A priori, as intelligent beings, we expect the universe at our scale to be immensely complex, since it produced us. I don’t view our inability to explain fully phenomena at our scale as unreasonable non-effectiveness.
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Anki deck for biases and fallacies
Would you pay one cent to prevent one googleplex of people from having a momentary eye irration?
Torture can be put on a money scale as well: many many countries use torture in war, but we don’t spend huge amounts of money publicizing and shaming these people (which would reduce the amount of torture in the world).
In order to maximize the benefit of spending money, you must weigh sacred against unsacred.
Is that really a bias? The fact that they are allied or not with you is some information about what they are likely to do.
I suspect the answer is “making as much money as I possibly can”, and he’s doing much better than all of us. He can convert that to other forms of value later.
I made a deck of the list of cognitive biases and list of fallacies from wikipedia.
Normal flashcards should be all equally difficult: as easy as possible. The idea is to break everything down into atomic facts; this makes it so you can’t short-circuit a difficult card by just memorizing the answer; by memorizing all the parts, you still have the whole.
If you really want to drill one sub-deck, you can choose “cram mode” , and select the tag of the cards you want to review.
I don’t use anki for languages, but to learn conjugations of verbs, I would have many example sentences with a ”… ” where the verb should go. You could ask on #anki or the google group. Here’s a good article on how to make effective flashcards from the inventor of the spaced repetition algorithm, Piotr Wozniak.
Unconventional decks like having anki cards for a whole piano piece or problem in a textbook might work, but I haven’t tried them… yet. I’ll be experimenting with those this coming semester.
I don’t see why they should be more valuable. From a selfish perspective, it might feel worse to lose someone you know, but from a charitable perspective, I don’t value someone merely because I am familiar with them.
Want to put a time scale on that?
Utilitarianism to the rescue, then.
Thank you so much for posting this! I use anki a lot, and your Mysterious Questions deck has been a great help =]
I have the Anki iphone app. Considering the utility and convenience it provides, the price is negligible. For comparison, at a private college, tuition/# of classes ~= $200 / class, so as I use anki for schoolwork, it easily pays for itself.
If you do any sort of utility calculation for products you use, a lot of times convenience will trump price by orders of magnitude. This is one of those cases.
People are being tortured, and it wouldn’t take too much money to prevent some of it. Obviously, there is already a price on torture.
Ditto
So if someone would pay a penny, they should pick torture if it were 3^^^^3 people getting dust specks, which makes it suspect that they understood 3^^^3 in the first place.
So you wouldn’t pay one cent to prevent 3^^^3 people from getting a dust speck in their eye?
This is really useful; thanks! I’ve been using Anki for little over a year now, and I’ve found it very useful for classes and learning programming. I really like this application, and I’d love to see any more decks that you happen to make. I’ll definitely start my own next time I go back and read through the archives.
Thank you for this.
This is a really good point. On the other hand, it is a more convincing argument for stronger interventionist policy than it is against charity.
Yes. We just aren’t socially condemned for it.