Long try

[Question] Where to ab­solutely start?

[Question] A game de­signed to beat AI?

• Long try 28 Oct 2019 14:45 UTC

  10 points

  on: Chap­ter 10: Self Aware­ness, Part II

  OMG this is great. Reading about Harry being outgunned by Hat-Harry is an intense experience. Indeed, facing our self is the greatest challenge—one that I doubt anybody but a very few eminent rationalists can do.

• Long try 15 Jan 2020 5:03 UTC

  9 points

  on: Open & Wel­come Thread—Jan­uary 2020

  Hola! Been around for a few months, time to move out into the light. My intention was to finish LW’s 3 core readings before introducing myself, but then I gave up on RA-Z and yesterday I stopped HPMOR at chapter 59. My expectation is now so low that I won’t put my bet on Codex, though I’ll definitely try reading it soon. So here I am.

  I live in Vietnam. Not to my surprise, none or very few on this platform are from the country. If you are, give me a shout out!

  I don’t really work now, though I do have some stock exchange accounts. That means I have quite some time to spend during a day. So I learn Spanish and other stuffs. I’m currently in a project to finish all APOD posts during 4 years, and have read up to 2017. I try to find the best online courses to learn day by day, and completed quite some.

  It’s also my goal to watch the best films or TV shows. Since the rating system for TV is not as extended as movies, I rely on IMDb 250 to filter the shows. And have worked my way up to Breaking Bad now! That means I’ve completed GoT (was intrigued by people’s hype all these years), and man the early seasons were really good. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I’ve missed many great recent films because the aggregating site flickmetric stopped working properly when I reached around year 1988; so if you have any recommendations, feel free to enlighten me :) My criteria for a good movie are: RT critic score >94%, audience score >89%, letterboxd 5-star votes > 4 star votes, and IMDB score >7.9.

  Like most members of LW, I have big ideas. But for now I want to have a better, more accurate view of the world so that when I spring into actions, they will produce expected effects. Also, to wait for a depression to make use of the investment money. In the current situation, earning is not easy. BTW, when do you think it’ll happen?

• Long try 28 Oct 2019 4:15 UTC

  6 points

  on: Chap­ter 8: Pos­i­tive Bias

  Wow, I failed the 2-4-6 test.

  But then, do you think the way it is presented—that is, the paragraphs of flowing conversations, of Hermione’s guesses and Harry’s answers—did its part in molding our thinking toward her reasoning? In other words, we (OK, I) were biased by the very literature we were reading and thus couldn’t think straight?

  What links here?

  • gilch's comment on Chart­ing Is Mostly Superstition by gilch (24 Aug 2020 1:17 UTC; 7 points)

[Question] Any sys­tems to rate more ab­stract things?

[Question] Where should I ask this par­tic­u­lar kind of ques­tion?

• Long try 10 Mar 2020 10:01 UTC

  3 points

  on: Long try’s Shortform

  Has anyone suggested it yet? I think LW should have a system to notice users whether they’ve read a linked article or not when they’re reading inside another. That’s a basic & universal need, yet I’m surprised it’s not implemented. On other sites, it’s simply the link’s color: blue if unread, violet if read. If you guys decide to opt for a more sophisticated system, then I propose using 8 rainbow colors: black means the user hasn’t read it, red indicates once, orange twice… purple 7 times or more. In case you’re worried the various long link shades may distract people, then just apply them to that circle indication at the end of the link. You could make it bigger and bold for readers to distinguish the colors.

• Long try 17 Feb 2020 6:20 UTC

  3 points

  on: Bug Hunt 2

  I will profoundly and immensely change the world for the better from the ground level, by creating and/​or modifying the constituent element, the building block of civilization—in other words, the very foundation of society itself.

  Why does my heart not laugh hysterically at the thought? Is it because I really do believe it firmly?

[Question] What would hap­pen if all the wa­ter on Earth were ac­cu­mu­lated into spheres & drop on the sur­face?

[Question] 2 small prob­lems with the site...

