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It's been so long since I wrote anything.

I work from home. I don't love it - I feel bad at the end of the day unless I spend some time outside the house. I usually try to make time to go out for coffee after lunch or in the morning. Sometimes I work while I am there, sometimes it's more about escaping from work for a few hours.

I have 4 places that are usually on the cards:

The big chain coffee place

This is closest to home, a 10 minute walk. Their flat white is ok. The ambiance is nice and they have some reasonable cake slices. The wi-fi is, surprisingly, crap.

I rarely go... (read 834 more words →)

Gust's Shortform

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Replying toBook Recommendations for social skill development?

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Book Recommendations for social skill development?

A more charitable interpretation is that they are trying to assume less, going a little more meta and explaining the general problem, instead of focusing on specifics that they thing are important, but might not really be.

A failure mode when people don't try to do this is the user that asks a software developer to "just add a button that allows me to autofill this form", when maybe there's an automation that renders the form totally unnecessary.

Replying toSão Paulo SSC Meetup

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São Paulo SSC Meetup

Hi, I'm the organizer. If you're in São Paulo or nearby, please show up! We'll have an introduction to rationality for newcomers, and talk about Systems 1 and 2, Units of Exchange and Goal Factoring.

You can get more details on the Meetup.com event https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/Racionalidade-em-Sao-Paulo/events/253667078/ or the Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/255536928394025/

Replying toProblem Solving with Mazes and Crayon

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Problem Solving with Mazes and Crayon

There's this http://miegakure.com/ in development for several years now

5-minute timer tool

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This is a 5-minute timer with a textarea that becomes readonly when the timer runs off. This might be useful for people doing resolve cycles, or people telling other people about resolve cycles!

(You can just link them to the page and say “Go to this site and solve your problem in five minutes!“)

[Programming related remarks below]

I also took this as an opportunity to experiment with React state management, as the main App class started to get pretty big. Ended up implementing something akin to Redux, but in a way I think could be made type-safe if built with Flow or TypeScript. I would like to hear about any library that implements something... (read more)

Welcome to Racionalidade SP [Edit With Your Details]

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(The following are our suggestions for what kind of information is best to include in the welcome post of your group, feel free to replace them with whatever you think is best)

What kind of events does your group usually run? What does it usually do?

How frequently does your group organize events or meet?

Who would be a good fit for you group?

Should they have any particular skills or have done some specific background reading?

Surely, rhetorical question?

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I just finished Daniel Dennett’s Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking. In the book, Dan exposes the reader to several concepts, thought experiments and red flags one may find relevant to the quest of philosophy. I thought I’d share a couple I found very practical, along with an exercise where we can apply them.

Cooperative model knob-turning

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(Cross-posted from my medium channel)

When you are trying to understand something by yourself, a useful skill to check your grasp on the subject is to try out the moving parts of your mental model and see if you can simulate the resulting changes.

Suppose you want to learn how a rocket works. At the bare minimum, you should be able to calculate the speed of the rocket given the time past launch. But can you tell what happens if Earth gravity was stronger? Weaker? What if the atmosphere had no oxygen? What if we replaced the fuel with Diet Coke and Mentos?

To really understand something, it's not enough to be able to predict... (read 1538 more words →)

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Interactive model knob-turning

What do you mean, in this context?

Interactive model knob-turning

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(Please discuss on LessWrong 2.0)

(Cross-posted from my medium channel)

When you are trying to understand something by yourself, a useful skill to check your grasp on the subject is to try out the moving parts of your model and see if you can simulate the resulting changes.

To really understand something, it's not enough to be... (read 1483 more words →)

Replying to5 Project Hufflepuff Suggestions for the Rationality Community

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5 Project Hufflepuff Suggestions for the Rationality Community

I follow several programming newsletters, and I don't have context to fully understand and appreciate most links they share (although I usually have a general idea about what they are talking about). It's still very valuable to me find out about new stuff in the field.

I'd patreon a few dollars for something like this.

