Yuu

• Yuu 20 Apr 2013 7:10 UTC

  9 points

  on: Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

  Can she visit Moscow? We have a lot to discuss with CFAR representative.

• Yuu 19 Mar 2013 13:02 UTC

  9 points

  in reply to: Creutzer’s comment on: We Don’t Drink Vodka (LW Moscow re­port)

  Thank you for your notice, there were not very clear description, I have edited it. Here is description for the both games:

  In game A you will receive a money prize if your statement is true, in other words if the correct number is between your upper and lower bounds.

  In game B you generate random number between 0 and 1, and you win if the random is between zero and your credence (0.9, for example). I can say that you win with probability equals to your credence.

  If you prefer game A, you may be underconfident; if you prefer game B, you may be overconfident.

  If you are overconfident, you may have 90% credence for some interval, but after repeated tests of your estimation the value you estimated will fall into your interval only in 80% or 70% or 60% of tests. So you will likely choose game B, because it has a higher chance of a payoff.

  If you are underconfident, you will likely assign 70% credence, but after tests you will get 90% or 80% hit ratio. In this case you will likely choose game A, for the same reason.

  Have I answered your question?

• Yuu 17 May 2013 19:49 UTC

  6 points

  on: Open thread, May 17-31 2013

  I would like to help to create LessWrong communities in the Russian speaking countries, can anyone provide me with site visitor statistics from Russia and CIS?

• Yuu 9 Mar 2013 9:06 UTC

  5 points

  on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 18, chap­ter 87

  Chapter 62:

  Wasn’t test to check Harry’s Time turner too simple? Harry cheated very easy, he just used another person with Time turner. But this is grave matter, escape from Azkaban, and professors had chosen this kind of test...

• Yuu 22 Apr 2013 6:04 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: CatM’s comment on: Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

  That would be great if you come! Here is information regarding Russian visas. You can easily get visa invitation from tourist company and I can provide with all information about Russia.

• Yuu 12 May 2012 18:33 UTC

  4 points

  on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 16, chap­ter 85

  Chapter 23:

  If Harry is correct about how magic is inherited, this idea can bring some interesting issues in future chapters. Short resume of Harry’s idea: there are recessive magic gene (M) and dominant non-magic gene (N). Magic users have two magic genes (MM), and pair of them are needed to work with magic. Squibs have one magic gene (MN) and muggles have two non-magic genes (NN) all of them can’t do magic.

  First, how squibs appears? Actually people with MN genes can live between muggles because muggle-borg wizards and witches are born from parents with MN genes. But let’s just do not call them squibs. Real squibs are born from couples of witch and wizard and both parents have MM genes. N gene can appear here as a result of mutation only.

  Second, half-breeds exist. Magic-users can have children from giants, goblins, veela and, possibly, some other creatures. These half-breed can use magic, and there are two possibilities: they have MM genes or they have some m gene. m gene should be recessive gene, when appears with M gene, because according to HP wiki all known half-breeds can use magic. So half-breeds have MM or Mm genes.

  What can Harry do with all these things? He can come with some eugenic proposal how to increase number of wizards, this may even help to make relationship with Lucius better. He can just find this M gene and connect it to the source of magic. But I’m not sure, that Harry will have time for all these, he may have more important goals. I hope he can delegate some of these studies to somebody else, for example, to Draco.

  By the way, can Polyjuiced person become pregnant and give birth?

• Yuu 4 Sep 2012 11:21 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Xachariah’s comment on: Illus­tra­tion pro­posal for Meth­ods of Rationality

  I am, but only the beginner.

  I also think that the list of such a suggestions will not be “what people should do” list but “what people could do, if they want to help” one.

• Yuu 1 Mar 2013 10:22 UTC

  2 points

  on: Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts in the OB archives

  I made an EPUB file from all these posts to read at my e-reader. If someone else is interested, you can download it here: Overcoming bias selected.epub

• Yuu 13 Jul 2012 7:10 UTC

  2 points

  on: Se­quence trans­la­tions: Seek­ing feed­back/​collaboration

  Small group of people, including me, translates sequences to Russian. We already have our own site, http://​​lesswrong.ru/​​ , so if anyone wants to help us, you are welcome!

