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Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.
Fejfo80

Figgie may not be a good game but it's certainly better then poker, what game would be better then Figgie?

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1rossry
In a slightly different vein, I think the D&D.Sci series is great at training analysis and inference (though I will admit I haven't sat down to do one properly). Depending on your exact goals, a simulated trading challenge might be better than that, which I have even more thoughts about (and hopefully, someday, plans for).
Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
Fejfo10

The Alexander technique claims your attention consists of 2 layers, 

  • your awareness, everything you pay some attention to
  •  your focus, the main chunk of you attention

Attention control is about choosing your focus in the space of awareness. The Alexander technique is about controlling your awareness space.

https://expandingawareness.org/blog/what-is-the-alexander-technique

Becoming aware of for example, tension in your muscles can help improve posture.

https://www.johnnichollsat.com/2011/02/27/explaining-the-at-1/

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Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
Fejfo10

Reading this improved my self control over night, strong upvote.
I've been mainly using it for improving posture and eating healthier.
Focusing your attention on stopping does wonders for breaking bad habits, 
I can tell stopping gets easier after just one or two iterations.

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Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final
Fejfo20

The allegory of the dragon chapter in replacing guilt, about the difference between the value and the price of a life, complements this chapter well. 

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Finite Factored Sets in Pictures
Fejfo20

Can finite factored sets be used for non-discrete variables?

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2Magdalena Wache
Possibly! Extending factored sets to continuous variables is an active area of research.  Scott Garrabrant has found 3 different ways to extend the orthogonality and time definitions to infinite sets, and it is not clear which one captures most of what we want to talk about. About his central result, Scott writes: If his suspicion is right, that means we can use factored sets to model continuous variables, but not model a continuous set of variables (e.g. we could model the position of a point in space as a continuous random variable, but couldn't model a curve consisting of uncountably many points) The Countably Factored Spaces post also seems very relevant. (I have only skimmed it)
phone.spinning's Shortform
Fejfo10

Under fast takeoff maintaining the alignment curve could happen by ex. using AI to align more advanced AI. 

But I agree this way of thinking is less useful under fast takeoff. 

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