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"?
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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 connected with it? Debug. Test - Have I removed inappropriate links between this idea and others?Have I removed false conclusions based on connections that donít actually exist? Apply. Test - Have I used this idea in my practical life?
A) Acquiring Ideas 1) Speed Reading 2) Flow-Based Notetaking B) Linking Ideas : FOR DIFFICULT OR CRITICAL INFORMATION 1) Metaphor - used to relate unfamiliar to familiar ideas. (process: ask for it. take the first that comes. test it) 2) Visceralization - used to translate information to preferred format (process: identify concept, pick mental image, does it move trough time or is statis?, add more sensations and emotional impacts to your image) 3) Diagraming C) Handling the Arbitrary 1) Linking 2) Pegging 3) Information Compression -> Notes compression (write down major ideas and all related ideas. rewrite) D) Extending Ideas 1) Practical Usage - Look for ways to applu ideas 2) Model Debugging - typos are not bugs, use very different questions to do a shotgun debug, spread practice times out 3) Project-Based Learning - 1-3 month project that uses knowledge you want and don't have
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
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.