I'm missing something here, I filled in the public and private and keys, but saw no game theory problem. Are we being given equal chances of the monetary reward?

Anyway, fun survey.

Is anyone in Oregon interested in a meetup?

For the questions about the many worlds hypothesis, and whether we are living in a simulation, it seems to me that there is no way to know the truth, because the world would look just the same, but it may sometimes be useful to think as if they were true? Or am I just missing something fundamental?

I enjoyed reading about the MONETARY REWARD.

Hi, I grew up in an atheist family, and always considered myself to be a scientific person, but then I came acros HPMOR on fanfiction.net and I realised that I knew nothing about rationality. So I have been trying to make my beliefs less wrong. I would be happy to add rationalists on Google+. You can find me here.

I have two major entities in by mind, My Brain, and Me. My brain is heavily influenced by chemistry, such as tiredness, and blood sugar levels, and does all the thinking. Me is not affected so much by such things. However, Me has a very limited amount of control over my Brain. If Me forces my Brain to do somthing that it really does not want to do, then it will tire out Me and render it more difficult to force my Brain to do something, until Me's control is replenished, which is a slow process. Me has basically no cognitive faculties, and must make my Brain do the thinking, but talking is a free move, and Me is capable of recognizing and commenting on many cognitive biases as my brain thinks. My brain often will listen to these comments and stop following those faulty lines of thought, because my reword center gives it some dopamine when it makes its thoughts less wrong.

Possible causes for this lack of control:

1. Me is using its power for unnecessary thing all the time, and so when it is needed it is tiered.
2. I have a genetic lack of power for Me to control my Brain.

Solutions:

1. If problem 1, I could try to catch Me controlling my Brain unnecessarily, and stop it.
2. Training my inner rat. If problems 1 or 2, I could get the reward center to give my brain dopamine when it does what it should do, so that Me would not have to make it to do as much. Then Me to conserve its strength.
3. Practices. If 1 is true then this has been tried without success, but if not then it may allow Me to increase its strength of control over my Brain.

Additional thoughts:

My Brain, which I have been conspiring to subjugate to the will of Me, is what has been writing all this, with very little control from Me, probable because it gets dopamine for ‘making clover plan to defeat enemy’. My brain doesn't know that the enemy it is making the clever plan against is itself. Me knows that writing this it a good thing, and so encourages my brain to be happy when doing this, so that it will try to do it more.