Arthur Milchior

Project Lawful Audiobook: An Unofficial Fan Production with ElevenLabs AI

Thank you a lot. I can't read it. Mostly because using different face for the same character makes the text SO confusing. Having one voice by character makes it so simple to follow. I've been following for a few months thanks to you

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37C3 Hacker x Rationalist Meetup

Plenty of people. Find us on telegram https://t.me/LW37C3

Replying to37C3 Hacker x Rationalist Meetup

37C3 Hacker x Rationalist Meetup

To anyone reading it, the event was moved

Replying to37C3 Hacker x Rationalist Meetup

37C3 Hacker x Rationalist Meetup

Where is the LW meetup room?

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Audition to perform in Bay Secular Solstice

Is there any way to buy a ticket?

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Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022, open for application!

Is there going to be any covid-related precaution? I assume it would be mentioned if so, but I believe an explicit statement is better anyway

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Lies Told To Children

I don't understand one thing about the universe. The test and the fact that this story wind "lies-told-to-children" storytelling night, seems to indicate that most children never hear those dirty-red lies. However, if that causes those children to be raised, to learn, differently than most of the planet, this only mean that the test checks whether those children are actually good, not whether the whole planet education system raises good children. This is especially important as I can imagine and fear that seeing this discrimination for years, then having to act yourselves, has an extremely strong impact on the later behavior of the person. Hopefully a good impact, because they have lived how conformity has been able to impact them for years and how it required an external event for them to do any action helping discriminated people. It's hard for me to imagine that civilization can be sure the remaining of the society is as good without having them actually tested in this realistic way.

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Lies Told To Children

I've a regret that the requirement to write down thoughts only came once. Clearly, there was no way I ever could see where it goes at the time it was requested. However, later, as soon as Red was mentioned, I guessed the end, the tests. Still cried reading it. I suspect that if I didn't know who the author was, I would not have guessed, that seems to unusual for most author authors I love

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Impact of the rationalist community who someone who aspired to be "rational"

The Sword of Good

Please not that the youtube link and Brin's essay are broken link

Remembering people's name with Anki

This is cross posted from my blog and originally intended to people who are not familiar with the rationalist community, or who may have heard about it from external source. If you regularly read this site, the interest may be limited. However, I myself would be interested to read the take of my friends about this question.

For years, I wanted to write about what the aspiring rationalist community meant to me. Seeing a lot of people criticizing it, sometime with argument I agree with, often with ones which does not represents the reality I've seen, I made a twitter thread about it. Threads are helpful because I find it more acceptable to... (read 2286 more words →)

Low hanging fruits (LWCW 2020)

Anki changed my life in a lot of way. But the most obvious one is that, thanks to Anki, I do finally recall people's name ! You can find my example, with my name and picture, on my website.

How I know that anki really works

I'm really bad at remembering faces and names^[1]. With anki, it did change a lot. I started a new job in September 2017 as a post-doc. A month before starting, I went on the website of the laboratory I was joining, and I red the list of my future colleagues. I then created a card with their picture, first-name, last name. If the picture were not on their... (read 991 more words →)

Effective altruism and criticism toward activism: Answer to a paradox

During Less Wrong Community Week-end (Europe), in one event people share low-hanging fruit they used. I chaired it this year and defined low-hanging fruit as something that can be easily bought or done that improved the life. Here is the list of fruits shared in 2020. All typos are mine. "I" usually reflect the one who gave the message and not the author of this blog post.

Water watering bulbs

If you don't know how much to water your plants, if you did too much or not enough, let bulbs do it for you. Examples of bulbs are

Before work time

Reserve some time in the morning, before you head out to work, and invest this... (read 807 more words →)

Advanced Anki (Memorization Software)

Since a little while now, I have been exploring the notion of Effective Altruism - EA for short. My readings on the topic so far have been very interesting [1], and I would like to add my own idea that I deem important and have yet to read elsewhere. If ever this has been written down somewhere, I can at least attest to it being all well too hidden. Personally, I believe that it should be discussed in introductions to the EA topic.

Why is it bad form to critic others' actions

In the groups I have been in, criticizing the actions of another volunteer or activist is very unwelcome. Since the very

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Please bring either (or both!) a laptop or a smartphone for this event!

This event is hosted by Arthur Milchior and Rowan Carson.

Anki is a software that helps you learn things and remember them in the long term. Anki can be used to learn a lot of different topics; I successfully used it to learn music, programming languages, mathematics, name of people, and song lyrics. However, ideally, each topic requires one to use Anki differently.

Depending on the interest of the audience, this event will either be a discussion about how we use Anki efficiently, or I will demonstrate the tricks I created and use daily to get the best out of Anki. Most of

Please bring either (or both!) a laptop or a smartphone for this event!

Anki is a spaced-repetition software that helps people to remember things in the long term. For example, Anki is often used to learn foreign languages and medicine, which both require a lot of memorization. Starting to use Anki may be a little bit tricky and the goal of this event is to help you explore and try the software to see whether you like it.

For the first part, I'll help guide the audience through setting up Anki.

Then, I'll quickly show personal examples explaining how Anki changed my life in many ways, to illustrate what can be done with it. For example:

I now

The trolley problem, and what you should do if I'm on the tracks

This blog post is cross-posted from my personal blog. It will touch on two related topics:

Why and how I applied to MIRI and failed to secure an internship.
My experience at the AI Risk for Computer Scientists workshop (AIRCS).

If you're only interested in the AIRCS workshop, you may skip to the second section directly. Ideally, I'd have liked to make two separate entries, as they may pertain to different points of interest. However, both topics are extremely intertwined to me, and I could not make a clear cut in this experience. I should also note that me failing to secure an internship at MIRI probably have had a drastic impact in how I

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How I use Anki to learn mathematics

Originally published in French. Translation by Épiphanie.

Trigger warning: Death, suicide, and murder. Trolley problem.

This is quite the conventional and ethical conundrum: You are near train tracks, and a train is rolling down the hill. It is going to run over 4 people who are tied to the rails of the main track. However, you can change the train's direction to a secondary track by pulling a lever; so that it runs over only one guy, also tied down the rails. Should you pull the lever?

I do believe there is a more interesting way to frame it: What would you choose if you are yourself tied to the rails, alone, while the train

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