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Free research help, editing and article downloads for LessWrong

55 Post author: jsalvatier 06 September 2011 09:13PM

Update: Please use the most recent thread.

The LW Public Goods Team wants to encourage useful research projects (as well other kinds of projects) for the LW community. If you're interested in doing this kind of work, you might run into a problem that is best solved by good outside assistance. Without assistance you might get discouraged and stop working on the project or never even start it. We want to help you avoid that. Do you

  • Not know how to interpret a finding and want help figuring it out?
  • Need access to a particular paper and need someone with a library subscription to download it for you?
  • Need someone to edit your writing?
  • Not even know what you're having trouble with, but you know is that you're stuck and need someone to troubleshoot you?

Then, we want to help!

How do you request such help? For now, I think the best way is to post to the discussion section about your problem. That way other interested people can also provide help and be interested in your research. If you feel uncomfortable doing this, you may post to the public goods team mailing list (lw-public-goods-team@googlegroups.com) or if it's not too long after this was posted, post in the comments.

I personally commit to doing at least 3 hours a week of tasks like these for people doing LessWrong related projects (assuming demand for it; I'll be keeping a log) for at least the next month. Morendil has committed to doing at least an hour of this and atucker has promised to some as well.

Our goal is to find out whether this kind of help is effective and encourages people. If this kind of assistance turns out to be valuable, we'll continue to offer it.

If you would like to volunteer some time (a little or a lot), say so in the comments!

Comments (439)

Comment author: James_Blair 07 September 2011 01:56:32AM *  3 points [-]

This sounds like a good idea, thanks for committing the time for it! On reading I had two thoughts:

  • While I'm assuming that you're willing to try helping with anything, people with more technical problems will appreciate a summary of what skills you can provide in particular.
  • I'm also wondering if there is demand for this in a format more like HN office hours.
Comment author: jsalvatier 07 September 2011 05:37:28AM *  6 points [-]

1 - Good idea!

  • I pride myself in giving actually useful editing, not just trivial things. I will,
    • tell you when things don't make sense
    • tell you you have to rewrite or add sections
    • cross out chunks with abandon
    • give you organizational advice.
  • I have access to the University of Washington's library system, so I can download most papers.
  • I know quite a bit of Bayesian stats
  • I have an engineering background.
  • I have Lots of programming experience.
  • I like having something explained to me and then repeating back my understanding

I'll have to ask the others to post what they think their strong points are.

2 - I'm not actually familiar with HN office hours, so I will have to take a look. Thanks for the link!

Comment author: jsalvatier 08 September 2011 06:50:39PM 0 points [-]

Can you elaborate on what kind of setup you're thinking of in terms of HN office hours?

Comment author: James_Blair 08 September 2011 08:30:48PM *  0 points [-]

Let people make appointments. Everyone involved would agree to meet somewhere online and depending on exactly what was needed: have a conversation or use a session sharing tool for some collaborative work.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 07 September 2011 06:43:44PM 0 points [-]

This sounds like it might be very useful. I tend to generate ideas all the time that seem like they could both be of great use to LW at large, and to me personally as well, but don't know how to formalize them, communicate them, or extrapolate to most of the important/useful implications.

Comment author: gwern 08 September 2011 05:22:45PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 08 September 2011 05:52:32PM 3 points [-]

Sent to your email. I am a little nervous about posting them somewhere public. I'd appreciate advice on this topic.

Comment author: gwern 08 September 2011 06:43:48PM *  3 points [-]

Thanks; it's interesting so far. (The SAT and ACT series seem to, if anything, contradict the thesis - everything but math scores have stagnated or actually fallen.)

As far as posting goes publicly, I host a lot of PDFs (for the DNB FAQ, mostly), and lukeprog (one of his selling points) hosts what must be hundreds* of PDFs so far. Neither of us has had any trouble so far, and in one case, The Notenki Memoirs, I believe the publisher has even been contacted by someone wanting to turn my ebook** into a legitimate one - no takedowns so far (somewhat to my surprise).

