It will also help if some of the workshops are held on the east coast
CFAR is holding a workshop in New York on November 1-4 (Friday through Monday).
It will also help if some of the workshops are held on the east coast
CFAR is holding a workshop in New York on November 1-4 (Friday through Monday).
In general, I think trying to weigh secular values against sacred values is a recipe for reducing the amount you care about the former.
If I understand the sacred/secular terminology correctly, then this seems like a feature, not a bug.
It looks like there are no non-US-based providers. Alcor has some information, but the situation doesn’t look good. You won’t get treated by a perfusion team or anything. Instead they’ll try to convince local coroners to literally just freeze you with dry ice and ship you to Arizona for storage, which is incredibly destructive for the obvious reasons, and that’s if the locals even cooperate. Not worth the money, IMO. (I say that as a current Alcor member living in the US.) I haven’t checked CI’s practices, but they’re unlikely to be better.
Steps you can take:
—Sign up with a US-based provider
—If you become terminally ill, move to the US
—Don’t die suddenly
If you come to visit MIT, and you happen to be around campus on a Sunday, we’d love to have you at one of the Boston meetups. Also, if you want to talk to some MIT students or alumni, let me know and I’ll see if I can put you in touch.
The usual suggestion for cases like this is to unilaterally announce a meetup in a public place, and bring a book in case no one shows up. Best case: awesome people doing awesome things. Worst case: you spend a couple hours reading.
Huh. Horrible trauma has the opposite effect on me; it makes my aversions stronger. CoZE’s gradual approach has worked better for me.
That is less insulting, and therefore an improvement. A version that’s not even a little insulting might look something like “Not all simulations are ancestral.” That approach expresses disagreement with the original claim, but doesn’t connote anything about the person who made it.
To improve the odds of noticing valuable anomalies?
Knowing a diverse network of people working on valuable projects seems like it could help. I can only think of one example; are there more?
Nitpicky tangent:
rationality which is at it’s core about doing non obvious things that result in better outcomes once you do the math
Don’t neglect the obvious things that result in better outcomes.
And I’m concerned that upgrading to transfuturist levels of intelligence will make the types of stories we have now incredibly banal and obvious, for many good reasons. Predictable, boring, and worthless.
This seems unlikely (albeit possible, I guess). I enjoy some children’s stories, and while they’re predictable, they’re neither boring nor worthless.
Nonspecific praise clutters up the thread. Next time, just upvote—it conveys the same information.
I have never actually seen this happen, and I use that method all the time. I don’t have an explanation for why, since I rarely think about problems I don’t have.
We’re not set up to do that. If there are slides, I’ll see if the speaker is willing to share them.
How many people interested in self improvement are effective altruists? If many are not, then the wiki would essentially be a net negative on the world.
I don’t understand this claim. Most of the good things in the world were not built by effective altruists.
In rough order of how much I like them:
Rebuttal, counterargument, dissent, refutation, criticism, negation, retort, rejoinder, rejection
Thesauruses are awesome.
I expect cash rewards would mostly encourage lying.
Your mom sounds awesome.
I’ve been running a hobby project that’s prestigious within my subsubculture, and it became clear that one of the four other people I’d recruited was a bad fit for the job. I convinced him to leave without wounding anyone’s feelings, and we’re all still on great terms. I’m assigning myself points for (text-based) social skills and for picking awesome friends.
Checking for the Programming Gear contains a discussion of one really strong version of Luke’s claim. The comments on I Want to Learn Programming point to several good ways to start learning and assessing your talent. Also, the programming thread compiles a bunch of programming resources that may be useful.
I’ve been using “anti-death.”