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This effect is really noticeable when you’re manic.
You could rename this post to, "Sweet, Sweet Serendipity".
Reflection from this particular experimental position:
> Why was it possible for me to assume an offensive tone? What features contribute to an offensive tone, and how can I avoid that? I think HPMoR gave me the wrong idea about bringing awareness to something, and probably a lot more social behavior.
- Conceptually speaking, my map correctly indicated to me that something more was left implicit for this example to be non-hyperbolic.
- I had more than enough information to scratch off the possibility of it being hyperbolic, but I didn't even try looking.
1. You have been on LessWrong for 4 years, have quite a bit of karma, have made over 20 posts on LessWrong,... (read more)
Thank you for the clarification. I am content. I congratulate you for running your errands on a bike with your condition; that's actually quite impressive. I do apologize sincerely for that unnecessarily harsh critique of a minor detail. I concede to your recommendation.
I think I have some explaining to do.
I am 19, and am relatively new to rationality. I have been exposed to it for about two years, but have attained only hints of scattered progress. I am ashamed of this, but also realize how difficult it is to change the underlying dispositional features of oneself; how difficult it is to get past a local optimum that the self uses for most... (read more)
I assign a low probability that it took you 35 minutes to bike 3 miles when you were pressured to the task. That's 5.14 mph, which is quite easy to jog. There was more going on than aerobic deficiency.
I understand this isn't what your point was, but your example shouldn't be hyperbolic.
Either explain the other factors, or use a different example.
Have I overestimated your aerobic condition, despite your insistence?
Think pragmatically here. How do you anticipate this list is going to change you?
While much of LessWrong is dedicated to hypothetical truths, CFAR is more about iterative/adaptive truth/improvement.
Don't consider anything and everything. A threshold of hypotheticals prevent you from acting and making progress (I wish they expounded upon this in the prior post).
Just consider the limitations you anticipate that you'll actually be able to/actually want to resolve at some point.
Hopefully this gives you some direction.
"Do you see how they flow into each other? Learning the order of the items helps me remember which virtues are connected to other ones, and how."
Sure, it may help you remember how some of the virtues are connected to other virtues in an indirect way, but even if it were direct, it is quite partial. The flow can only hint at how lightness is related to evenness, or how perfectionism is related to evenness.
Lightness doesn't just relate with evenness. It also relates with all the other virtues in a ton of different ways. In fact, they are all so heavily interrelated, that, "you will see how all techniques are one technique".
If your objective is to have a good understanding of how all the virtues of rationality relate, I would chunk them in a way that is most sensible to you, then ask how each may relate to each other both in theory and in application.
I have done that here in the comments.
@Mikhail Samin, you are welcome to apply my transcript to this post, if think that would be helpful to others.
Here is the Q+A section:
[In the video, the timestamp is 5:42 onward.]
[The Transcript is taken from YouTube's "Show transcript" feature, then cleaned by me for readability. If you think the transcription is functionally erroneous somewhere, let me know.]
Eliezer: Thank you for coming to my brief TED talk.
(Applause)
Host: So, Eliezer, thank you for coming and giving that. It seems like what you're raising the alarm about is that for an AI to basically destroy humanity, it has to break out, to escape controls of the internet and start commanding real-world resources. You say you can't predict how that will happen, but just paint one or two possibilities.
Eliezer: Okay. First, why is this hard?... (read 663 more words →)
Just say, “Give me an example”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJKAnN0-gM