I used to think I didn’t get anything from trying to nap, since I never fell asleep during one. Then someone reported that I had been snoring during one of those naps in which I hadn’t noticed any sign that I’d fallen asleep. Now I’m uncertain whether naps are worthwhile.
And that’s why I kept hanging out on Facebook more, for two reasons.
There has been some previous discussion about this topic (including several meta posts) on LW, where I tried to participate in the conversation in ways I wasn’t doing, and found it annoying, so I thought it’d be productive to post my own thoughts on this in an attempt to avoid these kinds of comments.
Since it looks like in-person conversation is not a good locus of conversation, after all, this probably has a lot more to do with “let’s speak truth” than “let’s talk truth”.
The first time I got into any social circle, it felt like I had a lot more friends than I had and a lot more commitments. So, I wrote something on Facebook:
Hi there everyone, I’m a longterm supporter of truth-oriented group house organization HPMOR, which works on our summer fundraising drive now.
I feel like we’re growing very quickly, and it’s growing very quickly; I’m currently studying maths and some theoretical physics after summer courses in my free time.
Now that I’ve read the Sequences, I feel like I’m always going to be doing something stupid, and it’s definitely worth wasting my time and energy on doing more research into artificial intelligence or decision theory.
It took me some time to actually get myself to do this. I’d like to “see where we’re coming from” but it’s really bad for at least the rest of my life and I feel like my habits are slowing me down.
Thanks for making this possible! Hopefully we can do another push in the direction of truth (and hopefully humanity will learn something from it).
The rest of my life will probably be relatively less important as I work on the problem now, but I’ve found it useful to try to “see where we’re coming from” and do a lot more research into it. I’d be grateful to Eliezer to endorse his time, energy, appreciation and self-care. His work is dangerously close to nothing, I think, and I’m hoping to contribute more in the future.
Thanks for being a part of this site and reading these posts!
I used to think I didn’t get anything from trying to nap, since I never fell asleep during one. Then someone reported that I had been snoring during one of those naps in which I hadn’t noticed any sign that I’d fallen asleep. Now I’m uncertain whether naps are worthwhile.
And that’s why I kept hanging out on Facebook more, for two reasons.
There has been some previous discussion about this topic (including several meta posts) on LW, where I tried to participate in the conversation in ways I wasn’t doing, and found it annoying, so I thought it’d be productive to post my own thoughts on this in an attempt to avoid these kinds of comments.
Since it looks like in-person conversation is not a good locus of conversation, after all, this probably has a lot more to do with “let’s speak truth” than “let’s talk truth”.
The first time I got into any social circle, it felt like I had a lot more friends than I had and a lot more commitments. So, I wrote something on Facebook:
Hi there everyone, I’m a longterm supporter of truth-oriented group house organization HPMOR, which works on our summer fundraising drive now.
I feel like we’re growing very quickly, and it’s growing very quickly; I’m currently studying maths and some theoretical physics after summer courses in my free time.
Now that I’ve read the Sequences, I feel like I’m always going to be doing something stupid, and it’s definitely worth wasting my time and energy on doing more research into artificial intelligence or decision theory.
It took me some time to actually get myself to do this. I’d like to “see where we’re coming from” but it’s really bad for at least the rest of my life and I feel like my habits are slowing me down.
Thanks for making this possible! Hopefully we can do another push in the direction of truth (and hopefully humanity will learn something from it).
The rest of my life will probably be relatively less important as I work on the problem now, but I’ve found it useful to try to “see where we’re coming from” and do a lot more research into it. I’d be grateful to Eliezer to endorse his time, energy, appreciation and self-care. His work is dangerously close to nothing, I think, and I’m hoping to contribute more in the future.
Thanks for being a part of this site and reading these posts!