Did it just now. Lone portuguese (from Portugal) here with high certainty.
RicardoFonseca
Wait, did the person you said you dated belong to your primary relationship at the time?
Here is a complete list of Country counts (ordered by count) (ordered alphabetically).
Note that only countries from people who allowed their results to be public are listed. It is possible for someone from a non-listed country to have completed the survey but chose to remain private.
Inside square brackets are the full counts provided by Yvain (which include private results).
People who have not chosen a country are not listed. People with multiple countries are counted multiple times.
Right. I was initially confused by your use of “they”. I thought it meant multiple people, but now I see it represents your secondary partner.
So I noticed a few people from Portugal in the public raw data. I am one of those people and from what I saw in the data, the remaining are all lurkers.
Viva pessoal! Want to join the community, even if just to say hi? =)
It’s funny, when trying to think how could an AI exploit the text interface, I came up with the idea of writing multiple lines of ASCII text in a rapid fashion and produce an “ASCII video” for the human to watch. Unless the AI could only write a new line every second or something like that...
This made me wonder if the AI could also exploit other things such as the sound the machine would do when specific data patterns would be copied into RAM or when certain sequences of computations would be processed by a CPU. Sure, the machine (including the monitor) could be placed in a sound proof room, but then I start thinking about energy dissipation patterns and how could those be used to interfere with the environment and consequently with the human...
Anyway, I think that when thinking about the means of communication the AI has available, one should be thorough and consider everything that is a part of, or is connected to, the physical system running the AI.
All right. Someone tell me if this is decent enough, please. I only did the first section: “Rationality and Rationalization”.
How I did it:
Created an account at Instapaper and used their bookmarklet individually on each article.
Used calibre to download the articles from Instapaper and convert them to an ebook (instructions here).
Edited the title and other metadata in calibre to make the ebook more relevant and presentable and converted it to epub/mobi formats.
Note that I had to use the Instapaper bookmarklet starting from the last article and going backwards because calibre downloads the articles in reverse chronological order.
I don’t think this is ideal, though, because the comment sections of some of these articles are good enough to be included in the reading but Instapaper only retrieves the article post, leaving out everything else. If anyone has a better suggestion, do share :)
- 12 Nov 2015 4:10 UTC; 0 points) 's comment on The Library of Scott Alexandria by (
Are there any studies that highlight which biases become stronger when someone “falls in love”? (Assume the love is reciprocated.) I am mainly interested in biases that affect short- and medium-term decisions, since the state of mind in question usually doesn’t last long.
One example is the apparent overblown usage of the affect heuristic when judging the goodness of the new partner’s perceived characteristics and actions (the halo effect on steroids).
Why do you think “a person being primed for feeling pain when being separated from their new partner” matters here?
Are you thinking about studies that, at the very least, suggest the possibility of such a separation being an option that the subject will experience based on the outcome of some action/decision being studied? :( that’s horrible ):
Here is a study finding that “high levels of passionate love of individuals in the early stage of a romantic relationship are associated with reduced cognitive control”: free copy%20Reduced%20cognitive%20control%20in%20passionate%20lovers.pdf) / springer link
Also, while I was searching for studies, I found a news article saying this about a study by Robin Dunbar:
“The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship.”
More specifically, the study found the average number of lost friends per new relationship was two.
Except there is no publicly published paper anywhere online, despite what the news article says, there are only quotes by Dunbar at the 2010 British Science Festival, which seems a bit suspicious to me, maybe suggesting that the study was retracted later.
Right now, it seems that “passionate love” is measured in a discrete scale based on answers to a questionnaire. The “Passionate Love Scale” (PLS) is mentioned in this blog post and was introduced by this article in 1986.
In my other reply to my original comment I showed a study%20Reduced%20cognitive%20control%20in%20passionate%20lovers.pdf) that finds that “high levels of passionate love of individuals in the early stage of a romantic relationship are associated with reduced cognitive control”, in which they use the PLS.
