Facebook friends are a non-think button press or in other words, pretty much nothing (unless you keep in contact, and in that case they’re just friends)
My idea for the next incidentgate is (and seems kinda silly when typing it) “Hi I remember you from HS and always thought you were kinda cute but I was too shy to talk, would you like to meet up sometime?”
PEDANT EDIT: There’s also a few girls from middle school before I moved, (Same city, different school)
It’s kinda strange to say that people who are still around get on your nerves. From what I observed many of those are actually here from early LW days (think about a year after it was founded) so wouldn’t that mean that the most loyal userbase gets on your nerves, despite them being what keeps LW running?
Maybe if it was a particularly philosophical one.
(typical ‘fun in moderation’ comment here)
What would you say about facebook? I have an inactive account I always wanted to rejuvenate but didn’t know how to. To me it’s mainly a list of (freaky at your pleasure) “girls I always wanted but never got to know in HS” and being the stereotypical unpopular guy that’s quite a bit of girls. (Strangely enough, I thought none of them except maybe the ones in the same grade would remember me. Last week I’ve approached a girl I didn’t remember and she said she remembered me, and the only time we saw each other is when passing by on school breaks)
A for effort, but please satisfy my curiousity: what ARE the actual changes planned?
What kind of grudge does this person has against LW that he keeps coming back? (It seems to be a bot judging by casebash’s comment but nevertheless)
I recommend trying to solve problems. If you don’t know how to solve a certain problem, join IRC, mailing list or some other math-related community. Look for humans rather than numbers. f(x)=y+5 are some dead characters that only make sense with some supplementary knowledge.
Books are good, but in the long run human communication is probably more important. You will eventually meet with a problem you can’t solve or you might have questions or the answer might be unclear for some reason or another.
Another side benefit: If you actually work in AI research you’ll learn the associated shibboleths and thus be able to make convincing arguments to others in the field.
Curious if this is actually true. Intuitively I feel the opposite is more likely: people immersed in profession x might try to convince others at first, but gradually decline in their efforts and eventually stop and mostly focus their efforts inward because the returns aren’t as good as they originally thought.
More intuition, I think there is some binary “willing to listen” switch out there. Because assuming the slippery slope (not sure if that’s the right way to describe it) in the previous paragraph actually occurs the wisest move would be to share your knowledge with people who are actually willing to listen. (It’s tempting to mention charisma here, but I’d rather keep it simple for now)
Could you please truncate all those empty lines? Generally more than one line is enough to break a paragraph, and they’re short enough as it is.
Whomever downvoted this, can you explain what’s so bad about looking at a map before you go to directions unknown? Maps are simple to use AND provide useful information. There’s no reason not to use a map.
Upvoted to encouraging people to get hands-on. Learning is good. Trying to go for a higehr level of understanding in whatever you do is a core rationality skill.
Sadly you stopped there though. For the sake of discussion, I’ve heard Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a good book on the subject. Hopefully a discussion could start here; perhaps there’s something flawed, or perhaps the book is outdated. If anyone here, and I’m looking at you, the AI, AGI, FAI, IDK and other acronym-users whom I can’t keep up with can provide some more directions for the potentially aspiring AI researchers lurking around, it would be very appreciated.
Richard Stallman could be that kind of man, although he prefers that people be informed thinkers rather than the following servant type.
My solution is rather simple: use a map.
I suppose this is a good example of such roads. My general impression is that people are nitpicky because it would be rather difficult to miss a hotel, especially on a long, visual-infinity, featureless roads like that.
Then the best decision is to make some calculations, say, how much suffering per 1m/km2 on average, multiply that by how much of the universe you can observe, then add an incredibly large amount of 9s to it’s right side. Use all the excess utility to expand your space travel and observation and save the other planets from suffering.
Mind expanding on your answer?
How’s an app any different?
Because all the effort would go to waste if your mailbox was compromised.
It looks like a conversation with a person I haven’t talked to in something that isn’t either long enough for them to forget about me or someone close I haven’t talked to in some time.
But let’s be pedantic and you’ll probably like this or the autism stereotypes aren’t true, here’s a few scenarios:
Girl I know to a good degree, will probably recall me if I say hi
Girl I barely interacted with but might recall me
Girl I only saw at school breaks, might not remember me
Your example will probably work on category 1. Category 2 MIGHT go along, although a simple hi is rather generic and therefore is more of a lottery bet than a sure bet. I can’t tell how category 3 will respond, but probably not better than category 2.
Consider how you’d feel about the introductory messages if you were from each of those scenarios.
We could also dive into sub-scenarios, tailored to specific optimisations or lack of them. Such as my fashion choices, how I live, people I hang out with, etc. Although it’s dubious how much they matter since all of this is my unresearched model in my head about online messaging.