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I looked into the numbers and it's a wash for people under 45. The risks are greater than often presented, likely because the marketing is targeted at people at heightened risk who really do need to be convinced to take it.
Is it worth it to carry around aspirin to take if you even worry you might be having a heart attack, for people under 45?
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Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity
Judging from the votes and quality couldn't this go to Main? At least with minimum further streamlining?
And if not why not?
Now that it's in Main, I'm wondering why it hasn't yet been promoted? The current situation is low-visibility, given LW reading trends.
Her was superb. If you have seen it already, here's an interesting perspective on the film.
Actually, there does seem to have been a very quiet press release about this acquisition resulting in a DeepMind ethics board.
So that's a relief.
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New (proposal for) monthly thread: Meetup Reports
See also: LW Organizers Google group.
And the newly formed Facebook group.
Meetup : Durham Meetup - Bias Defenses from Influence
Discussion article for the meetup : Durham Meetup - Bias Defenses from Influence
We will walk through some techniques to recognize and compensate for some biases from the book Influence, by Robert Cialdini.
This Thursday 7:00 PM, at the House with the Redish Door, 2411 N Roxboro St, parking on Ellerbee. Hangouts, libations, and/or games to subsequently ensue in-situ or at Fullsteam.
Discussion article for the meetup : Durham Meetup - Bias Defenses from Influence
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Open thread for December 9 - 16, 2013
I decided I'd share the list of questions I try to ask myself every morning and evening. I usually spend about thirty seconds on each question, just thinking about them, though I sometimes write my answers down if I have a particularly good insight. I find they keep me pretty well-calibrated to my best self. Some are idiosyncratic, but hopefully these will be generally applicable.
A. Today, this week, this month: 1. What am I excited about? 2. What goals do I have? 3. What questions do I want to answer? 4. What specific ways do I want to be better?
B. Yesterday, last week, last month: 5. What did I accomplish that am I proud of? 6. In what instances did I behave in a way I am proud of? 7. What did I do wrong? How will I do better? 8. What do I want to remember? What adventures did I have?
C. Generally: 9: If I'm not doing exactly what I want to be doing, why?
How long have you been doing this, and have you noticed any effects?
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Megameetup on December 13-15th, NYC
Is there a time on Sunday in mind for the EA presentation? I'd love to be there for it but our flight out is 8:15 PM.
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Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013
I recently started using Habit RPG, which is a sort of gamified todolist where you get gold and XP for doing your tasks and not doing what you disapprove of.
Previously I had been mostly using Wunderlist (I also tried Remember The Milk, but found the features too limited), and so far Habit RPG looks better than Wunderlist on some aspects (more fine-grained control of the kind of tasks you put in it, regular vs. one-off vs. habits), and of course has an extra fun aspect.
Anybody else been trying it? (I saw it mentioned a few times on LW) Anybody else want to try?
I added so many dailies that I basically found the overhead of updating HRPG ate into the productive energy needed to complete the dailies, and ended up in a death cycle. I then decided to use it explicitly only for tasks at work, and have been keeping up with it ever since, but I do miss the sweet spot of personal life productivity that I hit before that crash.
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A while ago I read through a lot of Gallup's Strengths and Wellbeing books. They looked good to me, but I don't know enough statistics to understand their technical reports, so I couldn't even begin to assess how accurate they were. Also, I've never studied positive psychology on anything more than a popular book level, so I can't bring sophisticated domain knowledge to bear either. Could someone look over the following and comment?
StrengthsFinder 2.0 (StrengthsFinder test is available for $10 here. They also have an entrepreneurial-focused version at the same location.)
Wellbeing
There might be more, but those are the studies I was able to find.
Also, I'm curious if anybody else here has taken the StrengthsFinder assessment. What were your thoughts? Did it help you in any way? Care to share your strengths with the LW community?
I took the assessment twice (they don't really allow that - the second time I submitted a different email address), about a year apart. The first time the top 5 results were Futuristic, Learner, Ideation, Intellection, Input. The second time it was Intellection, Strategic, Futuristic, Learner, Input. I'm not sure what that says that it gave me two different results. On the one hand 4 out of 5 were the same. On the other hand they were all in a different order. But slightly different results seems to be what's expected, from what I could pick up from the research reports.
I took StrengthsFinder 2.0 soon after a new manager was hired for my office. I was skeptical of it, but not negative. The Strengths it gave me were unsurprising. The most use I got out of the exercise was from insights gleaned from a roundtable discussion about these strengths from the outside view of coworkers who had known me for a few months to more than a year.