Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2012 11:29:13PM 1 point [-]

I've also gotten a handful of the local LW types into swing dancing. Not exactly a "synchrony" dance (big group all doing the same thing), but a similar effect MAY hold for partner dances (at least towards the people you partner with).

Comment author: realitygrill 07 May 2012 01:23:33AM 0 points [-]

I dance tango a bit and there's definitely people you have affinity for dancing with and not. There's a fair correlation to whom you actually like hanging out with.

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Comment author: Incorrect 22 April 2012 06:49:00AM 0 points [-]

He's ignoring that people might not like how larger muscles look.

And personally (though I don't care much) I would only care about practical athletic ability, not weight lifting.

Comment author: realitygrill 29 April 2012 04:04:25AM 1 point [-]

I understand this line of thought, but.. strength doesn't have to be developed through weights, strength increase doesn't necessarily mean much hypertrophy, and most importantly strength is a prerequisite/accelerator for increasing pretty much all athletic abilities (power, flexibility, endurance..)

Comment author: realitygrill 05 April 2012 05:56:15AM 1 point [-]

I reinvented this method, except using a coin flip, during an urban economics class. We were going to actually conduct surveys in the Detroit area and thus had to learn about the problems with surveys. However my professor didn't seem very excited and pointed out some incentive shortcomings (I was too disappointed to listen too closely), and I got the impression that this is a known method with known limitations.

Comment author: Benquo 04 April 2012 03:45:52PM 3 points [-]

Is there such a thing as human-friendly decorating which is gender non-specific?

I strongly suspect there is. The men's setup was specifically full of masculine-coded adornments (wood, leather), and the women's setup was full of slightly feminine-coded adornments (plants, lots of light).

But I think that there's considerable overlap, and there are also environments that are considered conducive to specific kinds of activities.

For example, most people seem to like dimly lit spaces for romantic activities or "night life" (though personally I hate dimly lit places; light is cheap, why should I struggle to see things?).

OTOH most people like to work in environments with lots of natural light, the "window office," because of the cumulative effect of sunlight on mood. (Being inside and away from the sun all day wears you down. I never noticed this when I was in school because I never spent long periods of time away from the sun. Now that I work in an office it's obvious.)

Comment author: realitygrill 05 April 2012 03:29:53AM 0 points [-]

The reason I've been cited for the dimly lit preference is pupil dilation, a sign of attraction.

Comment author: lukeprog 19 January 2011 10:46:42PM *  1 point [-]

Russell and Norvig do seem to have the only general A.I. textbook out there that I can find...

Comment author: realitygrill 28 March 2012 07:57:52AM 1 point [-]

There's artint.info, which I found helpful during ai-class

Comment author: Alicorn 25 March 2012 02:15:12AM 3 points [-]

I did send in an application to the Center for Modern Rationality but I haven't heard back

Please email me (elcenia@gmail.com) and tell me which types of work you wanted. There has been a spreadsheet-tracking issue, and I'm not sure who I have and haven't reached yet. (I'm considering just mass-mailing everybody on the list with "if you haven't heard from me before, please let me know and I can give you sample work". Thoughts on whether this would be more obnoxious than helpful?)

Comment author: realitygrill 25 March 2012 04:01:52AM 0 points [-]

Useful/helpful.

Comment author: XFrequentist 21 March 2012 07:17:16PM 0 points [-]

They un-retracted the offer at the last minute, and I was able to go.

Comment author: realitygrill 22 March 2012 02:11:29AM 0 points [-]

I found it quite interesting also, especially meeting all those intelligence studies folks.

Comment author: XFrequentist 08 March 2012 03:44:51AM *  2 points [-]

Yes, I'll be going. We should chat!

(No idea why someone would downvote this.)

ETA - Nope! "Offer" of a full stipend not honored 24 hours after it was made. Not cool, Spooks, not cool.

ETA2 - Yup! They came through in the end, I went and it was extremely interesting.

Comment author: realitygrill 11 March 2012 08:47:56PM 0 points [-]

How did you know the offer wasn't honored?

Comment author: realitygrill 11 March 2012 08:47:24PM 0 points [-]

I registered and bought air tickets, but some of the details are confusing me. I'm calling them tomorrow to straighten it out.

Comment author: realitygrill 03 December 2011 06:18:05AM 0 points [-]

Interested, though 10-12 hours seems quite short.

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