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on hpmor: harry seems to be very manipulative but almost in a textbook kind of way. I take it eliezer got this from somewhere but cannot figure out where. I'd love to read more about this, could it have come from "the strategy of conflict"?
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1) I'm moving to Vienna on the 25th. If there exist lesswrongers there I'd be most happy to meet them.
2) Moving strikes me as a great opportunity to develop positive, life-enchancing habits. If anyone has any literature or tips on this i'd greatly appreciate it
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2 separate related comments:
1) I'm moving to Vienna on the 25th. If there exist lesswrongers there I'd be most happy to meet them.
2) Moving strikes me as a great opportunity to develop positive, life-enchancing habits. If anyone has any literature or tips on this i'd greatly appreciate it
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Inverse Speed
If you're confused by this kind of thing, you could probably give your intuitions a good training by studying the basics of electrical circuits (i.e. Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, the relations between current, voltage, resistance, and power, the Thevenin-Norton transformations, the series and parallel combinations of resistors, etc.). This will stretch your brain very nicely with a whole bunch of problems where you must be careful about what's being held constant or otherwise your intuition leads you into awful contradictions. (For example, power is proportional to resistance if you hold the current constant, but inversely proportional to it if you hold the voltage constant.) The concepts are very simple mathematically and don't require any background beyond very basic physics.
Where would one find that kind of exercises, online?
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[Link] Holistic learning ebook
my personal summary:
Building constructs: within an area link all ideas as much as possible (biology) Building models: Simplify concepts - abstract from them to create something that you can use (evolution by natural selection) Highways: Linking constructs (biology to economics trough evolutionary economics)
Acquire. Test - Have I seen/listened to the idea before? Understand. Test - Do I get (at a surface level) what this idea means? Explore. Test - Do I understand where this idea comes from, what it is related to and what outside ideas can be connected with it? Debug. Test - Have I removed inappropriate links between this idea and others?Have I removed false conclusions based on connections that donít actually exist? Apply. Test - Have I used this idea in my practical life?
A) Acquiring Ideas 1) Speed Reading 2) Flow-Based Notetaking B) Linking Ideas : FOR DIFFICULT OR CRITICAL INFORMATION 1) Metaphor - used to relate unfamiliar to familiar ideas. (process: ask for it. take the first that comes. test it) 2) Visceralization - used to translate information to preferred format (process: identify concept, pick mental image, does it move trough time or is statis?, add more sensations and emotional impacts to your image) 3) Diagraming C) Handling the Arbitrary 1) Linking 2) Pegging 3) Information Compression -> Notes compression (write down major ideas and all related ideas. rewrite) D) Extending Ideas 1) Practical Usage - Look for ways to applu ideas 2) Model Debugging - typos are not bugs, use very different questions to do a shotgun debug, spread practice times out 3) Project-Based Learning - 1-3 month project that uses knowledge you want and don't have
Not a real answer.
Sound is measured in Bels. This is a logarithimic scale. 2 Bels is 10 times as loud as 1, 3 ten times as loud as 2, etcetera. Since sound is a wave I expect the intensity to diminish at constant*(inverse square of distance).
Arbitralily say each individual emits 1 unit of sound.
80,000/(2,000^2) = 0.02 Magnitude of arbitrary unit is 0.02 at 2km 80,000 / (1000^2) = 0.08 Magnitude of arbitrary unit is 0.08 at 1km
Basically it's an example of an inverse square law. No real understanding of physics was used in this comment.
This was more specific than I imagined, thank you. The basis intuition should be that dropping two rocks on a pond makes two waves that collapse onto each other and form one bigger wave, right?
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How exactly is sound additive? I'm having a festival near home (maybe some 2 kilometers away) and I know no individual has the capacity to shout at a volume that reaches my house. But when the 80k people that are watching do it, then it reaches my house. So, how does that happen?
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Irrationality Game II
Irrationality game:
Different levels of description are just that, and are all equally "real". To speak of particles as in statistical mechanics or as in thermodynamics is as correct/real.
The same about the mind, talking as in neurochemistry or as in thoughts is as correct/real.
80% confidence
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Rationality Games & Apps Brainstorming
https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification
That seems it could be useful.
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I haven't read Strategy of Conflict, but I have read Robert Cialdini's book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, which Harry name-drops a couple of times and uses several techniques from. I'd guess that that's some of what you're seeing.
For future reference, though, it's considered polite to confine free-floating HPMoR discussion to the Methods threads, the most recent of which appears to be here. There have been a few Methods-related threads since, but all with narrower scope.
Thank you. I had read the Methods threads but these seemed mostly to discuss the plot of the books. Anyways, message received, will update accordingly.