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    ]]>     2017-08-24T09:08:57+00:00 2017-08-24T09:08:57+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Page+id+%2361     <![CDATA[Pictures Of My Twin Daughters]]> - <p>Most recent at the bottom, although sometimes any might get additions, as people hand me old photos.
    + <p>I have completely redone my pictures, and moved them to their own site on ZenFolio.
    - <ul><li> <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108043634225161239251/albums/5695785163989645153" rel="external">babies-public-up-to-six-months</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>, for to 6 months old pictures</li><li> <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108043634225161239251/albums/5773109960423439425" rel="external">babies-public-six-to-twelve-months</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>, for 6 months to a year old pictures</li><li> <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108043634225161239251/albums/5891466984894676225" rel="external">babies-public-12-to-18-months</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span></li><li> <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108043634225161239251/albums/5885746610542247025" rel="external">babies-public-18-to-24-months</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span></li></ul>
    + <p><a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://rlpowell.zenfolio.com/" rel="external">Twin Picture Site</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span></p><p>Where everything is should be pretty obvious, but I want to specifically point out:</p><p><a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://rlpowell.zenfolio.com/p204107290" rel="external">The Ordered By Modification Date Picture Group</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span></p><p>Any recently uploaded or altered picture will be at the top of that list, so that's the one that you want if you want to see what's changed. It also has an RSS feed.</p>
    ]]>     2013-12-14T04:02:51+00:00 2013-12-14T04:02:51+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Pictures+Of+My+Twin+Daughters     <![CDATA[Post-Singularity And Transhumanist Fiction I've Enjoyed]]> +
  • I'm going to partially disreccomend the Revelation Space series by Alistair Reynolds; I like heroism, and I like the good guys to win in the end. In those rare cases where I enjoy really dark fiction, it's in short story form; I can't take very much of it. This series felt to me like a constant slog through awful things happening to people, and I kept expecting it to resolve positively, and it never did, which upset me quite a bit. Having said that, if you like that sort of thing you'll like this. It's full of fantastically creative SF ideas, no doubt about it.
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  • WWW series; need to read more of it first; http://www.wakewatchwonder.com/]]>
    •  2012-10-21T07:03:33+00:00 2012-10-21T07:03:33+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Post-Singularity+And+Transhumanist+Fiction+I%27ve+Enjoyed     <![CDATA[Sexism In The Work Force]]> - <p>3. This one is not paraphrased: "It makes the entirely credible assumption that candidates with identical credentials will have identical qualifications (more precisely, that gender is not predictive of the relative qualifications of two candidates with identical credentials). I think that's the proper default assumption, and someone who wishes to challenge it should have the burden of proving that it's incorrect.". Well, I can't speak to physics, but in my field, that assumption is *demonstrably false*. I bow out of running the study in question; scientific studies are not, in any respect, my field. I would be *more* than happy to throw money at someone who *is* studying this, though.
    + <p>3. This one is not paraphrased: "It makes the entirely credible assumption that candidates with identical credentials will have identical qualifications (more precisely, that gender is not predictive of the relative qualifications of two candidates with identical credentials). I think that's the proper default assumption, and someone who wishes to challenge it should have the burden of proving that it's incorrect.". Well, I can't speak to physics, but in my field, I've not observed that assumption to hold. I bow out of running the study in question; scientific studies are not, in any respect, my field. I would be *more* than happy to throw money at someone who *is* studying this, though.</p><p>ADDENDUM:</p><p>A friend pointed me to <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://www.bitkom.org/files/documents/BITKOM_Presseinfo_Sprachkenntnisse_25_09_2012.pdf" rel="external">a German survey</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>, in which 46% of German women from 14-29 years old claimed to know at least one programming language. Even if it's crap in terms of actual competence (i.e. "can you pass fizzbuzz?"), that *claim* is so starkly different from what I'd expect to see in the US that it gives me real hope that at least *some* of the problem is both social and solvable. I'm smiling right now as I type this, in fact.
    ]]>     2012-09-26T22:49:54+00:00 2012-09-26T22:49:54+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Sexism+In+The+Work+Force     <![CDATA[General Interest]]> +
  • Sexism In The Work Force]]>
    •  2012-09-26T01:18:37+00:00 2012-09-26T01:18:37+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=General+Interest     <![CDATA[My Views On The Future]]> - <p>This post talks about concepts that are<a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/" rel="external">many, many inferential steps away from what you are used to</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>.You need to read<a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/" rel="external">this post</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>by Eliezer Yudkowsky, not for background, but to understand thatsomethings that are true really <em>do</em> have complicated backgroundsand need a lot of explanation leading up to them. The human brainis built to treat all complicated explanations as crazy talk, andyou need to read that to understand why, and resist it when readingthe rest of this post.
    + <p>This post talks about concepts that are <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/" rel="external">many, many inferential steps away from what you are used to</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>. You need to read <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/" rel="external">this post</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span> by Eliezer Yudkowsky, not for background, but to understand that some things that are true really <em>do</em> have complicated backgrounds and need a lot of explanation leading up to them. The human brain is built to treat all complicated explanations as crazy talk, and you need to read that to understand why, and resist it when reading the rest of this post.
    - <p>I try very hard here to make sure that I start only from things thata decently well-educated layperson already knows, and please do feelfree to <a class="wiki" href="mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org" rel="">point it out to me</a>should I fail in that regard. But it's going to take more than onestep, and I can't fix that. Please try not to assume I'm crazy<em>only</em> because the explanation is complicated.
    + <p>I try very hard here to make sure that I start only from things that a decently well-educated layperson already knows, and please do feel free to <a class="wiki" href="mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org" rel="">point it out to me</a> should I fail in that regard. But it's going to take more than one step, and I can't fix that. Please try not to assume I'm crazy <em>only</em> because the explanation is complicated.
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  • Summary / Recap
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  • That Noise Is A Paradigm Shifting Without A Clutch
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  • Why I'm Sure The Singularity Is Coming
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  • Why Intelligence Matters
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  • Imperatives And Morality
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  • This Parrot Will Foom, Even Without 4 Million Volts
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  • Why Increased Computing Power Is Scary
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  • Being A Singularitarian: Picking The Best Horse
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  • WARNING, or, How To Read This Post
    • ]]>     2012-04-19T00:10:36+00:00 2012-04-19T00:10:36+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=My+Views+On+The+Future     <![CDATA[Why I Am An Atheist, Physicalist, And Antideist]]> -
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  • We're Not So Great At "How Often" Either
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  • On Top Of That, Our Minds And Memories Trick Us
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  • Infinite Torture Is Infinitely Evil
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  • A Plan Does Not Make This OK
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  • A Different Moral Point Of View Does Not Make This OK
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  • Secret Heaven Doesn't Make This OK
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  • Summarizing My Views
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  • Warning: Probably Offensive
    - <p>Basically, science is a bunch of people looking for weird or interesting things and then turning to each other and saying, "Did you see that!?". Which pretty much everybody does, the difference is that scientists (<a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues" rel="external">in theory anyways</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>) take everyone else saying "No" as evidence that what they saw doesn't actually exist, rather than as a reason to <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/" rel="external">argue as though we were sitting around the primordial campfire and our futures depended on it</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>, which is what the human default is.
    + <p>Basically, science is a bunch of people looking for weird or interesting things and then turning to each other and saying, "Did you see that!?". Which pretty much everybody does; the difference is that scientists (<a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues" rel="external">in theory anyways</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>) take everyone else saying "No" as evidence that what they saw doesn't actually exist, rather than as a reason to <a class="wiki external" target="_blank" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/" rel="external">argue as though we were sitting around the primordial campfire and our futures depended on it</a><span class="icon icon-link-external fas fa-external-link-alt " ></span>, which is what the human default is.
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    •  2011-10-07T02:24:15+00:00 2011-10-07T02:24:15+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Why+I+Am+An+Atheist%2C+Physicalist%2C+And+Antideist     <![CDATA[Rules For My Servers]]> -
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    •  2011-09-05T18:08:03+00:00 2011-09-05T18:08:03+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Rules+For+My+Servers     <![CDATA[Please Stop Raising Children]]> +

