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Sorry for the delayed reply here, the mix of different feeds is unintended and likely to do with cookies as we had an A/B test running that depends on a cookie there, at least if you’re logged out, which is a bit odd here. We have ended the A/B test though making it all moot.
I see the case for the different sizes to differentiate. The opinionated choice I was convinced into was to go for unifying the content types, and overall this making things easier to just read. You shouldn’t be shown a comment thread unless you’ve viewed a post, though detecting of post viewing is not amazing at present.
Pedantic a but good suggestion nonetheless ;) Thanks!
I don’t mind a bit of meta in my media, but sounds like this show has just become about how many more seasons the show will have.
Curated. Reading this, I felt like it was a response to my recently posted Ruby’s Inkhaven Retrospective where this was exactly my complaint. Looking at this as a LW moderator, takes us back to the question of reward signals and what we incentivize. I like this post for describing the present the reality, I’d welcome further posts (from any authors) discussing what we should try to be rewarding.
(On that note, the LessWrong Annual Review will start in a few days!)
Yes! Good opportunity for gift giving, these would be worth including explicitly. I also like the heuristic of “quality on something small, rather than bargain on something big”.
Various thoughts not yet packaged as an overall point, just seem relevant to me:
Vetting for safety/vulnerability should be one cog. Sex is vulnerable, physically (going somewhere private typically) and/or emotionally. Conversation might be one of the best [perceived] ways to assess character. Some people are much less worried and therefore might bypass it,
This post frames sex as the valuable goal to be attained and everything else as cost. For some that might be true, for many I think not.Wanting to do genital-involving stuff with another person is a kinda weird thing that human brains ended up wanting. It’s relatively more obvious why, but I don’t see that as an inherently privileged desire over other things, e.g. enjoying banter or playing games, status- or otherwise.
If you want sex a lot, and overwhelmingly sex over other things, then getting good a touch-heavy thing is probably a good thing to try and many people with those preferences are making a mistake if they’re just going in on the parties. It’s also possible there’s more equilibrium here than is at first apparent. I don’t know. Maybe if more guys[1] show up at dance, the gender ratio gets worse until some give up.My impression is that clubbing is a alcohol/dance/touch instance where casual sex happens without the banter, and maybe efficiently, but I’ve never gone that route.
For females, getting males to put lots of effort into seduction grants status. The more effort the males put in, the more status the woman gains, because the men’s effort is a costly signal of the woman’s appeal.
That pattern matches to a past era for me. I think these days the status to women comes from whether the guy has agreed-upon desirable traits. Expending the effort itself doesn’t increase status, but it’s more opportunity to signal the traits (convince her and/or help construct a satisfactory story).
To be clear, this game sucks and I am quite happy to sidestep it.
Something sucks and something has gone wrong, but it feels akin to something having gone wrong with capitalism. People still suffer, but you don’t just declare money the problem and eschew it. Status is doing something and I don’t begrudge people factoring into their choices just because it’s “status” and it’s taboo to care about it too openly. Alternatively stated, my inclination is to fix the game rather than try to sidestep it.
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Focusing on them as the pursuers.
Yeah, I’ve done the same one. I think they do them once or twice a year. (Audi Car Club also does them.) I also go to the racetrack with BMWCCA.
They’re not perfect. Feels like first half the day is focused on road safety and then they segue in to preparing you more for the racetrack (why would street drivers need throttle steering?). Still, it’s well worth doing.
Motorsportreg is where events are advertised. Mostly racetrack events, but control car clinics too and I think there are filters for event-type.
“Car Control Clinics” are a pretty good idea for anyone who drives. (Those are very very safe.)
+1
I have seen enough people run red lights that I try to always look carefully, left and right, before crossing an intersection when the light turns green.
There is one territory. There should be one map that corresponds to it. If one map predicts things well on one occasion and another predicts things well on another occasion, then both are clearly wanting and you need to combine them into an actually good map that isn’t surprised half the time.
I think the math your sharing is muddling things. Maybe try math for some kind of predictor/estimator function that is a function of whichever inputs are required to predict accurately, be it time or whatever.
No, a position between extremes is a one-dimensional thing.
I disagree. “Some people are nice, some people are mean.” is a middle position between “everyone is nice” and “everyone is mean”.
I see now. It is both true that some people just need a friendly pointer to set them right and others are beyond saving.
This seems like a convoluted way to just believe a single functional reasonable position between extremes.
Ah, but the same entity that solves all the other problems will solve that one, too. So maybe I shouldn’t be concerned after all.
Yeah, I would have expected that too. We’re planning to soon remove all the modals, but if that’s going to be delayed long I’ll try to fix this.
Curated. The OP said it right:
It seems like a catastrophic civilizational failure that we don’t have confident common knowledge of how colds spread.
If I were listing out facts about humanity that would convince aliens we’re pretty primitive, this should be up there. Having better knowledge wouldn’t even require fancy conceptual breakthroughs, just creating some controlled conditions and measuring things. Or just measuring things comprehensively for a while.
So, curating this piece as a step in the right direction. This might not get solved before AI can figure it out all from first principles, but it feels better for not all of us to simply accept cold happens.
+1 to turning off faucets with paper towel (and the same for door handles in bathrooms).
The barrier to clicking through on a link. I encourage you to excerpt at least a large portion of this to get read.
Yes, I do think something like “X never getting rewarded enough” is closer to a rule than weird exception. Chosen environments is one dynamic. Another dynamic here is kinds I think many things are such that if you’ve specialized, they continue to be worth doing and yield rewards, and if you didn’t, there’s a huge cliff before you’d get such benefits so won’t go down that path. E.g. a child who learned to play instrumental in childhood vs not.
I’ll write my next post which is the main point I’ve been working towards, and I’ll be quite curious for your thoughts on it.
I don’t feel my picture is invalidated by this though. Even with PFC having continuous learning with high rates, I expect that people get pointed in a certain direction that reinforces it. If you learned early that social rewards are the best rewards, then go into politics, you might have chosen an environment that continually rewards and reinforces that motivation, even if a different environment might override it. Assortative mating and association might also cause people to hang out with others reinforcing the attitudes they first developed.
(Re my accent. I reckon I watched the same as anyone else. I don’t think I don’t feel especially autistic, but there’s a claim that autistic kids learn more from media than peers. I don’t know how that ties into it continuing to shift during adulthood.)
Perhaps the most disliked aspect of the New LessWrong feed was the “modals” upon clicking links instead of full page navigations. We did that because full navigation would lose your place in the feed upon returning.
Fortunately, at long last and after much anticipation, we have upgraded our tech stack so that modals are no longer needed. Clicking links in the Feed will take you to direct primary main full page for posts, comment links, and user profiles.
Tagging users who I recall waiting on this. @dirk @Rana Dexsin