* My local mirror of commonsenseatheism.com lists 573 PDFs

** I not merely host TNM, but I made the ebook single-handedly from my scans

Comment author: jsalvatier 08 September 2011 06:49:20PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks! maybe I will host on a dropbox account publicly.

Comment author: gwern 08 September 2011 11:39:54PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: gwern 10 November 2011 12:12:37AM *  1 point [-]

Note to self: can always request from authors if LW, WP, and Reddit fail.

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 December 2011 12:13:29AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 25 February 2012 11:49:36PM 2 points [-]

I have this post under RSS but I didn't get updates about this. I'll try to find these articles. I've had difficulty getting access to the first 5, but I think I may be able to order scans from them from the library. I'll be trying that.

Comment author: gwern 26 February 2012 12:24:45AM *  0 points [-]

Thanks. I guess I'll just add any future requests as separate comments.

Comment author: jsalvatier 27 February 2012 06:55:51AM *  1 point [-]

Really bad haul for these:

Most of these I did not have access to, but I put in a request for the library to get me a scanned copy, which should be free. If I get them, I'll post them.

I generally do not have access to electronic copies of books.

7 - link

9 - The book can be found in my library, so if it's especially important, I could find it and scan it.

Comment author: gwern 27 February 2012 04:29:05PM *  0 points [-]

Link #7 is broken; #9 is not as important as #2 or #13, but I would still like it. Maybe scan it if you go to check out another book?

Comment author: jsalvatier 27 February 2012 06:20:43PM 0 points [-]

Oops, should be fixed now.

Will do.

Comment author: jsalvatier 02 March 2012 08:45:51PM *  2 points [-]

Okay, here are the other articles I found:

3 - comparing the means

4 - statistical problems

5 - natural selection

6 - life history and bioeconomy

7 - Effects of nutritional lithium supplementation

9 - Effects of nutritional lithium deficiency

10 - Drinking water lithium

12 - Naps and modafinil

Notes: Luke mentions #1 here perhaps he has it and would scan it for you?

Comment author: gwern 02 March 2012 10:31:07PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks! I've removed all the ones I've downloaded and incorporated to gwern.net from my parent comment. (I also removed the ILL metadata as appropriate.)

'3 - comparing the means' seems broken?

Notes: Luke mentions #1 here perhaps he has it and would scan it for you?

Luke's pretty busy and I was rather hoping there was a native electronic copy somewhere.

Comment author: jsalvatier 03 March 2012 10:20:04PM 0 points [-]

Should be fixed now.

Comment author: gwern 04 March 2012 01:34:44AM 0 points [-]

OK, I've downloaded it and... it seems to be a letter to the editor about Godfrey's article, but not the actual article?

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 March 2012 01:52:18AM 0 points [-]

That struck me as odd too, but I checked whether it matched the citation you gave me. I'll request a scan of the actual article.

Comment author: gwern 18 April 2012 09:31:47PM 0 points [-]

Did it ever come in?

Comment author: jsalvatier 19 April 2012 02:51:01PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but I'm not finding it in my drop box right now. I'll check my other folder when I get home.

Comment author: jsalvatier 23 April 2012 01:00:02AM 0 points [-]

I've re requested this.

Comment author: jsalvatier 26 April 2012 04:59:22PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: gwern 26 April 2012 07:32:18PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: gwern 18 April 2012 09:33:03PM 0 points [-]

jsalvatier: I'm giving up on the WP requests for the Croxson and hope function articles - if the requests haven't borne fruit after 2 months, they probably never will. Could you handle them?

Comment author: jsalvatier 19 April 2012 05:24:45PM 1 point [-]

I've submitted ILL requests for both. If the second doesn't come through I'll head down there and scan it.

Comment author: gwern 19 April 2012 05:28:38PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: jsalvatier 23 April 2012 12:42:32AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 23 April 2012 12:49:34AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for both.

Comment author: jsalvatier 26 April 2012 05:01:15PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: gwern 26 April 2012 07:35:43PM *  0 points [-]

Got it.