Replying toMeetup : LessWrong Sao Paulo monthly meetup

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Meetup : LessWrong Sao Paulo monthly meetup

Going!

Replying toIdeas for rationality slogans?

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Ideas for rationality slogans?

Second one!

Replying toPredict - "Log your predictions" app

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Predict - "Log your predictions" app

Thanks! I'll look into adding tags and timeframes. I'm not sure how to do that without the layout getting too crowded.

Replying toPredict - "Log your predictions" app

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Predict - "Log your predictions" app

Check the link below, v0.2. Should be working now!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/59redws46ncdiax/predict_v0.2.apk?dl=0

Predict - "Log your predictions" app

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As an exercise on programming Android, I've made an app to log predictions you make and keep score of your results. Like PredictionBook, but taking more of a personal daily exercise feel, in line with this post.

The "statistics" right now are only a score I copied from the old Credence calibration game, and a calibration bar chart.

I'm hoping for suggestionss for features and criticism on the app design.

Here's the link for the apk (v0.4), and here's the source code repository. You can download it at Google Play Store.

Pending/Possible/Requested Features:

Set check-in dates for predictions
Tags (and stats by tag)
Stats by timeframe
Beeminder integration
Trivia questions you can answer if you don't have any personal prediction to

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Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo, Brazil - Meetup at Base Sociedade Colaborativa

WHEN: 27 June 2015 01:00:00PM (-0300)

WHERE: Rua Maestro Elias Lobo, 923, São Paulo, Brazil

Let's have a meetup a talk a bit about rationality and rationalism in Brazil!

This is not a LessWrong only event (afaik, there are not many LWers around here), so any news and discussions about the meetup will happen primarily in the facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/815839175152653/815899785146592/

Please join us there!

Proposed activities are: - Short talks (~20min) about organizations and projects to spread rationality raise the sanity waterline; - Discussion tables about interesting stuff

Again, please join the event on Facebook!

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo, Brazil - Meetup at Base Sociedade Colaborativa

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

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Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

WHEN: 23 April 2012 07:30:00PM (-0300)

WHERE: 1034 Alameda Santos, São Paulo, Brasil

Brazilians, Unite!

Our last meeting was great. Let's do that again! I hope everybody who couldn't go to the last one show up this time.

Meeting point: Starbucks at Alameda Santos with Alameda Campinas. Later we may go somewhere and eat something.

I'll be there at 19:30 with a copy of "Good and Real" on the table.

Cya!

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

Meetup : São Paulo Meetup

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Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meetup

WHEN: 14 March 2012 07:00:00PM (-0300)

WHERE: 1034 Alameda Santos, São Paulo, Brasil

I have no idea whether there are people in the area, but I guess it's worth a shot. In this first meetup I hope we can get know each other and plan the next ones.

I'm still thinking about a good place to do this, please offer any ideas you have. Somewhere near a Metro station would be great (maybe near Avenida Paulista?).

If you think another date and/or time would be better, say it in a comment. And PLEASE comment here if you live nearby, even if you can't show up!

EDIT: Meeting point: the Starbucks at Alameda Santos with Alameda Campinas.

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Predict - "Log your predictions" app

Surely, rhetorical question?

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

5-minute timer tool

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5-minute timer tool

Welcome to Racionalidade SP [Edit With Your Details]

Surely, rhetorical question?

Cooperative model knob-turning

Interactive model knob-turning

Predict - "Log your predictions" app

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Predict - "Log your predictions" app

Surely, rhetorical question?

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

5-minute timer tool

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Gust's Shortform

5-minute timer tool

Welcome to Racionalidade SP [Edit With Your Details]

Surely, rhetorical question?

Cooperative model knob-turning

Interactive model knob-turning

Predict - "Log your predictions" app

The big chain coffee place

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo, Brazil - Meetup at Base Sociedade Colaborativa

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo, Brazil - Meetup at Base Sociedade Colaborativa

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : São Paulo Meetup