Nice! Good to know the information is (more) reliable after all :)
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Vs zl fnlvat fb vf abg rabhtu, purpx bhg na nepuvir bs guvf puncgre va snasvpgvba.arg (gur byqrfg V pbhyq svaq, sebz 2012): uggcf://jro.nepuvir.bet/jro/20121025133306/uggcf://jjj.snasvpgvba.arg/f/5782108/1/Uneel-Cbggre-naq-gur-Zrgubqf-bs-Engvbanyvgl
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
Gura ure snpr oevtugrarq. “Ab, V’z fher guvf jba’g or n ceboyrz—V’yy svaq n fbyhgvba va gvzr.”
Shaal ubj Zvarein ng guvf cbvag jnf nyernql jvyyvat gb yraq n gvzr-gheare gb Uneel. Fur zhfg unir orra pbaivaprq ur jnf erfcbafvoyr rabhtu.
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
Uneel’f fznyy abgr bs pbashfvba jnf cebonoyl gur “Lbh ner gur bayl crefba rire gb fheivir” cneg. Vg’f sne zber yvxryl gung gur gnyr Zvarein gryyf vf jebat guna Uneel orvat gur bayl crefba rire univat fheivirq na hafgbccnoyr xvyyvat phefr. Bs pbhefr, xabjvat gur gehr fgbel znxrf guvf rnfvre gb tenfc.
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
Gjb puncgref ntb Zvarein cresbezrq n “qvfthvfr fcryy” ba Uneel gb fuvryq uvz sebz crbcyr erpbtavmvat naq obgurevat uvz. Gur fcryy oyheerq uvf ivfvba sbe n zbzrag naq gura Uneel pbhyq frr svar ntnva. Vs gur fcryy jrer n punez, jr zvtug vzntvar vgf rssrpg orvat gb oraq yvtug be fbzrguvat rdhvinyrag sbe qvfgbegvat Uneel’f vzntr, naq gur zbzragnel oyheevarff va Uneel’f ivfvba jbhyq or gur fcryy “sbphffvat vgf yraf” sbe n frpbaq. N fvzcyre rkcynangvba vf gung gur fcryy vf n genafsvthengvba bs Uneel’f snpr naq gur oyheevarff bpphef juvyr uvf rlrf (be uvf tynffrf) ner orvat punatrq.
Vs gur fcryy vf n punez, gura vg unf na npgvir batbvat rssrpg, juvyr vs vg vf n genafsvthengvba, gura vgf rssrpg unccraf bapr naq gur qvfthvfr unccraf fbyryl qhr gb Uneel univat n qvssrerag snpr.
Na npgvir batbvat rssrpg pna or olcnffrq ol n cenpgvpvbare bs zntvp zber fxvyyrq guna Zvarein. Ba gur bgure unaq, fbzrbar jbhyq bayl or noyr gb erpbtavmr Uneel qrfcvgr uvz univat n genafsvtherq snpr vs gung crefba unq fbzr rkgen xabjyrqtr nobhg gur fvghngvba, fhpu nf xabjvat n cevbev jub vf gur obl nppbzcnalvat Zvarein, be qvfperrgyl sbyybjvat gur cnve fvapr orsber gur genafsvthengvba.
Gurer vf bar crefba gung svgf rirel bar bs gurfr cynhfvoyr fpranevbf, naq gung crefba vf Nyohf Qhzoyrqber. V srry ernfbanoyl fher gung’f jub gur byq zna jnf, va qvfthvfr.
Abj, yrg zr chg zl gvasbvy ung sbe guvf arkg cneg.
Jr xabj ol gur raq bs gur obbx gung Nyohf qvq znal fgenatr guvatf va gur anzr bs cebcurpl, rira guvatf ur qvq abg xabj jung gurl jrer sbe. Gur pbairefngvba orgjrra Uneel naq gur byq zna freirf gb tvir hf n pyhr nobhg Uneel’f gehr vqragvgl, ohg V jbaqre vs gurer jnfa’g nyfb fbzrguvat cebcurpl-gbyq va gurer vs jr nffhzr gur byq zna vf Nyohf.
