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There’s not that many legal hoops at all. WIth a bachelor’s degree it’s pretty simple to get an H-1B visa. I’m from Canada and a ton of my friends get jobs at tech companies after graduation with no problem. Larger companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Zynga are obviously more open to this type of thing, but many of my friends have gotten jobs at early-stage startups as well. You can also start your own tech startup via this “loophole”.
You may also want to look at the expected value of being one of the early engineers at a tech startup. My prior is that it is significantly lower than the expected value of starting one.
This alternate phrasing (considering a population of 3^^^3 and choosing all dust specks vs one tortured) is actually quite a different problem. Since I care much more about my utility than the utility of a random person, then I feel a stronger pull towards giving everyone an extra dust speck as compared to the original phrasing.
I think a more accurate rephrasing would be: You will live 3^^^3 consecutive lives (via reincarnation of course). You can choose to get an extra dust speck in your eye in each lifetime, or be tortured in a single random lifetime.
You’re right, for some reason I thought the decider was part of the population.
I’ve also updated towards choosing torture if I were part of that population.
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Awesome! I’ll be back in Waterloo in January and I hope these continue till then. I had plans to start them myself.
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Creating good exercises for traditional concepts that form the building blocks of rationality is probably the best way to go about this. Once you’ve shown that you can create engaging exercises, and have formed relationships with people at Khan Academy, your suggestions will have more weight and you can create more experimental type exercises. Sal can only create about 10 videos a day, and the requests he gets from teachers using Khan Academy in actual classrooms (or from the people giving him funding) probably trump those he gets from people on a rationality blog.
For anyone reading this who wants to create an exercise teaching Bayes’ Theorem, first read the Github Wiki. You can also get help from Khan Academy employees and volunteers in the HipChat room.
I’m an ex-intern at Khan Academy (who worked quite a bit on the exercise framework) so feel free to email me any questions or to get me to look at your pull request. My email is jp@julianpulgarin.com.
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This would only be useful if there is skill in tech entrepreneurship, and it’s not just luck. The fact that previously successful entrepreneurs have a higher success rate points to that, but it’s hardly conclusive.
One wouldn’t put all of one’s money into one stock in the market because we have decreasing marginal utility towards money. If we didn’t and all we wanted was the highest expected value (which is how we should optimize for charity), then we would put our money into the stock that is likeliest to make us the most money.
In other words, I don’t want to have a minimum number of lives saved—I want to maximize the number of lives I save.
Why is this sam0345 character so heavily downvoted?
I haven’t encountered the rationalist ethic of “psychological pain is unimportant”. Can you link to it?
I am currently trying to become really socially effective. During the next 8 months I plan to:
Take voice coaching *
Take a public presentation class at my University *
Join debate club *
Join toastmasters *
Get a telemarketing job
Get a door-to-door sales job
Become a competent pick-up-artist
Take an improv acting class
“*” means I’m currently doing this activity.
I used a combination of google and reddit.com/r/waterloo to find voice coaches in my city (Waterloo). I settled on the two that looked best, and am now getting 1 half hour session a week from each of them to A/B test which one is better. It costs $20 per half hour session.
I told them that my goal was to have a captivating voice that gets people’s attention in small/large groups. They both said that learning how to sing was really important in terms of my stated goals, so right now I’m learning the basics of singing. This includes how to warm up your voice, properly breathing with your diaphragm, bringing up the soft-palette on command, etc...
We also go over the speeches that I am going to present in my public presentation class, which I find incredibly useful. For example, we’ll go over the same sentence in a paragraph about 15 times, ensuring that I have correct diction, tone of voice etc...
I noticed throughout your post you said “turns out she didn’t like me” twice, as if this was a simple boolean value that you have to find out the value of.
The truth is that attraction is pretty malleable and it’s totally possible that your friend had romantic interest in you which disappeared while having dinner with her, or that the potential date that cancelled on you twice was turned off through non-physical interactions (texts, phonecalls).
Your 3 step action plan sounds solid though. The fundamentals of pick up artistry will also help a ton.
I’m totally willing to by hypnotized by you. I’m also willing to bet I cannot be hypnotized.
What is your 15 minute morning ritual?
Same thing happened to me. You either have two or zero copies of mine.