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When you read a comment how often are you consciously aware of who wrote it? How often do you read the username before you read the comment?
[link] The World's Most Powerful MRI Takes Shape
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/the-worlds-most-powerful-mri-takes-shape
Standard hospital scanners have a spatial resolution of about 1 millimeter, covering about 10 000 neurons, and a time resolution of about a second. The INUMAC will be able to image an area of about 0.1 mm, or 1000 neurons, and see changes occurring as fast as one-tenth of a second, according to Pierre Védrine, director of the project at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, in Paris
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Why are so many rationalists polyamorous? I don't see why this idea is linked to the LW ideology, unlike transhumanism, atheism, effective altruism, etc. which all seem to follow logically.
Not being poly and only a bit rational (so far), I'll only propose
- Is polyamory actually higher amongst LW people than the general population? Do you just have more exposure to polyamorous LW people than a wider polyamorous population?
- Do polyamorous LW people talk about their polyamory more than polyamorous non-LW people?
The most basic is that as far as I can tell, I had never been hit on while wearing glasses, and that started happening regularly.
Reading failure, "never been hit on" is very different to "never been hit". It sounded wrong when I (mis)read, and I didn't notice.
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Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013
There's something that happens to me with an alarming frequency, something that I almost never (or don't remember) see being referenced (and thus I don't know the proper name). I'm talking about that effect when I'm reading a text (any kind of text, textbook, blog, forum text) and suddenly I discover that two minutes passed and I advanced six lines in the text, but I just have no idea of what I read. It's like a time blackhole, and now I have to re-read it.
Sometimes it also happens in a less alarming way, but still bad: for instance, when I'm reading something that is deliberately teaching me an important piece of knowledge (as in, I already know whathever is in this text IS important) I happen to go through it without questioning anything, just "accepting" it and a few moments later it suddenly comes down on me when I'm ahead: "Wait... what, did he just say 2 pages ago that thermal radiation does NOT need matter to propagate?" and I have again to go back and check that I was not crazy.
While I don't know the name of this effect, I have asked some acquantainces of mine about that, while some agreed that they have it others didn't. I would like very much to eliminate this flaw, anybody knows what I could do to train myself not to do it or at least the correct name so I can research more about it?
If it's material you want to/are required to learn from try taking notes as you read the material, to force yourself to recall it in your own terms/language.
If it's just recreational/online reading try increasing the font size/spacing or decreasing the browser width, or using a browser extension like readability. Don't scroll with the scroll bar or the mouse wheel - use pg up/pg down to make it easier to keep your position.
Seconded. I had NO IDEA how much discrimination I suffered for wearing glasses until I gave them up. Contacts might be a better alternative if you expect to be wearing Google Glasses in a few years anyway though.
I had NO IDEA how much discrimination I suffered for wearing glasses until I gave them up.
I'm intrigued. What was the nature of the discrimination? How did you know glasses/not-glasses was the cause? Any specific examples?
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Open thread, March 17-31, 2013
Family Fortunes Pub Quiz
On a Sunday night I take part in a pub quiz. It's based on a UK quiz show called Family Fortunes, which in turn is based on the US show Family Feud. To win you must answer all 5 questions correctly, the correct answer is whatever was the most popular answer in a survey of 100 people.
I'm curious to see if LessWrong does better than me.
We asked 100 people...
- Name a part of your body that you'v had removed
- Name something you might wave at a Football match
- Name a female TV presenter
- Name a country that has only 5 letters in it's name
- Fact or fiction, name a famous pirate
Rules/notes
- In the pub you may not use the internet/reference material, but given the international audience I'll relax that rule.
- The questions are reproduced verbatim e.g. any ambiguity/odd wording you see was present to start with.
- Submit just the SHA1 hash of your answer, or your answer ROT13d - to keep it fairish/avoid spoilers.
- Include a second answer for any questions, if you wish. It won't count, except for "I knew it!" moments
- I'll reveal my answers and the correct answers no later than 72 hours from now (sha1 b91d4589b142dbf8c567dae83d3e4d7b18c4e826).
- You can work individually or as a team, your choice.
As promised, the answers rot13 here so people can still choose to play, and unsullied so you can verify the hash
My answers (2nd, unsubmitted guess in brackets)
- Gbbgu
- Fpnes (Synt)
- Svban Oehpr (Hyevxn Wbuaffba)
- Vgnyl (Jnyrf)
- Wnpx Fcneebj (Oynpx orneq)
Correct answers:
- Gbbgu (grrgu npprcgrq)
- Synt
- Qnivan Znppnhy
- Fcnva
- Wnpx Fcneebj
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Open thread, March 17-31, 2013
Family Fortunes Pub Quiz
On a Sunday night I take part in a pub quiz. It's based on a UK quiz show called Family Fortunes, which in turn is based on the US show Family Feud. To win you must answer all 5 questions correctly, the correct answer is whatever was the most popular answer in a survey of 100 people.
I'm curious to see if LessWrong does better than me.
We asked 100 people...
- Name a part of your body that you'v had removed
- Name something you might wave at a Football match
- Name a female TV presenter
- Name a country that has only 5 letters in it's name
- Fact or fiction, name a famous pirate
Rules/notes
- In the pub you may not use the internet/reference material, but given the international audience I'll relax that rule.
- The questions are reproduced verbatim e.g. any ambiguity/odd wording you see was present to start with.
- Submit just the SHA1 hash of your answer, or your answer ROT13d - to keep it fairish/avoid spoilers.
- Include a second answer for any questions, if you wish. It won't count, except for "I knew it!" moments
- I'll reveal my answers and the correct answers no later than 72 hours from now (sha1 b91d4589b142dbf8c567dae83d3e4d7b18c4e826).
- You can work individually or as a team, your choice.
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What's the name of the bias/fallacy/phenomenon where you learn something (new information, approach, calculation, way of thinking, ...) but after awhile revert to the old ideas/habits/views etc.?
I can't think of an academic name, the common phrases in Britain are 'stuck in your ways', 'bloody minded', 'better the the devil you know'.