It’s been my experience that many more people think they’re immune to woo than actually are. I’m not sure the risk is worth the reward.
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It’s not as pithy, but it seems likely that it’s better said that some optimists make money, no?
Of course, this doesn’t have any direct bearing on this interesting post.
Thanks, I found this very helpful! My daughter is taking guitar lessons and I think now I can maybe talk a bit more intelligently with her about it.
The standard notes used in Western music differ in pitch by a factor of the 12th root of 2 (~1.06x).
I was going to ask “why?” here and in some other places. But I’m guessing you answer the “why” later when you say:
This is all very silly, but it’s what we’re stuck with for historical reasons.
What is an example of having an opinion that is an image of an image?
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
This is a famous line from the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. In the play, a character named Henry Higgins is teaching a lower-class woman named Eliza Doolittle how to speak proper English. He tells her that the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain in order to help her remember the correct pronunciation of the word “plain.”
Your suggestion is way easier to implement, and I like it, but just dreaming here...
It’d be neat to have functionality like Google Docs with commenting and edit suggestions within the text and margins specifically for editor-type of stuff. The post author could set some sort of permissions on who could do edit suggestions and who could view them.
This has the benefit of keeping comments for commenting on the content and putting editing in to a common editing paradigm.
I agree with you.
I’ve found that I’ve lessened this experience of reading something I’ve wrote and being horrified at its tone by going back and reading my comments at various sites. At least once a year I find myself going to my profile page at LW or some other site and just spending a couple of hours reading what I’ve wrote in the past. I think this has helped me be more aware of what my tone is conveying.
For what it’s worth, in my experience there is a wide delta in accuracy between bad fitbit-style sleep trackerse and good fiftbit-style trackers.
I do not know if this study used good or bad devices.
I’m somewhat confused on what you actually feel here
If I was to immerse myself in postrat, I would not like it because I prefer to be doing things that I enjoy and think are good and useful. If I was forced to be immersed in postrat I’d be bored, bemused, indifferent. I have a hard time thinking of a way that the word “disgust” would be used to describe my reaction.
I’m allergic to being bored.
Hmm. So, what I was attempting to say was not that Jacob’s post would convince you to like the postrat scene.
More that it would help you to understand the postrat scene.
Moreover, I can imagine two categories of people who have negative opinions about the scene:
People who think it’s stupid because it’s shallow (not sure shallow is the right word here).
People who think it’s stupid because it appears shallow but know that the decoder ring for stuff like the QAnon post exists.
I’d say that when I said:
On the other hand, it feels like it it is helpful explaining to people who already have some sort of idea that the scene exists and posts and already have some sort of at least slightly negative opinion about it.
I was saying that it feels like the post would be most effective at moving people from category 1 to category 2.
FWIW, I’m mostly of the same opinion as you WRT to stuff like the QAnon tweet though I would express my emotional reaction more as indifference/you-do-you than disgust.
What I find interesting is that when I was in my teens through my twenties, I would have reveled in this ingroup type of stuff. I did revel in it! Now that I’m in my mid 40s I have an almost allergic reaction to it.
I made the parent comment while sick and tired. This morning I’m just sick and while in the shower I started worrying that maybe the comment I made while being sick and tired didn’t make any sense or would be taken as an attack.
This morning I’m relieved to see it wasn’t downvoted into oblivion.
I liked this in an anthropological sort of way.
I do feel like it sort of hovered around a level of “explaining the twitter postrat scene” that would not be super helpful for people coming from two almost opposing standpoints:
People who want to get into the scene. Who do I follow, what buttons do I click...what’s the actions I should take?
People who don’t understand why anyone would care about the scene.
Reading between the lines a little bit, I think this is probably intentional.
On the other hand, it feels like it it is helpful explaining to people who already have some sort of idea that the scene exists and posts and already have some sort of at least slightly negative opinion about it.
Non-programmers intro to AI for programmers
Not Jeff, but I usually have:
at least a couple of terminals with SSH sessions.
one or two running language tools (like a
blackdserver for python)Since everything using web tech requires building nowadays a terminal building whatever project
A terminal open in my current project directory to run project-specific commands.
Then I usually have a terminal or two open in my Jetbrains IDE....running the software I’m working on.
For anyone on Windows, the newish Windows Terminal is really nice. Give it a try.
Windows has become a really nice development platform over the past several years.
There’s a difference between
the complete material reductionist memeplex
and
the material reductionist memeplex is complete.
Having all of a thing that is incomplete is to completely have that thing.
Just remember that (I think, not an expert!) exercise is much less important than diet when it comes to losing weight. An hour run that burns 300 calories is swamped by having a double cheeseburger instead of a salad.
Are the black or the red supposed to be the minuteman silos on that map?
Oh man, that is it! I didn’t quite remember that it was about logic more than electronics in general. Brings back some cool memories...
Thanks for helping me remember, gwern.
Is part of your claim that such ideas do not exist? By “such ideas” I mean ideas that only some people can hear or learn about for some definition of “safely”.