Armok_GoB comments on Post ridiculous munchkin ideas! - Less Wrong

55 Post author: D_Malik 15 May 2013 10:27PM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 16 May 2013 08:21:34PM 0 points [-]

They are guesstimates/first impressions of what community consensus likely is, as well as my personal version of common sense. A random comment without modifiers on the internet generally implies something like that, not that there is mountains of rock hard evidence behind every vague assertion. I'd not put this in a top level post in main, which is closely related to why I'm likely never write any top level posts in main.

Comment author: shminux 16 May 2013 09:00:20PM 2 points [-]

Sorry, I misinterpreted your assertion that "Tulpas don't seem to work for cognitive muchkining" as either speaking from experience or by reading about the subject. That surprised me, given that many mental techniques, direct or indirect, do indeed measurably improve "cognitive efficiency". In retrospect, I phrased my question poorly.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 17 May 2013 05:14:03PM 0 points [-]

Well indirectly they might, if say loneliness is a limiting factor on your productivity. And as I implied apparently-to-subtly with the first post they probably do help in an absolute sense, it's just that there are more effective ways with less side effects to do the same thing with a subset of the resources needed for one. Again, this is just guesses based on an unreliable "common sense" more than anything.