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By "here," I meant Israel.
Bayes' Theorem is taught in High-School here, at all levels of math.
Some mixture of verbal thinking, and what I can only really describe as 'thinking in rules'.
I sometimes forget how much untapped potential in term of networking opportunities Less Wrong holds.
Probably made even more difficult because I misremembered the letter. It was G*, and the article was The Importance of Goodhart's Law. It suddenly came back to me in a flash after seeing your reply, so thanks!
I need help finding a particular thread on LW, it was a discussion of either utility or ethics, and it utilized the symbols Q and Q* extensively, as well as talking about Lost Purposes. My inability to locate it is causing me brain hurt.
If you're having difficulty with Akrasia and procrastination and you are still looking for solutions, might I suggest the Less Wrong Study Hall? We do constant pomodoros of 25 minutes work, 5 minutes rest, and many of us have found it tremendously effective.
(This is a result of the Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia post)
This conversation just metacitasized.
It's okay, I'll show myself out.
Also, aren't MRI's going to be a problem?
How do you know that?
I really liked about half of it, and thought the other half was meh.
I would use this.
I find it tough to explain stuff like this. I just thought it was crap, and didn't understand an ounce of the hype or adoration. There may be nothing deeper to it than I just didn't enjoy it.
I thought it was terrible.
Crap, I need to adjust the chances of me making it due to unforeseen stuff. I'd say about 50-50 right now.
I'll be there. I can give anyone who needs a ride to and from Jerusalem.
:D
My sister was a Gadna instructor. She got all the crazy Russian kids who would fill their canteens with Vodka.
I get drafted in a few weeks. If you have a day off, I think LW Israel is meeting on July 4th, you should join us!
I’m a self-taught 20 year-old American currently serving as a volunteer soldier in the Israeli Defense Force, where I am a proud senior vice supply closet manager at an army-themed summer camp for the worst teenagers in the Middle East.
Gadna, I presume?
Someone needs to redo that website before my eyes explode.
Why on earth downvote this? (Was at -2)
I don't know what you mean by that, but I resolved my weird ethical quasi-nihilism through a combination of studying Metaethics and reading Luke's metaethical sequence, so you might want to do that as well, if only for the terminology.
I think "moral anti-realist" is better, but not by much.
Specifically, they seem to be talking about something similar to Error Theory.
It's not a variant of Pascal's Mugging, because the chances aren't vanishingly small and the payoff isn't nearly infinite.
Yes, the original distinction was between "Sibolet" and "Shibolet". "Th" isn't even a sound that exists in Hebrew.
וְהָיָה כִּי יֹאמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם, אֶעֱבֹרָה, וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ אַנְשֵׁי-גִלְעָד הַאֶפְרָתִי אַתָּה, וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא. ו וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ אֱמָר-נָא שִׁבֹּלֶת וַיֹּאמֶר סִבֹּלֶת, וְלֹא יָכִין לְדַבֵּר כֵּן, וַיֹּאחֲזוּ אוֹתוֹ, וַיִּשְׁחָטוּהוּ אֶל-מַעְבְּרוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן; וַיִּפֹּל בָּעֵת הַהִיא, מֵאֶפְרַיִם, אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁנַיִם, אָלֶף.
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I only really think using voices. Whenever I read, if I'm not 'hearing' the words in my head, nothing stays in.
Related: We wrestle not with flesh and blood
Because it's one of the parameters of the thought experiment that a dust speck causes a miniscule amount of disutility.
That'd be Fighting the Hypothetical.
I think yes. Are the chances of this happening >20%?
Seconding the Rippetoe program recommendation, it worked well for me.
This is an excellent post.
Here is one hand...
Meh. Found that I was doing most of these things without even noticing it consciously anyway.
Liebniz didn't like that.
That's been posted at least twice before that I can remember.
I had the exact same reaction, except the other way 'round. :D
(Also, the street i apparently written "Mazeh", despite being an acronym.)
Just sent you a Private Message. :)
Okay, I can make it.
Yes, the conversation with drnickbone below is how my response would have gone as well, and you're right in that sometimes consequences matter to Deontologists and sometimes they don't. I also think we've had this conversation before, because I remember that example. :D
If for no other reason than you are creating the perception that deotologist never consider consequence. Which is a stupid position that no deotologists should accept.
Someone should have told Kant that.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Good call. I don't normally like Post-Rock, but when I'm studying, I can just plug it into Pandora and go.
This looks like it might be helpful for me. I shall report back in a few days with some data points. Thanks for this!
Wow, I've been hoping for this for a while now. :)
I really, really hope I'll be able to attend, and if I do, I can give up to two people a ride from Jerusalem. Unfortunately, I have a test that same day, and I do not yet know the time at which it will take place, so I can't RSVP quite yet.
Then why bring it up?
I know how most atheists feel about the Bible. Really, I do. But if you don't understand what's so powerful about a book, and you want to know, then you really should give it a try—I might say that the last chapter of Moroni especially addresses this.
I grew up on the Bible. I studied the Bible for over a decade. I have read the Old Testament in Hebrew.
It's the most boring thing I've ever laid eyes on.
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Excuse me?
Um, why cut off the conversation at this point rather than your original one, in that case?