Zeno's Cookie?
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Post ridiculous munchkin ideas!
If you're given a cookie that's hard to give up, but you're worried about calories.
You do not deserve the cookie, but can earn 1/2 of it by throwing 1/2 of it away.
Works every time.
Been using them for 4 month, love em
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Good luck, Mr. Rationalist
If you don't have anything constructive to say to a person and want to signal wishing their success I think good luck works just fine.
Either way, if the receiver is another "rationalist", they will understand, and if not, don't try to freak out the normals.
SImilar story is told about fission weaponry.
1939, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr had argued that building an atomic bomb "can never be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory." Years later, he told his colleague Edward Teller, "I told you it couldn't be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that."
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Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
I always wondered if Szilard's slightly outcast status (if my recollection of Rhodes book is correct) helped him see things establishment scientists ignored.
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Cryocrastinating? Send me (or someone else) money!
Considering the pain of all the forms (I have 4 final forms on my table, which need to be signed 200 times by me, wife and 2 willing witnesses), this sounds like a nice get-rich-quick scheme :-p
One objection is that the information is a bit removed from actual instrumental rationality (of the sort CFAR is meant to provide). It's like reading about muscle function and reflexes instead of reading a karate book (which is still not learning karate). Some of the stuff is actionable, but my overall impression is that much work is needed to make it so by the reader for the bulk of it.
Dropping Martial will lower the claim to reasonable levels IMO.
Big Munger fan right here. I like Buffett too, but Munger cares to think outside of business (which is why he's worth 2 measly billion compared to Buffett's 40+ :-p).
This talk came on line recently, I've heard it before but it was not in wide circulation due to the things he said about certain people
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Been waiting! Thanks.