EDIT: kind of boring a paper. I regret spending so much time on it.

Comment author: jsalvatier 26 April 2012 09:04:51PM 0 points [-]

:(

Comment author: gwern 26 April 2012 09:22:49PM 0 points [-]

Well, I couldn't know until I read it.

Comment author: KPier 03 December 2011 01:00:16AM 1 point [-]

Cognitive Heuristics and American Security Policy, Kanwisher, 1989. http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/33/4/652.short

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 December 2011 09:40:46PM 5 points [-]

Bam! Done.

Comment author: KPier 07 December 2011 02:02:24AM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: lessdazed 07 December 2011 10:20:48PM 1 point [-]

Please help me find:

"When the Only Constant is Change," Negotiation, Vol. 8, No. 12, December 2005

Ployart, Robert E., Jonathan C. Ziegert, and Lynn A. McFarland. “Understanding Racial Differences on Cognitive Ability Test in Selection Contexts: An Integration of Stereotype Threat and Applicant Reactions Research." Human Performance 16 (2003): 231–259.

Social influence effects on automatic racial prejudice. By Lowery, Brian S.; Hardin, Curtis D.; Sinclair, Stacey Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 81(5), Nov 2001, 842-855.

Thank you.

Comment author: jsalvatier 08 December 2011 03:51:49PM *  4 points [-]

I wasn't able to find 1 (edit: still can't find it free, but it looks like it's available here for $5 USD), but here's 2 and 3.

I'm happy people are starting to use this.

Comment author: gwern 26 January 2012 03:21:27PM 0 points [-]

1 may not be too much of a surprise; when I went looking, I found http://libraryguides.waldenu.edu/mmgmt6140 which noted

PLEASE NOTE: This reading is no longer available in the databases, due to a licensing dispute between the journal publisher and the database company. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Comment author: hegemonicon 01 February 2012 01:15:30AM *  0 points [-]

If this sort of help is still available, I have some math I'm working through for a post that I'd love to have checked - a page and a half of fairly basic statistics.

It can be found here (pdf): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/430270/lwalienprisoners.pdf

Thanks!

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 February 2012 06:52:24PM 1 point [-]

I'll take a look at this in the near future.

Comment author: jsalvatier 05 February 2012 12:57:36AM 2 points [-]

Here are some initial thoughts. I haven't finished working through it, so more to come:

Perhaps you should specify if the probability of detecting another player is an overall probability or on a per undetected player basis (so when there is only one player they haven't detected yet, when they detect a player it will always be that player they haven't detected)

in the definition of L_K, why is P(K survives turn i) outside the summation? What does i refer to then? Is P(K survives turn i) a constant ? Wont it in general depend on the current state of play?

Comment author: hegemonicon 05 February 2012 02:50:44AM *  0 points [-]

Thanks for looking at it.

Probability is on a per player basis (ie: each turn, a player has a chance p for detecting each undetected player). I'll edit this so it's more clear.

For LK (as well as LR and L_P), the term outside the summation is essentially (probability the player survives the whole game) * (game length). It's necessary since the game is of fixed length, and the summation is adding (probability of dying on turn x) * (turn x). Consider if the probability of detection is zero, and players will never die - without the term outside the summation, the expected lifetime calculation will return zero.

Comment author: jsalvatier 14 February 2012 04:02:23AM 0 points [-]

One more comment:

Is P(K survives turn i) correct? The formula assumes that the chances of surviving are all independent, but I'm not sure that would be true.

I didn't see anything else that stood out to me.

What are you trying to learn or show with the model?

Comment author: lukeprog 24 March 2012 11:23:58PM 1 point [-]

Can anyone get behind the paywall to grab me this article?

I.J. Good (1970). Some future social repercussions of computers.

Comment author: jsalvatier 25 March 2012 02:54:25PM 3 points [-]

I don't have direct access, but I've requested it, and I should have an electronic copy in 1-3 days.

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 10:23:14PM 2 points [-]

He got it off of Reddit.

