I love this proposal!
As long as the newspapers are at it, they should use ‘Amazing Breakthrough Day’ as an excuse to change the Atrology section to the ‘Astronomy’ section.
I love this proposal!
As long as the newspapers are at it, they should use ‘Amazing Breakthrough Day’ as an excuse to change the Atrology section to the ‘Astronomy’ section.
Ahh… So this is why Harry and Draco meet at night wearing hooded masks instead of just studying in the library behind a quietus charm. :)
This was a fun post. While I enjoy the public access and general lack of rock climbing ablilities associated with learning science, it is a fun thing to contemplate. Maybe there is a way to implement this sort of thing in elementary school classrooms. Maybe kids would think science is more fun if you offered to teach them the amazing secrets if and only if they were able to give you a non-password answer for what hypotheses and theories are.
Loving this fic so far! It’s really stretched my space of imagined possible alien minds. I attended a conference this summer called TAM 9 and several of the talks were on possible alien life, but none of them had this kind of imagination.
The best solution I could think of (and yes, I did sit and think about it for a few minutes) would be to modify the baby eaters so that the children want to be eaten and/or don’t suffer their end at the hands of their parents. Haven’t thought about the current conundrum yet.
I’ve been working my way through the sequences in order for the last few weeks and trying to read all of the links. I love this blog and tell people about whenever I can.
Reading these entries has helped me realize some of the ways in which I tend to think incorrectly, and I hope I am taking it slow enough to reflect enough and make myself think better. :)
I suppose I should comment about at least one thing relevant to this article in particular. Posted at 4:22 am?! When do you sleep, Eliezer?
I’m in the same demographic and I thoroughly enjoyed this post. It was a great question to ask and you addressed it along all of the relevant avenues. Thanks!
In 10 years, I’ll be 32 as well. My main reason for trying to put off procrastinating is because I know I’d be kicking myself (metaphorically) if I died when I was 31 due to some stupid accident.
I’m in the process now of trying to figure out how to spend my first few decades in a way that will be most conducive to making the future an even better place to live.
For me, I really can’t see the downside to signing up. Life insurance is something most people sign up for anyway and the additional ~120 bucks for cryonics is pocket change. I mean, common people; That’s like the cost of Netflix!
Life rocks and I want to go on living for as long as I want. If I get bored in 2 million years, I’ll reserve the option to check myself out. Or, more likely, I’ll just change what I’m doing.
As far as I’m concerned, if it only costs twice as much as an X-Box live subscription and it might (with varying degrees of hopefulness—I’m at the high end) procure my immortality, worst case scenario it’s money well wasted.
Oh my various gods! That was possibly one of the best articles here. Granted, it was a bit far afield from usual, but it brought the concepts that this site discusses home in a relatable story. +5, if I could. Though I should be clear, every article I have read on here has taught me something. This one didn’t really have a specific lesson to teach, but it was thought provoking and made me laugh a lot more than many of the other articles.
Though I doubt it, if there is anyone here who hasn’t heard of the fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (you will probably recognize the name of the author) I cannot reccommend it more highly. It is positively brimming with story-told knowledge and wisdom like this.
I should have mentioned the name of the place. It’s called Strange Grounds, a coffee shop with a nice side room that ought to be perfect.
Good post and a good lesson. Paying attention to your feelings and reasons for them is an indespensible ingredient to good mental health.
Just to clarify: the website is 3quarksdaily.com. :)
I just noticed this! I live in Fort Collins! See you there!
Alas, this one is a bust. Dazbog closes at 6:30! I’ll schedule another soon, promise
Venue change. Dazbog coffee up the street near alameda. Sorry for no notice. Some school function as Barnes and noble has rendered it uninhabitable.
I’d love it if you could attend. The time is flexible if your schedule needs a little wiggle room.
A wizard hat will also basically guarantee conversation from passersby! Good call!
I’ve arrived at the coffee shop. Head to the room on the left. I’m wearing a silver shirt and name tag.
If you’d like, I don’t think it would be a problem to switch to another day or meet an hour later. We can always schedule the next meeting for a time that’s more agreeable with everyone’s schedules.
Is it just me, or did Ferris have the best reaction? It seems to me that if everyone reacted this way to learning something so exciting, the world would be a much better place. it doesn’t say what Ferris believed earlier, but perhaps the point is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is the magic of the reality, not how it relates to prior conceptions.