MathieuRoy

• MathieuRoy 12 Dec 2019 23:03 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Dagon's comment on: What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

  I’m not sure what cause you to like this fram­ing and what it does to you psy­cholog­i­cally, but per­son­ally it seems im­por­tant to me to differ­en­ti­ate what’s al­igned with my prefer­ences and what’s fix­able as 2 differ­ent con­cepts. I think hav­ing a sin­gle word for both “things that can be changed, but are okay as they are” and “things that can’t be changed, but are not okay as they are” would ren­der my cog­ni­tion pretty con­fused, but maybe that’s a cog­ni­tive hack to feel bet­ter or some­thing.

• MathieuRoy 12 Dec 2019 12:40 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Dagon's comment on: What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

  by “that’s fine”, you mean “I learned hel­pless­ness”, right? (just check­ing, be­cause I’m not sure what it means to say that some­thing ter­rible is fine)

• MathieuRoy 11 Dec 2019 16:26 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

  I dis­agree, but haven’t had time to write why yet:)

• MathieuRoy 10 Dec 2019 20:41 UTC

  2 points

  on: What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

  Maybe it would be a use­ful norm for peo­ple to have such a list of ideas; it would al­low to move faster

• MathieuRoy 10 Dec 2019 20:41 UTC

  4 points

  on: What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

  Up­dated: 2019-12-10

  2 of them:

  • there’s a lot of ad­van­tages to video-record­ing your life (I want to write much more about this, and only took time for a very brief overview so far https://​​matiroy.com/​​writ­ings/​​Should-I-record-my-life.html)

  • if MWI is true and to­day’s cry­on­ics is good enough, we can use quan­tum lot­tery to cry­op­re­serve liter­ally ev­ery­one for the cost of set­ting up a quan­tum lot­tery + some over­head (prob­a­bly much less than 100k USD)

[Question] What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

• MathieuRoy 9 Dec 2019 21:32 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Pattern's comment on: What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to be­ing/​look­ing weird?

  An FAQ about your­self that is? I like this idea. When some­one asks me a ques­tion that seems like it could be of in­ter­ests to oth­ers, I ask them to post on my sub­red­dit: https://​​www.red­dit.com/​​r/​​Mati_Roy/​​ , but I think it’s weird be­cause it looks im­per­sonal to some among other things.

[Question] Who are some peo­ple you met that were the most ex­treme on some axis?

[Question] What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to be­ing/​look­ing weird?

• MathieuRoy 6 Dec 2019 19:09 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Viliam's comment on: In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

  Thanks for your answer

• MathieuRoy 5 Dec 2019 4:13 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Viliam's comment on: In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

  Thanks for shar­ing! If you want to, I would be cu­ri­ous to know how the last 2 points made you feel bad for not adopt­ing ear­lier (if there’s any­thing more spe­cific than just the gen­eral point)

• MathieuRoy 5 Dec 2019 4:06 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: LessWrong 2.0 Fea­ture Roadmap & Fea­ture Suggestions

  oops, I just saw that; thank you!

• MathieuRoy 5 Dec 2019 4:05 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: riceissa's comment on: What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

  oh, I had missed that :o thanks for let­ting me know!

  by the way, I of­ten see you link in­for­ma­tion to­gether, and make sure to fol­low-up on var­i­ous things; I re­ally ap­pre­ci­ate that!

• MathieuRoy 5 Dec 2019 4:02 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

  thanks, I ap­pre­ci­ate! I don’t see In­ter­com (?). I would like my user­name to be Mati_Roy

• MathieuRoy 4 Dec 2019 19:42 UTC

  4 points

  on: What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

  A place to sug­ges­tion fea­tures, hence this ques­tion ’^_^

  A way to up­date my user­name given I changed my name to Mati a while ago :)

[Question] What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

[Question] If giv­ing un­so­lic­ited feed­back was a so­cial norm, what feed­back would you of­ten give?

• MathieuRoy 4 Dec 2019 12:35 UTC

  1 point

  on: In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

  I think the main one for me is learn­ing to be productive

[Question] In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

[Question] What’s the largest sunk cost you let go?