Jayson_Virissimo

• Jayson_Virissimo 21 Apr 2019 4:31 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Original_Seeing's comment on: Rest Days vs Re­cov­ery Days

  Satur­day seems to be the canon­i­cal an­swer, but opinions vary.

• Jayson_Virissimo 6 Apr 2019 4:14 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: MathieuRoy's comment on: If a “Kick­starter for Inad­e­quate Equlibria” was built, do you have a con­crete in­ad­e­quate equil­ibrium to fix?

  Why Phoenix? (I live in Phoenix, BTW)

• Jayson_Virissimo 3 Apr 2019 3:37 UTC

  4 points

  on: Which text­book would you recom­mend to learn de­ci­sion the­ory?

  An In­tro­duc­tion to De­ci­sion The­ory by Martin Peter­son is a good first in­tro­duc­tion to the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of de­ci­sion the­ory as well as the strengths and weak­nesses of causal vs ev­i­den­tial de­ci­sion the­ory (it doesn’t get into the more ex­otic the­o­ries, al­though it does con­tain a chap­ter on so­cial choice).

  It also con­tains ex­er­cises to en­sure ba­sic mas­tery of the con­cepts, but only as­sumes a back­ground of alge­bra and prob­a­bil­ity.

The Un­ex­pected Philo­soph­i­cal Depths of the Clicker Game Univer­sal Paperclips

• Jayson_Virissimo 21 Jan 2019 1:36 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: ErickBall's comment on: The Very Repug­nant Conclusion

  Offing those with low wellbe­ing in­creases av­er­age wellbe­ing.

• Jayson_Virissimo 15 Dec 2018 5:22 UTC

  15 points

  on: In­tro­duc­ing the Longevity Re­search Institute

  Are there any kinds of help you are open to re­ceiv­ing be­sides mon­e­tary dona­tions?

• Jayson_Virissimo 11 Oct 2018 2:25 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: David Mears's comment on: We can all be high status

  A much ear­lier post by David Fried­man makes similar points:

  This point was origi­nally made clear to me when I was an un­der­grad­u­ate at Har­vard and re­al­ized that Har­vard had, in at least one in­ter­est­ing way, the perfect so­cial sys­tem: Every­one at the top of his own lad­der. The small minor­ity of stu­dents pas­sion­ately in­ter­ested in drama knew perfectly well that they were the most im­por­tant peo­ple at the uni­ver­sity; ev­ery­one else was there to provide them with an au­di­ence. The small minor­ity pas­sion­ately in­ter­ested in poli­tics knew that they were the most im­por­tant ones; their friends were there to be herded into meet­ings of the Young Repub­li­cans and Young Democrats in or­der to get them elected to po­si­tions in those or­ga­ni­za­tions that were the step­ping stones to fur­ther poli­ti­cal suc­cess...

• Jayson_Virissimo 5 Oct 2018 22:37 UTC

  10 points

  in reply to: orthonormal's comment on: The Rocket Align­ment Problem

  That would break the rule of “show, don’t tell” of fic­tion writ­ing, but work­ing that into the story more ex­plic­itly would help, I agree.

• Jayson_Virissimo 14 Sep 2018 22:46 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Raemon's comment on: Moder­a­tion Reference

  It sounds like prin­ci­ple of char­ity is a bet­ter match for your in­tended mean­ing than steel­man.

• Jayson_Virissimo 10 Sep 2018 18:05 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Laura B's comment on: Ad­vances in Baby Formula

  Then there’s the is­sue that sicker ba­bies of­ten have to be for­mula fed...

  Why do you be­lieve this? My son is cur­rently in the NICU (born at 25 weeks), and they push breast-feed­ing ex­tremely hard, even go­ing as far as to make it sound like neg­li­gence if you don’t at­tempt to breast­feed (due to higher in­ci­dences of NEC in pre­mies, among other rea­sons). Ba­bies whose moth­ers can’t breast­feed are sup­plied with donor milk, not for­mula. When my first son was born (who wasn’t a pre­mie or oth­er­wise sick), the nurses and doc­tors talked as if it were just a mat­ter of per­sonal prefer­ence.

  My ex­pe­rience could be un­rep­re­sen­ta­tive though, so I’d love to see some kind of jus­tifi­ca­tion for the above-quoted claim.

• Jayson_Virissimo 7 Aug 2018 17:03 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: servy's comment on: Open Thread Au­gust 2018

  The use of ‘self-con­scious’ to re­fer to hav­ing knowl­edge of your­self as a con­scious be­ing isn’t unique to LW, but is bor­rowed from philos­o­phy. Blame the philoso­phers I say!