V guvax gung pbairefngvba jnf erfcbafvoyr sbe Zvarein qrpvqvat ng gung fcrpvsvp gvzr bs gur qnl gb svaq Jvmneq eborf sbe Uneel (fb ur pbhyq nibvq orvat vapbafcvphbhf qhr gb gur zhttyr pybgurf). Jul vf gung fvtavsvpnag? Orpnhfr Uneel zrg Qenpb ng gung fcrpvsvp gvzr naq gurl zvtug abg unir obaqrq fb jryy va nabgure fvghngvba.
Fbhaqf gbb snesrgpurq? Znlor, ohg vg znxrf gbb zhpu frafr sbe Nyohf orvat gur byq zna fb fbzrguvat cebcurgvp zhfg unir unccrarq gura.
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
Frrvat gur ybbx bs ubeebe ba Uneel Cbggre’f snpr, Serq Jrnfyrl gubhtug snfgre guna ur rire unq va uvf yvsr. Va n fvatyr zbgvba ur juvccrq bhg uvf jnaq, juvfcrerq “Fvyrapvb!” naq gura “Punatrzlibvprvb!” naq svanyyl “Iragevyvdhb!”
“Whfg xvqqvat!” fnvq Serq Jrnfyrl. “TELSSVAQBE!”
Nu, fb gung’f ubj Nyohf qvq vg… (j/k)
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
Uneel vaunyrq uvf bja fnyvin naq jrag vagb n pbhtuvat svg whfg nf nyy rlrf ghearq gbjneqf uvz. Ubj gur uryy! Ur unqa’g zrg Qhzoyrqber’f rlrf ng nal cbvag… ur qvqa’g guvax. Ur pregnvayl unqa’g orra guvaxvat nobhg Dhvqqvgpu ng gur gvzr! Ur unqa’g gnyxrq gb nalbar ohg Eba Jrnfyrl naq ur qvqa’g guvax Eba jbhyq unir gbyq nalbar ryfr… be unq Eba eha bss gb n cebsrffbe gb pbzcynva? Ubj ba Rnegu...
Vf guvf zrnag gb or n pyhr? Yvxr, sbe fubjvat gung Nyohf gnxrf na rkgerzr vagrerfg va rirelguvat nobhg Uneel, tbvat fb sne nf r.t., ernqvat gur zvaqf bs rirelbar gung unf unq pbagnpg jvgu uvz? Be sbe fubjvat na rneyl crrx ng gur rssvpvrapl bs gur (gvzr-gheare shryrq) tencrivar?
(Discussion with spoilers in ROT13)
V pna gryy lbh vf gung vs guvf jrer n evqqyr, gur nafjre jbhyq or gung gur tnzr vf yvsr, naq gung juvyr jr qb abg znxr nyy gur ehyrf bhefryirf, gur bar jub njneqf be gnxrf cbvagf vf nyjnlf lbh.
Unu! Ornhgvshy.
Hi. I’m Portuguese and live near Lisbon. Are there any LWers out there that live nearby?
The latest survey (2013) shows zero people living in Portugal, and so I feel a bit lonely out here, especially when I read the locations for the LW meetups. They seem so close, only not really...
I guess I could make an effort to start my own meetup in Lisbon or something, maybe, I don’t know. I am a little shy and I don’t think I am capable of starting something like that on my own.
I work in academia, in the field of computer science, and thus am surrounded by people that would find this website appealing. I have in fact introduced this site (sometimes subtly) to some people I know, but haven’t seen anyone taking the time to read the Sequences and get in sync with this community. I want to try harder, though.
What would you say is the most effective way of capturing the interest on this site? My tools are Facebook, and the chance to make a presentation about anything I want at the University and getting an audience of at most 30 people.