Just finished. I’m sure my calibration was terrible though.
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In general, what will you be doing as Executive Director?
(This might be a question you could answer briefly as a reply to this comment.)
Here’s the best I could do from the video. Feel free to correct anything.
William and Divia, do you enter this agreement, and do you vow to undertake this endeavor freely, with your whole hearts, and without reservation.
Do you vow that you will together create and maintain your shared picture of the world, sharing your discoveries and insights, hiding nothing that the other would wish to know.
Do you vow to reveal all your concerns about your relationship—as they appear to you—despite all embarrassment and fear; so that if the other stays silent you may trust that there is nothing to be said.
Do you vow to share your dreams, your goals, your needs, your desires, and your aspirations, and work toward them together.
Do you vow to recognize and honor all the complexity and parts of the other, to support their growth and be supported, that you may wield your love to become your best potential selves.
Do you vow both singly and together that you will accept, love, and appreciate yourselves as you pursue joy and fulfillment.
Do you vow both singly and together to accept full responsibility for the children you will bring into the world.
I pledge to you my heart, my devotion, and my love.
I take you, [name], as my [wife/husband], to be my friend, my partner, my love, to have and to hold, to protect and to cherish, to trust and respect, in wealth or poverty, in sickness or in health, through good times and bad, through times of failure and times of success, until the stars burn low and all things end, or forever, while our love holds.
Took the survey.
I think this statement hold truer for individuals whose competitive advantage is best suited for a high salary career. It seems the OP is inclined towards science, so it makes sense to go into a scientific field, again one that plays to the individual’s competitive advantage. I personally wouldn’t know what to suggest, though. Porter’s idea looks good, assuming there is a noticeable gap in SENS’ research that they aren’t actively trying to fill. As a Junior in High School, I’ve actually been thinking about this quite a bit, and I would also like to go into life extension or cryonics work.
Padma had the subplot where she was mean to Hermione and Harry “reformed” her or whatever. She is put as second in command in Dragon Army and is respected enough by Draco to make him realize why his father said that Ravenclaw was an acceptable House from which to choose one’s wife. She is shown to be powerful and loyal in both the armies and in SPEW (her prismatic sphere or whatever is mentioned to be particularly strong; she doesn’t hesitate when Hermione tells her to go find help). Finally, she sort of kind of notices that something is wrong when interacting with Tonks!Susan while the others all think that Susan is a double witch. I’m not going to argue about whether she’s more important than Blaise but she definitely does more than just switch places with her sister.
On the topic of Blaise, we can be fairly confident that almost none of what happened in the underwater battle was the result of his competence; he was just the headmaster’s tool. Also, we are shown that he isn’t that skillful a leader as without the advantage of the green glasses he loses his battle against (I think) Dean Thomas. On the other hand, Padma successfully leads Dragon army to victory after Draco looses his duel with Hermione.
Oh yeah, obviously it would be more powerful since it was made before or after the cloak.
Many of the Dragons who stepped into the role of the Ghost for a time did so softly and gradually, and it never felt like this level of absence was Notably Different from the previous level, in a paradox-of-the-heap sort of way. Set a bar, and set a gradient around that bar, and stay in contact.
As the person who fell most heavily into this role, the above resonates a lot. Below are some other thoughts on my experience.
I had the sense early on that I wasn’t getting very much value out of group activities, and felt not very connected to the house. In this way I think “Black Knight”-style considerations were major contributors to my Ghost behavior. Competing commitments and general depression were also relevant. I didn’t really feel like there was much the house could do to help me with that, but I don’t know whether that’s true. If it weren’t for the Black Knight dynamic, I think I would have prioritized DA over other commitments, but depression may have been sufficient for me to end up as a Ghost anyway.
Not Getting Value Out of Group Activities
The things that the whole house can do (or even a large subset) are unlikely to be the on the capability frontier of the individual in an area of serious interest for that individual. Everyone needs to be able to do the thing, and there will be more variance in skill in areas that are a major focus of some but not all of the group. Programming ability is an example.
Because of something like this, DA group activities rarely felt like they were on a growth-edge that I cared about. In particular, group exercise usually felt costly with little benefit, and I never managed to get EE to be especially valuable for me. Social things like our weekly house dinner (a substantial fraction of Dragon Army hours) felt less fun or less growthy than the likely alternatives, but I probably put unusually low value on this kind of bonding.
