Comment author: LizzardWizzard 29 May 2015 09:01:38AM 1 point [-]

Liron Shapiro gave an introductory talk to kids about epistemic rationality, if I remember correctly.

Why you don't like to include ageless "Politics is a mind-killer" fable? This is I beleive part of the reason why rationale keeps failing in our world and views remain one-sided

BTW, gl mate!

Comment author: efim 29 May 2015 09:10:35AM 0 points [-]

Thank you for the link, I'll look it through!

"Politics is a mind-killer" is a great idea for an opening! I didn't think about it at first, Robin Hanson is interview for "Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot" (http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=1911 number 67) describes the core point very in a very short and meaningful way.

Comment author: Thecommexokid 17 April 2015 06:48:53PM *  2 points [-]

Apparently you are putting

2. Predict how you'll feel in an upcoming situation. Affective forecasting – our ability to predict how we'll feel – has some well known flaws.
Examples: "How much will I enjoy this party?" "Will I feel better if I leave the house?" "If I don't get this job, will I still feel bad about it two weeks later?"

into your "Easily answerable questions" subset. Personally, I struggle to obtain a level of introspection sufficient to answer questions like these even after the fact.

Does anyone have any tips to help me better access my own feelings in this way? After I have left the house, how do I determine if I feel better? If I don't get the job, how do I determine if I feel bad about it? Etc.

Comment author: efim 27 May 2015 02:37:32PM *  0 points [-]

Hi!

1) If I understood Julia correctly "easily answerable questions" correspond not to areas where you are good at predicting, but to areas where answer space is known to you: "Can I toss the ball through the hoop?" - Yes\No vs. "What is the best present for a teenage girl?" ??\??\money??\puppy??

2) If you have difficulties with associating common groups with your feelings or even percieve feelings that is really confusing and it would be good not to jump to the conclusions, but to add to other commenters: you could probably start by asking outside observer (i.e body language "comfort\defensiveness" "happy\sad")

Comment author: Alex_O 08 May 2015 08:23:58AM 3 points [-]

This experiment does not prove that money keeps people more honest than absence of money, but more honest than token exchangeable for money. If a control group was allowed to cheat without receiving money at all they might (my prediction and I would bet a dollar on it if I didn't use Euros) cheat even less. Then, the hypothesis "money keeps us honest" would be disproved.

Comment author: efim 27 May 2015 02:00:03PM 0 points [-]

I think I remember described set of experiments correctly and at least in some of them control group was definitely allowed to cheat - there were no difference in the way people turned in their results (shredding questionare and submitting only purported result on different sheet)

Comment author: ChristianKl 26 May 2015 11:40:14AM 2 points [-]

What's your intention with the presentation?

Comment author: efim 26 May 2015 02:11:30PM *  2 points [-]

It probably would be best described as 'raising awareness'. I was introduced to LW when by chance I saw an hpmor mentioned on social network.

Before that I was completely oblivious to concrete examples of cognition malfunctions. I want to reduce involvement of chance in propagation of memes of rationality.

Concrete goals:

a) make personal need for clear-thinking visible and perceptible

b) show that some work (book abstracts, ideas introductions) is available here.

Request for advices on small presentation about LW community

2 efim 26 May 2015 07:30AM

In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a small (~50m) presentation about LW community on "social sciences sunday" in Saint Petersburg.

Target audience - students, teachers and young recearcher mostly from social sciences and humanities.

I'm planning to at least mention in passing:

1) rationality: epistemological and practical division

2) virtues of rationality

3) big part of learning is by osmosis

4) about sequences => some ideas I found engaging (but those that are at the same time would be easier to explain in 10 minutes)- definetely about inferential distances and looking wise

maybe mention Milgrams experiments or anecdote about Pain and Gain motivation

5) study hall (I tried it just for a bit), meetups, related projects - CFAR (anything else?), International Insights, slatestarcodex?

There is also this: 

I'm not sure LW is a good entry point for people who are turned away by a few technical terms. Responding to unfamiliar scientific concepts with an immediate surge of curiosity is probably a trait I share with the majority of LW'ers.

I am going to spend some more time prepairing and would probably have some good ideas, but I would be really great to have opinions from others. Am I missing something? Or if anyone had relevant experience?

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Comment author: passive_fist 25 May 2015 10:25:41PM -1 points [-]

I think LW might actually be suffering from something like a collective affective death spiral.

Comment author: efim 26 May 2015 07:01:03AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure how it relates to proposed stagnation (i.e loss of momentum) of LW community. Could you please elaborate? I understand affective death spirals to mean something completely different I am totally confused.

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

1 efim 10 April 2015 08:27AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

WHEN: 18 April 2015 06:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Санкт-Петербург, Невский просп., 54

Place updated Saturday, 18.04.15.

From 18:00 and for about four hours.

It would be in 'Subway' cafe please call me if you don't know me personally and can't find small piece of paper with 'LessWrong' written on it somewhere on the table.

Main theme - habits: - small presentations of articles on this topic and personal stories on things that help with establishing good habits and getting rid of bad ones. - brainstorm for good habit ideas and chosing of the priorities in which everyone would like to implement them.

On desert - bragging thread, where we share our accomplishments. If you are thinking of coming please vote for your expected attendance here: https://vk.com/lwspb

I will be there even if i'll be there alone. For any questions I can be reached by phone +7(911)843-56-44 or social network vk.com/timetravel. Efim.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

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Comment author: efim 03 April 2015 03:12:35PM 7 points [-]

I am reposting my question from February thread since it got no response last time:

Just now I noticed fundraser from CFAR. I checked their 'about' pages and everithing i could find on their long term goals.

Somehow I thought that they were going to release their materials to free use sometime in the future. (It did seem like strange >though pleasant thing), but I coulnd find anything about it this time around.

Was I mistaken about this prospect of publicly available lessons from CFAR curriculum?

Comment author: efim 24 March 2015 10:32:20AM *  5 points [-]

I am stuck at part 2.2: "So in particular, if we could prove that mathematics would never prove a contradiction, then in fact mathematics would prove that contradiction"

I've spend 15 minutes on this, but still cannot see relation to löb's theorem. Even though it seems like it should be obvious to attentive reader.

Could anyone please explain or link me to an explanation?

Comment author: [deleted] 10 March 2015 09:04:32AM 0 points [-]

But if you cannot catch a bus in 30 secs you cannot catch it. So this is something like a very beginner level of HIIT.

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Comment author: efim 10 March 2015 10:37:50AM 1 point [-]

Just for the record I once missed a bus, ran after it and succesfully got on on the next stop. So technically you are wrong here. This is very extreme outlier though.

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