Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit

Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief

Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations

Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior

Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something

Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life

Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you

Tried doing any of the above and failed

Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.

Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit

Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief

Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations

Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior

Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something

Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life

Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you

Tried doing any of the above and failed

Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.

Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.

Previous diary: February 15-28

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Proposal:

Generate your random hexagrams with a computer. (You probably already do.)
At the end of each day, indicate which of the things the computer told you turned out to be useful (or harmful) that day.
Have the computer keep track of which hexagrams are most frequently useful.
- (Perhaps allowing for some time-varying component -- e.g., varying with day of week or season of year.)
Have it generate more-frequently-useful ones more often. (Not to the exclusion of others. Though this might be a self-correcting problem -- if you hear something too often, being reminded may be useful to you less often.)

Generate your random hexagrams with a computer. (You probably already do.)

I considered this, and I probably will if I do it long-term (though, really, it'll need to be a phone app since I don't boot up my home computer until the late afternoon anyway), but for now I'm flipping coins.

I will note, though, that my translation has slightly more structure than just rolling a d64; two hexagrams uniquely specify the relevant reading. (It's rolling 6d8, but doesn't have the full 8^6 potential outcomes; it's actually only 4^6.) This means the Birthday Problem ha... (read more)

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Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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