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Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

Sim­ple em­bod­ied cog­ni­tion hacks

SENS and Givewell: Con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Holden Karnofsky and Aubrey de Grey

• curiousepic 20 Apr 2011 19:25 UTC

  30 points

  on: Offi­cial Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Sugges­tions

  I hope the aim will be to preserve the beautiful simplicity (and color scheme) of the current site. Honestly I don’t think it needs a graphic redesign at all.

• curiousepic 7 Mar 2013 15:48 UTC

  29 points

  on: Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

  Some previously posted boring advice about maintaining an exercise routine:

  I was successful in keeping a strict (but light) exercise routine for a year. Here are the main things I think helped me form the habit:

  • Not worrying about quantifying, or optimizing. I would immediately get into the rabbit hole of analysis, when I knew that any exercise was much better than procrastinating until I found the perfect method. Once the habit is formed, then you can optimize it.

  • Reduce physical inconveniences to actually exercising. The thought of going to a gym immediately turns me off, so I knew it had to be at home. That meant obtaining equipment. To keep it simple, this consisted of a yoga mat and a resistance band.

  • Doing it right after waking up. I think this was vital to habit formation, as my mind wasn’t very active, and it was easy to fall into routine. Only very rarely did I find myself considering not exercising.

  • Doing it every other day—not too often to get burnt out, and not too infrequently to form the habit. In order to keep a consistent sleep schedule and not have to wake up very early, I alternated morning routines—exercise days and shower days. My workouts weren’t intense enough to necessitate a shower immediately after. Also, I worked it in with my intermittent fasting routine on non-exercise days.

  • Tracking it. Noting days that I exercised did give me a couple of achievement hedons. The effect diminished, but not before the habit was formed.

• curiousepic 6 Feb 2013 2:25 UTC

  28 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2013

  Q: I was wondering what the dumbest or funniest argument you’ve heard against the defeat of aging?

  Aubrey de Grey: Um, It’s been a very very long time since I’ve heard a question or concern I haven’t heard before, so nothing’s dumb or funny anymore, it’s just… tedium.

  From this recent talk

• curiousepic 14 Nov 2011 17:06 UTC

  27 points

  on: Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

  This was an interesting exercise. As I said in a previous comment, the irony of acting as a manual voice-recognition Chinese Room for an AI researcher was not lost on me. And I never thought I’d ever post something to Less Wrong that was longer than one of Luke’s reference lists!

• curiousepic 14 Nov 2011 17:03 UTC

  27 points

  on: Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yud­kowsky: Video Answers

  Text transcription of Eliezer’s answers

  What links here?

  • Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A by curiousepic (14 Nov 2011 17:02 UTC; 112 points)

• curiousepic 8 Nov 2011 4:35 UTC

  26 points

  in reply to: cousin_it’s comment on: Q&A with new Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

  Looks like you’re right. I commit to working on this over the next few weeks. Please check in with me every so often (via comment here would be fine) to gauge my progress and encourage completion.

  It’s approximately 120 minutes of video; taking a number from wikipedia gives me 150 spoken wpm, divided by my typing wpm gives me about 6 hours, which will be optimistic—let’s double it to 12, at let’s say an average of 30 mins per day gives me 24 days. Let’s see how it goes!

• curiousepic 11 Apr 2013 1:54 UTC

  24 points

  on: Post Re­quest Thread

  I’d be interested in lukeprog’s (or CFAR’s) thoughts on how to implement “tight feedback loops” into every day instrumental rationality (as opposed to running a business or project).

• curiousepic 15 Feb 2013 20:42 UTC

  23 points

  in reply to: FiftyTwo’s comment on: What are your rules of thumb?

  I’ve recently added hydration to that first one.

• curiousepic 29 Dec 2011 15:29 UTC

  20 points

  in reply to: Tripitaka’s comment on: Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

  If there were ever an additional category besides Main and Discussion, I would vote for some kind of “sticky” category of a limited number of posts promoted from Discussion.

• curiousepic 7 Nov 2011 16:50 UTC

  18 points

  in reply to: ArisKatsaris’s comment on: Q&A with new Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

  I disagree completely, as video has value not present in text, and text is easily derived from video. If this has not been done for Eliezer’s videos, I volunteer to transcribe them—please let me know.

Re­cur­sively Self-Im­prov­ing Hu­man Intelligence

• curiousepic 18 Mar 2013 18:44 UTC

  16 points

  on: We Don’t Drink Vodka (LW Moscow re­port)

  Good information here that might be “hidden” due to the cute article title. Consider adding a descriptive subtitle, or posting the exercises as their own article.

• curiousepic 20 Apr 2011 19:25 UTC

  16 points

  on: Offi­cial Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Sugges­tions

  I’d like the expand/​contract [-] button to be at the far left of the post such that they are left-aligned and you don’t need to move your mouse far when closing a bunch of them. Someone suggested this for Reddit and they made the change that same day.

• curiousepic 19 Jan 2011 4:06 UTC

  16 points

  on: Tal­linn-Evans $125,000 Sin­gu­lar­ity Challenge

  I have not donated a significant amount before, but will donate $500 IF someone else will (double) match it.

  Why did the SIAI remove the Grant Proposals page? http://​​singinst.org/​​grants/​​challenge#grantproposals

  EDIT: Donated $500, in response to wmorgan’s $1000

• curiousepic 2 Oct 2013 21:40 UTC

  15 points

  in reply to: shminux’s comment on: How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

  Power Leveling

• curiousepic 7 Nov 2011 21:36 UTC

  15 points

  on: Spencer Green­berg’s TEDx talk: “Im­prove Your Life with Prob­a­bil­ity”

  The talk title is Probability, not Rationality.

• curiousepic 20 May 2013 18:34 UTC

  13 points

  on: Meetup : RTLW Meetup: Con­tra Dance!

  Contra is an emergent, tesellated, permutating turbine generator of Hedons, Flow, and Awesome, of which you are a self-aware component.

  There are few things I would recommend more highly for a human, especially for people who don’t “get” dance (like myself 4 months ago). This is because you follow very simple instructions, you do not need to think about what you’re doing with your feet at all, and the people are incredibly welcoming. It’s great for social comfort zone expansion—virtually no one will turn you down if you ask to dance, unless they already have partner for that dance (there are usually about 10 dances per night). Eye contact is also a norm (and practically required as a dizziness countermeasure). It’s a great workout, and as instructors often warn in the intro, the sorest muscles will be your smiled-out cheeks.