Two years later, there are now whole brain wide recordings on C. Elegans via calcium imaging. This includes models apparently at least partially predictive of behavior and analysis of individual neuron contributions to behavior.
If you want the "brain-wide recordings and accompanying behavioral data" you can apparently download them here!
It is very exciting to finally have measurements for this. I still need to do more than skim the paper though. While reading it, here are the questions on my mind:
* What are the simplest individual neuron models that ...
I expanded 'shocked at failure' into:
The plans you make work.
When they fail, it is because of one of the following reasons:
When they fail for reasons other than these, you are extremely surprised and can point to exactly what about your worldview and anticipations misled you.
The planbot link is down.
I first tried to describe rationality piece by piece, but realized that just comes out as something like: "Enumerate all the principles, fundamentals, and ideas you can think of and find about effective thinking and action. Master all of them. More thoroughly and systematically apply them to every aspect of your life. Use the strongest to solve its most relevant problem. Find their limits. Be unsatisfied. Create new principles, fundamentals, and ideas to master. Become strong and healthy in all ways. "
Non-meta attempt:
<Epistemic status: I would predict
...Hopefully, you came up with at least 100 bugs; I came up with 142.
I wrote 20,000 words from these prompts. Not all of those bugs, but also my reactions to them. Ended up doing not much else for about three days, but I went over basically my entire life top to bottom. I now have a thorough overview of my errors. I stopped not because I ran out of things I think I need to fix, but because I realized the list would never end. I was still finding MAJOR areas I need to improve even after all that. I see why the exercise is supposed to only be half an hour no...
I've only taken a really basic economics course, but found the explanations really straight forward and learned a lot. So I don't think the topic is as hard to parse as you'd think.
(Alternatively, I may have misunderstood details, overlooked problems, and simply don't have anything to contrast these statements to. This would make it harder to judge.)
The bank's persona did however fall flat repeatedly and could have been a lot better by having realistic responses.
High upvote low reply is less bad, but still feels like it is fundamentally broken in some way. Failing to leave a mark maybe? I think I would mostly be confused given such a reaction. There might be specific types of posts that would generate that, but I feel those qualities do not generalize to the set of "authoritative, well researched and obviously correct" posts.
Moreover, why should there be discussion? If a post is authoritative, well researched and obviously correct, then the only thing to do is upvote it and move on. A lengthy discussion thread is a sign that either the post is either unclear, incorrect, or has mindkilled its readers.
Alternatively, a length discussion could be a sign that the post inspired connections to related topics and events. Additionally, it may have made a critical advance that furthered understanding of the topic for other people. Even though optimizing for engagement yields divergen
...I independently generated an alternative solution using the redirector extension:
http://einaregilsson.com/writing-a-browser-extension-for-three-browsers/
Pattern:
Example URL: http://lesswrong.com/some_path
Include pattern: *lesswrong*
Redirect to: $1greaterwrong$2
You should get out example result:
http://greaterwrong.com/some_path
(I am using Firefox and I assume it is the same on other browsers)
I do agree that a graduated UBI (negative income tax) would be cleaner than the current welfare system. A smooth gradient out instead of a sharp cut in benefits. The incentives would align substantially for people seeking to escape the poverty trap.
A major issue for me when I think of this is the incentives for increasing the amount until it is unsustainable. Being able to vote yourself more money is... well. A ticket towards candidates promising to give people more money out of the pockets of others.
This would incentivize brain drain as well as immigrat...
~300,000,000 US citizens.
$1,000/month/person = 12,000 $/year/person
$12,000*300,000,000 = $3,600,000,000,000/year = 3.6 trillion dollars a year
For reference, the United States takes in a little over 6 trillion dollars a year in taxes.
Found a big list of crowd funding options. Don't have to set up our own, just need to find one that is both low fee and trustworthy.
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding
Finding a superior option seems doable in 5-10 hours?
There is one pretty big problem with using patreon as their fundraising platform: It eats a little less than 8% of the money you put in. That is money simply lost from the community. This makes patreon an unacceptable medium for transactions.
Now, about 3% of that is from credit card fees. Are there alternatives to that? I am unsure how much the one time donation takes, but I suspect it is only the credit card fees. We're losing 5% to the convenience of not pressing a button to donate every month.
As of this writing they're making $5,464/month. I presume t...
The Origin Project is also working on the same general problems, and looking to grow. You don't have to move anywhere, and you can get started right now.
https://hivewired.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/an-introduction-to-origin/
We've been working for the last few months on building out a cultural framework that can be used wherever you are, and just with the people around you. To build a sense of community and meaningful interactions.
But we're not there yet. We're too few.
Come as you are.
Hello, World!
My impression reading this is that you mostly just want a better Tumblr. Would that be fair?
How culture war stuff is dealt with on the various discord servers is having a place to dump it all. This is often hidden to begin with and opt-in only, so people only become aware of it when they start trying to discuss it.
I have taken the survey... away from everyone.
No one can have it.
It lives under my bed now.
If he just has an instinct that a 6 should come up again, but can't explain where that instinct comes from or defend that belief in any kind of rational way other then "it feels right", then he's probably not being rational.
Maybe in the specific example of randomness, but I don't think you can say the general case of 'it feels so' is indefensible. This same mechanism is used for really complicated black box intuitive reasoning that underpins any trained skill. So in in areas one has a lot of experience in, or areas which are evolutionary keye...
It appears I can't replicate it either. I may have updated Firefox since last week or something? 54.0.1 (32-bit) is my current version.