Comment author: lukeprog 25 March 2012 10:32:30PM 1 point [-]

Funny quote from the article:

...by 1980 I hope that the implications and the safeguards [concerning machine superintelligence] will have been thoroughly discussed...

Sorry, Jack. It's 2012 and I'm afraid the implications and safeguards concerning machine superintelligence have still not been "thoroughly" discussed.

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 11:22:19PM 0 points [-]

Well, to be fair, his timeline also turned out to be pretty wrong - the Internet took longer to get going than he thought, and obviously a UIM didn't show up in 1993 or 1994. If it's only in the 201x or 202x that the issues have been thoroughly discussed, then it's all of a piece.

(I liked his discussion of the 'just unplug the power plug' strategy.)

Comment author: pedanterrific 25 March 2012 11:29:56PM 0 points [-]

"Ludditeniks" does kinda roll off the tongue, doesn't it?

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 11:33:00PM 0 points [-]

Not really, although I have to admit the bit about the computer propagandizing against them gave me pause: who do you see evangelizing against Luddism? High-level tech types like Marc Andreessen and tenured or well-paid economists...

Comment author: lukeprog 25 March 2012 11:41:02PM 2 points [-]

Given that Good's 1970 paper is the second substantive analysis (after Good 1965) of some implications of machine superintelligence, it's odd that "Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import" (2012) will end up being the first article to cite it for its discussion of machine superintelligence. The paper was briefly famous for letting slip some details of his secret WWII work with Turing, while its discussion of machine superintelligence and its proposal for an association to discuss the implications of machine superintelligence (Singularity Institute, anyone?) fell into the void.

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 11:44:23PM 0 points [-]

The paper was briefly famous for letting slip some details of his secret WWII work with Turing

Really? I noticed it mentioned some computing machine they used in the taxonomy of generations but I had no idea it was a secret. How weird that seems in this day where all the secrets of Bletchley Park are known...

Comment author: jsalvatier 26 March 2012 02:39:52AM 0 points [-]

Excellent.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 March 2012 03:09:10AM 3 points [-]

Can anyone access this : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00381.x/full

  • “Hindsight bias- A Primer for Motivational Researchers” by Mark Pezzo, at the Wiley Online Library.
Comment author: jsalvatier 25 March 2012 02:59:51PM 1 point [-]

Don't have direct access but have requested and should have an electronic copy in 1-3 days.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 March 2012 05:09:45PM 0 points [-]

Thank you!

Comment author: jsalvatier 31 March 2012 02:07:04AM 6 points [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 31 March 2012 07:33:38AM 0 points [-]

Thank you!

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 09:24:16PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 27 March 2012 04:02:09PM 0 points [-]

Requested.

Comment author: jsalvatier 31 March 2012 02:06:40AM 5 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 31 March 2012 03:15:05AM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: lukeprog 26 March 2012 01:15:57AM 2 points [-]

Does anyone know how to get this 1959 paper from I.J. Good? I don't even know where to look for an old "IBM Research Report" from 1959.

Comment author: gwern 26 March 2012 02:18:58AM 5 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 26 March 2012 03:53:51AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 27 March 2012 04:02:31PM 0 points [-]

Requested.

Comment author: jsalvatier 31 March 2012 02:05:52AM 4 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 03:50:05AM 0 points [-]

Thanks!!

Comment author: lukeprog 26 March 2012 03:57:52AM 1 point [-]

Needed: Good (1982). Ethical machines.

Comment author: jsalvatier 27 March 2012 04:09:20PM 0 points [-]

Is this fairly important? I can stop by the library and scan this article if need be. The computer system is having a hard time with this.

Comment author: lukeprog 27 March 2012 05:46:07PM 0 points [-]

I'm just going to order the original book for $10, thanks.

Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 04:19:11AM *  0 points [-]

Well, I found 3/4 of it.

Comment author: jsalvatier 31 March 2012 09:26:50AM 2 points [-]

Oh, I didn't realize you still needed it. Here's the pdf.

Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 01:49:35PM 0 points [-]

Ah, thanks!

Comment author: lukeprog 26 March 2012 05:45:13AM 1 point [-]

Needed: Good (1959). Could a machine make probability judgments? Computers and Automation 8, 14-16 and 24-26.

Comment author: jsalvatier 27 March 2012 03:56:53PM 0 points [-]

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I have access to this journal.

Comment author: gwern 28 April 2012 03:07:58AM 1 point [-]

I can't get direct access either. Looks like the University of Washington has physical copies of v.2 (1953)- v.21 (1972) for Computers and Automation which one can request (presumably stored off-site in a warehouse), so if you know anyone there...

Comment author: jsalvatier 29 April 2012 04:29:36AM *  1 point [-]

Heh, I actually do. I'll submit a request. (now done)

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 May 2012 03:44:26PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: infotropism 26 March 2012 09:23:27AM *  1 point [-]

Hi, could anyone help me obtain

"Limits of Scientific Inquiry" by G. Holton, R. S. Morison ( 1978 )

and

"What is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable." Brockman, John (2007)

Thanks in advance

Comment author: jsalvatier 27 March 2012 03:55:25PM 0 points [-]

The both of these are books, so I don't have ready access to an electronic copy, but both are very cheap to buy Limits (5.5 USD) and Dangerous (4 USD).

I would guess you can also find them on pirating sites.

Comment author: razor11 07 April 2012 05:25:23PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 01:50:54PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2012 04:45:56PM 0 points [-]

This one doesn't exist in the USA according to WorldCat. Perhaps somebody in Oxford could make a photocopy for me?

Comment author: jsalvatier 09 April 2012 03:16:00AM 1 point [-]

Oh, I think I somehow forgot about this one. I think I can order it like I ordered "Ethical Machines".

Comment author: lukeprog 09 April 2012 03:28:16AM 0 points [-]

Awesome! I cannot order this one like I could for 'Ethical machines'; would much appreciate it if you can do so!

Comment author: jsalvatier 09 April 2012 04:24:55AM 0 points [-]

It's now in process.

Comment author: jsalvatier 10 April 2012 11:20:22PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 10 April 2012 11:41:55PM 0 points [-]

Many, many thanks, sir!

Comment author: jsalvatier 11 April 2012 04:12:56AM 0 points [-]

Glad to be of service.

Comment author: lukeprog 10 April 2012 11:49:40PM *  0 points [-]

Interesting quote:

Although ethical notions change with time and across societies, no doubt some notions and restraints are shared by all societies. These could be programmed into the intelligent machines and in this way they could be made to 'see' our morality. But as human morality changes, should the morality of the machines be made to follow? More generally, should we build human ethical and other inertias into intelligent machines? It would certainly be intolerable for us to be judged by values accepted in past times; so presumably we should wish the machines to follow our social mores as they change...

Comment author: lukeprog 06 April 2012 07:28:17AM 0 points [-]

Needed: Allen & Wallah (2012). Wise machines.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 April 2012 08:51:27AM 3 points [-]

Emailed it to you.

Comment author: lessdazed 06 April 2012 09:05:35PM 0 points [-]

Please help me find: Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness: Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules, by Frans H. van Eemeren, Garssen, Bart, Meuffels, Bert

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 April 2012 10:13:48PM 0 points [-]

Do you need a particular article/chapter out of this book? I am more easily able to get that then the whole book.

Comment author: lessdazed 06 April 2012 10:37:11PM 0 points [-]

One problem is that I can't find the table of contents, so I am not exactly sure.

Google books has preview available for pages 1-4 and 11-22. I know pages 5-10 would be very helpful for me, probably the rest of chapter one, but maybe not. It is likely everything I need is in pages 5-10.

Thank you for your help.

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 April 2012 11:46:31PM 0 points [-]

Here's the table of contents. Let me know what else you want and I'll try to get it.

