All of Crackatook's Comments + Replies

First I definitely agree that prompt is a powerfully simple technique to start my brain. I just follow its direction and almost automatically creates my own answers, reflecting upon past accumulated experiences or discovering new perspective I haven't considered before. Sometimes I experience a deep, focused state which is distinguished from my usual time: A prompt triggered my brain to answer and continue answer. My brain was heated as I wrote more, and if I stop, I feel pressure to continue the excited state of writing and thinking.  When I read CFA... (read more)

This work changed my perspective, or prejudice on fanfiction. Now I am leaning toward the art of fanfictions and I credit and thank you for all of this.  

I suggest not doing so,

trying to complete this exam on your own,

I appreciate this. It reminds me the discussions that solved math problems I can't solve myself, but I worked together and interacted extensively.

O I like these keys. Thank you

I'm not sure I understand the question.

Each time I save progress, vim creates another file. At the end, I have multiple files in addition to the original one. But it seems like it is not supposed to work that way?  

3lsusr
It shouldn't be that way at all. The normal way to save progress while you're editing a file is to type :w followed by the Enter key. If you do this, Vim should write (or overwrite) the file on disk, resulting in a maximum of one file. (I'm ignoring the hidden temporary file.)

p.s. I thought it is going to be foreshadowing after few chapters, but EY writes about it at the end of of this post. And I am surprised again to find my comment at the bottom, haha. 

Hi, I downloaded vim for the first time, after reading your post. It is fascinating program, and learning about it is another interesting experience. Now, I have three things to ask you.

  • Why didn't you write about [ESC] and [i] keys to turn on and off the [vim mode]? I had no idea but just messing with it, before I can activate these cool shortcuts. Hahaha
  • I write stuff and save constantly. In Vim, whenever I save, it creates another file ~[filename], over and over again.  How do we organize files for vim?
  • Lastly, how do we paste outside texts to the vim? :p didn't work.

I just dumped you all these questions, sorry about that, but I appreciate your help much.

3lsusr
* Escape is too far from homerow compared to Ctrl+[. It's better to use Ctrl+[. I wrote about the i key in the "Insert Mode" section. * I'm not sure I understand the question. I take it you mean you save various versions of the same file? For version control, I use Git. * If you're using Vim via the terminal, you can often paste via Ctrl+Shift+v.

Harry again stayed quiet. It had occurred to Harry that there was another obvious way that Lord Voldemort could have avoided his mistake. Something that might perhaps be easier to see given a Muggle upbringing, instead of the wizarding way of looking at things.

Harry had not yet decided whether to tell Professor Quirrell about his thought; there were both pros and cons to pointing out that particular error.

curious...

1Crackatook
p.s. I thought it is going to be foreshadowing after few chapters, but EY writes about it at the end of of this post. And I am surprised again to find my comment at the bottom, haha. 

anytime and always, I am here for you

I wish I can see more comments here...it is too good! to not write anything and not talk about. He is terrifying, of course.

Thanks for the reply! but I still want to know more; I am confused with that Internet says it is the plural form of "Mr.", which isn't the case here.  

3Zack_M_Davis
My guess is that "Msr." was intended as an abbreviation for monsieur (French for mister), in ignorance of the fact that the standard abbreviation is actually just M.

ASHLEY:  Good evening, Msr. Blaine.

BLAINE:  Good evening, Msr. Ashley.

Is this typo? I've never heard of "Msr." however it is used twice as if it is not typo.

Unnamed110

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_title#Other_titles

7Ben Pace
I read it as "Messr" as in

That is so much more clear. Thank you

Elon Musk is an interesting person so I liked this simulation too:) Despite this Elon doesn't know much about himself.

Elon Musk has left chat.

I am confused...so is this an action GPT-3 did? I have no idea if it has an option to quit.  

On the other hand, how did you make the simulated Lsusr responses? This simulated Lsusr feels perfectly like you.

lsusr180

Yes. This is an actual thing GPT-3 did, including the italicization (via markdown). GPT-3 can do whatever it wants as long as the output is text and I choose to publish it.

GPT-3 doesn't have an option to quit. It would have kept outputting text if forever I had asked it to. I felt that was a good stopping point.

I forgot to use the stop sequence option. I manually truncated the output at the end of a statement by Simulated Elon. Without my manual truncation, GPT-3 would continue printing dialog back and forth including lines written for "Lsusr". Most of the time I preferred the lines I wrote myself but sometimes the lines it generated for me were good enough to keep.

