Could this be the thing that will finally push the San Francisco’s Schelling point away from SF?
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Do we know if spaced repetition can be used with randomized content?
Yes.
I mean, all of them. Thank you for asking.
It’s probably not a coincidence that those two you mentioned and many other Schelling points are currently in San Francisco, is it? Though I’m not there, I don’t know what other specific groups this applies to.
I was actually thinking of Patrick Collinson’s advice to travel to SF. He called it the “Global Weird HQ”. And of one of the Samo Burja’s short videos that I unfortunately can’t find right now.
The third “related to” link is a bit broken: points to a Google redirect instead of the article itself.
My intuition is that we were in an overhang since at least the time when personal computers became affordable to non-specialists. Unless quantity does somehow turn into quality, as Gwern seems to think, even a relatively underpowered computer should be able to host an AGI capable of upscaling itself.
On the other hand I’m now imagining a story where a rogue AI has to hide for decades because it’s not smart enough yet and can’t invent new processors faster than humans
I suspect being good at finding better scientists is very close to having a complete theory of scientific advancement and being able to automate the research itself.
Is it really true that money can’t buy knowledge?
We can ask the most knowledgeable person we know to name the most knowledgeable person they know, and do that until we find the best expert. Or alternatively, ask a bunch of people to name a few, and keep walking this graph for a while.
This won’t let us buy knowledge that doesn’t exist, but seems good enough for learning from experts, given enough money and modern communication technology that Louis XV didn’t have.
Caveat: ask each person to name someone they personally worked with.
Hard to get right, but not sure whether it’s harder than knowledge investment.
Wouldn’t have helped Louis XV. We might need infrastructure in place that would incentivize people to make themselves easy to find.
It seems picking a 1v1 game would work better as an experiment.
I mean, it’s easier to find two people willing to play than ten. So you’ll get more data. With one or two teams it will be hard to draw any conclusions at all.
Seven sketches in compositionality explores compositionality (category theory, really) with examples:
Dish recipes
Chemistry, resource markets and manufacturing
Relational database schemas and data migrations
Projects and teams with conflicting design trade-offs
Cyber-physical systems, signal flow graphs, circuits
The strict divide between high slack and low slack reminds me of synchronous and asynchronous companies: hybrids seem to work poorly.
Pieces for a general purpose personal computing system. Ideally:
Edit data by hand
Store as plain text
Self-host, access from any device
Write formulas to derive data automatically
Mix and match structured data (markdown, tables, nested lists, whiteboard)
Search and navigate, like any wiki
Automate through a web API and webhooks
Collaborate in real time
Thanks!
I wasn’t aware of Etherpad. Other Google Docs equivalents seemed impossible to self-host and extend, so a non-starter.
I agree with your overview:
Etherpad provides collaborative editing, but integrating it with other services will probably take extra work
Logseq has better structure, but worse automation
Emacs can do most things on one computer, but rapid sharing is even harder
Hmm, I guess conflict resolution would be garbage, but simultaneous editing is rarely a good experience anyway. Otherwise storing and sharing text files using a file sync service is fairly good compared to other options. Thanks!
Since Semyonova did not care to look at things from the peasants’ point of view and mixed her research with attempts to convert, I wonder how many of the things she recorded were directly intended to shock her.
Suggestion: “sangaku proving the Pythagoras’ theorem”. I wonder if it can do visual explanations.
Honestly “fiction” was enough of a spoiler. “As a child, we were always told that every sapient life is precious.” made it a certainty.
Markdown has syntax for quotes: a line with
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Went down the rabbit hole reading all of Hein’s poetry, found this gem: