ChristianKl

• ChristianKl 12 Nov 2019 13:21 UTC

  11 points

  in reply to: Said Achmiz's comment on: Ex­per­i­ments and Consent

  To write a com­ment on this web­site I can click on “re­ply”, then write my text and click “sub­mit”. On Wikipe­dia I would have to click on “edit” then find the right sec­tion to re­ply to. Once I have found it I have to de­cide on the right com­bi­na­tion of * and : to put in front of my re­ply. After I wrote my com­ment I have to sign it by writ­ing ~~~~. After jump­ing through those hoops I can click on “pub­lish” (a re­cent change be­cause user re­search sug­gested peo­ple were con­fused by “save”).

  Then if I’m lucky my post is pub­lished. If I’m un­lucky I have to deal with a merge con­flict. It’s hard for me to see Wikipe­dia here as user-friendly.

  This cre­ates a pres­sure where some dis­cus­sion about Wiki edit­ing get pushed to Face­book or Tele­gram groups that are more user-friendly to use be­cause it takes a lot less effort to write a new mes­sage.

  When it comes to menus you have a left side menus. You have the menus on the left and right side on the top of the ar­ti­cle. Then you have the top menu on the right side. It’s not clear to a new user why “re­lated changes” is some­where com­pletely differ­ent then “his­tory”.

  More im­por­tantly the kind of re­sults that A/​B test­ing re­veals are of­ten not as ob­vi­ous but there effects ac­cu­mu­late. The fact that Wikipe­dia lost ed­i­tors over the last decade is for me a sign that they weren’t effec­tive at evolv­ing soft­ware that peo­ple ac­tu­ally want to use to con­tribute.

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 15:18 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: sil ver's comment on: Open & Wel­come Thread—Novem­ber 2019

  As far as I un­der­stand eat­ing be­fore sleep raises your pulse as more blood has to flow through your in­testines and thus usu­ally leads to less deep sleep.

  It might dam­age your sleep in a way that leads you to be less rested the next morn­ing even through you don’t no­tice that you had trou­ble en­ter­ing sleep.

  It might be use­ful to be more clear about what kind of food to eat when you find that eat­ing some­thing is good.

  Per­son­ally, I can eat a bit of soup be­fore go­ing to bed with­out pro­duc­ing much spike in heart-rate.

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 13:56 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: sil ver's comment on: Open & Wel­come Thread—Novem­ber 2019

  What met­ric do you use to de­ter­mine it works to eat right be­fore bed?

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 13:55 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Donald Hobson's comment on: Why are peo­ple so bad at dat­ing?

  The amount of in­for­ma­tion that a dat­ing pro­file pro­vides doesn’t al­low some­one to re­ally strongly want you for deep rea­sons. In most cases peo­ple it will just be a sign of the per­son think­ing that they don’t have that many choices for pur­su­ing a part­ner that looks bet­ter on pa­per.

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 10:09 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Said Achmiz's comment on: Ex­per­i­ments and Consent

  Em­piri­cally, as a trend across the in­dus­try, this has turned out to be false. “De­sign by A/​B test” has dra­mat­i­cal­lyeroded the qual­ity of UI/​UX de­sign over the last 10-15 years.

  At the first glance this seems to me like “ev­ery­thing was bet­ter in the past”. It seems to me like a web­site that’s stuck in how things were done in the past like Wikipe­dia which doesn’t do any A/​B tests loses in us­abil­ity com­pared to more mod­ern web­sites that are highly op­ti­mized.

  In the com­pany where I work we don’t have A/​B test and plenty of changes are made for rea­sons of in­ter­nal com­pany poli­tics and as a re­sult the users still suffer from bad UI changes.

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 7:53 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: lynettebye's comment on: How to Im­prove Your Sleep

  Why is that the case? Sleep ap­nea seems to be defined as a pe­riod with lower oxy­gen sat­u­ra­tion in the blood with should be pos­si­ble to be mea­sured at home as well.

  I have some ex­pe­riences that sug­gest that I’m more likely to snore when I’m not sleep­ing in my own com­fortable bed. It might be that the in-lab sleep test in­duces the sleep ap­nea on it’s own and isn’t rep­re­sen­ta­tive of nor­mal sleep.

• ChristianKl 11 Nov 2019 7:39 UTC

  2 points

  on: Why are peo­ple so bad at dat­ing?