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    As a side comment, and partly so that people don't get the

    + impression that I'm all like "DRUGS ARE AWESOME!" or something,
    + here's how I scared my nephews about hard drugs when the topic came
    + up. First of all, stop saying "drugs" like all drugs (including the
    + ones in your medicine cabinet) are of the same category, and start
    + talking about particular chemicals (don't know enough? that's part
    + of the test). My basic technique is to explain that if you try meth
    + or coke or heroin, in particular but there are others, the odds are
    + that you will immediately and irrevocably die. Not physically;
    + you'll still be walking around and talking to people. But the
    + person that I value in you will be gone forever, replaced by someone
    + who shares all your memories but has only one motivation: to get
    + more meth or coke or heroin. I do not want you to be a heroin
    + zombie, and I don't think you do either, so don't try it, because
    + the odds of that happening are way too high to be ignored.
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    I've found that if I explain that in sufficient detail of what I

    + mean by "heroin zombie" and how totally dead they will truly be as a
    + person, this scares them sufficiently for my purposes.
    +

    +
    +

    Moving on, back to talking to kids about risks in general.

    ]]>     2011-07-26T22:58:33+00:00 2011-07-26T22:58:33+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Please+Stop+Raising+Children     <![CDATA[Randomness]]> - </li></ul>
    + </li><li> <a href="tiki-index.php?page=Rules%2BFor%2BMy%2BServers" title="Rules For My Servers" class="wiki wiki_page">Rules For My Servers</a></li></ul>
    ]]>     2011-07-16T20:11:38+00:00 2011-07-16T20:11:38+00:00 http://robin.digitalkingdom.org/tiki-index.php?page=Randomness