Mercurial

Anna Salamon and I are confused. Both of us notice ourselves rationalizing on pretty much a daily basis and have to apply techniques like the Litany of Tarski pretty regularly. But in several of our test sessions for teaching rationality, a handful of people report never rationalizing and seem to...

Discussion article for the meetup : San Diego experimental meetup WHEN: 15 January 2012 01:00:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 6380 Del Cerro Blvd. San Diego, CA 92120 We're having a meetup in our usual haunt on Sunday, January 15th at 1pm. Food and drink are available for purchase, though you'll need your...

The idea for this came to me when reading nyan_sandwich's "An akrasia case study." I outlined the idea itself in my comment in that thread. So here's the plan: * In a comment reply to this, describe a specific instance of akrasia in your own life. Place an emphasis on...

Discussion article for the meetup : San Diego meetup WHEN: 20 November 2011 01:00:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 6380 Del Cerro Blvd. San Diego, CA 92120 We're having another San Diego meetup on Sunday, November 20th at 1pm at our usual location. As mentioned in the first San Diego meetup announcement, it's...

I'm trying to do some research related to human dominance including social signaling and how dominance is both successfully and unsuccessfully challenged. Ideally I'd like to find what the common factors are rather than having it be too particular to one community or another. Unfortunately everything I can find on...

I'm planning on starting a business in a few years. I realize that I have absolutely zero entrepreneurial experience and really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to appealing to my target audience. I know a number of psychological tricks that should in theory work, but theory and...

Discussion article for the meetup : San Diego social meet-up WHEN: 14 August 2011 01:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 6380 Del Cerro Blvd. San Diego, CA 92120 As per this request, we're having a meetup on Sunday, August 14th at the K&B Wine Cellars (same as last time). This is probably going...