Like, the one from youtube. But not the sexy model one. I do modeling, but it’s all in my head.
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AI Generated Music as a Method of Installing Essential Rationalist Skills
Australian here,
I think that survey data suffers from some major anchoring bias. I’m betting that most people just put numbers all around the same areas.
I only noticed this because I was surprised to see my culture listed and I don’t think most people outside of Australia even know what Fairy Bread is, and probably think the term “Sausage Sizzle” sounds funny while never having been to a Bunnings. While we lay claim to the Meat Pie, I find it hard to back considering such a similar dish was served in the original globe theatre.
Stuff like Witchetty Grubs and Bush Tucker are probably illegal to serve in other countries. While many Australians eat Kangaroo, it’s mostly dog food. Americans are often surprised to read the back of their dog food cans. It’s not advertised that it’s Roo to You. Croc is so rarely eaten. I’ve only had it once or twice.
Drinks wise, we’ve got great coffee and VB.
People famously hate Vegemite and no one knows what a Chiko Roll is.
Anyway, that was a culture rant. I hope someone learnt something about Australian food.
A potentially good way to avoid low level criminals scamming your family and friends with a clone of your voice is to set a password that you each must exchange.
An extra layer of security might be to make the password offensive, an info hazard, or politically sensitive. Doing this, criminals with little technical expertise will have a harder time bypassing corporate language filters.
Good luck getting the voice model to parrot a basic meth recipe!
(Confusion Phrases) AKA: Things You Might Say or Think When You’re Confused to Use as Triggers for Internal TAPs
Duct-tape fixes are common in the wake of anything that goes publicly wrong. When people get hurt, they demand change, and they pressure whoever is in charge to give it to them. But implementing a proper fix is generally more complicated (since you have to perform a root cause analysis), less visible (therefore not earning the leader any social credit), or just plain unnecessary (if the risk was already priced in). So the incentives are in favor of quickly slapping something together that superficially appears to be a solution, without regards for whether it makes sense.
Wow, I kinda already knew this. But it had never been said so clearly and brought to the front of my mind in this way. It perfectly describes the strategies YouTube has used through its various apocalypses.
Yes! I’m quite sad that I’m about to finish the physical “How to Actually Change Your Mind”. I aim to read all of RFATZ but it’s about to be a lot harder when I have to do it on my computer. I hope that the other books will magically come into print exactly when I finish the book.
Don’t Think About the Thing Behind the Curtain.
“Whiteboards everywhere” and my non-ironic favourite band are debuting songs!!!
But, I’m only a year old rationalist and I live in Australia on a uni student budget. Still… I’m considering flying out. It would be pretty incredible to run some abstract improv workshops with other truth seeking nerds. I think I need to sit down and calculate.
Is this the type of event that a first year rationalist could attend and get value from/be welcome at? What is the likelihood that it will run again next year? Is there a prediction market for that?
Edit: There is now. https://manifold.markets/keltan/will-there-be-a-lessonline-2025
Teacher here, can confirm.
I am glad that my reply acted as an encouragement for you. It reminds me of comradery in an act of defiance. Though for me I believe my “Defiance” was actually Naivete of a culture that I am still bright eyed and fresh faced to. Walking like a toddler, Bumbling around, knocking things over.
Why am I glad you made this point? Because it might point toward an unspoken rule.
“Thou shalt not comment on old posts, lest thou desires to be struck down! What has been said is done! NO MORE FUN!”
It seems this rule isn’t imparted by the powers that be, but our own desire to stay unnoticed?
I hope to keep this lack of respect for unspoken customs as I become more acquainted with less wrong.Participation leads to learning so why not participate whenever you’ve got something to say. Worst case, the mods see it.
I now realize that my thinking may have been particularly brutal, and I may have skipped inferential steps.
To clarify, If someone didn’t know, or was reluctant to repeat a password, I would end contact or request an in person meeting.
