there’s always heuristics, for example seeing that the goal of making three in a row fits the game tree well suggests considering goals of the form “make n in a row” or at least “make diagonal and orthogonal versions of some shape”
printing-spoon
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Is there a way to disable vertical words? It unfairly de-emphasizes half of the cloud.
Woot, Stockholm syndrome.
LWer since 13, atheist since I can remember. I’m seriously embarrassed by my younger self’s posts. I am glad there are not more of me around. LessWrong is certainly good for teens, but can teens be good for LessWrong? Keep in mind our current bunch of teens are of higher quality than what we’ll get if we actually recruit some.
edit: btw i’m 15
I’m not sure we need to put more effort into making new users feel welcome. It’s a priority for churches because their entire business model depends on generating warm, fuzzy feelings in their members. Responding “Welcome to LessWrong!” to a new user’s first comment is fine, IMO.
group project goodness = U(project) / E(social friction),
Why is social friction an expectation, but not utility? Why division instead of subtraction? This equation should have been a sentence. I also don’t see why you’ve singled out “social friction” as the biggest drawback for community-building projects.
With margin of error 60-ish
-6
(this is because all Turing-complete languages can simulate each other)
I think you need to be more precise about what states and ~ are.
The average person probably supports foreign aid because they haven’t heard of James Shikwati.
Yeah, and the texture in this picture makes my skin crawl. The pills look like growths or something.
What’s the length of the average program for 3^^^^3? I suggest it’s 3^^^^3, with every language that gives it a shorter encoding counterbalanced by a language with an exactly longer encoding.
For a sufficiently crazy set of languages you could make this true for 3^^^^3, but in general what’s simple in one language is still fairly simple elsewhere. If 3+3 takes b bits to describe in language A it takes b+c bits in language B where c is the length of the shortest interpreter for language B in language A (edit: or less :P).
On the other hand, religion predicts more confidently than atheism that having religion makes people happier.
Multiplying 10-digit numbers using Flickr: The power of recognition memory
I heard 5000$ and 375$...
(1,.1,0,0)
This reminds me of Berry’s Paradox: the most arbitrary hiding place you can think of is by definition not very arbitrary.
It’s just a name.
Can you see how there might be a “need” for “inter-dimensional” or “hyper-dimensional” thinking and visualization capability which may be the basis for so-called “alien” technology? Do you find this as exciting as I do?! :o)
Okay.
nitpick: Burning to death is painful and it can happen at any stage of life. “You want to live a long life and die peacefully with dignity” can also be derived but of course it’s more complicated.