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Try it-- "species" is definitely messy.
All of the organisms descended from a most recent common ancestor; we pick the MRCA semi-arbitrarily based on criteria like "sexual compatibility of descendents".
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The Bay Area Solstice
Near the Pacific Northwest? Come to the Seattle Secular Solstice!
Any more info available about this than what's on http://lesswrong.com/meetups/16r? It's on my calendar but I don't have much info about it and would definitely like to see it happening. I may be able to help out, if there's something needed.
Note: Explicitly not bragging here, just mentioning potentially-relevant info: I'm also looking into starting a Sequences-reading/discussing group with some other local aspiring rationalists. I know at least one of them is also working on the Secular Solstice thing.
I should focus more on making these things happen.
More info on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/929245180436645
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Inspired by Raymond Arnold's Secular Solstice, we're putting together something similar. There will be song and dance and food and drink and small amounts of fire, reflecting on the darkness of the world and the light in it that is us. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/929245180436645
Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Secular Solstice
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October 2014 Bragging thread.
I'm starting to get involved with the Seattle EA/LW group, and helping organize a Secular Solstice in Seattle.
Deal with it, internalized social anxiety.
The tithe is a well-established Schelling point, and one that I follow. 10% Jaibot and Bride of Jaibot of income goes to GiveWell's top charities. I Use Google's one-a-day app for non-optimal warm fuzzies, and I pitch in to explicitly rationalist causes like MIRI or helping a dying person afford cryonics.
(here is where I notice Ambien kicking in. Post becomes less reliably representative of Jai from here on out.
The important thing is to measure yourself against what you are: You are a human. Humans are not very good at world optimization, when left to their own devices. They knock things over and cheat and steal - and some goof comes of it, sometimes...but if you can take actions to make life better for people, at all, you're already winning. You made the choice that almost no one else made, the choice which you amplified and echoes after you made it: "I want to help. I realy want to help. I don't mean "look busy" or "be complimented", I mean "alter the state of the world such that everyine gets the things they would want if they were better at being the sort of person I want them to gtow ::falls down::
Note from a week later: I have no memory of writing this and find it hilarious. I still endorse the general message, if not the descent into semi-madness.
The important thing is not to burn out, which would substantially reduce future giving. Right now I'm aiming only to max out Google's $6K/year matching limit. I probably won't increase that until I have a lot of savings, like on the order of several months of salary. Then if my partner is OK with it I'll head towards giving 10%, and after that I'd hope to give away 50% of future pay rises; whether we go beyond that will depend on how our income and outgoings compare at that point.
I wouldn't pay any attention to any comments that don't discuss the commenter's giving, by the way! You would probably get more informative answers if the question was "How did you decide how much of your income to give to charity?"
The tithe is a well-established Schelling point, and one that I follow. 10% Jaibot and Bride of Jaibot of income goes to GiveWell's top charities. I Use Google's one-a-day app for non-optimal warm fuzzies, and I pitch in to explicitly rationalist causes like MIRI or helping a dying person afford cryonics.
(here is where I notice Ambien kicking in. Post becomes less reliably representative of Jai from here on out.
The important thing is to measure yourself against what you are: You are a human. Humans are not very good at world optimization, when left to their own devices. They knock things over and cheat and steal - and some goof comes of it, sometimes...but if you can take actions to make life better for people, at all, you're already winning. You made the choice that almost no one else made, the choice which you amplified and echoes after you made it: "I want to help. I realy want to help. I don't mean "look busy" or "be complimented", I mean "alter the state of the world such that everyine gets the things they would want if they were better at being the sort of person I want them to gtow ::falls down::
"They"? The author is Steven Pinker.
"They" can be singular or plural.
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There's technically six more hours of story time for a time-turned Dumbledore to show up, before going on to get trapped. He does mention that he's in two places during the mirror scene.
Dumbledore has previously stated that trying to fake situations goes terribly wrong, so there could be some interesting play with that concept and him being trapped by the mirror.
Mirro!Dumbledore appears to not be time-turned: 110 was edited so that Dumbledore says:
That doesn't sound like he just spun back - it sounds like there might be more than one Dumbledore running around.