I am curious about the curriculum you come up with. Will it get published?
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http://www.wrongplanet.net/ is a community page for asperger/autism people that contains social descriptions on a level that might be helpful. I do not read too much of it, but maybe it is useful.
Don’t celebrate birthdays, but logarithms or exponents. Gets easier, once the sun is gone.
a meta-anti-akrasia strategy that might just work
Reminds me of the proposed double blind studies about the effectiveness of parachutes in preventing injuries while falling from great heights.
We could probably go up till 3^^^3 and get you a dust speck each year.
This might be a inappropriate question, while also seeming like a rephrasing to me.
Do you foresee, that there will be a day in your future, when you will prefer to die on that day over living to see the next one?
I try to grab the FAR notion of ‘i do not want to live forever == i want to die at some point’ and make it NEAR into ‘yeah, that was a fun run, now today is the day it all shall end for me’
The desire to die seem to correlate often with the weaknesses and diseases of old age, which is a different issue than cryogenics. Age related things can be prevented to some degree, and hopefully get much more explored in the near future.
Now the bag of arguments against cryo and for dying can generally be used also to argue for suicide in old age (as seen on a StarTrek:TNG episode), or against medical treatment of those who do not wish it. But I rarely see that side argued. And to me it looks very similar. Cryo as the very slow ambulance ride till a hospital that can treat you has been built.
What data could make you consider not being a Mormon?
No comments yet? Well. I find it difficult to put into words how awesome the weekend was. (Sometimes things really do live up to the hype.) 80+ extremely friendly, open and curious people got together to talk about almost everything. The amount of topics covered was super surprising as was the style. I didn’t notice any status posing :-). Besides the interesting lectures (a big wave to all the effective altruists) and the impromptu talking we got to excercise social stuff and talk to/play with very nice plushies. I still need some time to process everything, but it was awesome and I look forward to the next (or any similar) event.
I missed a few important tips:
Take a driving safety class every few years. The practical exercises are quite valuable.
Avoid driving. I actually changed my lifestyle to prevent it. Germany has decent public transportation so it is feasible, other places might be different. The safest drive is a drive not taken.
Check if you car is any good. Different brands offer different safety features.
And do not forget: Traffic fatalities go down for decades. It is not as bad as one might think from looking into it.
Someone without “too much time” on their hands might find it difficult to find this place and then spend enough time to evaluate it to become a regular.
No, because unlike certain TV shows you the reader will hold him accountable afterwards.
I would like to get rid of one or two of them. Its painfull to see how often really inevitable things get confused with those that could at least in theory be dealt with.
[tl;dr: quest for some specific cryo data references]
I prepare to do my own, deeper evaluation of cryogenics. For that I read through many of the case reports on the Alcor and CI page. Due to my geographic situation I am particularly interested in the ability of actually getting a body from Europe, Germany over to their respective facilities. Now the reports are quite interesting and provide lots of insight into the process, but what I still look for are the unsuccessful reports. In which cases a signed up member was not brought in due to legal interference, next of kin decisions and the likes. Is anyone aware of a detailed log of those? Also I would like to see how many of the signed clients get lost due to the circumstances of their death.
[This comment is a response to the original post, but seemed to fit here most.] I upvoted the OP for raising interesting questions that will arise often and deserve an accessible answer. If someone can maybe put out or point to a reading guide with references.
On the crackpot index the claim that everyone else got it wrong deserves to raise a red flag, but that does not mean it is wrong. There are way to many examples on that in the world. (To quote Eliezer:‘yes, people really are that stupid’) Read “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande for a real life example that is ridiculously simple to understand. (Really read that. It is also entertaining!) Look at the history of science. Consider the treatment that Semmelweis got for suggesting that doctors wash their hands before operations. You find lots of samples were plain simple ideas where ridiculed. So yes it can happen that a whole profession goes blind on one spot and for every change there has to be someone trying it out in the first place. The degree on which research is not done well is subject to judgment . Now it might be helpful to start out with more applicable ideas, like improving the tool set for real life problems. You don’t have to care about the singularity to care about other LW content like self-debiasing, or winning.
Regarding the donation aspect, it seems like rationalist are particularly bad at supporting their own causes. You might estimate how much effort you spend in checking out any charity you do support, and then try to not demand higher standards of this one.
I see people running around with Che Guevara T-shirts.
Interested in a European lesswrong meetup
Question: Which strongly held opinion did you change in a notable way, since learning more about rationality/thinking/biases?
No.
It reads like a scene from The Big Bang Theory, and it is difficult to imagine that anyone would ever actually do that—till I remember doing similarly bad+stupid things.