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If you could, please write something about which techniques you are going to use or point to the scourses. I tried, but didn´t find a lot of relevant material.
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Meetup : Utrecht: Debiasing techniques
Hi efim!
I updated the description in the link on meetup.com that Imma gave. To give you some extra detail, we'll talk about: Which biases are hard/easy to correct? When does knowing about the existence of a bias help and when not? Which debiasing techniques are there (reversal test, consider the opposite, reference class forecasting...) and what are generally useful guidelines to stay rational? We'll run an experiment on confidence intervals and do a mini-RCT with a debiasing technique that hasn't been scientifically validated yet. I'll also share some links that I believe are useful to correct our decision-making errors.
Hope to see you there and sorry for the late reply!
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Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
I made an Anki deck of this post with the key 89ff552e6e8086a6.
Does anyone know how to search for Anki decks by their key? I was thinking the number at the end of a link (e.g. ankiweb.net/shared/info/1458237580) would work, but it doesn't contain letters.
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Meetup : Utrecht: Improve your productivity
The topic will be productivity as decided at the last meetup.
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Sugar and motivation
Yes there is research that supports that high glycemic index (GI) food such as sweets and white bread deteriorate willpower. The main mechanism that is made responsible for this is the drop in blood sugar a few hours after consumption. This post has some points on it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/cmc/book_summary_willpower_by_baumeister_tierney/
More info on this can be found in the book 'The Willpower Instinct' by Kelly Mcgonigal. She says the research most supports plant-based diets and low-GI diets. Evidence for the former is better.
Furthermore I think I've heard a few things about 'hyper rewards' such as pornography, drugs and sweet food generally reducing motivation. This makes sense since these rewards were not available in ancestral times. The brain responds to strong stimuli by downregulating the neural pathways required for motivation. This should be easy to google.
Please include the cityin the meetup title, so that it's easily identifiable on the sidebar.
Edited. My bad, thanks for pointing out.
Thanks, that's helpful to know. Jacy Anthis suggested that, and I was the main person keeping it short. I was going to link at the end to a follow-up survey Ben Landau Taylor was listing, but it wasn't ready in time.
In general, how did people find the length of the survey, would they have filled in more, and would they have followed a link to more questions?
When I had already started the survey as I said I wouldn't have minded to fill in more. If it had been previously announced to be a longer survey I imagine the initial barrier would have been higher for many though.
Personally, I would have filled it in even if it was longer since I think it's important. But with a different topic that could have made me not fill it in.
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2014 Survey of Effective Altruists
Just to let you guys know: Like with the LW survey, I wouldn't have minded to fill in an optional 'extended section'. I imagine you made the survey shorter in order not to scare people off.
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Meetup : Utrecht
Edited the post since we got the location sorted!
"We have a new location now. We're meeting at the headquaters of Seats2meet (Cyberdigma), which is in the Trindeborch building at Catharijnesingel 49-55 (7th floor). You can see the entry on this map https://goo.gl/maps/q027I"
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Meetup : Utrecht
We also have a facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262932060523750/ And a meetup.com group: http://www.meetup.com/LWEANL/
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There has been a little mixup! This topic will be on January 18th. The meetup on January 4th will be this one: http://www.meetup.com/LWEANL/events/218834861/. Imma is going to change it as soon as she has internet access, which will have to wait until the start of the new year.