But to further clarify, that does not make your points invalid. I think it makes them stronger. If something is weird and risky, good luck convincing people to do it.
To my knowledge, the man in this photo has claimed he was paid by Ruby Rose to pose for this photo and it is an extremely effective marketing scheme. The guy didn’t expect it to go viral and so spoke about it on a podcast.
However, this is only a possible factual correction. It should not take away from the fact that actual examples of people considered “Whales” or “Addicts” do in fact exist.
Correct guess. They were mostly generated by ChatGPT. I initially bet that it wouldn’t give outputs that had any value. My prompt of “read everything I have already written then make a list based on it” I thought would be too vague. So when it generated phrases that seemed passable I think my System 1 kicked in and said “yep, they sure do sound confused.”. and I was happy to have a big long list, instead of just a few quality points.
And second guess also correct. The last 4 I generated myself. Looking back now I agree that it is certainly easy to tell.
My main hope was for others to comment their own C-Phrases, which is why I think I let this slip. Though I’m not proud and must say Oop. Thank you for your quality comment that lead me to this conclusion.
I’m going to remedy this by generating as quality as I can list of my own thoughts and editing them into the post.
That’s a great idea, Thank you!
And here it is: https://manifold.markets/keltan/will-there-be-a-lessonline-2025
I went with Udio because it was popular and I was impressed by “dune to musical”. I think I’ll give Suno a try today, but I get what you’re saying about the objective quality. It does have that “tin” sound that Udio is good at avoiding.
If you’ve got tricks or tips I’d love to hear anything you’ve got!
Nice post!
I think most people who have an interest in scholarship should seriously try language learning. You learn a lot of meta skills that I haven’t picked up anywhere else. And to learn you actually have to use those meta skills and you get to see them having an effect on the way you are thinking.
When you say:
“they commit a bunch of words about it to their short term memory”
I’m not entirely confident, as I have only recently started studying memory. But that is more of a general public definition of STM. What you describe would actually be Long Term Memory. STM only describes things that are kept in ‘RAM’ for a minute or two. While LTM encodes anything longer, even if it is basically forgotten by the next day. I believe that is an essential foundation for spaced repetition, which is related to scholarship, otherwise I wouldn’t have tried to explain my thoughts.
Anyway, again a nice post! I’ll be thinking about it as I go through my day
I would be interested to see if it helps to be familiar with the space you are walking in. If not, you could for example generate a new MineCraft world for every episode of a podcast. Then name that world as the podcast name just in case.
It could possibly be more effective to travel through google maps. Doing this would lead to clearer landmarks to anchor to.
Or, there are many ambient walking/driving videos on YouTube. Would watching one of these have the same effect? I have doubts. I remember as a child watching the road as my Mother drove me to school every day. But when it came time for me to finally drive I could only vaguely get the route. A similar thing happens when I’m following someone else’s directions as I walk with them.
Ideally you would just walk. Exercise and learning at the same time is wonderful. But, you’ll exhaust the possible directions you can travel in eventually. I use my daily walking route as a mind palace to place characters in at predetermined landmarks. I then give each a corresponding number. It’s taking a while, but eventually the goal is to use this to remember stats and dates.
That’s a great question! I’ve been teaching arts classes for a youth charity for 5 years now. Ages range from 5-18. I myself am 23.
I’d say this has happened twice? I’m counting a one off lesson with some 16-18 year olds a few years ago. And a series of weeks in which I had extremely little control over some 8-10 year olds. In that case I was able to control individuals if they had my full attention. But would ‘lose’ them when I focused on the next kid.
Your question caused me to think of why these things may have happened. Though I’m curious to hear what you think before I spill my guts.
The moment that I dread as a teacher and that has happened to me a few times. Is when the students realise that your authority is totally made up. I guess this is why we don’t teach philosophy in schools. I have never figured out a way to recover from this blunder. If anyone has any advice, I’d love to hear it.
Oh, that’s a great idea! me too!