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Others have said this in person; I'll fix both things. Thanks for the feedback!
(I'm used to blogging for a very different audience with short attention spans, a desire for constant entertainment, and a great fear of large blocks of text.)
Okay, this is weird, but the first thing that popped into my head when you mentioned that there were images that used to be from this article was an image of a pony, vaguely Pinkie Pie looking. (being aware of cognition is weird)
I don't even watch My Little Pony or participate in its community. Now I'm starting to wonder if it has evolved into some sort of toxic meme which is replacing itself into generic forms of things.
I would be interested to see if other readers could come up with a more eye-catching description/slogan
A community blog with the purpose of refining the practice of rational behavior?
Eliminates human bias, doesn't imply that rationality is an 'art', and proclaims itself teleologically rather than ontologically.
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Reflective Control
I think I am currently in this state. (The inducing factor was probably going to a science fiction convention; I'm not sure why this is weirdly inspirational.) Does anybody have a roundup of appropriate posts somewhere?
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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Am I the only person who answered "100" on the cryonics question because "revived at some point in the future" was indefinite enough that a Boltzmann brain-like scenario inevitably occurring eventually seemed reasonable?
Also, I did all the extra credit questions. At twos in the morning.
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Checking Kurzweil's track record
I will examine 30 questions. dallasjhaugh at gmail dot com
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[LINK] AI-boxing Is News, Somehow
I somehow really thought this article was going to be about upscaled Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. I'm not sure if this is better or worse.
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Female Test Subject - Convince Me To Get Cryo
My first impression of cryo (documentation): My introduction to cryo was in a cartoon as a child - the bad guys were freezing themselves and using the blood of children to live forever. I felt it was terrifying and horribly unfair that the bad guys could live forever and very creepy that there were so many frozen dead bodies.
What cartoon was this?
[LINK] High school students coerced into non-optimal philanthropy via psychological warfare
From the article:
For someone who isn’t a fan of teen idol Justin Bieber, being forced to listen to one of his songs over and over again could be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
At Evanston Township High School this week, they called it a fund-raiser.
To motivate their fellow students to donate money for a struggling cafe/arts center popular with ETHS kids, seniors Charlotte Runzel and Jesse Chatz persuaded administrators to let them blast Bieber’s hit “Baby” over the school’s loudspeaker system at the end of each class period — and not stop playing the song until Runzel and Chatz had met their goal.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Runzel and Chatz, who were given one week to meet their goal of $1,000 for Boocoo cafe on Church Street, were able to raise the money in just three days.
“It made me smile to look at what we can do and look at the money we are raising,” said Chatz.
Link. (Chicago Sun-Times)
I wonder if this atrocity is going to go unpunished?
The question is "what's the special thing we can learn from this?", because decision making failures happen all the time. In order to upvote this article, I'd like to see some original elaboration on decision making with high stakes and under time pressure.
When guessing the teacher's password, always go with the optimal fit for syntax?
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Irrationality Game: Less Wrong is simply my Tyler Durden—a disassociated digital personality concocted by my unconcious mind to be everything I need it to be to cope with Camusian absurdist reality. 95%.
I am very curious as to what your evidence for backing up this proposition is or would be.