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I propose we make a series of exercises to go along with the articles of the sequences. These exercises could help readers know how well they understood the material as well as help them internalize it better.
despite what anyone, including EY, says.
I’m pretty sure I recall that EY says (repeatedly) that the Born rule is not yet understood.
I’m just gonna add: Say “Sir” all the time. It really calms them down.
He asks you a question? (“have you been drinking?”) Say “Yes sir” or “no sir”
″I stopped you because you were speeding”—“I’m very sorry, sir”
and so on. This has saved me countless times.
and hence normal people’s acceptance that nerd-contradictory things can be normal-”true” at the same time.
Namespaced that for you.
This is an introductory textbook for students who haven’t been exposed to these ideas before. The paragraph makes a lot more sense under that assumption, than under the assumption they are trying to be technically correct down to every term they use.
I recently got into practicing meditation, and got a lot out of the old LW posts about it. I was wondering if there is any interest to have a meditation retreat for rationalists?
Upvoted for phaticness
I’m trying to decide whether to marry someone, but I’m having a lot of trouble deciding. Anyone have any advice?
The old wizard reached out toward another metal door, from behind which came a endless dead mutter, “I’m not serious, I’m not serious, I’m not serious...” The red-golden phoenix on his shoulder was already screaming urgently, and the old wizard was already wincing, when -
I’m not too sure Sirius has been Azkabanned at all...
I’m glad this is actually happening, and at great speed.
I hereby commit to doing exercises for ‘Belief in Belief’ and ‘Bayesian Judo’ by what appears to be our standard commitment: Deliver by April 17, 2011 or downvote to −10Note: It’ll be a combined exercise for those two articles as they’re very related.
I’m glad I can actually answer something!
This is how I do it and it works really well:reverse the cover so it’s inside out.
stand with it’s opening facing you, reach into it and grab the far corners, from the INSIDE. If it’s hard to find them, simply let the edges (from the inside) guide your hands all the way to the ends.
Now using your two hands (which are already holding two corners of the cover from the insides), grab two corners of the duvet
Now this is the fun part: Lift the duvet, so the cover falls all around it. This is like reversing a bag when you pick up dogpoop.
release the corners and you’re done. (you may need to adjust things a bit if it isn’t prefect)
It leads to annoyance for me. Whenever you switch into a tab, it starts loading (from the point of view of someone who wasn’t aware the page hadn’t loaded, it seemed to be reloading). As soon as I saw BrassLion’s post, I went into the options and disabled it.
Sure, but the current status quo is largely a result of chance and mathematical fads over the centuries than any concerted effort to find consistent and good symbols and notation (with Leibniz being an exception to this). There’s really no reason to think we can’t do better than the current state of mathematical notation.
Don’t forget the pill also practically eliminates akrasia. He was almost unable to NOT do what he knew he should do.
This is fantastic Malcolm, thank you!
Does anyone know of a way to convert .anki files to .apkg files?
I recently started using anki, but most of the decks I downloaded are .anki, and can’t be opened by ankidroid...
Looks like DC has one (TEDxDupontCircle). I think I will go.
Also, the LW chat room sounds like a great idea.
This is what the Church of Scientology does.
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