I could really benefit from a better note taking system such as the one you mention in item 2. Could you give me some pointers for improving note taking? Relatedly, what system/app do you use for the note taking?
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This is fantastic Malcolm, thank you!
Good point, thank you.
I recently got into practicing meditation, and got a lot out of the old LW posts about it. I was wondering if there is any interest to have a meditation retreat for rationalists?
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Alternative title: How To Live For Very Very Long And Yet Not Live At All.
Upvoted for phaticness
I'm signed up for the programming one. This'll be my first time at CFAR. pretty excited!
I am not currently married.
I'm trying to decide whether to marry someone, but I'm having a lot of trouble deciding. Anyone have any advice?
1) do you plan on spending a long period of time in a relationship with someone?
2) you have a job where they will get benefits from being married to you or vice versa?
3) do you expect to have children or buy property soon?
4) do you hang out with people who care whether or not you're married rather than just a long-term couple?
5) do you expect the other person to ever leave you and take half your stuff?
6) do you want to have a giant ceremony?
7) do you live in a country where you get tax credits or something for being married?
8) do you expect yourself or the...
Other than in special circumstance, I think marriage is one of these occasions where "having trouble deciding" pretty clearly means "NO".
Does anyone know of a way to convert .anki files to .apkg files?
I recently started using anki, but most of the decks I downloaded are .anki, and can't be opened by ankidroid...
It would be completely random, with all events being equally likely at every point in time. It would have no history, since the past has no effect on the present or future
Is there some reason this article hasn't been promoted to the frontpage?
But, from the article:
you can nonetheless take many literary professors and separately show them new pieces of writing by unknown authors and they'll all independently arrive at the same answer, in which case they're clearly detecting some sensory-visible feature of the writing.
Seems like what I was saying...
I don't understand the part about post-utopianism being meaningless. If people agree on what the term means, and they can read a book and detect (or not) colonial alienation, and thus have a test for post-utopianism, and different people will reach the same conclusions about any given book, then how exactly is the term meaningless?
and hence normal people's acceptance that nerd-contradictory things can be normal-"true" at the same time.
Namespaced that for you.
It leads to annoyance for me. Whenever you switch into a tab, it starts loading (from the point of view of someone who wasn't aware the page hadn't loaded, it seemed to be reloading). As soon as I saw BrassLion's post, I went into the options and disabled it.
I'm moving to Seattle in September. If you're looking to move in that area, send me a PM or comment.
So which audiobooks would you recommend?
despite what anyone, including EY, says.
I'm pretty sure I recall that EY says (repeatedly) that the Born rule is not yet understood.
What's a liveblog?
The old wizard reached out toward another metal door, from behind which came a endless dead mutter, "I'm not serious, I'm not serious, I'm not serious..." The red-golden phoenix on his shoulder was already screaming urgently, and the old wizard was already wincing, when -
I'm not too sure Sirius has been Azkabanned at all...
So, should I start consuming butter half-sticks?
Yeah. I mean the idea of scheduling a time for people to massively go in there, sounds like a good idea.
Looks like DC has one (TEDxDupontCircle). I think I will go.
Also, the LW chat room sounds like a great idea.
Hey, I've been doing this for a few days and it's been extremely helpful. Thank you for posting this!
A bit more about it: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9z4/on_journaling/5vdf
inspired by this post: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9t2/what_are_you_working_on_february_2012/5u5g
I recently started tracking any time I interrupt my work. What I do is write down in my e-journal what time I stopped working (dog needs to be walked, check reddit, bathroom break, etc.) and what time I resumed work. I also write next to each stop time the cumulative time I've been working (on that day). It's really helpful to see how much time of pure solid work you've done and has helped me work for longer.
Quick question, what website do you use for your journal?
Thank you, this seems very interesting. I'll try it out soon.
The link you gave is now invalid...
It is strongly implied by canon and Word of God (JKR) that: Qhzoyrqber naq Tevaqryjnyq jrer ybiref.
That duel was a faked show, it never really happened, at least not in the way people were led to believe it did.
Yeah, it sees some decent use every day.
Cryptonomicon was awesome.
No that's from me.
It might be a good idea to hold it in Bethesda or some other city in Montgomery County, MD, as there seem to be a lot of LWers from MoCo. (I'm in MoCo as well).
But I'd go to a meetup in DC just the same.
No, I got an email saying you were sending it, but it wasn't attached.
Lol that was me.
Done.
Absolutely, I'd love to.
I'm glad this is actually happening, and at great speed.
I hereby commit to doing exercises for 'Belief in Belief' and 'Bayesian Judo' by what appears to be our standard commitment: Deliver by April 17, 2011 or downvote to -10
Note: It'll be a combined exercise for those two articles as they're very related.
I propose we make a series of exercises to go along with the articles of the sequences. These exercises could help readers know how well they understood the material as well as help them internalize it better.
This looks like another of the good ideas people have on here that then doesn't get done. I'm sick of that happening.
If folkTheory creates one exercise as an example, I will make another. I hereby commit to this. If I don't follow through within 2 weeks of folkTheory posting his example, please downvote this comment to negative 10. FolkTheory, please PM me when you have yours so I make sure I see it. Thanks.
Everybody else who wants to see this succeed, feel free to post a similar comment.
EDIT: I'm doing an exercise for Words As Hidden Inferences, and will ...
Hello and welcome! I love your enthusiasm for learning!
Yes, feel free to ask things in the discussion threads.