http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045 The plan is to replicate or fail to replicate all 2008 articles from three major Psychology journals. ETA: http://openscienceframework.org/ is the homepage of the group behind this. It's still in Beta, but will eventually include some nifty looking science toolkits in addition to the reproducibility project.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
> Rationalism should not be confused with rationality, nor with rationalization. -Wikipedia article on rationalism I frequently see people using rationalism in place of rationality. Usually other commenters understand them, however I believe that using the word rationality is superior. The Less Wrong tag line is "A community blog devoted...
Discussion article for the meetup : Psycology of memorization, Thiel Fellow James Koppel, and games WHEN: 24 November 2012 02:30:00PM (-0600) WHERE: St.Louis Mo, Kaldi's Coffee Clayton branch I'm planing to do a presentation with optional exercises on the psychology of memorization with an emphasis on learning names. I plan...
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045 The plan is to replicate or fail to replicate all 2008 articles from three major Psychology journals. ETA: http://openscienceframework.org/ is the homepage of the group behind this. It's still in Beta, but will eventually include some nifty looking science toolkits in addition to the reproducibility project.
I just ran across an interesting working paper by P.J. Healy and D.A. Moore, providing a potenial explanation for several forms of overconfidence. The abstract: > We study three distinct measures of overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) overprecision in...
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/06/rationality-training-call-for-a-global-approach/ Dr.Ziesche calls for more globally accessible rationality training. He seems supportive of existing efforts, especially us, but thinks it would be nice if rationality training was easily accessible to people other than educated westerners.
What attributes make a task useful for rationality verification? After thinking it over I believe I have identified three main components. The first is that the task should be as grounded in the real world as is possible. The second is that the task should be involve a wide variety...
Whateley Academy is a superhero shared universe with strong world building, multiple quasi-rasionalist characters, and many characters who are irrational in ways that are sympathetic and believable rather than because they're holding the idiot ball. It is also chock full of witty dialog and big on queer characters, in particular many of the characters (including most of the protagonists) are some mixture of trans in the normal sense, intersex, or undergoing changes to there sexual characteristics as a side effect of their origin. I've gotten the impression that it is pretty similar to both Worm and Tales of the MU but don't know enough about those series to confirm this. -ETA also all the trigger warnings, seriously all of them.
I see.
What does CEE refer to?
I was referring to factual controversy, not political. While it sounds like the most dubious parts are the ones you skipped/skimmed, a major facet of Grossman's work in general is his ideas about the psychology of killing, and as the above link details these ideas are based on a mixture of pathetically bad evolutionary psychology, and dubious (read probably fraudulent) empirical evidence. Since, your review didn't focus on this aspect I don't want to harp on it too much, at the same time it has a lot of knock on effects e.g. your views on video games and violence are likely to be different if you believe humans are naturally violent than if you believe they need significant training to be psychologically capable of killing.
Most of the criticism don't directly concern the claims you're highlighting, but on combat is actually pretty controversial.
Most finance advice I've seen (and I've spent a good bit of time in the finance blogosphere) starts by saying that you should track what your expenses are for precisely this reason.
The Luminosity sequence has some stuff on this, though its been long enough since I read it that I don't remember the details very well. Acceptance and commitment therapy has some really good stuff on dealing with anger/frustration (I recommend the book Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life). Learning acceptance and commitment for just this problem is probably overkill, on the other hand its pretty useful for life in general.
I know that Val from CfAR at least used to run meditation retreats though they weren't aimed specifically at rationalists.
I like Complice for having a daily to-do that allows you to track how much time you've spent on each of your items (if you're using its pomodoro timer), and to see which goals you did (and didn't) meet on past days. However, I know the founder through CfAR so I may be biased.
Rationalism should not be confused with rationality, nor with rationalization.