Comment author: lessdazed 09 April 2012 11:09:57PM 0 points [-]

Thank you very much. I'm all set for now.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2012 04:39:43PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: razor11 07 April 2012 05:37:31PM *  6 points [-]

There is a website called ezproxy dot blogspot dot com which posts occasionally working password to library sites and universities' online resources. It might prove useful to some people here.

Comment author: demented 10 April 2012 12:15:46PM 4 points [-]

password2password dot eamped dot com also offers the same feature as well as a subforum specifically for article requests. It makes sense to have an account there. 55face dot blogspot dot com too posts occasional passwords to library sites. It makes sense to bookmark it too. Of course, the best option would be to use your local library itself..

Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2012 05:34:36PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: vallinder 08 April 2012 05:59:43PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 09 April 2012 10:03:58PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 10 April 2012 03:05:28AM 0 points [-]

This says the article was in The Columbia Engineering Quarterly which doesnt show up in my searches. Maybe contact the author of that paper for the article?

Comment author: gwern 10 April 2012 03:15:11AM 0 points [-]

Somewhat to my surprise, he's apparently still alive, although I wonder whether this 91-year old has email or a copy.

Comment author: lukeprog 15 April 2012 10:00:49PM 0 points [-]

Needed: Soll & Klayman (2004), Overconfidence in interval estimates.

Comment author: gwern 15 April 2012 11:12:43PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: vallinder 18 April 2012 11:53:44AM 1 point [-]

Here is the published version, if you still need it.

Comment author: lukeprog 19 April 2012 08:16:01AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 28 April 2012 03:48:42AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 19 April 2012 09:58:54AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: wedrifid 19 April 2012 01:56:44PM *  3 points [-]

Emailed it. Also, uploaded.

Comment author: gwern 19 April 2012 05:56:42PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 19 April 2012 07:02:20PM 2 points [-]

Requested

Comment author: jsalvatier 23 April 2012 12:38:13AM *  4 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 29 April 2012 08:18:21AM 0 points [-]

Bratman (2003), Autonomy and Heirarchy.

Comment author: jsalvatier 29 April 2012 08:59:37AM 5 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 01 May 2012 12:21:10AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 01 May 2012 03:25:18PM 1 point [-]

Requested.

Comment author: lukeprog 01 May 2012 05:47:20PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 May 2012 03:43:45PM 5 points [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 06 May 2012 06:11:18PM 0 points [-]

Is this project still running? If so, I'd like to volunteer some time. I anticipate needing some help in the future and would like to preemptively do my part.

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 May 2012 08:23:37PM *  1 point [-]

Yup! Mostly people have just posted their requests here in the comments and then I try to help out. If this gets higher volume perhaps we'll need to move it somewhere else, but for now this is working.

I monitor new comments using this RSS feed:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/7hi/free_research_help_editing_and_article_downloads/.rss .

If you'd like to help out, and you use an RSS reader, I think the easiest thing would be to just also monitor the site and respond to requests. If you don't us an RSS reader, I think you can turn RSS feeds into regular emails using this service (there are probably others too). I appreciate your help!

I look forward to helping you when you need it!

Comment author: [deleted] 06 May 2012 08:39:17PM -1 points [-]

Thank you for the helpful information! I'll take your suggestion about using the RSS feed. I look forward to helping y'all and being helped when needed.

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 May 2012 09:44:03PM 0 points [-]

Great!

Comment author: gwern 12 May 2012 03:38:10PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 12 May 2012 08:53:59PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 12 May 2012 09:02:12PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: amin_m505 12 May 2012 06:13:18PM 0 points [-]

I have a manuscript. i'd like to edit it for submitting in ISI journals, How can i edit my article for free?

Comment author: lukeprog 18 May 2012 09:39:02AM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 18 May 2012 07:55:30PM 2 points [-]

Requested.

Comment author: lukeprog 28 May 2012 02:59:45AM 0 points [-]

Thanks! Received yet?

Comment author: jsalvatier 28 May 2012 03:38:21AM 0 points [-]

Nope, it's taking an unusually long time.

