20:19.265Z
Opportunistic Time-Management 2024-03-13T21:38:01.209Z
How I Think, Part Three: Weighing Cryonics 2023-11-10T22:21:16.398Z
How I Think, Part Two: Distrusting Individuals 2023-11-08T04:06:13.546Z
How I Think, Part One: Investing in Fun 2023-11-08T04:00:27.578Z
Depth Confusion 2023-10-17T06:06:01.292Z
Second-Level Empiricism: Reframing the Two-Child Puzzle 2023-04-27T15:04:22.842Z
A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy 2023-02-27T00:25:29.561Z
Laziness in AI 2022-09-02T17:04:43.146Z
Schelling Points in Thing-Space 2022-08-24T16:19:05.248Z

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Comment by Richard Henage (richard-henage) on Second-Level Empiricism: Reframing the Two-Child Puzzle · 2023-04-30T00:31:01.995Z · LW · GW

The first sentence of that phrasing is great! It makes things much more clear. But:

"i have to pick up Johny from kindergarten"

actually would give the probability of the other kid being a boy a fifty-fifty chance still, I believe. I still think the clearest way to phrase that part of the puzzle is for the narrator to ask the woman "is at least one of your kids a boy?".

Comment by Richard Henage (richard-henage) on Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation · 2022-05-10T15:52:19.552Z · LW · GW

Pager, a nine-year-old Macaque monkey, can play some simple 2D video games, including MindPong, with his Neuralink. These games appear to use the inputs from a single joystick (or the signals from the Neuralink associated with moving a joystick). Here's Neuralink's video explaining it. Other companies and devices may have different capabilities.