-Wikipedia article on rationalism
I frequently see people using rationalism in place of rationality. Usually other commenters understand them, however I believe that using the word rationality is superior. The Less Wrong tag line is "A community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality". On the other hand, rationalism is the philosophical term for a very different epistemological position. Furthermore, -the -ism suffix has some undesirable connotations.
I'm planing to do a presentation with optional exercises on the psychology of memorization with an emphasis on learning names. I plan on focusing on techniques that haven't already received much attention on Less Wrong, but will have materiel on things like SRS prepared in case anyone isn't already familiar with them.
Also, if you'd like to talk to Thiel Fellow and Singularity summit speaker James Koppel now's your chance. He's told me that will be attending, and since he no longer lives in the St.Louis area you might not get another chance.
I'll also be bringing some games for anyone who wants to stick around after the presentation. Feel free to bring some of your own.
cross-posted from Less Wrong
-edited for writing style and updated location
cross-posted from http://www.meetup.com/lesswrong/
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045
The plan is to replicate or fail to replicate all 2008 articles from three major Psychology journals.
ETA: http://openscienceframework.org/ is the homepage of the group behind this. It's still in Beta, but will eventually include some nifty looking science toolkits in addition to the reproducibility project.
I just ran across an interesting working paper by P.J. Healy and D.A. Moore, providing a potenial explanation for several forms of overconfidence.
The abstract:
We study three distinct measures of overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) overprecision in one’s belief about private signals. A new set of exper- iments verifies a strong negative link between overestimation and overprecision that depends crucially on task difficulty (the ‘hard-easy’ effect). We present a simple Bayesian model in which agents are uncertain about the underlying task difficulty. This model correctly predicts the observed regularities. Thus, we capture several observed patterns of overconfidence without assuming any implicit behavioral biases.
Available Here: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1337&context=tepper
Intuitively it still seems like a perfectly rational agent should be able to factor in the fact the given method will make them overconfident. That said I didn't work through all the math so it's possible I'm missing something, probably something related to bias-varaince trade offs.
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/06/rationality-training-call-for-a-global-approach/
Dr.Ziesche calls for more globally accessible rationality training. He seems supportive of existing efforts, especially us, but thinks it would be nice if rationality training was easily accessible to people other than educated westerners.
What attributes make a task useful for rationality verification?
After thinking it over I believe I have identified three main components. The first is that the task should be as grounded in the real world as is possible. The second is that the task should be involve a wide variety of subtasks, preferably ones that involve decision making and/or forecasting. This will help insure that the effect is from general rationality, rather than from the rationality training helping with domain specific skills. The third is that there should be clear measure of successes for the task.
As I am not personally involved with the field I could be missing something important, but it seems... (read 177 more words →)
http://kojutsukan.blogspot.com/2011/12/womens-self-defence-courses-effective.html
http://kojutsukan.blogspot.com/2011/12/womens-self-defence-effective-or-not-pt.html
The linked articles' theoretical topic, the effectiveness of women's self defense(WDS) courses, is not of particular interest to LW. However, they are also a pushback against epistemic viciousness in the martial arts. The author analyzes WDS courses in the light of actual studies on sexual violence and the effectiveness of various methods of resistance. They also make several direct references to the problems with martial arts epistemology and some of the causes. Thus, I recommend them anyone interested in the martial arts and rationality. For that matter I recommend the entire blog, which is largely about the science of martial arts.
One of the challenges of rationality verification is that most people who are willing to contribute personal data for it are already familiar with the techniques involved. This makes it difficult to tell if their performance on any form of rationality test is due to their training or their innate abilities. Does the start of a new sequence present a way around this for that sequence's content?
I believe that it might, and will propose some ideas on how we can take advantage of these opportunities. But first I would suggest that you try to think through the problem for yourself (I know this is slightly different from what is talked about in that post, but... (read 229 more words →)
Rot13 Jngpuzra. The main villain is trying to force the world powers to unite to fight his fake alien invasion, and you aren't supposed to find this out until the end.