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Mycroft65536
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Explore the world. Meet people, read books, find blogs like this one. Hopefully something will inspire you.
No. We can’t extrapolate a trend. That’s what”You cannot expect that future evidence will sway you in a particular direction” means.
Likely more than the list price of those procedures. People who have expensive potentially harmful procedures being done on them would get great benefits having MetaMed review those procedures.
Jaan is also the CTO, I’m not sure if that’s on the website.
If you’re commited to rationality, then you’re putting your belief system at risk every day. Any day you might acquire more information and be forced to change you belief system, and it could be very unpleasant and be very disturbing.
Are you of the opinion that people on this site, in their daily lives, are erring on the side of implementing too many high status moves? Or that the people you met in SF while at the mega-camp were doing this stuff too much (Michael Vassar and Eliezer aside)? I agree that the optimum isn’t either extreme, I think the nudging should be towards high status behavior.
And does anything in the original post endorse the high status behaviors over the low status ones?
Tell the person in both states that if he finds the coin an arbitrary dog is going to die and the subject will receive $100. Then just before the subject starts to hide the coin, show the a cute puppy to them. The subject will try to hide the coin very well, and then later, without the memory of the cute puppy, will try to find the coin. Incentives should work out, adjust the animal(child?) and dollar amount to suit the subject.
When I would explain wanting vs liking vs approving Sex was my go to example for an activity that fits all three.
I’m not sure about that. The world is big enough that you can live most of your life mostly in contact with other non-conformists in your particular cluster. I’m doing that right now.
My starting weight was 183lbs at 5′ 10″. I went up to 202lbs (quite a bit was fat), I’m now down to 194 (the loss was fat/water).
Consuming a lot of food is hard. I started eating a lot on the second Wednesday in June. On Thursday I was sick as a dog, but kept eating. On Friday I was happy, energetic and eating everything in sight.
I likely had atypical results, but drinking a lot of milk, eating 200+grams of protein a day, eating 4000 kcalories and a good workout regimen should lead to putting on weight.
I’ve been trying the muscle building elements at the bootcamp, while eating lots of food, the required amounts of protein, and lots of milk. Over the course of a week (three workouts), I’ve gained 15-20 pounds and 0 inches on my waist (Body fat % have been sketchy).
I doubt there are any traditions yet. There just haven’t been enough people cryopreserved.
It’s actually surprising how quickly applying rationality can make one more attractive. Winning at nutrition, fashion, fitness take very little time if you’re body is at all typical, especially if you’re in a community where resources can be pooled. Posture and confidence are harder, but not much. The fact that there are virtuous cycles there also help.
I’ve seen real gains in attractiveness over the past several years, with noticeable progress on the scale of months. I’ve achieved gains of 3-4 points on a 10 point scale.
If both participants are rational the second allows the worried party to get real data and execute an update, allowing a real emotional worry to go away. This allows people to have less anxiety about their relationships. This makes relationships with rationalists orders of magnitude better than relationships with people who are merely smart and reasonable.
I don’t think I could go back to dating a nonrationalist.
I’m interested in sharing notes on discussion topics, recruitment efforts, and demographic balancing.
… if everything goes according to plan.
I think you’re supposed to laugh evilly there.
Mwahahahaha
Damn! I googled for spelling and everything =)
Lets say the Singularity is likely to happen in 2045 like Kurzweil says, and you want to maximize the chances that it’s positive. The idea that you should get to work making as much money to donate to SIAI, or that you should start researching fAGI (depending on your talents). What you do tomorrow doesn’t matter. What matters is the average output over the next 35 years.
This is important because a strategy where you have a emotional breakdown in 2020 fails. If you get so miserable you kill yourself you’ve failed at your goal. You need to make sure that this fallible agent, XIXIDu, stays at a very high level of productivity for the next 35 years. That almost never happens if you’re not fulfilling the needs your monkey brain demands.
Immediate gratification isn’t a terminal goal, you’ve figured this out, but it does work as an instrumental goal on the path of a greater goal.
Duncan,
I think you’re dramatically underestimating how your responses are being read by third parties. Your style of response to handoflixue specifically has made at least one person I’ve spoken to decide to avoid giving you well thought out criticism out of fear of you yelling at them and being very confrontational.