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 June 2012 07:40:35PM 3 points [-]

1

2

3

Comment author: lukeprog 01 June 2012 07:58:34PM 0 points [-]

Thanks so much, John!

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 June 2012 08:38:44PM 0 points [-]

Glad to help!

Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2012 12:57:45PM 1 point [-]

1) Moore & Whinston (1986). A model of decision-making with sequential information-acquisition (Part 1). Decision Support Systems. Volume 2, Issue 4, December 1986, Pages 285–307.

2) Moore & Whinston (1987). A model of decision-making with sequential information-acquisition (Part 2). Decision Support Systems. Volume 3, Issue 1, March 1987, Pages 47–72.

3) Brehmer (1992). Dynamic decision making: Human control of complex systems. Acta Psychologica. Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 211–241.

Thanks in advance.

Comment author: gwern 22 May 2012 03:17:33PM 6 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 28 May 2012 02:28:48AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 28 May 2012 04:22:36PM 3 points [-]

I don't have easy access to it, because it's a book, but I sent a request to her using what I think is her email (found here).

Comment author: gwern 29 May 2012 12:34:15AM 1 point [-]

Good idea. I was hoping there was some easier way to access theses than emailing the author, which is something I try to do as little as possible.

Comment author: jsalvatier 29 May 2012 01:36:13AM 1 point [-]

Do you just avoid that because you feel like it's rude to use the author's time, or are there other reasons?

Comment author: gwern 29 May 2012 01:53:51AM 2 points [-]

The former. They held up their end of the bargain, as it were, by actually producing whatever.

Comment author: gwern 31 May 2012 02:47:38AM *  1 point [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 31 May 2012 08:59:46PM 1 point [-]

Requested.

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 June 2012 07:38:57PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 01 June 2012 09:16:36PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: Jack 31 May 2012 09:16:02PM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 31 May 2012 10:31:10PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: Jack 31 May 2012 10:38:10PM 0 points [-]

Fantastic. Thanks!

Comment author: [deleted] 31 May 2012 11:18:02PM *  -1 points [-]

I've begun research on a paper. The topic is how whole brain emulation (WBE) might affect the macro-economy. In other words, how WBE could affect growth, unemployment, inflation, etc. I'd like some help tracking down the best sources.

I've heard that Robin Hanson has written quite a bit about the topic. I have three of his papers: "Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence," "Long-Term Growth As A Sequence of Exponential Models," and "Is a Singularity Just Around the Corner?" I also have a copy of "Economics of the Singularity" but I don't think that's peer-reviewed.

I'm currently reading through the sources. I know that other people reading LW have a much more knowledge of Hanson's work than I do. Are these the best papers to use, or am I missing any recent/relevant sources?

Also, I don't want to restrict my research to just Hanson's work. I also have "Whole Brain Emulation and the Evolution of Superorganisms" by Carl Shulman and "Economic Implications of Software Minds" by S. Kaas, S. Rayhawk, A. Salamon and P. Salamon. Again, reading my way through these, too.

Are there any better sources than the ones I already have? I don't have a great grasp of the field, so I feel like it's possible that there's a landmark paper or book on the subject I haven't come across yet. In the mean time, I'll continue my searching and reading.

Comment author: jsalvatier 01 June 2012 02:45:49AM 0 points [-]

I don't know much about this area, but consider reposting this in the discussion section.

Comment author: gwern 01 June 2012 03:30:11AM 0 points [-]

FWIW, I don't know of any recent or relevant sources you haven't covered.

Comment author: gwern 01 June 2012 04:14:22PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: jsalvatier 01 June 2012 07:38:33PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 01 June 2012 09:16:32PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: gwern 04 June 2012 03:07:36AM *  0 points [-]

Iodine papers (extracted from Pharoah):

These aren't a priority. I think it's highly likely that iodine will do little for adult intelligence, and I'm mostly pursuing this line of inquiry so I can do a meta-analysis (for practice - this would be only my second one, after the n-back one) and nail down the experiment design a little more tightly.

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 June 2012 04:17:59AM 0 points [-]

Requested the first 3, but I can't locate the 4th one in my library system.

