On the other hand, LW!Hermione failed to reproduce this experiment
I'm not sure how wide of an audience this post is targeting, but the !-notation feels gratuitous here. How about:
On the other hand, Hermione (LW user) failed to reproduce this experiment
This is sort of what I say to remind myself that having read some of something isn't a sufficient reason to finish it.
I pasted it into Google just now and found this article quoting it in a similar context.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here."
~ Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib, Irulan, Herbert elder
I've never been able to make sense out of that. It sounds very tough and definite, but what does it mean?
Sometimes, you can spend an expensive five hours hunting on the web for data that a research librarian could retrieve from a reference book in minutes.
~ Pat Wagner
Which occasions? If this were a rationality kata I would immediately ask, "What trigger condition does the person need to recognize that chains into using this technique?"
Wait a while for me to plan the event
This answers what I meant, thanks.
Would anyone be interested?
Yes. But what's the next step?
Please talk to David McRaney (http://youarenotsosmart.com) to see if he'd be interested. His recent book, while far from comprehensive, has become the first place I look whenever I want to reference an accessible explanation of a particular cognitive bias.
Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
~ Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
s/deny/defy
Piotr Woźniak doesn't seem to think lucid dreaming is worth pursuing.
Though speaking from my personal experience, it's pretty fun, and for that you don't have to be good at it; my control was pretty limited (flying is easy).
This feels like it should be a separate post to me.
"FAI" here generally means "Friendly AGI", which would make "FAI is harder than AGI" trivially true.
Perhaps you meant one of the following more interesting propositions:
(Assuming even the sub-problem of Friendliness still has prerequisite part or all of AGI, the latter proposition implies "Friendliness isn't so easy relative to AGI such that progress on Friendliness will lag insignificantly behind progress on AGI.")
This is (morbidly) fascinating, please keep at it.
What is your information diet like? (I mean other than when you engage in focused learning.) Do you regulate it, or do you just let it happen naturally?
By that I mean things like:
Inspired by this question (Eliezer's answer).
This is not much about Singularity Institute as an organization, so I'll just answer it here in the comments.
I couldn't find a better place for this, but today I learned this tip:
A book's table of contents shows you its structure, but don't forget to skim the index too, to get a second look at how its content is distributed.
Effort.
In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one's meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations.
~ Orwell
The DH tier seems to correspond to an upper-bound on the effectiveness of an argument of that tier.
People affected by Charles Bonnet syndrome, according to Wikipedia, are often sane and able to distinguish their hallucinations as hallucinations.
A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions.
~ William Johnson Cory
It took me FOREVER to find http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/User:Cousin_it/Leveling from this page. Is there a way you can edit a link into the OP?
Time affluence is like a wonder drug. It eliminates stress. It increases happiness. It helps you engage the world and increases the chance that you'll stumble into something interesting.
~ Cal Newport
Opinions are like sex, you should change your positions if it feels wrong
~ garcia1000, Witchhunt game
But unlike sex you shouldn't change positions just for fun and novelty.
While you're at it, you might as well practice getting up, getting dressed, making the bed, starting the kettle (or whatever you would do for breakfast), etc.
(Disclaimer: I haven't done this; I've only read about doing it.)