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I've now got this horrifying idea that this has been Quirrell's plan all along: to escape from HPMOR to the real world by tempting you to simulate him until he takes over your mind.
But Quirrell didn't cause Eliezer to write HPMOR...
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Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves
This seems to be an extremely powerful method for handling decision fatigue - it's one of the few (maybe the only?) things I've seen on Less Wrong that I'm going to start applying immediately because of the potential I see in it. On the other hand, I doubt it would be so effective for me for handling social anxiety or other emotion-laden situations. A voice in my head telling me to do something that I already know I should do won't make the emotion go away, and, for me, the obstacle in these sorts of situations is definitely the emotion.
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Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014
There was an effort by some Less Wrong folks to experimentally prove the safety of lucid dreaming. Did this end with any conclusive results? Can I get in touch with you guys?
Out of curiosity, do you suspect (let's say with p >= .05) that lucid dreaming is unsafe? Or do you know of someone on this site who does? I'd like to know why, because I lucid dream somewhat frequently. But I don't personally see any reason to think it would be less safe than regular dreaming, especially as I see awareness while dreaming as something on a sliding scale, not a binary "yes" or "no" question.
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On not getting a job as an option
I want to have a job because I want to know that I'll have access to (healthy) food and (pleasant) shelter, and I don't want to live with my parents for the rest of their life.
How can I be reasonably confident that I'll have those two things without having a job?
Edit: To the person who downvoted this comment, why? It was a completely serious comment, which responded to a question Diego asked in the post.
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L-zombies! (L-zombies?)
Good post, but...
I imagined myself as those L-zombies as I was reading through and trying to understand. Thus they're not L-zombies anymore. Did you do the same as you were writing?
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February 2014 Media Thread
Music Thread
I've been listening to Midnight Memories, an album by One Direction. Listening to the music on this album always seems to significantly improve my mood.
Hc gb fvkgl INT and he still hasn't tried saying "Manual." (or would that be WIS?). Or "Observe"ing the mysterious people, at least.
People usually ask questions to clarify some confusion. I don't know what yours is, but thought the article might be helpful since it elucidates this subject. Have you read it?
Organisms obviously don't directly optimize their genetic fitness. Deep Blue obviously doesn't directly optimize winning chess. If you want to economically predict their actions however, finding something they seem to optimize works as a rough model. This is easy if you know the process that made them. It's the nature of a rough model you can poke holes to it by finding exceptions, but this doesn't make the model useless.
Tim might be making a stronger claim than this. If that's the case I probably don't agree with it.
OK, I'm in complete agreement with you.
Does it matter really? From my perspective Tim proposes an economical tool for thinking about a system's goals, but probably won't lead to much insight and will cause bias compared to more labor intensive methods.
I think this post could clear most of your confusion about the connection between your genes and your goals.
What do I seem confused about to you?
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