  Any­way, they could have cho­sen to come up with a new term in­stead of us­ing the not-most widely (but still com­monly) used defi­ni­tion of ‘self-con­scious’, but that would mean even more LW-spe­cific jar­gon (which is also heav­ily crit­i­cized). It’s not at all clear to me whether push­ing to­wards greater jar­gon us­age would be an im­prove­ment in gen­eral.

• Jayson_Virissimo 9 Jul 2018 5:22 UTC

  12 points

  in reply to: Raemon's comment on: The Fermi Para­dox: What did Sand­berg, Drexler and Ord Really Dis­solve?

  Quine cat­e­go­rized para­doxes into veridi­cal (ap­par­ently ab­surd, but ac­tu­ally true), fal­sidi­cal (seem­ingly con­tra­dic­tory, be­cause they ac­tu­ally do as­sume some­thing false or use an in­valid step some­where), and antinomy (self-con­tra­dic­tion from true premises us­ing only valid steps [ar­guably there are no such things]). I find these cat­e­gories to be helpful for im­prov­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion about such things.

• Jayson_Virissimo 2 Jul 2018 3:33 UTC

  2 points

  on: Are eth­i­cal asym­me­tries from prop­erty rights?

  Testable im­pli­ca­tion: com­mu­ni­ties that strongly em­pha­size up­hold­ing prop­erty con­ven­tions will con­tain more in­di­vi­d­u­als that share these in­tu­itions, while com­mu­ni­ties that do not will con­tain in­di­vi­d­u­als that share fewer.

  Don’t you agree?

• Jayson_Virissimo 14 Jun 2018 6:06 UTC

  17 points

  in reply to: bgold's comment on: Oops on Com­mod­ity Prices

  mu­flax was the first user I know of that used epistemic sta­tus tags.

• Jayson_Virissimo 7 Jun 2018 23:57 UTC

  12 points

  in reply to: Benito's comment on: A Ra­tion­al­ist Ar­gu­ment for Voting

  Some­thing brought up origi­nally, but never re­ally dealt with: this ar­gu­ment ap­plies a for­tiori to lob­by­ing.

  Would the defen­ders of these kinds of con­se­quen­tial­ist ar­gu­ments for vot­ing also recom­mend effec­tive al­tru­ists be­come lob­by­ists? It seems there is some ten­sion there if they don’t, or else I am (or they are) con­fused about the im­pli­ca­tions of the premises in that ar­gu­ment.

• Jayson_Virissimo 20 May 2018 0:38 UTC

  3 points

  on: Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion level 2: Ba­sic Set Theory

  Hy­poth­e­sis: many more peo­ple would sign up for this course if there were a way to sam­ple the con­tent be­fore sign­ing up (given that the course ma­te­rial is good).

• Jayson_Virissimo 23 Mar 2018 3:43 UTC

  3 points

  on: LessWrong.com URL trans­fer com­plete, data im­port will run for the next few hours

  It’s work­ing for me us­ing the pass­word that was cre­ated af­ter mi­grat­ing to LW 2.0, but it looks like it’s HTTP-only right now. Will SSL/​TLS be set up at some point?

• Jayson_Virissimo 16 Mar 2018 0:06 UTC

  8 points

  on: Re­quest for “Tests” for the MIRI Re­search Guide

  2. Probability

  The So­ciety of Ac­tu­ar­ies has a stan­dard­ized test cov­er­ing this topic.

• Jayson_Virissimo 12 Mar 2018 21:58 UTC

  14 points

  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala's comment on: Ex­tended Quote on the In­sti­tu­tion of Academia

  I’m not sure if it’s what cousin_it had in mind, but here’s an ex­am­ple: Rather than vis­it­ing a doc­tor again for the same bad ad­vice on how to treat my plan­tar fasci­itis, I paid this guy for (what is es­sen­tially) a liter­a­ture re­view of the cur­rent state of the sci­en­tific ev­i­dence as to the rel­a­tive effec­tive­ness of available treat­ments.

• Jayson_Virissimo 12 Mar 2018 21:52 UTC

  12 points

  in reply to: Qiaochu_Yuan's comment on: Ex­tended Quote on the In­sti­tu­tion of Academia

  Many mas­ters de­grees have the­sis and non-the­sis tracks. What if PhD pro­grams had a track for searchers (equiv­a­lent to cur­rently ex­ist­ing PhDs) and sep­a­rate tracks for repli­ca­tors and dis­til­lers? They could even have differ­ent (by still pos­i­tive) stereo­typ­i­cal virtues (like cre­ativity, rigor, and clar­ity, re­spec­tively).