Wrongnesslessness

Karma: 144

Wrongnesslessness Feb 9, 2012, 12:23 PM
−1 points
in reply to: Dmytry’s comment on: My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
One problem with this equation is that it dooms us to use hyperbolic discounting (which is dynamically inconsistent), not exponential discounting, which would be rational (given rationally calibrated coefficients).

Wrongnesslessness Feb 3, 2012, 5:48 AM
2 points
on: What will rationality look like in the future?
The powers of instrumental rationality in the context of rapid technological progress and the inability/unwillingness of irrational people to listen to rational arguments strongly suggest the following scenario:

After realizing that turning a significant portion of the general population into rationalists would take much more time and resources than simply taking over the world, rationalists will create a global corporation with the goal of saving the humankind from the clutches of zero- and negative-sum status games.

Shortly afterwards, the Rational Megacorp will indeed take over the world and the people will get good government for the first time in the history of the human race (and will live happily ever after).

Wrongnesslessness Jan 30, 2012, 5:58 AM
1 point
on: Help! Name suggestions needed for Rationality-Inst!
- Foundation for Human Sapience (or Foundation for Advanced Sapience)
- Reality Transplantation Center
- Thoughtful Organization
- CORTEX—Center for Organized Rational Thinking and EXperimentation
- OOPS—Organization for Optimal Perception Seekers
- BAYES—Bureau for Advancing Yudkowsky’s Experiments in Sanity

Wrongnesslessness Jan 20, 2012, 9:50 PM
9 points
in reply to: lessdazed’s comment on: POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum
I agree. The waterline metaphor is not so commonly known outside LW that it would evoke anything except some watery connotations.

So, what about a nice-looking acronym like “Truth, Rationality, Universe, Eliezer”? :)

Wrongnesslessness Jan 18, 2012, 11:24 AM
2 points
in reply to: Stuart_Armstrong’s comment on: Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
Wikipedia is accessible if you disable JavaScript (or use a mobile app, or just Google cache).

Wrongnesslessness Jan 16, 2012, 7:48 AM
0 points
in reply to: rocurley’s comment on: Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012

I would prefer this comment to be more like 0

Does your preference mean that you honestly think the intrinsic value of the comment does not justify its vote count, or that you just generally prefer moderation and extremes irritate you?

In the former case, I would definitely vote toward what I thought would be a more justified vote count. Though in the latter case, I would probably be completely blind to my bias.

Wrongnesslessness 14 Jan 2012 20:52 UTC
4 points
on: The Savage theorem and the Ellsberg paradox
If ambiguity aversion is a paradox and not just a cognitive bias, does this mean that all irrational things people systematically do are also paradoxes?

What particular definition of “paradox” are you using? E.g, which one of the definitions in the Paradox wikipedia article?

Wrongnesslessness 13 Jan 2012 11:55 UTC
4 points
in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Can the Chain Still Hold You?

Sod off! Overt aggression is a pleasant relief compared to the subtle, catty ‘niceness’ that the most competitive humans excel at.

Hmm… Doesn’t this look like something an aggressive alpha male would say?..

Uh-oh!

Wrongnesslessness 13 Jan 2012 5:37 UTC
16 points
in reply to: isaacschlueter’s comment on: Can the Chain Still Hold You?
So the true lesson of this post is that we should get rid of all the aggressive alpha males in our society. I guess I always found the idea obvious, but now that it has been validated, can we please start devising some plan for implementing it?

Wrongnesslessness 11 Jan 2012 17:57 UTC
0 points
on: Less wrong has a fitocracy group (invites)
Are there any general-purpose anti-akrasia gamification social sites? I recently found Pomodorium but it is regrettably single-player.