A great article by Michael Nielsen on failures of intuition and ways to present data more effectively so that we don't get caught by those failures. It reminded me of concepts like log odds in common use around here, and also to the recent discussion of teaching rationality techniques to average people.
Discussion article for the meetup : Portland, OR: Improv for Rationalists WHEN: 18 October 2014 01:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 2945 NE 64th Ave, Portland, OR Last meetup we discussed using techniques from acting improv to improve social skills and impose personal habits. This month we'll be putting some of that into...
Discussion article for the meetup : Portland Teachable Skills Discussion WHEN: 20 September 2014 01:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 2945 NE 64th Ave, Portland, OR First meetup in Portland after a long break. This month's meetup will be a discussion on Teachable Skills; what are you learning, what can you teach, what...
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: * Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.) * Do not quote yourself. *...
http://mappingignorance.org/2014/02/03/mandela-was-right-the-foreign-language-effect/ Summary: Across the board, people are less prone to cognitive bias in a non-native language. Conclusion: If all important discourse was conducted in Latin, or any other language native to no one, people would make better decisions. Corollary: All the attempts to make a constructed "scientific language" actually could...
A great article by Michael Nielsen on failures of intuition and ways to present data more effectively so that we don't get caught by those failures. It reminded me of concepts like log odds in common use around here, and also to the recent discussion of teaching rationality techniques to...
Why?
That would make it a terrible at being a medium of exchange or a store of value, though, wouldn't it? No one knows how much it's worth, and you have to acquire some, pass it off, and then (on their side) turn it into currency every time you use it.
Will only matters for green lanterns.
Inside View much?
If you can't succeed without first getting mass adoption, then you can't succeed. See the 'success' of Medium, and how it required losing everything they set out to do.
If Arbital has failed, Arbital has failed. Building neoTumblr and hoping to turn it into Arbital later won't make it fail any less, it will just produce neoTumblr.
Arbital has vague positive affect from being an attempt to solve a big problem in a potentially really impactful way.
Yet Another Blogging Platform, without the special features envisioned originally, is not solving a big problem (or actually any problem), and has a maximum plausible impact of "makes you a bunch of money and you donate that somewhere". Re-using the name is a self-serving attempt to redirect the positive affect from the ambitious, failed, altruistic project to the mundane, new, purely-capitalistic project.
Why aren't you just admitting defeat and going on to build something different?
It seems disingenuous to call this new project Arbital.
I agree with Christian. Did Arbital ever even come out of closed beta? My impression was that it did not, and you still needed to be whitelisted to have the chance to contribute.
Absolutely, would move immediately. Inconveniently I am currently at the "impoverished App Academy student" level.
Last meetup we discussed using techniques from acting improv to improve social skills and impose personal habits. This month we'll be putting some of that into practice with lessons and practice. Discussion to follow.
First meetup in Portland after a long break. This month's meetup will be a discussion on Teachable Skills; what are you learning, what can you teach, what do you need practice in, etc. It may break off into groups practicing specific skills, or we may arrange to do so at future meetups.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:
http://mappingignorance.org/2014/02/03/mandela-was-right-the-foreign-language-effect/
Summary: Across the board, people are less prone to cognitive bias in a non-native language.
Conclusion: If all important discourse was conducted in Latin, or any other language native to no one, people would make better decisions.
Corollary: All the attempts to make a constructed "scientific language" actually could have worked relatively well, for reasons entirely unconnected to the painstaking scientific structure of the languages.
A great article by Michael Nielsen on failures of intuition and ways to present data more effectively so that we don't get caught by those failures. It reminded me of concepts like log odds in common use around here, and also to the recent discussion of teaching rationality techniques to average people.
I don't think I've ever used a text that didn't. "We have" is "we have as a theorem/premise". In most cases this is an unimportant distinction to make, so you could be forgiven for not noticing, if no one ever mentioned why they were using a weird syntactic construction like that rather than plain English.
And yes, rereading the argument that does seem to be where it falls down. Though tbh, you should probably have checked your own assumptions before assuming that the question was wrong as stated.