Is it 5000IU per day?
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How one person can write so much, of such quality, with such consistency is beyond me.
Yes, who’s going to go through hundreds of comments to find the good ones. And based on the content they’re replying to, there’s probably some really good stuff in the comment section that’s relatively unseen because of this.
I’m referring to the great filter theory which I first learned about on Less Wrong: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
I’ve gone from hoping we find life in the solar system to really hoping we don’t.
I notice I am confused a lot.
I can use Bayes theorem well enough to calculate that the probability of me fully understanding Bayes theorem is 0%.
My thoughts about my future have changed from wondering aimlessly about how I can change my life and the world for the better and not being able to do anything about it to knowing quite well how I can change my life and the world for the better and still not doing anything about it
What are Eliezers other favourite books?
Maybe the AI was asked to make the world safe for wizards and figured it was easier to make an entire new world for them than make safe a Muggle dominated one.
The door handles of the ministry of magic would be my own choice.
Not a book but: http://sqapo.com/
As soon as I close my eyes to sleep I silently say to myself “I will wake up early in the morning” 100 times. If I do this I will wake up before my alarm without fail, if not I will hit snooze as many times as I can get away with it.
It makes me feel good.
People who look for ways to become more rational are probably far more rational than average already.
I think this is very important, I myself noticed that when I was younger, the longer I was unemployed, the more I started reading about socialist ideas and getting into politics. Then when I started working again it went out the window and I moved on to learning about other things.
Similarly, maybe I’m here because I just happened to be in the mood to read some fan fiction that day?
I foresee rationalist Dracula fan-fiction in our future.
It would be more about informing than enforcing. There are already rules here which make registered charities show where their money goes, so a mechanism for comparing effectiveness wouldn’t be a big leap.
I think the easiest way would be to show smallest number of euros per live saved, and charities which have minimal to do with saving lives wouldn’t be considered useful at all. Givewell.orgs’ charity list seems like the best one to promote, as for charities which work within Ireland, that would be more difficult.
I gave you a thumbs up in agreement but didn’t give one to Gwern for his links. Pointing-something-out bias?