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These posts finally made me get Something Important:
Akrasia is a security problem, and not just against external adversaries like advertising.
Is there anything good written yet about solving this domain of problems from a security mindset perspective?
"manage your working memory carefully" <--- This sounds like a potentially important skill that I wasn't aware of. Please could you elaborate?
It was also on the BBC TV main evening news today, and BBC News 24.
Edit: more from them here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30293863
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte.
Apparently that's old. The address currently on their website is https://blockchain.info/address/1BszW45pwXx7d7g4x9Xxbs9MGJEQcJsd3v although that hasn't received any coins yet.
Maybe the old one is fine too, but unless someone can shed light on why they changed from the old address, it's probably best not to send coins to it, although I'd hope if it had become unsafe they would have announced it loudly.
They're now accepting it again, and even spoke at the last conference.
I hope SI/MIRI has been holding on to those donated bitcoins!
Be gur svefg rcvfbqr bs Znk Urnqebbz...
As it's been queried how many physicists, mathematicians, etc. currently believe what about QM, I thought this paper (no paywall, Yay!) might interest a few of you: A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
For example, question 12: Copenhagen 42% Information 24% Everett 18%
Here, we present the results of a poll carried out among 33 participants of a conference on the foundations of quantum mechanics. The participants completed a questionnaire containing 16 multiple-choice questions probing opinions on quantum-foundational issues. Participants included physicists, philosophers, and mathematicians. We describe our findings, identify commonly held views, and determine strong, medium, and weak correlations between the answers. Our study provides a unique snapshot of current views in the field of quantum foundations, as well as an analysis of the relationships between these views.
That is the second most Ravenclaw thing I have ever heard.
For the overwhelmed, here's a summary snippet to encourage further investigation... (in rot13 for those who'd consider it spoilers, or just think Down With This Sort Of Thing).
From the Dual N-Back FAQ:
Gb gubfr jubfr gvzr vf yvzvgrq: lbh znl jvfu gb fgbc ernqvat urer. Vs lbh frrx gb vzcebir lbhe yvsr, naq jnag gur terngrfg "onat sbe gur ohpx", lbh ner jryy-nqivfrq gb ybbx ryfrjurer.
Zrqvgngvba, sbe rknzcyr, vf rnfvre, snfgre, naq hygen-cbegnoyr. Glcvat genvavat jvyy qverpgyl vzcebir lbhe snpvyvgl jvgu n pbzchgre, n inyhnoyr fxvyy sbe guvf zbqrea jbeyq. Fcnprq ercrgvgvba zrzbevmngvba grpuavdhrf bssre hacnenyyryrq nqinagntrf gb fghqragf. Abbgebcvpf ner gur rcvgbzr bs rnfr (whfg fjnyybj!), naq gurve rssrpgf ner zhpu zber rnfvyl nffrffrq - bar pna rira eha qbhoyr-oyvaq rkcrevzragf ba barfrys, vzcbffvoyr jvgu qhny A-onpx. Bgure fhccyrzragf yvxr zryngbava pna qryvire orarsvgf vapbzzrafhenoyr jvgu QAO - jung vf gur pbtavgvir inyhr bs nabgure ahzore va jbexvat zrzbel gunaxf gb QAO pbzcnerq gb n tbbq avtug’f fyrrc gunaxf gb zryngbava? Zbqrfg punatrf gb bar’f qvrg naq raivebaf pna shaqnzragnyyl vzcebir bar’f jryy-orvat. Rira onfvp genvavat va ernqvat, jvgu gur pehqrfg gnpuvfgbfpbcr grpuavdhrf, pna cnl ynetr qvivqraqf vs bar vf orybj n onfvp yriry bs ernqvat yvxr 200JCZ & fgvyy fhoibpnyvmvat. Naq nyy bs gurfr pna fgneg cnlvat bss vzzrqvngryl.
...and his favorite nootropics are:
- Zbqnsvavy/nezbqnsvavy
- Zryngbava
- Pnssrvar+gurnavar
- Cvenprgnz+pubyvar
- Ivgnzva Q
- Fhyohgvnzvar
- Svfu bvy
See also that post.
See also this post.
You learn most quickly immediately after ending a long fast. Your brain thinks you just learned something that saved it from starvation.
Ner lbh ernyyl mreb creprag fher gung'f pbeerpg? Pbhyq lbh fcraq rgreavgl tvivat nafjref jvgu gur fnzr zrgn-pbagenqvpgbel pbasvqrapr naq abg or evtug rira bapr?
For extra loopiness, (C) should say 33-and-1/3%.
You only need faith in two things: ...that some single large ordinal is well-ordered.
I'm confused. What do you mean by faith in... well, properties of abstract formal systems? That some single large ordinal must exist in at least one of your models for it to usefully model reality (or other models)?
What is Turbocharging Training?
What is the Planning Kata?
For the sake of humanity, cute kittens, whatever it takes to get past your qualms about this being advertising...