Since the simulation interview mentions about cognitive biases, I wonder what kind of bias, or just errors are here. There are several points we are warned again this is fake, but I continue reading and I think it is not me alone who is between entertainment and caution. 

I raise my caution because GPT's responses are limited to the level of making sense. But they make sense greatly. and how just merely making a great sense creates a bias/error? Of course, they are not necessarily fact and we should not believe this writing. 

But if it can be only ... (read more)

Just like everyone here, I am very excited to see this new feature, which sounds like a powerful aid I may like a lot!

About the bar of 100 karma, I view it positively for newcomers. I am well below 100 right now, but I feel like to start accumulating karmas after reading this post. It is like, I can aim for goal--definite and doable-- and unlock something as if I am playing a video game. So far my experience with Lesswrong was slack--I often stopped reading sequences, writing a post sounded like a distant goal, and commenting was a few time event. This is ... (read more)

4lsusr
Your voting power increases with karma.
8Raemon
At 2000 karma you get moderation privileges for your posts. :)

Its stout appearance gave me the impression it will protect me, even at the blast, which my house definitely can’t protect me from haha. Well, it makes sense that concrete will melt in the core of a nuclear explosion. Although I will hide and stay inside the bunker. 

The second doom boom is here, and people are buying bunkers again.

Desire to have a bunker would be more universal at that time. I think the customer pool has become much narrower and maniac these days. For example, the government considering building shelters is absurd this time, but they did in the past. On the other hand, the fallout shelters are one of historical features in the 50s-60s.

The difference between bunkers and water is not just the cost

Sorry, I tried to mean when we were in the cold war era, specific to the nuclear disaster. I just wanted to ... (read more)

1Alex Hollow
I don't think I understand the question. If something is expensive but will definitely (let's say with 99% certainty) save my life (which I think is the sort of thing you are describing as expensive_but_must), I would buy it at almost any cost. 

This post reminds of fallout shelters during the cold war. It can be the most extreme kind of prepping among common people, and it has been the real thing at that time period.All the news and propaganda could have influenced people’s minds and the market for bunkers and shelters had been pretty big, shaping one of the features of the cold one era. Obviously, buying a bunker is not frequent that much anymore and it failed to have a chance to prove its usefulness; we don’t know if they worked against nuclear bombs.  

I have an interesting question, ... (read more)

1Alex Hollow
Are you sure? The second doom boom is here, and people are buying bunkers again. The difference between bunkers and water is not just the cost, but the probability of needing one - there are many non-nuclear-war cases for wanting water on hand. So water has a higher probability of being useful, and a lower cost.
4Stuart Anderson
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ohhh... breaking the second law of thermodynamics...I could have guessed the ending since I am studying thermodynamics this week; I didn't. I first wondered why Scott is just driving to gloomy endings, these could be better than these(honestly, I felt pathetic to green guy. I want to avoid death as an animal, as meat). Then it was more of fiction than a real life simulation. Also the 8 "prompts"  turned out to work as an organic combination nicely.  At the end, I really liked this post!

This happens probably because I assumed he is certain about the topic and I didn't doubt. His message was clear: "Cardiologists are bad." Later I could break this statement because he didn't believe it at first place, as well as the bad reasoning. Notice he pulled the anecdotal evidence again, this time to defend the cardiologist side. We can refute him again, that "You can't convince me by just examples," however, I didn't do it last time I read this. 

Should we doubt writers every time we read something? Yes, to avoid bias. Yes, when you detect bad reasoning. But my default is "read and assume they are right." I feel the necessity to doubt, but I am not certain if that is the right, correct path. 

This conversation reminds about the Measurement Theory. I didn't take it yet, I heard it is an abstract course and applicable to social science. It started from measuring dimensions, and expanded to probability. but for a quick whole picture, it looks very mathematics and no clue how to measure bias, haha.  

The Marshmallow test is observational study, thus we can't conclude anything from here. This is very important to pin point out, but I don't know why nobody is doing it. In observational study, participants are not randomly assigned to treatment, and have a space for confounding variables. We can just bring up wealth, former experience, parenting, personality, etc to try to explain the test, while no one is sure which one is the most influential factor. We can only tell "there is an association between A and B" in the observational study.

But in experiment,... (read more)