AandNot-A

Thank you. I had read the Methods threads but these seemed mostly to discuss the plot of the books. Anyways, message received, will update accordingly.

on hpmor: harry seems to be very manipulative but almost in a textbook kind of way. I take it eliezer got this from somewhere but cannot figure out where. I'd love to read more about this, could it have come from "the strategy of conflict"?

Cheers

2 separate related comments:

1) I'm moving to Vienna on the 25th. If there exist lesswrongers there I'd be most happy to meet them.

2) Moving strikes me as a great opportunity to develop positive, life-enchancing habits. If anyone has any literature or tips on this i'd greatly appreciate it

2 separate related comments:

1) I'm moving to Vienna on the 25th. If there exist lesswrongers there I'd be most happy to meet them.

2) Moving strikes me as a great opportunity to develop positive, life-enchancing habits. If anyone has any literature or tips on this i'd greatly appreciate it

Where would one find that kind of exercises, online?

my personal summary:

Building constructs: within an area link all ideas as much as possible (biology) Building models: Simplify concepts - abstract from them to create something that you can use (evolution by natural selection) Highways: Linking constructs (biology to economics trough evolutionary economics)

Acquire. Test - Have I seen/listened to the idea before? Understand. Test - Do I get (at a surface level) what this idea means? Explore. Test - Do I understand where this idea comes from, what it is related to and what outside ideas can be connecte... (read more)

This was more specific than I imagined, thank you. The basis intuition should be that dropping two rocks on a pond makes two waves that collapse onto each other and form one bigger wave, right?

How exactly is sound additive? I'm having a festival near home (maybe some 2 kilometers away) and I know no individual has the capacity to shout at a volume that reaches my house. But when the 80k people that are watching do it, then it reaches my house. So, how does that happen?

Irrationality game:

Different levels of description are just that, and are all equally "real". To speak of particles as in statistical mechanics or as in thermodynamics is as correct/real.

The same about the mind, talking as in neurochemistry or as in thoughts is as correct/real.

80% confidence

https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification

That seems it could be useful.