Mindey

• MindeyJan 15, 2013, 1:28 PM

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  on: Meetup : Se­cond Pur­due Meetup

  I’m looking forward to it, and to hopefully seeing some of those who couldn’t join previous time.

• MindeyJan 12, 2013, 5:52 AM

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  on: How to sig­nal cu­ri­os­ity?

  Curiosity is an urge to create the mental model of a phenomenon. Think of satisfying curiosity like doing science: when you do it ad-hominem, ask for the informed consent:

  Is it okay to ask you __ for the purpose of X?

  X = “verifying your position”, “making sure that what you are proposing is possible, because I can’t believe it yet”, “satisfying my desire for certainty about this phenomenon of which I am so uncertain as to have the wildest range of possibilities to consider” etc.

• MindeyJan 10, 2013, 4:16 PM

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  on: Meetup : First Pur­due Meetup

  Hi, so the meetup is tomorrow. The location on the map is showing latitude=”40.4337827“, longitude=”-86.9248483”. Is this the exact place of meetup? Is there any classroom or place already designated for the meetup?

• MindeyDec 7, 2012, 4:24 PM

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  on: Meetup : First Pur­due Meetup

  I am also planning to join, added it to my calendar. :) My other username here is Inyuki.

• MindeyMay 8, 2012, 2:41 AM

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  on: Tell Your Ra­tion­al­ist Ori­gin Story

  I had certailny been influenced by my father, who, after my parents divorced, told me to have my own goal of life. However, I wanted to have a truly good one, not an evil one. It caused me to search for precise definition of “universal good,”—a precise criterion for deciding, what action is universally good and what action is not.

  I know Bayes theorem now, such a wonder! But when I was a kid, I had not such a romantic and beautiful event as Elizer had, so I came up with a different criterion. The best is to let the world exist, and the worst is to destroy the world. The “world” here refers to the universe as a whole, as well as the universe as every no matter how small its part.

  Ever since I came up with this criterion, this thought didn’t seem to lose its importance. In fact, I made this idealistic motto “let everything exist,” which is the extropic side of this criterion.

  I would say, it helped me to overcome great difficulties of life. I guess, I’m not alone, in fact, one of the posters here, Wei Dai, has a mailing list about the very idea that “that all possible universes exist” ( http://​​www.weidai.com/​​everything.html ).