  Just like daters don’t op­ti­mize their photo’s with photo-feel­ers peo­ple writ­ing job ap­pli­ca­tions in coun­tries where the job ap­pli­ca­tion has a photo don’t op­ti­mize the photo ei­ther.

  It seems to me like most peo­ple have a strange re­la­tion­ship to photo’s that is ir­rele­vant from any con­cerns about dat­ing.

  When self iden­tity is at­tached to a given prob­lem it’s emo­tion­ally harder to think sanely about it.

• ChristianKl 8 Nov 2019 19:02 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: norswap's comment on: Why are peo­ple so bad at dat­ing?

  
  

  Re­gard­ing pic­tures, I think you un­der­es­ti­mate the effort re­quired.

  You need to get a phone or cam­era ca­pa­ble of tak­ing good-look­ing pic­ture, you need some­one that is semi-com­pe­tent at shoot­ing, you need nice look­ing clothes and a good-enough look­ing back­ground. Th­ese are all things that need to be planned/​ac­counted for. It also takes time.

  This is wrong. This sum­mer I got some pic­tures taken from a pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher with pro­fes­sional equip­ment.

  I put them on Tin­der and then got less matches. A while later I put my new photo’s on Pho­toFeeler and it turns out they in­deed score less then my old pic­ture that was taken by hav­ing some­one sim­ply hold­ing my mo­bile phone with a set­ting where it made 1 pic­ture per sec­ond and then min­ing the re­sult­ing photo pool for the best photo’s with Pho­toFeeler.

  This re­sponse is quite in­ter­est­ing as the ex­change is ba­si­cally:

  OP: Why aren’t peo­ple do­ing strat­egy A for area O to per­sue goal X.

  You: Be­cause do­ing strat­egy B for area O is very effort­ful.

• ChristianKl 8 Nov 2019 18:20 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: gbear605's comment on: Why are peo­ple so bad at dat­ing?

  it’s bet­ter for the gen­eral suc­cess of the tribe when ev­ery­one has a kid

  Group se­lec­tion ar­gu­ments are gen­er­ally lose in data driven evolu­tion­ary anal­y­sis.

  If you have a kid with a per­son who has a lot of re­sources be­cause they have the at­trac­tive char­ac­ter­is­tic of hav­ing a lot of so­cial sta­tus and your mate passes down genes that make the child healthier and stronger, you are more likely to ul­ti­mately pass down your genes.

• ChristianKl 8 Nov 2019 10:54 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: greylag's comment on: News = Advertising

  My crit­i­cism isn’t mainly about the con­clu­sion but about the epistemics, epistemics be­ing one of the main sub­jects of LW.

• ChristianKl 4 Nov 2019 12:24 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: jballoch's comment on: News = Advertising

  How­ever, I think, as an­other com­menter has pointed out, you maybe could serve your ar­gu­ment bet­ter by dig­ging deeper into the ex­am­ples in the pat­tern of be­hav­ior you be­lieve to have ex­em­plified here and ask, “Why?”

  While that’s a step in the right di­rec­tion, there’s still a good chance that you don’t un­der­stand things from the out­side.

  If you want to un­der­stand how the news work it’s im­por­tant to read views from ex­perts that ac­tu­ally have do­main knowl­edge.

• ChristianKl 3 Nov 2019 22:48 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: lsusr's comment on: Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

  The differ­ence be­tween the Western tra­di­tion and Eastern tra­di­tions are of­ten a bit ex­ag­ger­ated.

  Within Western monas­ter­ies peo­ple en­gage in med­i­ta­tive prac­tices. His­tor­i­cally, med­i­ta­tion wasn’t cen­tral in Bud­dhism ei­ther.

  Most older spiritual tra­di­tion put a lot of value on se­crecy and mod­ern Bud­dhism and later New Agey think­ing is more open to sel­l­ing med­i­ta­tion courses to a wide pub­lic (both for money and for ex­ter­nal recog­ni­tion).

• ChristianKl 3 Nov 2019 22:48 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: lsusr's comment on: Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

  It’s quite differ­ent to work on learn­ing an ex­ist­ing con­cept and to work on draw­ing con­cep­tual bound­aries your­self in a way that works for your con­text.

