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My Levels of Communication seems relevant.
Really good education podcasts
Hi everyone,
currently temping at a job that's very autonomous and boring. good thing is i can listen to stuff on my phone while I do it.
Just wondering what people's favorite podcasts are? particularly education ones to do with neuroscience, psych and social studies.
However as long as it's interesting I'm keen give it a go.
Thanks in advance.
Desperate help required
I'll cut to the chase:
Running a Less Wrong-like self development group tonight and have failed to prepare anything insofar. starts in 2 hours.
Any games that I could pull out that will interaction and critical thinking?
frozen synapse: interesting strategy game with futurist concepts.
On steam for super cheap. I recommend checking out.
Quote help
There's a famous I'm struggling to find but it's along the lines of:
'Those who are wise seek clarity. Those who wish to merely appear wise seek obscurity'
It's great for getting a read on people and their intention.
Does anyone know who said it and what the original quote is?
Thanks Kaj, That's some useful stuff.
Could you please direct me to your source, if you have one?
Advice needed: Less Wrong Meetup Lesson plan on Communication
Hi Everyone,
I host a fortnightly Less Wrong Meetup self improvement logic teaching thing with some close friends of mine, and next session I want to look at Communication.
I was wondering what you guys thought would be some good resources for this, not only from the Less Wrong catalogue, but even elsewhere.
Particular things I would like to do is:
* Empower us with the tools to recognize, call out and defeat logical fallacies and outrageous claims
* Examine the more instinctive behaviours in human interaction, and ourselves within that.
* Simple ways to improve our social skills in our daily lives.
Any contributions are hugely appreciated :)
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Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory
Hey Luke,
Thanks again for your work. You are by far the greatest online teacher I've ever come across (though I've never seen you teach face-to-face). you are concise, clear, direct, empathetic, extremely thorough, tactful and accessible. I am in awe of your abilities. You take the fruit that is at the top of the tree and gently place it into my straining arms! Sorry for the exuberant worship but I really want to express my gratitude for your efforts. They definitely aren't wasted on me.
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Liars for Jesus
Are you recommending this book as someone independently knowledgeable about the relevant history? Or do you just assume that since its thesis, if accepted, would further some contemporary political goals that you favor, its historical claims must be more accurate than the historical claims of the other side? I lack the expertise to evaluate this book, but I do know that history written with the goal of providing propaganda ammunition for modern ideological controversies almost inevitably ends up heavily biased, no matter whose case it serves.
In any case, the idea that the modern U.S. First Amendment constitutional law doctrines and the controversies arising from them have any relation with its original meaning and purpose is fantastically ahistorical. Taking quotes from that period, to whatever effect, and trying to present them as having some bearing on the present-day issues is sheer propaganda.
Heavy questions for someone who merely wrote:
"This should be of interest to a few members of this forum"
To understand the potential for bias allows you to be cautious of it, which is good, but this type of critique can be counter-productive and a conversation killer. If a post as simple as this encounters this much scrutiny at initial submission, then we're going to have less and less contributions and discussion.
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What we're losing
One of the big things about improving rationality is 'Getting Crap Done' and I think the problem is that for an online community wherein most of us are anonymous, there's not a lot on here to help us with that.
Now this site has helped me conceptualize and visualize in a way that I didn't realize was possible. It helped me to see things as they are, and how things could be. The problem is that whilst I'm flying ahead in terms of vision, I still sleep in and get to work late, I still play world of warcraft over going to the local toastmasters meetup, I still haven't opened up my online trading account.
It's like I know what to do, but in terms of generating the willpower and committment and motivation to do it, this site just becomes another of many shiny distractions. The thing is as an online community I'm not sure how much you could remedy that.
The Meetups however I think is possibly the best thing to come out of this site so far, as it has inspired me to start my own, which has come to great success, even after a somewhat rocky start, and provides a way for those who feel isolated to find a network of support.
Just my two humble cents.
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I'd love to come but we'll see.it's quite a trek for me.