Playing around with the debates on firefox causes graphical glitches http://i.imgur.com/QsoLeqn.jpg
Chrome seems to work, but these submenus don't close after you click on them http://i.imgur.com/sbNBhZ1.png
Before even reading it I was confused.
Epistemic status for the first part of this post:
[image of thinking woman in front of math]
Epistemic status for the second part:
[Image of greek? philosopher preaching]
Admittedly I should probably know who the second image is of, but I have no idea what they're trying to say with either of these.
As we say in the Bayesian conspiracy: even if you’re not interested in base rates, base rates are interested in you.
No. Stop. This is just awkward to read.
I suspect this will end up being something more akin to self-study groups that produce teaching material as a direct result of learning the material themselves. For example, writing up an explanation of how to do a particular book example. This doubles as an assessment of people's skills since other people that know the topic really well can build on those explanations or correct mistakes.
With a series of such explanations, anyone else trying to go through the material will have a clearer pathway for the level of understanding of a given sub-topic they need to develop to progress: the exercises and readings needed to be able to understand something, or do a particular difficulty of project.
The S is for "Skitter"
This points to a need of looking for, building off prior work where possible.
Taking it a step further to generate a method of meta-solving this problem: there are many parallels here to programming and device connectors of old (phone charger or other standards). I would imagine we could look to how those sorts of problems were solved and apply or derive the analogous technique here.
It seems to me that the sadistic simulator would fill up their suffering simulator to capacity. But is it worse for two unique people to be simulated and suffering compared to the same person simulated and suffering twice? If we say copies suffering is less bad than unique minds, If they didn't have enough unique human minds, they could just apply birth/genetics and grow some more.
This is more of a simulating-minds-at-all problem than a unique-minds-left-to-simulate problem.
Now people have to call you doctor CellBioGuy
Comment being non-spam and coherent is considered a bare minimum around here. Using the rule of upvoting nearly everything would induce noise. With the current schema of being a signal of quality, or used to say 'more like this' (not necessarily even 'I agree') provides a strong signal of quality discourse which is lost otherwise.
The results of my five minutes of thinking:
take sample of group you want to measure sanity for:
Went in a different direction than the post. The list I generated seems to have turned far more to abstract individual sanity ideas than things we already have numbers for.
I think you're coming on a little strong in ways you don't intend for requesting his process and previous system iterations. This reads as if you should never share any system without also sharing the process of how to get there, and most of the time that is filled with stuff no one really needs to see.
Alas, this group went bust, but I think I pretty much figured out why. Wrote my thoughts up for everyone's pleasure.
I agree. Nowhere else are we likely to get something optimized for that especially since it took nearly a decade to create.
Apparently it "never saw daylight". I bet he'd still have a copy for the materials if one were to get in contact with him. How much of that wouldn't be in Thinking Fast and Slow though?
My first thought: "Oh, you leave your house."
I'm either at my computer or class with little time between, so there isn't much downtime for me to even use my phone. It is just an alarm clock people can talk to me from.
Admittedly I do have a tablet, but for the most part it is used for taking notes and so it may as well be replaced by a paper notebook, but I'm a sucker for OneNote. Because I spend every non-class minute walking or at home I've yet to give my tablet another role beyond that since my desktop is so much superior.
Welcome!
I've seen these sorts of argument maps before.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Debate_tools http://en.arguman.org/
It seems there is some overlap with your list here
Generally what I've noticed about them is that they focus very hard on things like fallacies. One problem here is that some people are simply better debaters even though their ideas may be unsound. Because they can better follow the strict argument structure they 'win' debates, but actually remain incorrect.
For example: http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=1437 He uses mostly the same argu...
Before stepping in front of a car make eye contact with the driver.
Do not assume they saw you just because they slowed down.
2016 update: Go is now also taken.
Impressive tasks remaining as (t-> inf) approaches zero!
If not to AI or heat death, we're doomed to having already done everything amazing.
Three years later- have you found the time? I'm really curious to know the rest of these.
Realized it was the wrong structure entirely for what I was trying to do. Still working on a lot of the same general ideas elsewhere.
Use rechargeable batteries.
After two years of constant use in my headphones (8+ hours a day), I still get a full week's worth of power from each battery. I don't recall how long traditional batteries lasted, but I don't think it was all too much longer. I don't have any to compare it with as a major benefit is not needing to worry about buying batteries ever. I do need to make sure I keep charged and discharged batteries separate.
As a counter opinion, I barely use my smart phone for anything I didn't use my old Razr phone for. The only reason I got it was because it was actually cheaper to get a new smart phone than to continue on the old plan. The cost I pay is that I have to charge it every day.
About half of the images are no longer there
Any shorter four years later? Asking for a friend.
Of the five recordings on that page I was able to figure out three without listening to the clear speech.
my answer to this question has become: 1) Research the topic 2) gather many ancedotes and strategies 3) try them 4) as my pool of suggested actions runs low, either brainstorm or go and gather more.
I would actually recommend not setting any rewards or punishments due to the overjustification effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect By adding an external reward you will feel less intrinsically motivated.
A few years late, but I'm interested!
My purchase of an arduino kit at the end of highschool. This has essentially passively introduced me to a lot of basic electronics over the years without explicitly studying them. And so now I sometimes think "I want to measure my heart rate" or "I want to build a DIY custom keyboard" or "I want a physical pomodoro timer with just one button and 3 LEDs" and I can just order some parts, build the thing, and have a new tool that solves a simple problem.
I sometimes try to recommend other people build something simple with electronics occasionally, only to rea... (read more)