rnollet

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rnollet 19 Aug 2025 14:45 UTC
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in reply to: lsusr’s comment on: Enlightenment AMA
If you had time for writing a bit about the pros and cons of a few books, I would be very interested.

rnollet 19 Aug 2025 14:42 UTC
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in reply to: Gordon Seidoh Worley’s comment on: Enlightenment AMA
Thank you for this detailed answer.

Some more questions:

notice if it’s something that calls to you

I am not sure exactly what you mean here. From what I am reading, it is very difficult to know what it is without having experienced it. So how am I supposed to know? Do you have examples of motivations that would not be right?

(I would say that I personally feel very curious as to what it looks like, and that I would be significantly sad to learn that I can’t even try to get there.)

I highly recommend practicing as part of an organized community. […] You’re also looking for a teacher who can be your mentor in all this.

I expected that. Then:
1. What are the standard keywords I should look for? What I mean is that I know quite nothing about the surrounding culture. Would I be looking for a “Buddhist church”? A “Zen temple”? — Are those the same? — A “meditation school”? Something else entirely?
2. What if there is no such community in my city? Is there a next best thing that still permits me to start that journey, or is your advice to not try that without a local community?

rnollet 18 Aug 2025 5:52 UTC
5 points
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on: Enlightenment AMA
So, what if I want to get started on my own path toward enlightenment? What should I do? What should I avoid?

rnollet 24 Apr 2025 20:34 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?
Oh, it looks exactly like the kind of reference that everyone here seems to be aware of and I am not. ^^ I will be reading that. Thanks a lot.

rnollet 24 Apr 2025 12:18 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?
Ok. Thanks. So:
- p(bus has number ≤ 1546 | city has 2992 buses) = 0.5
implies
- p(city has < 2992 buses | bus has number 1546) = 0.5
?
If that is your reasoning, I do not see how you go from the former to the latter.
Is it a general fact that:
- p(bus has number ≤ n | city has N buses) = p(city has < N buses | bus has number n)
or does it work only for 0.5?

rnollet 23 Apr 2025 18:50 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?
In that case, probability is n/N, and if we look for 0.5 probability, we get 0.5 = 1546/N which gives us N = 2992 with 0.5 probability.
Again, I am confused.
From what you write I understand this :
- p(bus has number ≤ n | city has N buses) = n/N
- so p(bus has number ≤ 1546 | city has N buses) = 0.5 iff. N = 2992
- therefore p(city has 2992 buses | bus has number 1546) = 0.5
But from your other comment, it looks like that last step and conclusion is not what you mean. Can you confirm that?
Or do you mean :
- therefore p(city has ≤ 2992 buses | bus has number 1546) = 0.5 ?
Or something else entirely?

rnollet 23 Apr 2025 18:34 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?
Thank you. It is clearer that way. ^^ I feel like it would be less confusing (more true?) to write “below 30” rather than “30” in the sentence I quoted. ;-)

rnollet 23 Apr 2025 16:52 UTC
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on: Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?
I looked at my clock and it was 15:14. It gives a 50 percent probability that the total number of hours in a day is 30
I am curious how you got that number.
It seems to me that, for any reasonnable prior, it it more probable that there is 16 hours in a day rather than 30.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your “50 percent probability”?

rnollet 15 Apr 2025 11:42 UTC
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in reply to: Recovering_irrationalist’s comment on: Many Worlds, One Best Guess

As a wise man once said

This link is dead.

For anyone interested, if I understand correctly, this was supposed to point to a review by E.Y. of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose. A copy of that review can be found here : https://whatshouldiread.fandom.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind.

rnollet 15 Apr 2025 11:25 UTC
3 points
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on: Bell’s Theorem: No EPR “Reality”
Tread cautiously when you hear someone arguing against “realism”
This link appears to be dead.
I guess that it was supposed to point to this text :
https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth
(or : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X3HpE8tMXz4m4w6Rz/the-simple-truth )

rnollet 15 Apr 2025 10:29 UTC
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on: The So-Called Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
real situation you could find a particle in
This link is dead.
To the best of my understanding, this is a working link to the same comic strip:
https://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/14/lil-werner/

rnollet 10 Feb 2025 23:01 UTC
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in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years
But this is not the narrator speaking. It is written on a picket sign by a protester. ;-) I think that a lot of english-speaking people would make that kind of mistake, which makes that picket sign quite believable, in my opinion.

rnollet 22 Jan 2025 21:10 UTC
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on: 🇫🇷 Announcing CeSIA: The French Center for AI Safety
three million views
It looks like this link is dead.
Do you have a correct link? Or the title of the video?
I would be very interested in watching it (if I have not already).

rnollet 16 Jan 2025 21:43 UTC
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in reply to: Saffron Park’s comment on: Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien
I remember reading that Tolkien once observed what a beautiful sound the phrase “cellar door” makes; and that this is the kind of awareness it takes to use language like Tolkien. ;-)

rnollet 17 Jul 2023 20:31 UTC
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on: Newcomb II: Newer and Comb-ier
Well, here’s the thing. I’m not going to end up killing anyone
I don’t get it. If I make an inconsistent choice, is this Omega going to kill me or not? Or is this uncertainty part of the problem?

rnollet 25 Jun 2023 12:06 UTC
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in reply to: Emile’s comment on: Where are we?
I do. Currently in Reims.

rnollet 4 Jun 2023 19:29 UTC
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in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: Class Project
The current link seems to be nonworking. Does anyone know the title of what is supposed to be linked here?