I’m Daniele De Rossi. I stumbled on Lukeprog’s old site and thought the problems he was talking about :-rationality , friendly AI , psychology of adjustment , were all really interesting to me , so I followed him here. I’m interested in productivity stuff now primarily. I need to manage my time better and get more done.
DanielDeRossi
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Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014
Sorry. fixed.
Are there any resources (on lesswrong or elsewhere) , I can use for improving my social effectiveness and social intelligence ? Its something I’d really like to improve on so I can understand social situations better and perhaps improve the quality of my social interactions.
What do you guys think about memory palaces? http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Memory-Palace I heard of it in Sherlock.
Does anyone have any good recommended reading on being social? Stuff like understanding social situations and how to respond appriopriately. Understanding personality types and how to engage with them. How to make people like you can how to keep people’s attention. I’d really love to learn these skills , as I feel I am deficient at them.
Request for advice: I’m looking to improve my social ability. specifically my ability to ‘read’ people and social situations. In addition I would like to be able to apply these insights to be more persuasive and socially effective. I feel like I am below average in these areas. In addition I would like to improve the quality of my relationships. Someone mentioned a social psychology course online. I probably won’t take the course , but I’d like a textbook recommendation if possible. What would be ideal and really helpful would be something like Lukeprog’s summaries of research in cognitive science. Or something like the book “59 seconds” that summarises research in psychology of adjustment and how to apply it. Something that summarises social psychology and the aspects I need to understand to improve my relations with people . Any recommendations for books or articles? Googling brought up some books like “Emotional Intelligence 2.0″ but I don’t know the quality of the work.
A very useful site. readlists.com/ You can compile lists of articles and share them with your friends or convert them to epub/mobi. I used them on sequences I wanted to read or share.
An Interesting paper. basically he draws upon several times academics were wrong and argues that’s why we should promote diversity of ideas. The examples might be useful to people who like this kind of stuff. http://damascusssteel.tumblr.com/post/90055407780/on-the-benefits-of-promoting-diversity-of-ideas
Tim Maudlin, R.J. Deltete, Robin Collins , John Earman
Heads up to fellow autodidiacts. Amazon’s kindle Unlimited allows you to get a number of select titles for a monthly fee. They have a free 30 day trial on now.
An interesting article on “precrastination”. Basically some people spend more time and effort doing things , when it would be more efficient to complete them later. Also this writer reads lesswrong and refers to one of the posts on akrasia in his other articles
Thanks!
I think it was this
Depends on your uni. Ask your classmates. That’s what I did.
So I was reading so8res’ story and I felt the same way. Like I had memorized a bunch of signals without gaining deeper understanding during my education. Question: how do you start over and “get” stuff all over again?
The representational fallacy
So I got a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering , but I worked in a non engineering related field since then. I’m preparing to go back and do a Master’\s degree in engineering. Does anyone have any tips for what I can do to regain lost knowledge over the summer? I’m cracking open some old textbooks.
I don’t think its been disproven. See <a href=http://philpapers.org/rec/ZIMPAT“>here for how A-theory can fit in with relativity.
I went to my university psych center to get evaluated . Everything is pretty good , except my processing speed was below average. Since there are guys who know a lot about cognitive science here , is there a way to improve or at least ameliorate that? Any links to stuff would be appreciated.