Spencer Greenberg's TEDx talk: "Improve Your Life with Probability"
post by lukeprog · 2011-11-07T19:49:31.112Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 15 commentsThis kind of material is regularly featured on Spencer's blog, too.
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comment by curiousepic · 2011-11-07T21:36:20.721Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The talk title is Probability, not Rationality.
Replies from: lukeprog, None↑ comment by [deleted] · 2011-11-07T22:15:54.571Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Perhaps it was a Freudian slip?
Replies from: saturn, Karmakaiser↑ comment by Karmakaiser · 2011-11-08T14:43:50.978Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
If lukeprog does not use the word rationality in a post, is it rational? I suppose that depends on what you mean when you say rationality. If by rationality do you mean a lukeprog post that would, if read aloud, produce acoustic vibrations in the air that an intelligent agent would concede as rational, or do you mean the brainstate invoked in an agent while it is deliberately maximizing expected utility?
Replies from: None↑ comment by [deleted] · 2011-11-08T14:50:19.533Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I understand neither head nor tail of this comment.
Replies from: Karmakaiser↑ comment by Karmakaiser · 2011-11-08T14:52:18.690Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm re-reading A Human's Guide to Words and was just making a joke based on this
EDIT: Because, as Discworld taught me, it's not a good joke unless you need footnotes to explain it.
Replies from: Raemoncomment by Grognor · 2011-11-07T22:33:41.557Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I really like Spencer Greenberg's material. A+ stuff, for sure. No surprise, though, since he's always linking to Less Wrong and has clear, admitted influence from Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Replies from: fiddlemath↑ comment by fiddlemath · 2011-11-08T03:56:14.701Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
A clear exposition of the same material is an excellent thing - especially if it's less distressing to newcomers.
comment by Simon Fischer (SimonF) · 2011-11-10T20:50:53.823Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I found it incredibly annoying that he seems to think that uncertainty is in the territory.
Replies from: spencerg↑ comment by spencerg · 2011-11-11T03:19:51.749Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thank you for pointing that out, it would have been better if I had spoken more carefully. I definitely don't think that uncertainty is in the territory. Please interpret "there is great uncertainty in X" as "our models of X produce very uncertain predictions."
Replies from: SimonF↑ comment by Simon Fischer (SimonF) · 2011-11-11T09:38:16.018Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Ok, I'm glad you interpreted my comment as constructive criticism. Thanks for your efforts!