This is hardly useful if one is no longer in a position to be able to go on dates. My fiancee would probably object to me asking older women out on dates, no matter how much I insist it’s to train my rationality. What other exercises would train this without putting important relationships at risk (probably shouldn’t practice on bosses, family members, etc.)?
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Will this really train this skill? I think this exercise would help train skills related to the “compartmentalizing” you mentioned above, but it would only generate reliance on the whiteboard (or something) for this skill. Also, I don’t think it would train long-term maintenance of “context pointers”, i.e. “where did I learn this fact/how much weight should I give it?”
If you are convinced that, barring any biases, your calculated course of action is the right one, you could talk to anyone you trusted to be similarly convinced by your arguments. Either they will point out your errors and convince you that you shouldn’t act, or they will not discover any errors and agree to help you with your plans.
I’ll be there.
Should I be upvoting this just because it made me laugh? I feel like that probably isn’t really the purpose of the karma system, but “You’re a bad human” really tickled me.
Ah, but I want to reward the spreader of humor, not the originator of the phrase. Does Clippy really say “You’re a bad human.”? I find this difficult to believe.
I totally was thinking you were attributing the quote to Microsoft Word’s irritating assistant. Things make more sense.
I think it’s enough to reduce it to “Pain produces suffering.” Suffering is bad (it just is, that’s all, your question is stupid), although it can be coupled with good things, like behaviour-modification. Pain that doesn’t produce suffering isn’t bad.
“Misogyny” makes the sentence funnier.
When you say “making full use of my body”, are you merely learning, as you say, “tricks”, or are you also developing your muscles and body-senses (proprioception, balance) so that you can move yourself and other things as efficiently as possible?
No. He is either clever enough or not. Proving it doesn’t change his value.
I also do parkour, and would be interested in seeing a systematic training regimen for the relevant skills.
A friend of mine claims Fahrenheit is more convenient because of “-ties”. “Today it will be in the fifties/sixties/thirties/high seventies.” Celsius doesn’t have conveniently-spoken ranges that give users a general idea of the weather. I countered with high and low teens, low twenties, but I don’t think his point is completely invalid.
You say centimeters are better for small things and meters better for large things, but neither are very useful for things that might constitute an arm-load. I’m not sure that sentence is very clear, so I’ll try examples. My laptop is 36 centimeters wide, which is an inconveniently large number of units for it to be, but it’s only a little more than a foot. This textbook: about a foot square. That hard-drive is half a foot (I’ll admit that “six inches” was easier to the tongue, but in reality it’s closer to seven, which I wouldn’t say). What I’m trying to say is that the unit “foot” is very convenient for things that we might be handling in everyday situations, unless those things are hand-sized.
The obvious answer is to figure out what people raised with the metric system are thinking.
Kill the greys!
Mensa has negative connotations in the minds of some people. I considered joining Mensa but decided against it when all of my friends said that people in Mensa are all arrogant, self-impressed jerks. Note that as far as I know, none of my friends know anyone in Mensa, they just have a pre-conceived idea of what Mensans are like.
I think we should call people at Less Wrong the Illuminati. There’s no way that could have any negative connotations, right?
Because “I’m a member of the Bayesian Conspiracy” isn’t going to cause ANY problems with other people, right?
Does that mean that a perfectly rational agent is not a rationalist?
While discussing hypothetical situations or speculating towards the reasoning behind some rule or behavior, my fiancée will sometimes put forward an idea with an obvious flaw in it. I will point out this flaw with the expectation of her correcting it to improve the idea, but instead she will respond with “Well, what do you think, then?” Often I don’t have a hypothesis of my own, and will admit it, but she seems to think that it’s unacceptable of me to criticize an argument if I don’t have a better one to replace it. In general, am I being logically rude by pointing out that an idea is illogical if I don’t have a replacement to offer, or is it acceptable to say, “I don’t know, but I know THAT’s wrong”?