NancyLebovitz comments on Get Curious - Less Wrong

51 Post author: lukeprog 24 February 2012 05:10AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 23 February 2012 01:12:19AM 16 points [-]

Good. Let's see if we can make progress.

  1. New habit: Every time you're wrong, write down what you were wrong about.
  2. Play 'the calibration game': Use Wits & Wagers cards and give your confidence intervals. You'll probably find that 40% of the time, the correct answer was outside your 90% confidence interval. Write down all those failures.
  3. If the different hypotheses don't matter for which actions you take, you're either bad at realizing the decision-theoretic implications of various hypotheses, or you're bad at spending your time thinking about things that matter. Which do you think it is?
  4. Rarely is new information not evidence for or against old ideas. Maybe you need more practice in model-building? This is a separate post I'd like to write at some time; I'm not sure what useful thing I can say about it now.
  5. Re: your "heinous lack of virtue." Reward yourself for effort, not for results. You have more control over the former.
Comment author: Armok_GoB 23 February 2012 01:04:35PM -1 points [-]
  1. I so far have a 100% failure rate in establishing habits that involve writing things down or in other ways externalize memory.
  2. I don't have any such cards. I also doubt paying a game once for 5 minutes will help much, and akrasia and stress will prevent any more than that.
  3. Of those, absolutely the latter, but neither seems plausible.
  4. I have zero control over both, because akrasia.

... my "not true rejection!" alarm is going of but I can't seem to find anything to do with that information either.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 February 2012 03:45:41PM 0 points [-]

Post some hypotheses and/or predictions at Less Wrong. There's a least a reasonable chance that people will tell you if you're mistaken.