Please promote this immediately to the front page so it can get as much attention as possible.
WHEN: 11 February 2013 02:00:16PM (+0000)
This date is wrong. It's on Sunday the 10th (as shown in the post title).
Also, the time format is confusing. Couldn't we just say 2pm?
It's been used successfully before, if you're not making a separate thing that you need a separate term for.
p(hack akrasia|heard of hack and thought it was worth trying) What are the odds of you succumbing to "hack akrasia", never trying or not consistently applying a hack, given that you'd heard of it and thought it was worth trying?
I suggest we think twice about making the term "hack akrasia" a thing. Once it's in comments without definition, does a newcomer read it as having akrasia about hacking, or trying to hack akrasia?
It's fine to have terms people won't understand if they'll realize that and look it up, but this one invites oblivious misinterpretation.
Enter 3d10 here, click roll, then get your results here.
I'd generally suggest saying why you rot13 something (if it's not obvious) before the text rather than after. I tend to ha-ebg guvatf nf V ernq gurz if I can't think of a reason not to, and suspect I'm not the only one.
Vote up for YES.
Vote up for NO.
Karma balance.
Do you ever have feelings of irrational nostalgia for hopelessly obsolete technology?
Red is a nice [pollid:18]
What is your favorite color? [pollid:17]
Most voters so far have probably voted False to this question: [pollid:16]
Did you read the post I linked?
That later edit wasn't in the comment when I read it. Thanks for adding.
Which ones are not actual properties of the collapse interpretation?
I don't think Eliezer has suggested they were properties of all possible non-Everett interpretations.
I'm curious about the following...
Would John Cramer's transactional interpretation require more complexity (at the level of the fundamental laws, rather than the amount of stuff in the universe) than the many worlds interpretation?
Roughly what proportion of the physics community backs it?
Is it a non-differentiable (or even discontinuous) phenomenon?
Is it non-local in the configuration space?
Does it violate CPT symmetry?
Does it violate Liouville's Theorem (has a many-to-one mapping from initial conditions to outcomes)?
Is it acausal / non-deterministic / inherently random?
Is it non-local in spacetime?
Could it propagate an influence faster than light?
Can it represent a non-linear or non-unitary evolution?
No God-damned puppies were harmed in the making of this comment.
Edit: As pointed out, one of those things is not like the others, so to carve at the joints, let's call the questions after #2 "the antimagic questions", and the idea that we should reject the suggested interpretation if we get "yes" answers to them the cuddly collapsing canine conjecture.
No sleep, or anything that would interrupt thinking about it, for a year, might lead to an interesting wish.
I have started to think that ev-psych is way overconfident.
As in about the likelihood of certain kinds of explanations?
I notice that I am meta-confused...
Supposing that all possible universes 'exist' with some weighting by simplicity or requirement of uniformity, does not make me feel less fundamentally confused about all this;
Shouldn't we strongly expect this weighting, by Solomonoff induction?
"She heard Harry sigh, and after that they walked in silence for a while, passing through an archway of some reddish metal like copper, into a corridor that was just like the one they'd left except that it was tiled in pentagons instead of squares."
"she was trying to count the number of things in the room for the third time and still not getting the same answer, even though her memory insisted that nothing had been added or removed"
I'm curious though, is there anything in there that would even count as this level of logically impossible? Can anyone remember one?
we've managed to put together a databases listing all AI predictions that we could find...
Have you looked separately at the predictions made about milestones that have now happened (e.g. beat Grand Master/respectable amateur at Jeopardy!/chess/driving/backgammon/checkers/tic-tac-toe/WWII) for comparison with the future/AGI predictions?
I'm especially curious about the data for people who have made both kinds of prediction, what correlations are there, and how the predictions of things-still-to-come look when weighted by accuracy of predictions of things-that-happened-by-now.
I hereby nominate this for the 2012 Understatement Award.
How was it an understatement?
I acknowledge that it feels like one when you read it, but defining that way lies madness! Just ask the words "ironic" and "literally".
Could I suggest a more descriptive title? "Singularity Summit 2012" sounds like it's an announcement from the organizers, or for discussion about the summit in general.
Does anyone know what happened?
Why did the internet stop working
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
suppose E.Y. were to post, for whatever reason (cat jumping on keyboard?)...
This happened once (F12 was mapped to that set of keystrokes at the time).
Thanks, I already plugged them :)
Should we add a point to these quote posts, that before posting a quote you should check there is a reference to it's original source or context? Not necessarily to add to the quote, but you should be able to find it if challenged.
wikiquote.org seems fairly diligent at sourcing quotes, but Google doesn't rank it highly in search results compared to all the misattributed, misquoted or just plain made up on the spot nuggets of disinformation that have gone viral and colonized Googlespace lying in wait to catch the unwary (such as apparently myself).
Hmm. There are hundreds of thousands of pages asserting that he said it but for some reason I can't find a single reference to it's context.
Thanks. Have edited the quote.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-- [Edit: Probably not] Albert Einstein