Manuel will talk about Universal Artificial Intelligence, which is the theory of perfectly rational agents. It claims to once-and-for-all define what rationality, intelligence, success, understanding etc. really are. Enough flamebait for a lively discussion There will be some maths presented for those who care about such things, but the math is not necessary to understand the theory.
We will be meeting at Kavarna Mačkon. At least two organizers from the Vienna meetups are joining, and as such the meetup will be conducted in english.
Quantum Physics and its implications for a rational world view
Meetup at the Cafe Votiv! An introduction to Bayesian Reasoning by Viliam!
Hmm. I didn't interpret a hypothetical apostasy as the fiercest critique, but rather the best critique--i.e. weight the arguments not by "badness if true" but by something like badness times plausibility.
But you may be right that I unconsciously biased myself towards arguments that were easier to solve by tweaking the EA movement's direction. For instance, I should probably have included a section about measurability bias, which does seem plausibly quite bad.
"Hmm. I didn't interpret a hypothetical apostasy as the fiercest critique, but rather the best critique--i.e. weight the arguments not by "badness if true" but by something like badness times plausibility."
See http://www.amirrorclear.net/academic/papers/risk.pdf. Plausibility depends on your current model/arguments/evidence. If the badness times probability of these being wrong dwarfs the former, you must account for it.
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N=1: Time to stop self-identifying with thoughts was less than 5 total hours of meditation practice (scattered across months, but still). This was especially helpful in diminishing neurotic behavior - the thoughts are still there just not engaged with.
The Meetup will be held at the NIG, room 2G on the second floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien.
This time, the discussion will be led by Andreas, focusing on the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow", from Kahneman.
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For a while I was in the habit of putting my little life lessons in the form of Anki cards and memorizing them. I would also memorize things like conflict resolution protocols and checklists for depressive thinking. Unfortunately it didn't really work, in the sense that my brain consistently failed to recall the appropriate knowledge in the appropriate context.
I tried using an iOS app caled Lift but I found it difficult to use and not motivating.
I also tried using an iOS app called Alarmed to ping me throughout the day with little reminders like "Posture" and "Smile" and "Notice" to improve my posture, attitude, and level of mindfulness, respectively. This worked better but I eventually got tired of my phone buzzing so often with distracting, non-critical information and turned off the reminders.
My very first post on LessWrong was about proceduralizing rationality lessons, I think it's one of the biggest blank spots in the curriculum.
Yes, a blank spot and one that makes everything else near-useless. This needs to be figured out.
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Is it acceptable to be late to this? Because I have another unmovable appointment earlier that afternoon.
yeah no worries be as late as you like :P