Tell me how it goes! I’m up in Auckland, haven’t had much success getting a meetup group started here yet but I’ll be trying again soon.
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For a minimal product, perhaps just start with the dependencies and priorities side of things? That seems to be the core of such a product, and the rest is dressing it up for usability.
Not sure I understand this properly. Why not do something?
Hmm. It’s an interesting point.
I’m not entirely clear on the purpose of the rule. It makes sense to not just increase the redundancy of anything people have said in other threads that have already got a lot of attention, but I’m sure there’s plenty of interesting stuff buried deep in comment threads that haven’t got much light and might be worth sharing. Conversely, there will be some quotes here from outside LW/OB that a high proportion of readers have seen already.
So it’s definitely something that made sense when the LW/OB community was smaller and there wasn’t much good stuff that people weren’t seeing anyway, but perhaps it’s time to relax the rule a little bit, replace it with the substance.
So you don’t have any impulse to relieve your own boredom, or to spend time with other people, or to seek out better-tasting food?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just go with those impulses?
Basically I’m confused as to what process you went through to decide that sitting around doing precisely nothing is what you’d do. There’s nothing that comes to mind to weight it over other options, and you seem pretty determined to stick to it.
so I would remain in the default state, which is doing nothing (beyond relieving instinctual needs).
That doesn’t answer anything, really. All you’ve done is wrapped the same thing in some extra words. That doesn’t seem to be anything resembling a “default state” to me, for instance, since humans tend to do a lot more than that even when they’re not thinking about morality.
The specific examples may not be used, but would clarify what sort of thing you’re talking about.
The cryptocurrency I’m most excited about is ethereum, and though it is going to have a premine, development is being done in a very open fashion. It allows users to develop smart contracts that execute whenever they contract’s address receives a transaction. I’ve already written a binary LMSR prediction market contract which could run on ethereum.
Is the desire to impose one’s morality on alien intelligences surprising relative to the “Eliminate the alien species” option, or “Conduct trade with the alien species”, or “Avoid the alien species as much as possible”?
I had similar results from the WISC as a child, low processing speed relative to everything else. It’s been something I’ve been meaning to ask about for a while as well, particularly since one educational professional predicted my test scores (roughly, of course) from certain problematic behavioural patterns, which was enough evidence that there’s something meaningful there to get my attention.
My memory of the tests isn’t entirely clear, but one task was something like transcribing unfamiliar symbols according to a substitution key in a particular time span. If that’s similar to Daniel’s experience, then any advice that cognitive science types can come up with here could be useful to both of us.
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I think this study details the task I remember.
If video games have a significant effect
Similar results in a similar test. High akrasia, potentially confounded by depression and anxiety.
Here, but it’s not in working order right at the moment.
Yeah, lately I’ve been trying to implement TruthCoin’s SVD voting algorithm in Ethereum. Had a few hiccups so I’m putting it on the back burner for now.
But, unless I did something to the code I’ve forgotten, the judge can be an arbitrary contract here. A panel of judges, a single judge, a simple proof-of-stake voting system, or a TruthCoin-like system, etc.
For high school level knowledge, finding Cambridge International Exams past papers is a fairly good option. The exams are done twice a year, and go back to about 2003 IIRC.
What about practical knowledge and skills you might want to practice from those fields? Anki is an excellent substitute for the “short answer” side of standardized testing, but there’s more to it than that if you want to apply it, and it’s often difficult to find systematic ways to practice such things.
Can you set multiple questions to the same card in Anki? Like, if I wanted to practice something like factoring quadratic equations, would I be able to copy a whole bunch of problems of that type to Anki, and not have each one as an independent card to be memorized?
I think there are two opposing effects that might happen if you try something like this.
People get less defensive about the identity politics of the debate, which opens both sides to actually engaging with the other side, not automatically rejecting the other side, treating arguments less like soldiers, etc.
People are more likely to let statements they disagree with slide, and the depth and vigor of the discussion is reduced, by focusing on agreements and amicability, rather than disagreements.
A lot of other factors are at play here, but depending on what your biggest problems are in debate, and how much this sort of change will affect them, it might still be a good idea. If the debate is already an actual debate and argument, rather than political attacks and rhetoric, then changing the context to something like this would probably be counterproductive. If the debate is political attacks and rhetoric, on the other hand, a little bit of humanity and amicability is probably not a bad idea.
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky