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L29Ah20

The one that makes people think cognitive biases are distinct entities.

1[anonymous]
I was about to speculate as to how many biases could be reduced to "Wishful Thinking". Certainly, most (if not all) of them are instances of being a "cognitive miser."
L29Ah10

How many european kings can you name, off the top of your head?

L29Ah00

I think there no good reason to think that every ejaculation has the same effect.

Why do you think so?

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JoshuaZ150

Or we need a compelling reason why this topic is worth having a discussion over to the point where it overrides basic taboos. Signaling matters.

Reasons to downvote or dlslike this post as is that are either independent of or compounded by taboo concerns:

1) This could have easily been an open-thread question rather than a discussion post. 2) This only applies to half the population but that wasn't even addressed in the post. One is thus heavily implicitly assuming that all readers are male. 3) No apparent effort was made to find out anything else about the... (read more)

L29Ah-20

Prostitute?

I'd put some more information on my knowledge and more specific skills.

0Capla
I've worked sales jobs. I've been learning to program, but I'm basically a beginner. One of the things I'm working on. I can write well. I'm not sure what skills are relevant. I didn't mention anything because I wanted to see what people come up with before they have specifics.
L29Ah10

I often try to persuade myself i'll change some part of my behaviour at some peculiar point of time instead of researching why i still haven't done this. By "overcoming myself" i mean modifying the behaviour one part of me doesn't like in favour of some other behaviour some other part of me doesn't like.

L29Ah30

I'm going to stop making new years resolutions and stop behaving like i need to "overcome" myself in favour of some poorly explored goals and social stimuli.

1Andy_McKenzie
This is interesting but I don't fully understand what you're trying to trying to get across. Explain further? Ie what does it mean to overcome yourself?
L29Ah00

Suppose you don't have any time to figure out which people would be better. And suppose no one else will know that you were able to pull a switch.

Then my current algorythms will do the habitual stuff I'm used to do in similar situations or randomly explore the possible outcomes (as in "play"), like in every other severely constrained situation.

Honestly, it seems like your notion of ethics is borderline psychopathic.

What does this mean?

L29Ah00

Please explain how say a trolley problem fits into your framework.

The correct choice is to check out who do you want to be killed and saved more, and what are, for instance, the social consequences of your actions. I don't understand your question, it seems.

0JoshuaZ
Suppose you don't have any time to figure out which people would be better. And suppose no one else will know that you were able to pull a switch. Honestly, it seems like your notion of ethics is borderline psychopathic.
L29Ah00

How does this contradicts my notion of ethics? You will surely use what you know about the ethical properties of manslaughter to reach the goal and save yourself from the troubles, like manipulating the public opinion in your favor via, for instance, imitation the target people attacking you. Or even consider if the goal is worthy at all.

0JoshuaZ
Please explain how say a trolley problem fits into your framework.
L29Ah00

This seems like a very non-standard notion of what constitutes ethics. Can you expand on this captures the usual intuitions about what the concerns of ethics are?

The concerns of ethics for a given agent is to facilitate one to interact with others effectively, no?

1JoshuaZ
Not at all. If I do something that doesn't accomplish my goals that's generally labeled as something like "stupid." If I decide that I want to kill lots of people, the problem with that is ethical even if my goals are fulfilled by it. Most intuitions don't see these as the same thing.
L29Ah00

That's not obvious. What if one entity is parseable in such a way and another one isn't?

Every human produces lots of different kinds of behaviour, so it can be modeled as a pack of specialized agents.

Why?

Because ethics is essentially simplified applied modeling of other beings.

1JoshuaZ
This seems like a very non-standard notion of what constitutes ethics. Can you expand on this captures the usual intuitions about what the concerns of ethics are?
L29Ah00

It does not as the other person is parseable as multiple ones as well.

Uploading is not a thing atm, and once it is viable, the corresponding ethics will be constructed from special cases of the entity's behaviour, like it was done before.

I still don't get how the anthropic principle cares about the labels we assign to stuff.

0JoshuaZ
That's not obvious. What if one entity is parseable in such a way and another one isn't? Why? Right. They shouldn't. So situations like this one may be useful intuition pumps.
L29Ah20

How many people am I?

Does it make any difference?

0JoshuaZ
Well, if we put our dual Manfred's in one trolley car, and one person in another, then the ethics might care. More substantially, once uploads start being a thing, the ethics of these situations will matter. The other contexts where these issues matter is in anthropics, expectations and trying to understand what the implications of Many-Worlds are. In this case, making the separation completely classical may be helpful: when one cannot understand a complicated situation, looking at a simpler one can help.
L29Ah00

It does not as you don't obtain any world properties that 'your' existence should reflect with such a definition.

L29Ah10

Video games are nicely described by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules. I'd try make the disgusting part of the gaming, like the resources spent per utility achieved and the methods they are capturing my attention, the most sailent when i go over my decision three to do something.

Regarding "learning to want", it is a matter of constructing and applying a model of your motivation (like i did ↑, but subjectively tailored).

// hey wtf lw.c doesn't respect rfc1738

L29Ah20

How would you build any other skill or habit? I don't really understand how the answer to your specific question would be different.

1MathiasZaman
Making a habit out of a simple action is easy. Reading non-fiction 30 hours per day doesn't have complex steps, for example. This seems true for a lot of habits people try to form. Reactive habits (such as noticing confusion) are harder to form. Reactive habits that are relatively complex, such as the habit of experimentation are probably the hardest to form and specific hints, tips or techniques might be useful.
1Capla
There may be people here with insights in to how to experiment well, that I can apply. alternatively, I might be told that my approach is misguided and Id to better to --
L29Ah20

Polartec as a base/insulating layers all over the body, anything {wind,water}proof or +1 layer on top of them if i'm planning to go slow (like, 15l/m²/day) steam-permeable waterproof membrane if the rain or powerful wind is probably an issue. Does the job better than wool as it doesn't get wet. Balaklava on my head. // Russia/St. Petersburg here.

L29Ah420

such utility

much karma

L29Ah00

PM me; I'm curious of what kind of information all this could be about.

L29Ah30

Can anyone suggest me a sane introductory book on the game theory?

5ChristianKl
LW regular James Miller has written a book on Game Theory: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071400206?sa-no-redirect=1&pldnSite=1
L29Ah00

Why creatine?