jacobjacob

• jacobjacob 26 Oct 2020 23:30 UTC

  5 points

  on: Top Time Travel In­ter­ven­tions?

  Yay! More ex­er­cises!

• jacobjacob 26 Oct 2020 0:15 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: gjm’s comment on: Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

  (Moved it!)

• jacobjacob 22 Oct 2020 16:27 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: gjm’s comment on: Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

  I in­tend the first one. I’ll edit the flour­ishes to clar­ify!

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

• jacobjacob 22 Oct 2020 4:03 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Bucky’s comment on: Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

  Really ex­cited to have you on­board.

  I don’t like mea­sur­ing things by streaks

  I’ve mul­led over this a bit, and think I dis­agree, and will keep do­ing streaks.

  One of the goals of the challenge is build­ing a cul­ture of prac­tice. I think con­sis­tency is an in­cred­ibly im­por­tant part of that. That’s how you get com­pound re­turns. A port­fo­lio that grows 7% ev­ery year will grow ~30x over fifty years. But a port­fo­lio that grows that much only ev­ery other year will only grow about ~5x. (Even though the first one only put in “twice as much effort”.)

  I also think many ra­tio­nal­ists could benefit a lot from prac­tic­ing con­sis­tency.

  Now, if some­one does 49 bab­ble challenge but misses one in the mid­dle, sure, it seems an­noy­ing for them to fall down the lad­der. But maybe we could al­low peo­ple to miss one week per month, or some­thing, with­out hurt­ing their score? Similar to the “never miss twice” mind­set for habits, which is more im­por­tant than “never miss”.

• jacobjacob 22 Oct 2020 3:55 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: WrongPlanet’s comment on: Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

  Wel­come to LessWrong and great job com­plet­ing your first bab­ble challenge! #8 and #47 are hilar­i­ous.

• jacobjacob 19 Oct 2020 0:53 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Owain_Evans’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  I’ve looked at this across mul­ti­ple days but only now re­al­ised what was hap­pen­ing.

• jacobjacob 18 Oct 2020 20:22 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: johnswentworth’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Yes! Th­ese are all great!

• jacobjacob 18 Oct 2020 19:09 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: MikkW’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  (FYI, I wasn’t fa­mil­iar with SRS and had to Google it.)

• jacobjacob 18 Oct 2020 19:06 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Same, on phone and they aren’t ren­der­ing :(

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 7:16 UTC

  12 points

  in reply to: jacobjacob’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  Dr. Zbig­niew Religa, a Pol­ish car­diac sur­geon, and a nurse, both ex­hausted af­ter a 23-hour heart trans­plant; the first in Poland’s his­tory. (I don’t know much about the story be­yond that.)

  It’s a clas­sic and has been fea­tured on var­i­ous lists of most in­fluen­tial pho­tos.

  To me this photo hon­ors tech­ni­cal mas­tery, per­se­ver­ance and the mir­a­cle of mod­ern medicine.

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 7:06 UTC

  12 points

  on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 7:03 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: jacobjacob’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  The virtue of schol­ar­ship is strong with this one. It makes me want to toil away in a library and have im­por­tant in­sights.

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 7:02 UTC

  15 points

  on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 7:00 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: jacobjacob’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  I feel like this one ex­presses love and the yearn­ing to bring all that is Good and Right out be­yond earth.

  Also Sols­tice is of­ten cel­e­brated in a plane­tar­ium.

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 6:58 UTC

  11 points

  on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 6:56 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: jacobjacob’s comment on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  From Wikipe­dia, “Vos­tok was a fam­ily of rock­ets de­rived from the Soviet R-7 Se­my­orka ICBM and was de­signed for the hu­man spaceflight pro­gramme. This fam­ily of rock­ets launched the first ar­tifi­cial satel­lite and the first crewed space­craft in hu­man his­tory. It was a sub­set of the R-7 fam­ily of rock­ets.”

• jacobjacob 17 Oct 2020 6:55 UTC

  7 points

  on: What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

  

[Question] What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

• jacobjacob 16 Oct 2020 22:01 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: ryan_b’s comment on: Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

  Yeah, I can imag­ine there be­ing in­ter­est­ing startup eval­u­a­tion ex­er­cises like that. Par­tially, though, I feel it begs the ques­tion. How do you know the heuris­tics are any good? (For one thing, Peter Thiel again thinks 4 is a bad one (Lec­ture 5 here).) I ex­pect ven­ture cap­i­tal to a fair amount of anti-in­duc­tive prop­er­ties.

  I strongly recom­mend at­tempt­ing it at least as an ex­per­i­ment.

  Roger that! Ex­per­i­ments are great.

  Also, it should be noted that even though the “offi­cial” bab­ble challenges have some mo­men­tum now, I’d be re­ally ex­cited for other peo­ple post­ing challenges of their own :)