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Rational Humanist Music
Normal_Anomaly10y10

The Lisps, from the Album "Are We at the Movies".

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How I changed my exercise habits
Normal_Anomaly10y50

Thanks for the advice. I don't want to do alternating days, because doing the same thing every day makes it easier to have as a habit (for me, anyway). More weight with less reps/set and doing a circuit both make sense. I'm sort of combining weight maintenance and strength goals, and I should probably meet with someone who advises on these questions for a living instead of winging it.

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How I changed my exercise habits
Normal_Anomaly10y10

Yes, thank you! I'll add the link.

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How I changed my exercise habits
Normal_Anomaly10y00

"Step 1: I decided to find an activity, sport, hobby where fitness can actually be used. In my case climbing."

My intention was to give strategies that can be used to build any good habit, not necessarily physical fitness. But within the realm of fitness, you make a good point that a sport where you can see the gains provides additional motivation on top of the desire to be healthier.

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How I changed my exercise habits
Normal_Anomaly10y40

I can now do at least two consecutive pull ups and sometimes three. Hardly world class, but I feel great about it. I also succeeded last December at the climbing route that, when I couldn't complete it, inspired me to start working out. With the cardio I started a few months ago, I've gone from panting for air and feeling awful after running a mile to being able to run two miles and start to enjoy it.

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Are there really no ghosts in the machine?
Normal_Anomaly10y00

How would you suggest we find the right utility function without using machine learning?

If I find out, you'll be one of the first to know.

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Are there really no ghosts in the machine?
Normal_Anomaly10y90

I never claimed that evolution did a good job, but I would argue that it gave us a primary directive; to further the human species.

No, it didn't. That's why I linked "Adaptation Executers, not Fitness Maximizers". Evolution didn't even "try to" give us a primary directive; it just increased the frequency of anything that worked on the margin. But I agree that we shouldn't rely on machine learning to find the right utility function.

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Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015
Normal_Anomaly10y20

There's little I can change about my beliefs that would improve my mood, aside from becoming implausibly optimistic about my future.

How do you think you know that? Maybe some of your beliefs or aliefs are causing wrong actions that are making you sad. From what you say elsewhere in your comment, it sounds like your depression is triggered by romantic failure, so changes to beliefs that help you relate to people better probably could improve your mood. In fact, your particular case of wanting "a relationship . . . in which nobody's deceiving anybody" sounds like a good one for CBT. (Or rather for fixing with rationality-type changes in general, I don't know enough about CBT vs. other therapies to really say.)

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Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015
Normal_Anomaly10y10

The reason in the past was probably disease and/or unintended pregnancy, and both of those can be fixed now. Also concerns about making sure women wouldn't cheat on their husbands and leave them raising someone else's kid, I think. The third reason, which is still applicable today, is that hiring a sex worker signals "can't get sex without paying, therefore undesirable" but that's probably not too big of a deal.

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Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015
Normal_Anomaly10y20

I can confirm this. I stayed in a hostel in London for a week last month, and got way more social interaction than I was expecting and about as much as my introverted self could stand. Including one invitation to dinner that may or may not have been a date.

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8Online Course in Evidence-Based Medicine
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29[Link]: GiveWell is aiming to have a new #1 charity by December
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5Rationality Quotes July 2011
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3Introducing… The Less Wrong Forum!
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18Help Request: Cryonics Policies
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19Sequence Exercise: "Extensions and Intensions" from "A Human's Guide to Words"
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44Sequence Exercise: first 3 posts from "A Human's Guide to Words"
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6Link: Gizmodo discusses SIAI, matches donations
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22Reading the Sequences before Starting to Post: Costs and Benefits
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