• Long try 10 Feb 2022 3:17 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: justinpombrio’s comment on: The ’Why’s of an In­ter­na­tional Aux­iliary Lan­guage (IAL part 1)

  Thank you JP. There’s a high chance that I don’t have the Scout mindset yet, so finding the truth is hard. But to my defense, until now no comment whatsoever has been able to point out a cons of IAL, nor express the concern about the cost. So probably it’s true that the IAL scenario is (very) desirable. The negative score of the post doesn’t speak much: it can be a high karma member overwhelming lesser members, or it may simply reflect their opinion about my mindset, not the idea of IAL.

  What you wrote about a crisp language that helps prevent misleading ideas is what I’d forgotten to include in the main post—it’s actually 1 of the goals of the excellent future IAL! If other veterans have explicitly mentioned it, then that means the problem with current languages is significant, and improving it is very possible.

  You don’t get this feedback from having 1% of a thing built perfectly. You get much more feedback from having 100% of a thing built really haphazardly.

  That’s an insightful advice. My plan, I think, more or less align with that view. I may attempt with something similar to Toki Pona—that is, a simple project not with IAL in mind. I’m a bit afraid that if I did a miniature version of the IAL, I would be anchored to it, seeing it in all glory and thus not be able to cooperate properly with fellow linguists & scientists & experts in other fields when it comes to the real deal. Something like the first-born child almost always has the most love. Meanwhile, my vision of the great IAL is that it must be a big collaboration right from the very start. But I’m not too worried, because I do have ideas of smaller projects that will test my enjoyment for elements needed for IAL.

• Long try 11 Jan 2021 10:38 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Pee Doom’s comment on: Bug Hunt 2

  A few, but overall it doesn’t change very much.

• Long try 26 Feb 2020 6:59 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: kithpendragon’s comment on: How does elec­tric­ity work liter­ally?

  My appreciation—that’s really helpful, especially point 2. I was a bit hesitating when I saw the amount of links in cousin_it’s link, but point 3 encourages me to do it, even slowly.

  Point 4 is kinda hard from my POV. I admit I’m too lazy to dig all the sources to display in a post. But then, if a question is formatted like that, wouldn’t it be way too long? I thought titles should be concise & provoking.

• Long try 21 Feb 2020 9:57 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Valentine’s comment on: The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

  Thanks a bunch, Val. I say you saved me dozens if not hundreds of hours, because I was (am) pretty confused about the big picture around here.

  The associated Ken Wilber image helps with the understanding a lot. Now, if I don’t really get nearly half of the articles on LW, does that mean I’m redder than orange? Are there tests on the internet where I can pretty reliably tell where I’m standing on that scale? Also, I’m quite sure that my goal is to get to the turquoise level. What online resources I should learn and/​or what “groups” I should join, in your personal recommendation?

• Long try 4 Nov 2019 3:31 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: 9eB1’s comment on: Where should I ask this par­tic­u­lar kind of ques­tion?

  Yes, your 1st point makes sense. I take it that since it’s somewhat difficult to accurately predict whether the question will hook those people, an umbrella approach where I post in many media is the most rational 1?

  My scenario is really hypothetical. I forgot to mention xkcd What if? as an option in my list in the OP, but yeah, it will fit very nicely and frankly I think my question belongs there. But unfortunately, it seems that xkcd has stopped answering What if queries, because his latest entry is 2017 or so.

• Long try 26 Oct 2019 4:12 UTC

  2 points

  on: Chap­ter 4: The Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

  What a great read! Based on the post score and the amount of comments, I guess I’m pretty alone in appreciating the literary value of the piece.

[Question] What is this re­view fea­ture?

[Question] How does elec­tric­ity work liter­ally?

• Long try 2 Jan 2023 5:01 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Mayann Ranger’s comment on: The ’Why’s of an In­ter­na­tional Aux­iliary Lan­guage (IAL part 1)

  It’s dead here, though. If you’re interested, let’s discuss further via PM.