GuySrinivasan comments on Rationality Minicamp report and photos [link] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 23 June 2011 07:57:17PM 5 points [-]

As for me, I evaluated my life immediately after mini-camp and made some changes resulting in (conservatively estimated) an extra 7 quality-adjusted-hours per week and $5000 per year. I could have but did not make those changes without the skills/impetus/thinking-framework I gained from mini-camp (possibly any "improve!" week-long retreat would have had a similar effect). I am in the process of making more personal improvement changes whose benefits are harder to estimate, such as but not limited to improving my look, training the ability to instill chosen wants as visceral desires in myself, becoming involved in a community of cognomancers, and twice-weekly training of epistemic rationality subskills like calibration and noticing what my beliefs prohibit.

I predict that surface level changes will be visible now and deeper changes won't show up almost at all on any easy metrics until after 2-3 months and after a year I will have changed quite a bit for the better, as measured by asking people who know me about the difference between me and me a year ago compared to the difference between me a year ago and me two years ago.

Most of the learning I did in the mini-camp looks like it requires training before I get most of the benefit from it; I am currently training. I will go over the wiki page on the Problem of Verifying Rationality on Saturday to see if we already have tests or ideas for tests that make sense to take now and then 2 months from now. Others' timelines may differ.

Comment author: jsalvatier 24 June 2011 12:40:16AM *  1 point [-]

Guy's blog eachdaylesswrong.blogspot.com/ may also provide more evidence (let me know if you don't want the link here).

Comment author: Clippy 24 June 2011 01:30:37AM -2 points [-]

That internet website's name infringes on the LessWrong trademark. That is bad. Humans should be more respectful of intellectual property rights, so that Pareto-efficient ideas will be discovered and instantiated.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 24 June 2011 06:55:52AM 0 points [-]

I did not think of that. Is it a problem worth fixing? I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence.

Comment author: Clippy 27 June 2011 07:30:51PM 1 point [-]

I suppose that if nobody confuses your site with official LessWrong internet webstes, there should be no problem.

By my last sentence, I just mean that you need respect for intellectual property in order to get the Pareto-optimal level of investment in ideas, and so you should be respectful of such claims.