Prompted by Anna asking what rationality techniques or areas LessWrong had yet to cover.
Need at least a few paragraphs for the discussion forums on the following.
ciphergoth:
How to think for more than 20 seconds
Prompted by Dawkins video in which he laments only being able to think coherently for about a minute at a time.
Methods: talking to oneself (my girlfriend kicks me when I wake her mumbling to myself at 5am); scribbling notes; mindmaps?
What LessWrong is to me (his elevator speech on the subject)
prompt: he kept coming out with bits of it
Andrei (cev)
How to teach rationality to eight year olds
Andrei’s day job is teaching said eight year olds.
Cooking to teach science? - try something, see what happens, keep notes, predict things—very practical results
David Gerard
poison memes
find at least one coherent chunk in my tens of kilobytes of notes
Quickly estimating a belief’s credit rating: is it likely to be able to pay its rent?
I have no idea how to actually do this, so ideas are welcomed
prompt: a philosopher (a Ben?) gave a philosophical question on morality, it struck me as “that’s either very profound or complete rubbish” and I came out with something about it not having a good credit rating
How to ask the right question
prompt: how to think for 20 seconds … most of the work is asking the question, which takes me days to months. This is an area ripe for exploration.
Did anyone else present come out with something that struck you as very interesting that you or they should write up?
Edit: markdown is such a PITA. Is there a proper way to do lists with sub-lists? Edit 2: ah, space in front per level, that’s got it.
Edit: markdown is such a PITA. Is there a proper way to do lists with sub-lists?
A space before the asterices that you wish to make into the nested list. Probably looks better if one of the levels is of a different kind. The lesswrong stylesheet does not appear to include different bullet point formatting based on nest level.
(I’ve been rereading the entire Discworld series in order. I am shocked to realise what a startlingly intelligent and clueful man Terry Pratchett is, and his rationalist heroes are pretty amazing too: yer Granny Weatherwax and Havelock Vetinari. Even Vimes, as he slowly, painfully learns to think. Pratchett doesn’t give much of how they do what they do to make them required reading, but noting that they are in fact rationalist heroes is IMO useful.)
Homework!
Prompted by Anna asking what rationality techniques or areas LessWrong had yet to cover.
Need at least a few paragraphs for the discussion forums on the following.
ciphergoth:
How to think for more than 20 seconds
Prompted by Dawkins video in which he laments only being able to think coherently for about a minute at a time.
Methods: talking to oneself (my girlfriend kicks me when I wake her mumbling to myself at 5am); scribbling notes; mindmaps?
What LessWrong is to me (his elevator speech on the subject)
prompt: he kept coming out with bits of it
Andrei (cev)
How to teach rationality to eight year olds
Andrei’s day job is teaching said eight year olds.
Cooking to teach science? - try something, see what happens, keep notes, predict things—very practical results
David Gerard
poison memes
find at least one coherent chunk in my tens of kilobytes of notes
Quickly estimating a belief’s credit rating: is it likely to be able to pay its rent?
I have no idea how to actually do this, so ideas are welcomed
prompt: a philosopher (a Ben?) gave a philosophical question on morality, it struck me as “that’s either very profound or complete rubbish” and I came out with something about it not having a good credit rating
How to ask the right question
prompt: how to think for 20 seconds … most of the work is asking the question, which takes me days to months. This is an area ripe for exploration.
Did anyone else present come out with something that struck you as very interesting that you or they should write up?
Edit: markdown is such a PITA. Is there a proper way to do lists with sub-lists? Edit 2: ah, space in front per level, that’s got it.
ooh—awesome. I’ve actually already been thinking about how to teach basic Cooking-chemistry. I’ve already got quite a list of ideas..
I’ve also got some for Garden Biology, Bathtub Physics and several other sciences.
A space before the asterices that you wish to make into the nested list. Probably looks better if one of the levels is of a different kind. The lesswrong stylesheet does not appear to include different bullet point formatting based on nest level.
For example:
Yep, space in front per level. Thank you!
If in doubt in Markdown, it’s worth consulting either http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list or http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#nested-lists
Or do as I did:
Your TODO list needs less writing and more reading...
Undoubtedly.
Alternate Pratchetts and sequences.
(I’ve been rereading the entire Discworld series in order. I am shocked to realise what a startlingly intelligent and clueful man Terry Pratchett is, and his rationalist heroes are pretty amazing too: yer Granny Weatherwax and Havelock Vetinari. Even Vimes, as he slowly, painfully learns to think. Pratchett doesn’t give much of how they do what they do to make them required reading, but noting that they are in fact rationalist heroes is IMO useful.)
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