The swarm intel community picked the Superfecta at the Kentucky Derby, turned 20 bucks into 11k
Some notes from my LW meetup lecture on book of Julian Jaynes: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Not sure if legible for someone who wasn't there. May serve as a motivation to read the book.
Human brain has two hemispheres, relatively loosely connected, each of them is relatively independent (look up experiments when one hemisphere was disabled by e.g. injecting amytal into neck artery). Both can listen and see, but only the dominant hemisphere can talk. The corresponding part of the non-dominant hemisphere, when stimulate...
This week in big name rationalists on facebook: Wiblin's commenters allege a Trump conspiracy, and EY argues against Wiblin on the social value of voting
Obscure Australian Tax Office document explains how to dodge tax in Australia. Protip: The Netherlands is your friend, the Cayman Islands are for chumps
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So, for example, investors who are resident of the United States, or indeed a group of investors who are residents of various jurisdictions, may want to join together in creating an investment entity in the Cayman Islands. If the funds of that entity wer
Here's a simple explanation why quantum entanglement is weird. Imagine that Alice tells you: "I have three numbered fair coins. I can flip one of them, but then the other two will disappear." Bob, who is far away from Alice and can't communicate with her, says: "I have another set of three coins that is mysteriously connected to Alice's and always gives the same outcomes."
1) If you ask Alice and Bob to flip the same numbered coin, their answers always agree.
2) If you ask Alice to flip coin 1 and Bob to flip coin 2, they are different ab...
Which psychological findings have great practical implications, if they are indeed true?
Overjustification comes to mind, as an example.
On a related note: if it is true, does that suggest that, as far as we take the diminishing utility of money for granted, by using extrinsic rewards, we are reducing the number of extreme performers? (in so far as we can't keep giving exponential rewards, and money/tokens/what have you motivates in proportion to their utility) I have seen it argued, that if you are not doing well enough to be expecting a non-interrupted str...
Could machine learning be used to fruitfully classify academic articles?
The word "fruitfully" is doing all the heavy lifting here.
It is, of course, possible to throw an ML algorithm at a corpus of academic articles. Will the results be useful? That entirely depends on what do you consider useful. You will certainly get some results.
I was reading through a link on an Overcoming Bias post about the AK Model and came across the idea that, " the Social return on many types of investments far exceed their private return". To rephrase this: there are investments you can make such as getting a college education which benefit others more than they benefit you. These seem like they could be some good skills to focus on which might be often ignored. Obvious examples I can think of would be the Heimlich maneuver, CPR, and various social skills.
Do you know of any good low hanging fruit...
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
some fun but old reading - Fenyman's review of why the challenger disaster happened. Bonus points if you share what you think the take-away messages are (in ROT13) and how we (and NASA) has learnt from this mistake.
I saw a link in an open thread several months back about an organization in the past that was quite similar to the Rationality movement but eventually fell apart. It was science based self-improvement and people trying to make rational choices back in the 1920s or earlier. I've tried searching for the link again but can't find it. Does anyone know which one I'm referring to?
The 1920 didn't have the same idea of science that we have today. Maybe you mean General Semantics?
Some months ago someone mentioned a chat website that tracked arguments in syllogism form to help people organize their debates. Does anyone remember what it was called?
In the context of religious arguments, some say that the constants of the universe are improbably finely tuned for the existence of life and order. The constants refer to things like the gravitational constant, the strength of the atomic weak force, etcetera.
It is my understanding that the order part is key; most other possible constants wouldn't allow for an alternate form of life, for example, because everything would be so far apart as to never interact, or so close together as to never vary in its state.
Some will respond that there may be a multiverse ...
a brief history of game AI in three parts...
http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-game-ai/
In our world, classical mechanics (Newton + Maxwell and their logical implications) holds for most everyday experiences at slow speeds (relative to the speed of light) and at scales larger than the atomic realm.*
Question: Is this necessarily true for every possible world that matches our macroscopic physical observations? Is it possible to construct an alternative set of physical laws such that the world would function exactly as our world does on a macroscopic, everyday level, but that would violate Newton's laws or Maxwell's laws or thermodynamics or the...
Is there any recorded evidence of grown daughters of hirsute mothers exhibiting signs of masculinization? Like, in the 2D4D ratio, or body type, or 'character'?
(Brief googling was insufficient. Question arose from looking at the portrait of Magdalena Ventura.)
So I got a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering , but I worked in a non engineering related field since then. I'm preparing to go back and do a Master'\s degree in engineering. Does anyone have any tips for what I can do to regain lost knowledge over the summer? I'm cracking open some old textbooks.
a brief history of game AI in three parts...
http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-game-ai/
Why does http://lesswrong.com/lw/z0/the_pascals_wager_fallacy_fallacy/, written by EY, have "deleted" as the author?
Experiments guided by Bayesian math reveal that the guessing process differs in people with some disorders
Someone might want to start a conversation about this line of psych.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bayesian-reasoning-implicated-some-mental-disorders
El-cheapo VR headsets from China shipping now.... content still slack, but this could def drive demand.
http://www.destructoid.com/-130-oculus-clones-from-china-are-here-360673.phtml
"Humans are nothing but robots that nature, via Darwinian evolution, happened to produce from self-assembling nano machinery."
"‘natural’ selection involves systems eating each other while ‘artificial’ selection is less violent."
For the media thread, Aeon magazine philosophical article
https://aeon.co/essays/true-ai-is-both-logically-possible-and-utterly-implausible
For anyone curious about this link, I'll save you some time:
From this, they jump to being seriously worried about their inability to control their next Honda Civic because it will have a mind of its own.
It's that type of article.
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