It can’t be easy to adapt Reddit code to run like users here demand. Kudos to Matt et al at Trike Apps for the time and effort on having this site looking smart, working and improving the world.
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+1 for ‘Cat is awesome’.
I was just speaking to her on Facebook. Couch space already being prepared in Edinburgh, UK!
Thanks for putting this together—I am intrigued by a mini-camp.
One of the questions in the application form is tickbox for “Interested in potentially working for CMR”.
Could someone give some more detail on that question?
A google of “site:lesswrong.com CMR” didn’t give me anything useful.
I imagine it is probably emotionally taxing and isolating for a human to model themselves as the only true agent in their world. That’s a lot of responsibility, inefficient for big projects (where coordinating with other ‘proper’ agents might be particularly useful) and probably kinda lonely.
I am all for personal responsibility and recognise that acting to best improve the world is up to me. I am currently implemented in a great ape – a mammal with certain operating requirements. Part of my behaviour in the world has to include acting to keep that great ape working well.
To avoid exposing that silly ape with the emotional weight of the being the only responsible agent in the system and to allow more fun agent-agent interactions, it might make sense to lower the mental bar for those you would call PCs?
On requesting to join, using a gmail account, I get:
“You do not have permission to join this forum”
Interesting.
I don’t know the mechanism of action, but it seems unlikely that this is acting as an antibiotic to have this effect.
More likely that minocycline is acting directly as a stimulant-blocker, dopamine-blocker or oxytocin-blocker.
Next experiment: examine the effect of stepped doses of modafinil and nasal administered oxytocin to see if they might ‘rescue’ the sweetness of the honey trap.
I generally prefer the more direct {lesson, evidence}. I have on several occasions thought that Luke has implemented this well.
But—I think we have evidence that EY is a particularly good writer of narrative. While also getting the content across. The epiphany hit is pretty sweet too.
Embedding lessons in stories (like the Blue and Green) makes the mind labile to their content and makes it easier to hang on to the memory and to retell to others. I imagine it comes at the cost to extra thinking and writing time to package lessons so.
Is that cost worth the marginal effort? I’m pretty sure the answer is ‘sometimes’.
Ah—I found some details for the Eliezer’s potential Center for Modern Rationality: http://hpmor.com/modern-rationality/
I think the ‘terminal’ in terminal goal means ‘end of that thread of goals’, as in a train terminus. Something that is wanted for the sake of itself.
It does not imply that you will terminate someone to achieve it.
Agreed. But I’d place more value on searching for other agents when I know none.
From this thread we can see there is not a fixed concept of what meets the agent criteria. If I knew zero other agents, I’d be more inclined to spend more effort searching or perhaps be a little more flexible with my interpretation of what an agent might be.
Of course tricking yourself into solipsism or Wilson worship is a conceivable failure mode, but I don’t think it’s likely here.
I agree blood pressure is a generally a poor predictor of health or mortality.
This is often measured because it is easy to measure, rather than it being particularly informative.
Aelephant—that’s a good paper with data on this. I needed to edit that link to http://www.math.ucla.edu/~scp/publications/mortality.PDF for the pdf download to work.
Not quite a community forum, but I find comments at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.co.uk can be interesting.
There is also reddit.com/r/neuro and reddit.com/r/cogsci—but they are both fledgling and susceptible to popsci.
And if you have a Luke and a Eliezer both on board, surely not everyone needs to their own lesson building, literature sweeps and narrative weaving (in the situations where those might be particularly useful).
Use comparative advantage?
NOTE—slight change of plan.
It seems Aspen Bar and Grill is temporarily closed.
Instead—let’s go to Biblos.
It’s the restaurant on the corner of Chambers St and South Bridge. I’ve got us a big table upstairs booked, along with some nachos and 35% off all food.
See you there!
I’m aware that my caffeine use might have little benefit to total productivity over the course of a week.
I do attach value to using caffeine to choose to be less susceptible to tiredness for the next few hours.
Does that make sense?
Sounds good!
I considered finding a venue on Thomas Bayes Road, but perhaps that’s a little too wanky.
I’m up for going through Book 1 of the Rationality ebook.
I think the LW reading group is doing section A for that week.
I’ll be there!
I’ll see if I can get Biblos to (quite rationally) offer us some free nachos...
I like this perspective.
I don’t think society is blind to this distinction, but it is rarely drawn so cleanly.
In the world of social realities, there is well-known memetic protection advising away from being overdependent on the social reality alone. The children’s tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” can be taken as an actor with social power asserting something bizarre, with many people entertaining/allowing this social reality, but this being obviously insufficient to change reality.
There are important inherently intersubjective concepts (like money, fun, and human value?) that seem more grounded in the social reality. That doesn’t mean the all the power of the casual stance cannot be used in the study of these things there, but that their intersubjective social perspective origin should not be neglected.