  If you are looking for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in Russian, another group translates it also: http://​​hpmor.ru/​​

• Yuu 5 Apr 2012 16:09 UTC

  2 points

  on: Mini­camps on Ra­tion­al­ity and Awe­some­ness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

  Could you specify location of the minicamp? Or suggest several possible locations? I just want to calculate trip time from San Francisco International Airport, I also hope it will be useful information for all applicants outside of USA, like me.

• Yuu 19 Mar 2013 5:20 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: curiousepic’s comment on: We Don’t Drink Vodka (LW Moscow re­port)

  Thank you, I think current title will suffice.

• Yuu 13 Jan 2013 14:33 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: berekuk’s comment on: Meetup : Moscow: Ap­plied Rationality

  Yes, that is correct. We are also going to post more detailed reports in Russian on Russian forum.

• Yuu 2 Aug 2012 7:05 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: shminux’s comment on: Rus­sian plan for im­mor­tal­ity [link]

  They have another interesting plan on their site:

  It is supposed that as a result of the planned work at the end of 2015 the project’s team will elaborate the full detailed description of the mechanisms of human brain. It will be possible to use this description to make (in yrs. 2018-2020) a full scale working analog of the human brain, based on technological (not biological) informational elements and devices.

  http://​​2045.com/​​news/​​29053.html

  So, just wait a bit, and you can get electronic brain. ^^ This reminds me of the predictions about number of genes in human genome:

  Only a decade ago, most scientists thought humans had about 100 000 genes. When we analysed the working draft of the human genome sequence three years ago, we estimated there were about 30 000 to 35 000 genes, which surprised many.

  After project was finished, scientists found only about 20 000 genes.

  Link

• Yuu 19 Jun 2012 5:42 UTC

  1 point

  on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 16, chap­ter 85

  A small idea, how time turners may work, or how it can be described in the future chapters:

  Let’s assume that real travel back in time is not possible. But we can have mysterious source of magic somewhere, and this thing can be supercomputer or (and) superintelligence capable of correct prediction of events that will happen in some limited volume of space and time. And this superbeing can predict activation of time turner in future, predict mental and physical state of the person who will do that and create a copy of this person in the present time. “Magic” happens.

  P.S. Wild guess: source of magic or one of its parts is somewhere inside Azkaban rock, just because time turners does not work there, which may be self defence mechanism.

• Yuu 13 May 2012 5:53 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: fubarobfusco’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 16, chap­ter 85

  I agree about giants, they may lack of training to use wizard’s spells, but some of their abilities may be magic-based, for example, spell resistance, extra strength (comparing with non-magical creatures of the same size), maybe some regeneration ability.

  Harry can make some broad study of non-human blood and find something interesting.

• Yuu 2 Jan 2015 19:59 UTC

  0 points

  on: Train­ing Reflec­tive Attention

  How can I distinguish between reflective attention and common attention?

• Yuu 10 Jan 2014 12:53 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: listic’s comment on: Tulpa Refer­ences/​Discussion

  Exocortex is what you need.

  There are methods to remember things better, to wake up at a specific time, to make unconscious mind work for you. The last one may be disputable technique, because there are still debates regarding work of unconscious mind. But you do not need tulpa for that.

  By the way, I have some well-detailed characters from role-playing game of mine, they act much like tulpas but without visual image in surrounding environment. I just have their pictures and appearances in mind. Another difference is that the most of them do not know about me, because they live in my imaginary world. But this world is very similar to ours, so I can easily provide one of them access to the LessWrong site and this character can even participate in conversations. Also I can arrange a meeting with me as an imaginary copy or even provide them information that they are imaginary characters.

• Yuu 20 Dec 2013 9:03 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: lukeprog’s comment on: The be­gin­nings of a test for Ra­tion­al­ity Quotient

  Do you mean handbook published in 2004? And could you please describe in a few words why does it suck?

• Yuu 13 Nov 2013 6:14 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: efim’s comment on: Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg: Game Event

  This link maybe? http://​​lesswrong.com/​​meetups/​​ You can follow it clicking on the “Nearest Meetups” title on the right column.

• Yuu 8 Jul 2013 8:27 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Michelle_Z’s comment on: On-line con­fer­ence for LW read­ers and meet up members

  I think we should plan set of topics to discuss. I prefer to start with the same topics that were discussed on the regular meet ups.