Is LW 1.0 dead?
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Small (but critical) complaint: the login button doesn’t work without javascript.
It could be a difficult endeavour but I’d love to see what we can do with what we already have on LW. I don’t see any easily-discoverable links to (for example) the Repository repository. Would anyone be kind as to share links to some pages they believe are useful, but are not easily reachable?
Here’s a possibly bad list, but some useful-looking results by searching for ‘economics’:
Here is a post with a few recommendations in the comments, which seem interesting but I don’t really know if the recommendations are still good, or have been superseded by fresher material.
Here is an interesting analysis by Jonah Sinick.
Here there is a collection of lectures about economics.
Here should be more, but I trust that the veterans could fill this in higher numbers and higher quality than I possibly could.
Haven’t people been making contracts for a pretty long time? What is this new ‘smart contract’ thing and how is it unique?
in a way that’s already illegal.
Someone cracking a smart contract wouldn’t really mind the law.
I appreciate when people tell me why they downvote my posts.
I’m at fault for not saying it so for the sake of honestly, my main problem with these kind of posts is that despite being amusing, they don’t add much to the site. After a certain amount they actively harm the site and the quality of the humor would also deteriorate and would also replace possible quality posts. (Oppourtunity cost?)
The reason I’ve mentioned Reddit in my comment is that Reddit looks nice on paper, but from my experience I’ve often faced an issue where I’ll go to a subreddit, look for the ‘top’ posts and think there’s going to be a bunch of useful stuff in that specific endeavor only to find too many posts that aren’t even funny and take up 25% or more of the whole list of things. It feels annoying to spend time that ends up being a wasted effort.
Open thread, October 16 - October 22, 2017
Bad link. Also trigger warning: MINDKILL!
Unfortunately, due to the shape of modern web development
I humbly request this to be unpacked.
… of LW: a while ago, a former boss and friend of mine said that rationality is irrational because you never have sufficient computational power to evaluate everything rationally. I thought he was missing the point—but after two posts on LW, I am inclined to agree with him.
He’s techinically correct on the first part, but what really bothers me is that while that statement is resource-aware, it totally disregards time. What can you do in 1, 2, 5, 10 minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years (remind me to edit this to include decades/centuries/milleniums in some time) that will help you achieve your goals?
It’s kind of funny—every post gets broken down into its tiniest constituents, and these get overanalysed and then people go on tangents only marginally relevant to the intent of the original article.
Typical online discussions.. okay, no data to back it up..
This would be fine if the original questions of the post were answered; but when I asked for metrics to evaluate a presidency, few people actually provided any—most started debating the validity of metrics, and one subthread went off to discuss the appropriateness of the term “gender equality”.
You’ve just had a taste of why discussing politics can get difficult and annoying.
I am new here, and I don’t want to be overly critical of a culture I do not yet understand. But I just want to point out—rationality is a great tool to solve problems; if it becomes overly abstract, it kind of misses its point I think.
Not the first to bring it up. Just so you won’t feel lonely: https://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distraction_why_less/
Some more information about Hufflepuff:
Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members.
Not much lives 1000m under the surface.
Under the surface (for example, below the European continent) or in the deep seas? I’m not sure about the former but I’m quite confident that the following applies to the latter:
My layman impression is that investigating lower altitudes becomes increasingly (perhaps exponentially) difficult the lower you go. Wikipedia also says that “Humans have explored less than 2% of the ocean floor” so I would disagree with your assessment of “not much lives 1000m under the surface”.
I’m honestly interested in how you came to that conclusion though—If you have an interesting and reputable text that refutes me, please share. I came to mine based on reading Wikipedia too much.
https://status.fsf.org/fsf
Good enough?
Has there ever been any investigation to their identity?
Open thread, October 2 - October 8, 2017
Just dress as Voldemort and use a flashlight with a green LED. Works fantastically for trick or treating.
Fun fact: I can generally imagine a person described by the word asshole, but I can’t really imagine a person defined by the word ‘bigot’. It’s such a liberally used word that.. it suffers from lingual inflation.
I wanted to have a bigger bite but there’s this funny part of the article which is a miniature black hole of irony:
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to create a campus climate that is empowering, rewarding and welcoming for all students,” Leonard said.
The letter cited the erection of the Trump wall and acts of harassment since the election but he said it is not about politics.
Feels like somebody here is trying to build their own wall..
“We’re relatively (politically) powerless,” Rud said, “except (we can) try to influence people through how we teach and how we write and what we stand for.”
Influencing is a nice alternative to indoctrinating..
Overall this is a 0⁄10 article and I assume the writer doesn’t know what he’s talking about or.. he knows exactly what he’s talking about.
Are you going to print it yourself or pay a printing company? Printing it yourself can be some work (binding all the pages and the cover) but maybe a printing company wouldn’t want to print it due to licensing issues.
Will you be using the HPMOR PDF? It was (probably) made to be identical to the style of the original HP books, but it’s your choice if you want to keep it that way.
Excellent!
What are the differences between the ‘big names’ of higher education, in comparison to other places?
For example, I often hear about MIT, Oxford, and to a lesser extent, Cambridge. Either there’s some sort of self-selection, or do graduates from there have better prospects than graduates of ‘University of X, YZ’?
In a little bit of unintended self-reflection I noticed that I have a strange binary way of thinking of higher education. It feels that if I don’t go to one of the top n, my effort is wasted. Not sure why.
I’m just becoming somewhat paranoid regarding the real world after reading HPMOR because I always get a ‘how much do I really know?’ feeling. I’m not sure how my impressions were formed and I better double-check how well does the ideas in my mind reflect the real-world truth but at the same time I’m not even sure what’s a reliable indicator.
Post-high education LWers, do you think the place you studied at had a significant effect on your future prospects?