It's not a formal requirement, but I'm personally impressed by the prior accomplishments of some of the CFAR staff and some of the careers of CFAR consultants. And there is at least one person who somehow has a non-CFAR career while also working full-time for CFAR.
EDIT: Read about them here.
Dear all, the topic of tomorrow's meetup is to-do lists, Getting Things Done, and other systems for managing time and tasks. I used to think of this as a mundane topic, but then I realized it's only as mundane as your goals are! I will be especially interested in learning about the systems or habits you employ, if you'd like to share.
The meetup will begin on Wednesday at 7:30pm. For directions to Zendo, see the mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/bayarealesswrong
or call me at:
Huh, I thought the point of atoms is that they're not infinitely small.
There are threads about theism, etc. in which theists have received positive net karma. It should be possible to learn which features of discourse tend to accrue upvotes on this site.
This week's meetup is about Munchkinism:
"A Munchkin is the sort of person who, faced with a role-playing game, reads through the rulebooks over and over until he finds a way to combine three innocuous-seeming magical items into a cycle of infinite wish spells. Or who, in real life, composes a surprisingly effective diet out of drinking a quarter-cup of extra-light olive oil at least one hour before and after tasting anything else. Or combines liquid nitrogen and antifreeze and life-insurance policies into a ridiculously cheap method of defeating the invincible specter of unavoidable Death. Or figures out how to build the real-life version of the cycle of infinite wish spells."
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Come and bring your strange and zany ideas for exploiting the structure of reality at the expense of the Protestant work ethic. I suggest you look at this recent Less Wrong thread on Munchkinism beforehand, although it is not required:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/h9b/post_ridiculous_munchkin_ideas/
The meetup will begin on Wednesday at 7:30pm. For directions to Zendo, see the mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/bayarealesswrong
or call me at:
What's your dosage schedule? Have you noticed a decreased ability to experience pleasure?
In California changing your name costs two or three hundred dollars.
Related idea: Become good at inducing ASMR in others. Maybe start with a youtube channel. Become the ASMR equivalent of a porn star. Most people who experience ASMR probably do not know it Is A Thing, so with aggressive marketing maybe you could make some money.
Thank you so much for writing this. I will be in a similar situation in a couple months.
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Nice! By the way, I always thought the soul interacted with the body through the pineal gland, not the pituitary gland.