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I wonder why. I wonder why.
I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why
I wonder why I wonder!
-- Feynman Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
The book is readable in general.
Need help with organizing philosophy event
Hi LessWrong, it is my first post here, and I'll be asking for help outright. In my local city I am willing to help with organization of Philosophy Festival. The concept is so and so that there will be 4 Platonic steps of knowledge, and one of them is going to be closely associated with technology and future of humanity, for which your obedient servant is responsible. The audience is going to be very broad, so many concepts obvious for our community would be if not completely unknown, then very vaguely realised by most of the those present. Edutainment is the key feature, people should not get tired of too technical stuff (it is philosophy event after all) and I see the output as a cocktail of talks, visual perfomances and engaging activities.
I am most likely willing to include:
- talk on cognitive biases (mostly entertaining based on sequences, Kahneman&Tversky and Dan Ariely books) by me
- talk on human augmentation (maybe presented by a member of biohacking community, however not very easy to find one in Russia so far)
- talk on artificial intelligence by one of the professors of Technology Institute
- quests on Oculus Rift
- 3d video-mapping
- MindFlex tournament
- Portable planetarium
I would be delighted to hear your ideas, if you have any contacts of various experts in those fields who may be willing to participate or give a talk (this applies mainly, but not fully to Russian members, International guests are also very welcome, but it is a coinflip so far if we are going to find sponsors to afford expensive riders) please PM me or write your suggestions in comments
UPDATE: event is delayed and will be held at summer, your suggestions about any possible guests are welcome
Venue - St.Petersburg, Russia
[LINK] Waitbutwhy article on the history and future of space exploration, SpaceX and more
Epic work, it's always fascinates me when author explores the topic so deep, that doesn't know where to begin, so finally starts with the whole history of the universe or the existence of human race.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html
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Rationality Quotes Thread July 2015
Still makes me smile as I remember the context and nerdy philosophy professor. Hyperbolic but it doesn't make it any worse
The idea to combine happiness guide with rationality techniques and popularizing science seems appealing to me. Unfortunately video is not available for watching in my region. The book content I suppose have to be very introductory and written in friendly language opposing to "from ai to zombies" for example. Where I can see some of your previous publications? And why you want to crowdfund an actual hardcover book and not distribute it through Amazon e-books?
Thank you for the link, I'll look it through!
"Politics is a mind-killer" is a great idea for an opening! I didn't think about it at first, Robin Hanson is interview for "Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot" (http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=1911 number 67) describes the core point very in a very short and meaningful way.
Also don't forget to introduce the biases and give some kind of shining example of fallacy. Maybe you should have an actor in the hall, or you just go with an improvisation of course. I mean asking someone from the audience about whether Linda seems to be more a bank-teller or a bank-teller and a feminist and similar stuff. With your 'raising awareness' goal it would be halfway if someone says oops
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Request for advices on small presentation about LW community
Liron Shapiro gave an introductory talk to kids about epistemic rationality, if I remember correctly.
Why you don't like to include ageless "Politics is a mind-killer" fable? This is I beleive part of the reason why rationale keeps failing in our world and views remain one-sided
BTW, gl mate!
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Brainstorming new senses
I have tried:
Wearing a vibrating compass anklet for a week. It improved my navigational skills tremendously. I have low income, but I would definitely buy one if I could afford it.
Listening to a 60 bpm metronome on a Bluetooth earpiece for a week (excluding showers). I got used to the sound relatively quickly, but I most definitely did not acquire an absolute sense of time. However, I noticed that during boring activities such as filling out paperwork, the ticking itself seems to slow down.
I will try:
- Wearing an Oculus Rift that shows the Fourier Transform of what I would normally see. I'd like to know if I can get used to it, and if it improves my mathematical intuition.
I can understand the compass part, it can be very useful and save your life onetime, but time-sense? For what the heck you might need this? In peoples world people wear watches or have timers on their smartphones, and in the world there's no people there's no time
Have you asked her how to test if there is such a hair? Why she favors that hypothesis? Does she think this is magic?
Restricted to the premise that some form of Buddhism is correct, how would it fit with the idea that everything is impermanent that Buddha would have a magic hair that delays inevitable falls?
I'm not even sure one needs anything as complicated as being heavier on one side, even if the rock were uniform the center of mass would be above the cliff.
Have you got an idea how to test this, without actually raising or destroying the rock? Or maybe you got some other piece of Buddha's hair in your grandma's cellar? Impermanence is the only permanent thing I guess btw it might not be helpful; And you are obviously right about that it is only the center of the mass that matters
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Stupid Questions March 2015
I had an arguement with my gilfriend about how on earth golden rock doesn't drop over an edge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaiktiyo_Pagoda)
I said there must be scientific explanation of course, that the rock is somehow heavier on the opposite side of the cliff, and that the monks probably knew some math, or just picked up this one trick from unknown piligrim
And she continues to argue that this is magic and it is the legendary Buddha's hair that prevent the Stone from falling...
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There are some kind of forecasting tournaments provided by Phillip Tetlock mainly associated with politics issues, however I've found no info on how to enter one. Here is a short introductory course
In my opinion prediction markets are still very raw concept which doesn't grow and spread very well in its current form and needs capital transformation