• ChristianKl 3 Nov 2019 11:30 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: lsusr's comment on: Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

  There’s a group of num­bers be­tween 0.38976 and 1.1. A given cul­ture might de­cide to call those num­bers A*-num­bers. Another group might call the num­bers be­tween 0.35 and 1.2 B*-num­bers.

  I would say that both A* and B* were in­vented by the groups that use them. It’s un­likely that an­other group of peo­ple would come up with the same con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion even if they would in­ves­ti­gate the same prob­lem do­main.

  It seems to me likely that Ken­sho is similar. It’s a con­cep­tual cluster that the Ja­panese use, but other tra­di­tions of med­i­ta­tions don’t use the same con­cep­tual cluster.

  Your con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion as­sumes that it would be good for a per­son who wants to learn some­thing about med­i­ta­tive states to learn about how the Ja­panese con­cep­tu­al­ize ken­sho and then try to work their way to the state. That ap­proach con­flicts with med­i­ta­tion paradigms that value “be­gin­ners mind”.

• ChristianKl 3 Nov 2019 11:18 UTC

  10 points

  on: News = Advertising

  It seems to me that the epistemics of your ar­ti­cle are those of stan­dard con­spir­acy the­ory. You see a pat­tern and in­stead of look­ing deeper for ev­i­dence whether the pat­tern is true you write a post propos­ing it’s true by point­ing to the pat­tern.

• ChristianKl 3 Nov 2019 10:46 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Pattern's comment on: Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

  I don’t think this an­swer ad­dresses the point of in what sense Ken­sho ex­ists for you in that case.

• ChristianKl 2 Nov 2019 11:59 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: waveman's comment on: How do you as­sess the qual­ity /​ re­li­a­bil­ity of a sci­en­tific study?

  What kind of ex­pe­riences were the hard les­son? How did the mo­ments of learn­ing look like?

• ChristianKl 1 Nov 2019 17:23 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: lsusr's comment on: The Tech­nique Taboo

  If there’s a strong cor­re­la­tion that would be very valuable in­for­ma­tion for any­body that hires pro­gram­mers.

• ChristianKl 31 Oct 2019 14:46 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: leggi's comment on: In­nu­mer­able Po­si­tions & Body Bub­bles. Pos­tures & Poses.

  Yes, some­how I messed that up. Smooth heart rate comes with stress and pro­duces low HRV.iver twice’ comes to mind.

  I don’t think you can have a co­her­ent con­cept of po­si­tion that al­lows for both of those no­tions. I think you have to de­cide for ei­ther a con­cept where a po­si­tion can be re­peated which im­plies there’s some crite­ria that you can use to say that a po­si­tion was re­peated or treat it like a river that can’t crossed twice.

  I am try­ing to dis­t­in­guish be­tween the po­si­tion you think you are in (for want of bet­ter word­ing) v. the ac­tual po­si­tion (the aimed for po­si­tion v. re­al­ity - if try­ing to do a pose).

  Thomas Hanna in­tro­duced the term soma to re­fer to the way the body feels from in­side. In Ger­man we have the word “Leib” as dis­tinct from “Kör­per” to also re­fer to how the sub­jec­tive body felt from the in­side.

  How the body feels from the in­side isn’t the same as how I think my body is. It’s quite pos­si­ble for the two to deriva­tive. A per­son with an am­pu­tated limb might know that they don’t have the limb any­more but that doesn’t mean that the soma of it isn’t there any­more and can’t hurt.

  Read­ing Fel­denkrais (Aware­ness Through Move­ment) or Hanna (So­mat­ics: Reawak­en­ing The Mind’s Con­trol Of Move­ment, Flex­i­bil­ity, And Health) might be use­ful for ex­plor­ing that space.

  HRV = heart rate vari­abil­ity? A smooth heart rate has a low HRV I would have thought?

  Yes, some­how I messed that up. Smooth heart rate comes with strees and pro­duces low HRV.

• ChristianKl 31 Oct 2019 14:00 UTC

  3 points

  on: III. Con­scious Pro­pri­o­cep­tion—Your Sense of Po­si­tion, Move­ment & Balance.

  Read­ing your post it seems a bit strange to me to speak about hav­ing con­scious pro­pri­o­cep­tion as some­thing that most peo­ple don’t have. I would es­ti­mate that most peo­ple have a sense of con­scious pro­pri­o­cep­tion and it’s more about the qual­ity of the pro­pri­o­cep­tion.