Now when I imagine a group that is striving for excellence, it seems like there are two ways it can work:
1) The members share a common major project and can work together towards that goal. Here it makes sense for the group to ask for a high time commitment from its members, since time put towards the group directly advances a major goal of the individual.
2) The members have different goals. In this case it seems like the group should ask for a smaller time commitment. Members can mutually draw inspiration from each other and can coordinate when there is a shared goal, but generally the group should offer affordances, not impose requirements.
Counter-evidence: I think I would have gotten a lot of value out of covering the bases on dimensions I care about. Exercise was supposed to do this, and would do it along Duncan’s version of the “capable well-rounded human” dimension. We discussed doing something like this for rationality skills, but we didn’t follow through.
In this case, all members share a common goal of reaching a minimum bar in some area. Still, this can be boring for those who are already above the bar, and for me this sort of “catching up”/”covering the bases” is much less exciting than pushing forward on a main area of interest. (Which means group-time still ends up as less-fun-than-the-alternative by default.)
There were experiments intended to incentivize Dragons to do solo work on things they considered high priority, but my impression was that there was little encouragement/accountability/useful structure. Things I was originally excited about turned into homework I had to do for DA.
I love the site, but I have two minor nitpicks. It isn’t a big deal, but it seems weird that the image/quote on the main page only cycles between two sets, especially with the small arrows facing in either direction. Also, the quotation used on the “retreats” page is also used on the main page. This, to me, gives the sense that you don’t have many such quotations, which I don’t think is a positive signal to send.
I think the downvotes come from you making a claim about the quoted text that doesn’t seem particularly well supported. I would think that what you quoted is evidence against his dark side being Voldemort (since it emphasizes that they aren’t really separate entities, just separate mind states), though I do think Harry is a Horcrux.
I think your edit is a bit annoying in tone. (Complaining about downvotes and groupthink + only having −1 karma + calling the site bizarre and unhealthy + unnecessary sarcasm)
I like the idea in the quotation, but it seems a little off. Being wrong isn’t like winning the lottery; being wrong is bad. It’s like “winning the lottery” to find out you’re wrong, because then you stop being in that bad state (hopefully). Phil Birnbaum knows this (he says so in the post), but that doesn’t make the line “Being wrong is like winning the lottery” much less annoying.
For the record, users under 18 cannot participate.
Edit: Unless, of course, you have no morals and decide to lie about your age as I did.
More broadly, I’m interested in hearing about the workflow of those who use Anki or some alternative regularly. I’ve used it intermittently but never felt like I was using it very efficiently. It may be that making cards always feels like that and SR’s efficiency makes up for it but I’m curious to see how people have systemized the process if at all.
Also, this probably belongs in the open thread.
Could you explain the two of them to me?
Do you remember the first time he lost for real? He put a dark torture spell on Harry and locked him in an unused classroom.
Endorsed.
In addition to safety and contact, another dynamic was that I was generally not S1 expecting much value to come out of Dragon Army, so chafing more within the system seemed like pain, effort, and time spent for little expected gain.
Stag hunts, anyone?
Edit: Though, I will note that it can be hard to find the space between “I’m damaging the group by excluding my optimization power from the process” and “I’m being a Red Knight here and should be game for whatever the commander decides.” It may seem like the obvious split is “expressive in discussion and game in the field” but discussion time is actually really valuable. So it seems like the actual thing is “be game until the cost to you becomes great enough that something needs to change”. If you reduce the minimum size of misfit enough, then it becomes intractable to deal with everyone’s needs. But then you have to figure out if a recent failure was a result of things being seriously broken or just a sign that you need to Be Better in some operationalized and “doable” way. When do you bring up the problem? It’s hard.
When a human moderator makes a judgment call.
What if Bob is a human moderator?
Eliezer from the Death panel talk:
Yehuda Yudkowsky is dead. There is nothing left of him. He does not live on in me. He’s dead. That’s all. And maybe some day I’ll contribute to laying the reaper, if not forever then at least for a few billion years. And maybe then I’ll feel better, or maybe I wont. But the point is I’m not conflicted; I know what I’m doing about it. And it’s all right to feel the same way, despite all the people telling you about ways to come to terms with death. It’s all right to say “No, I wont come to terms with it. It’s just evil.”
This made me want to get up and cheer.
That’s a lot better.
P.S. Great job taking your own advice. :)
Completed!