I have been preferring dancers over warriors.. but navigators does ring a bell… But orienteers.. kind of too abstract for me… while we are talking of navigation how about scouts??
anandjeyahar
Oops really late reply. Anyway, i meant that the similarities are not apparent at first read. In fact i was extrapolating from the Orient sense of the word.. Now i see it better, was not aware of orienteering as a sport. Thanks
1) Although my plan had three separate ways by which it could kill me, it was possible that all would fail, such that I would >wind up still in all the pain that was driving me to kill myself, plus on life support machines and with people hovering over >me annoying me
Been there… and have indeed talked about these problems with a friend who once said she was contemplating suicide. But i wouldn’ t recommend this to all. I mean for most people the listening and trying to help them in their interest area can help better.
The trouble is, in a couple of years, they’ve got a million more reasons to kill themselves. I can hear Mr. Potter now: >”Why, George… you’re worth more dead than alive.”
I doubt that’s the case. As someone who has been there, it’s almost always a biased evaluation. (Rephrasal: The decision of suicide by an agent can be modeled by a Rational AI agent in 99.95 of the cases by adding some strong biased viewpoint. ). And spending two years will give you a very different set of reasons and more importantly perspective on your life. True there still is a chance you might not outgrow your bias, but anecdotal(personal) evidence suggests otherwise.
Or to quote from a movie “Suicide is always a permanent solution to a temporary problem”
As the saying goes, analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog—it kills the frog and it’s not much fun for you, either. Yeah, i found out the hard way. Took up ridiculously ambitious projects to teach a program to differentiate semantic and/or homographic puns vs non- puns.. Ofcourse, failed spectacularly, and only while writing it up did i realize why that was a bad experimental design in the first place. To paraphrase, HPMOR, “It(the plot) required more than 5 things to go right to work” :-P
Yep… i don’t think so either.. but then they aren’t normal kids either so this ain’t a normal relationship..:-P
Only this can be considered a condescending attitude. And more importantly can drive some intelligent students to moonlight through schooling :-)
This also reminds of what he says to Hermione after she saves him from dementation. “The place where the dementor takes you there’s no light. But you can’t ever be happy, you can’t even remember what it is that isn’t there anymore.” the second part sounds a lot like emptiness to me.
It doesn’t matter who was the real culprit as long as Dumbledore confesses. He’s an occlumens and i would be doubtful if any legilimens can read his mind and find the truth.
I have begun noticing that i do this(moving up and down the ladder of abstraction) in all my communications. I realize i am doing it by reflex/habit. Trying to observe conditions that trigger a move up or down. So far there seems to be a correlation between the level of uncertainty i feel about an answer and the level of abstraction at which i verbalize my answer. Infact, i have found that the more uncertain i am about i tend to take the descriptive,detailed examples route.
+1 for the very same reason. Reading a HPMOR chapter is a day-long distraction. it simply won’t leave my brain alone for work on the rest of the day.
Did anybody get hold of that python code by GJM (mentioned in A/N and supposed to be on the official fb page) I went ahead and created a new fb A/C(despite my better judgement) but couldn’t get hold of the code. I want to get and play around the code.
A few subtleties i think was missed in tech founders’ accents post by Paul Graham and antirez. http://anandjeyahar.com/2013/09/04/accents-and-its-effect-in-the-techfounderstartup-world/ . I am rather emotionally close/involved to the subject, so would be happy to know the gaps and biases in my reasoning any of you point out.
Regards, Anand
Thanks gwern. I was looking for criticism in the reasoning, but you have a point. I’ll clean it up at the earliest opportunity.
Growing up: That mysterious inflection point(temporal) in your decision-making timeline, when you decide to use what (habits,signs,etc) parts of you will take time to change, and instead use them as a signal to change working strategy on the problem you’re solving. ~Aang Jie
Trust is a complex variable, because it has both real and imaginary parts. ~ Nabin Hait
The biggest problem in the world is too many words. We should be able to communicate, distribution graphs of past experiences, directly from one human brain to another. ~Aang Jie
Am confused about the down votes. Does it mean that you think: a, this is a trivial quote(not having an interesting/thought-provoking insight?) b, It’s too vague and ambiguous. c, We just don’t know the source?
Can someone elaborate, am genuinely curious. This quote came up over a discussion with a colleague, and was such an “Aha” moment for me i remember it even now after 3 years. May be it’s too obvious for other less-wrongers?
Exactly.… to me this is always a sign of a strawman argument..