Comment author: gwern 04 June 2012 04:04:29PM *  0 points [-]

For that one, I think I found a later publication of it (or perhaps just a better citation):

  • "Iodine deficiency and the maternal/fetal relationship". In: Dunn JG, Medeiros-Neto GA, eds. Endemic goiter and cretinism: continuing threats to world health. Washington, DC: PAHO, 1974. (Scientific publication 292).

The book/report shows up in Worldcat in ~10 institutions, so ILL should get it.

Also good would be these 2 chapters:

  • Pretell EA, Caceres A. "Impairment of mental development by iodine deficiency and its correction. A retrospective view of studies in Peru". In: Stanbury JB, ed. The damaged brain of iodine deficiency. New York, NY: Cognizant Communication, 1994:187–91
  • Greene LS. "A retrospective view of iodine deficiency, brain development and behavior from studies in Ecuador". In: Stanbury JB, ed. The damaged brain of iodine deficiency. New York, NY: CognizantCommunication1994:173–85
Comment author: jsalvatier 05 June 2012 04:02:36PM 1 point [-]

Ok, requested.

Comment author: jsalvatier 06 June 2012 10:03:52PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 10:11:45PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: jsalvatier 05 June 2012 03:54:58PM 5 points [-]

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Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 04:02:27PM 0 points [-]

Looks good, thanks.

Comment author: Jack 05 June 2012 08:29:38PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 09:27:29PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: Jack 05 June 2012 09:41:54PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: Jack 06 June 2012 06:33:44PM 0 points [-]
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Comment author: Jack 07 June 2012 02:56:13PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: Jack 07 June 2012 06:24:54PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 07 June 2012 06:58:04PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: Jack 08 June 2012 04:45:27PM 0 points [-]

Thank you.

Comment author: jsalvatier 08 June 2012 04:27:36PM 2 points [-]

Requested.

Comment author: Jack 08 June 2012 04:45:34PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: VincentYu 12 June 2012 08:52:15PM *  0 points [-]

Commenting to tell you not to worry about the requested paper.

(Actually, let me know if comments like this are useful.)

ETA: Or maybe a PM is more suitable.

Comment author: VincentYu 12 June 2012 08:46:49PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 09 June 2012 03:37:23PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: VincentYu 11 June 2012 02:14:10AM 3 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 11 June 2012 02:56:04AM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: lukeprog 10 June 2012 10:56:03PM 13 points [-]

This has turned out to be an incredibly useful page. Thanks again, John! I wish I could upvote the article again.

Comment author: gwern 11 June 2012 01:19:50AM 11 points [-]

This post is, I think, an excellent demonstration of what I keep telling people: if you can commit even a little bit of time over a long period doing something that people aren't voluntarily doing already, you can do something pretty useful.

For this patience claim, I usually use examples like Wikipedia articles or FAQs or self-experiments, but this page is also a good example: for a bit of menial annoying (but otherwise undemanding) work, John has materially assisted me in multiple articles (sunk costs, iodine, and lithium among others).

Comment author: Jack 11 June 2012 05:20:51PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 11 June 2012 06:54:46PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: Jack 11 June 2012 07:14:16PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Comment author: Jack 11 June 2012 09:38:11PM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: VincentYu 12 June 2012 08:30:08PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 11 June 2012 11:49:31PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: vallinder 12 June 2012 03:37:34AM 5 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 12 June 2012 04:23:30AM 1 point [-]

Thanks, but...

Why upload it to a site that requires me to create an account to download the file? Why not just upload it to Rapidshare or one of a thousand other filesharing sites?

Comment author: vallinder 12 June 2012 11:41:26AM 3 points [-]

Sorry, I didn't realize you had to create an account there. I've now uploaded the file to Rapidshare here.

Comment author: lukeprog 12 June 2012 02:55:26PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: lukeprog 12 June 2012 02:59:43PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: Jack 12 June 2012 03:22:59PM 6 points [-]

There's this copy of the second one.