LESSWRONG
LW

All of JayMon's Comments + Replies

My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
JayMon10

Question, if you know. What's the Jordanian construction sector like? While building a pipeline may only weakly protect the jobs of the Amman farmers, are local companies/contractors involved in the pipeline's construction?

Does the pipeline go to any other areas which may be exploitable in the future? Do you know what the relations were like with the Southern Desert families? This could be an attempt to push out a faction and install another.

Reply
1Tim Liptrot
Great questions! You questions highlight a few minor contributing factors. They actually contracted it to a Turkish company, GAMA, because they lacked the capacity. Not really. In theory it could be linked to western Disi but they left the farms there. They would probably just build a new pipeline to the Gulf of Aqaba to decrease energy cost bc Pythagoras. The GoJ exempted locally owned tribes, but it did become less popular locally. The central desert families north of Disi (Ma'an) are considered a strategic tribe and get special treatment, but the Disi tribes don't. They get to flirt with a lot of tourist girls tho. That was part of it. The farms which were closed were mostly owned by Palestinian elite families. So the rival transjordanian elites in the military were happy to see them go. But they would never pay a billion for that pleasure. See Keulertz.
How do you organise your reading?
JayMon30

Interesting idea, the only thing I can think of adding is maybe add tagging to the system. In the case of your media: eg, if you feel like watching Sci-Fi you can run a search to retrieve some of the highest recommendations from your backlog. Of those you may have results that come back with anime, Western, and foreign live-action results. If there's a specific type of show you want you could then add that tag to your results (anime+sci-fi) to get a more precise list of recommendations.

Tagging could be both top-level (as above, picking Sci-Fi doesn... (read more)

Reply
1bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv
In case you're still somewhat interested by LiTOY, I mentionned it here in a comment : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lwqb3zsPzTpMNNAvX/starting-too-many-projects-finishing-none
1bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv
Thank you very much for taking the time, I can't answer for the time being as much as I'd like so I won't. But I'm linking your comment to my todo of the project so I can get back to you when I'll have more time for coding. But most of what you suggested is already planned, which is reassuring to me, even though your first draft is as advanced as my long reflections on it I must say. Have a nice day!
How do you organise your reading?
JayMon10

I spent a couple weeks a few years ago looking into different PIMs (Personal Information Management) solutions. For writing, if you don't mind spending a bit of cash, Scrivener looked like a very nice solution. The only issue is no browser extension compared with some systems like Evernote. Evernote was listed before and is probably the easiest solution to use out-of-the-box.

If you're doing more scientific work, you may want to consider something like BeakerX or Jupyter. Much more setup, but allows for running code from within the notebook an... (read more)

Reply