jsalvatier comments on Are You a Paralyzed Subordinate Monkey? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jsalvatier 03 March 2011 04:22:32PM *  7 points [-]

Interesting. I think perhaps people do get stuff done around here, but it doesn't get talked about all that much. I get quite a lot done (though certainly not always what I should be getting done), especially in terms of programming projects. cousin_it, Vlad M etc. also seem to get quite a bit done in terms of math. I imagine others get stuff done too.

Perhaps it would be interesting to hold a "what are you working on?" thread. I would be pretty interested in hearing what other people are working on that's productive, and I always love sharing what I'm working on.

Edit: thread is here

Comment author: jsalvatier 03 March 2011 04:24:19PM *  16 points [-]

Upvote if you want such a thread. karma balance below (please downvote to correct the imbalance).

Comment author: whpearson 03 March 2011 05:41:18PM 1 point [-]

I've suggested a lesswrong hackday/projects in my local lesswrong discusssion group and I didn't get a good response.

I did get a response from someone involved in the NY lesswrong group that said that the projects they had tried hadn't gone anywhere much and that discussion was deemed more popular.

Comment author: MartinB 09 March 2011 06:20:37AM *  0 points [-]

that discussion was deemed more popular

Ouch!

Comment author: Davorak 04 March 2011 01:06:46AM 0 points [-]

Both epistemic rationality and instrumental rationality can not be improved indefinitely by discussion alone. I would be interested in knowing the details on why he/she thinks these projects did not work out and weather he/she will continue to try and organize such projects.