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starting strength.
drink milk.
by the time you stop getting gains through this method you will be in amazing shape.
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Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic.
I don't really get why people downvote at all. I don't do so unless I feel very strongly about something - a comment explaining my disagreement or disapproval is more productive, doesn't make the downvotee feel bad, and I frequently get karma because people will upvote my comment. Win-win-win.
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Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic.
I rarely if ever downvote someone's initial post on a conversation branch, even if poorly formed. I'll ask them to clarify their position and if they have a massive rationality failure in their response to this THEN I downvote.
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A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
that an animal would prefer inferior fruit it expected to eat over superior fruit it did not expect to eat, is exactly the kind of irrational behavior that we might hope the pressures of evolution would preclude. What observations tell us, however, is that these behaviors do occur.
So that's why people don't feel happy to learn about super effective counterintuitive ways of doing things! Especially when they require an explicit assumption that previously expected-to-work behaviors won't.
I think I'm going to go try and nurture more of a sense that more is possible. Hopefully that should make me warmer to unexpectedly good ways of doing things.
I really like the phrase "More is Possible."
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LINK: Ben Goertzel; Does Humanity Need an "AI-Nanny"?
lists of friendliness conditions are known to be stupid. this is an obvious failure mode.
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Meetup : San Jose Start of College Meetup
I start attendance there this semester as well. Meet in the CS club room initially then figure out something from there?
As for meetups in the area you know about the mountain view meetup 15 minutes away yes?
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'Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures' (Yudkowsky, 2011)
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'Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures' (Yudkowsky, 2011)
strange that was downvoted with no explanation.
Yes, but Buffett continued his success for a long time after he'd already been publicly noticed. If you start with a million people, it shouldn't surprise you if someone gets 20 heads in a row- but if they get 30, you need to look for other hypotheses.
I'm not saying buffet isn't a good investor. Just that he is far less good than the popular narrative. Investor success follows a pareto distribution. There's always going to be someone like Buffet.
In the hindsight these people (Soros, Buffett etc.) may sound like geniuses, and maybe some of them are, there is no way to know.
Buffett has been so good for so long that the only plausible way it could be random chance is if he secretly possesses a doomsday device that he activates whenever his investments go sufficiently sour.
Agree for most other successful investors, though.
If I start flipping a coin and half the population guesses heads and half tails and I eliminate the half that guesses wrong, I will eventually wind up with one person with an unprecedented prediction streak.
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Theory of Knowledge (rationality outreach)
There are 2 such schools in San Jose. Anyone else in the area interested?
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I'm skeptical because of the huge differences in male and female dominant strategies for mating*. I think poly can work, but that a lot of people who consider themselves poly just haven't run into a highly frictional situation yet or have put their fingers in their ear and are shouting "lalalala".
*I should note that I'm also extremely skeptical of monogamy. The situation that makes men and women happiest seems to involve some (sometimes a lot) of unhappiness in their partners.