gwern comments on Designing Rationalist Projects - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 May 2011 09:13:13PM 5 points [-]

To single out just one part... I don't understand the point of

Standard Workday: When writing: 2-3 hours writing then a couple hours off When doing FAI work: 2-3 hours work then break then 2-3 hours with a day off before repeating (During down time math may be studied, did not sound like that happened very much.) Blogging: 1 post per day sometimes 2 posts they do not seem to exceed 12 pages from what I have seen. Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/michaelgrahamrichard#p/u/26/9kI1IxOrJAg

4-6 hours is perfectly normal for authors. This is true whether you look at great scientists like Charles Darwin, or merely ordinary contemporary science/engineering faculty. See the quotes from Ericsson 1993, in 'The Role of Deliberate Practice', in http://www.gwern.net/About#fn23

Comment author: David_Gerard 15 May 2011 10:33:59PM 5 points [-]

cough DFTT.

Comment author: gwern 15 May 2011 10:38:56PM 3 points [-]

That comment was also an excuse to links/discuss some interesting snippets I found in my reading somewhere more permanent than #lesswrong. (Criticizing the troll was just part of it.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 16 May 2011 09:00:43AM *  0 points [-]

Fair enough!

(Is -30 a record low score?)

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 16 May 2011 11:33:30AM 1 point [-]

The Popper troll's post got to -36 before Eliezer removed it in some way that left it available if you knew the URL, but not in recent posts.

Comment author: katydee 16 May 2011 10:07:47AM 0 points [-]

The post stands at -31, which is certainly the lowest score I've ever seen here. It's possible that there have been posts that had lower scores, but if so they were deleted before I saw them.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 16 May 2011 11:49:26AM 0 points [-]

Trying not to feed the troll by replying to him directly, but I'm too curious not to ask: why does ve refer to EY as "DMF"?

Comment author: David_Gerard 16 May 2011 02:25:27PM 0 points [-]