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The demand for products (and indirectly for labor to produce these products) will fall too, won't it?

3Steven Byrnes
Yeah, rents and housing prices would be a better example :-P

GMT+1? Isn't it a GMT (ahem, UTC) +2 in Norway now?

2FourFire
My apologies, you are correct, I'll simplify my posts in the future in order to avoid potential confusion.

Duolingo (https://duolingo.com/) makes language learning much more fun by using gamification. Silly, but it works - why would a sound of fanfares and a golden cup picture on a screen would make a learning more enjoyable? But it does.

1lelf
Duolingo cannot do Mandarin, but there's very much alike and free http://chinese-skill.com/cs.html [only for android/ios].

Learned helplessness, if that counts as a bias. Anchoring otherwise. Both are hard to overcome even one if aware of them, and decrease quality of judgement badly.

For the whole human race I'd dispense with availability heuristic, which would heal a political system and decision-making in democratic countries a lot (not due to individual politicians having radically better judgement individually, but due to decreased pressure from voters swayed by rare, but spectacular events).

Hello.

My name is Mikhail, and I have been lurking on LW for a several months, mostly reading sequences. I have discovered this site after reading HPMoR, as no doubt many had.

I'm a practitioner of GTD, and I am looking for

  • supplementing understood low-level practices of performing things with metaalgorithms for decision making and planning

  • improving tactics / learning tricks for handling low-level tasks which don't come naturally to me (such as learning languages), and hence cannot be efficiently done by regular planning / execution process

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