Hey, everyone! I want to share with you a project I've been working on for a while - http://rationalfiction.io. I want it to become the perfect place to publish, discover, and discuss rational fiction. We already have a lot of awesome stories, and I invite you to join and post more! =)
This is an extremely useful idea that I've learned just recently. In fincance, "arbitrage" means buying and selling things in different markets to take the advantage of difference in price. Like buying a toy in India for $15, and then selling it for $25 in the US. Turns out, you...
Hey, everyone! I have created a new discussion platform for Less Wrong: https://lesswrong.io/ My goal for this project is to revitalize our community, and create a platform for rational conversations about the current events and new ideas. I'm hoping that in this format, we will have more active discussion, and...
This is just my layman theory. Maybe it’s obvious to experts, probably has flaws. But it seems to make sense to me, perhaps will give you some ideas. I would love to hear your thoughts/feedback! Consume input The data you need from the world(like video), and useful metrics we want...
Hey, everyone! I want to share with you a project I've been working on for a while - http://rationalfiction.io. I want it to become the perfect place to publish, discover, and discuss rational fiction. We already have a lot of awesome stories, and I invite you to join and post...
Hey, everyone! So I've been reading an article about the expected utility, apparently to figure out whether the risk is worth taking you multiply expected value of the outcome by it's probability. And apparently insurance companies can make money because the expected utility of buying insurance is lower than it's...
How do you think curriculum of rationality 101 should look like? I want to make a brief course(a series of short animated youtube videos), ideally on the level accessible to a normal 14-17 year old person. Can you help me to make the list of concepts I should start with?
Thanks, Ill try zink again, and one day get around to doung blood test.
I think insomnia starts gradually and progressively gets worse after a few days, maybe a week, my hypothesis was that D3 was building up, apparently it has a very long half life. I took about 2000-3000 IU, it's not that much, right?
I didn't try K2 supplement, but I've just googled and turns out spinach and kale have a lot of K, and I eat a lot of those.
I used to take calcium-magnesium-zink supplement, not sure if it was durig the time I took D3. Could lack of zink be an issue, should I try it?
I don't know if I need it, never took the blood test, I tried it based on all the artiles about how good it is and how most people are deficient in it. Also I live in a cold climate and definitely don't go out enough, so I don't get a lot of sunlight.
I took D3 with light breakfast, in the morning.
Thank you for a great post!
Taking a D3 supplement, even in small amounts, seems to cause a horrible insomnia for me. I have problems with sleep even without it, but on D3 it gets a lot worse, I sleep like 3 hours per night. I'm like 80-90% sure it's D3, when I take it it gets worse, a few days after I stop it gets better.
Do you have any ideas on what could cause this and how could I fix it? I already take magnesium and choline, and I take D3 in the morning, but that don't seem to help much. Melatonin doesn't do anything, it gets me to sleep in the evening, but then I wake up anyway.
Hey, everyone! My first post here. Just testing out this awesome platform. Curious to see where it goes.
This is an extremely useful idea that I've learned just recently. In fincance, "arbitrage" means buying and selling things in different markets to take the advantage of difference in price. Like buying a toy in India for $15, and then selling it for $25 in the US.
Turns out, you can arbitrage not just products, but also information, knowledge, skill, or even human relationships.
For example, let's say you have met two amazing people who don't know each other. When you introduce them to each other, you generate a massive amount of value for both of them essentially out of nothing - you have given each of them a gift of knowing someone great.
Another
Hey, everyone! I have created a new discussion platform for Less Wrong:
My goal for this project is to revitalize our community, and create a platform for rational conversations about the current events and new ideas. I'm hoping that in this format, we will have more active discussion, and get to know each other better.
The site is built using Mastodon - a new, open source, decentralized social networking platform that is currently taking off.
Thank you for your reply!
For a long time, the way ANNs work kinda made sense to me, and seemed to map nicely onto my (shallow) understanding of how human brain works. But I could never imagine how could the values/drives/desires be implemented in terms of ANN.
The idea that you can just quantify something you want as a metric, feed it as an input, and see if the output is closer to what we want is new to me. It was a little epiphany, that seems to make sense, so it prompted me to write this post.
Evolutionary, I guess human/animal utility function would be something like "How many copies of myself have I... (read more)
This is just my layman theory. Maybe it’s obvious to experts, probably has flaws. But it seems to make sense to me, perhaps will give you some ideas. I would love to hear your thoughts/feedback!
The data you need from the world(like video), and useful metrics we want to optimize for, like number of paperclips in the world.
Like deep learning does.
How do human brains convert their structure into action?
Maybe like:
- Take the current picture of the world as an input.
- Come up with random action.
- “Imagine” what will happen.
Take the current world + action, and run it through the ANN. Predict the outcome of the action applied to... (read 424 more words →)
I am working on a project with this purpose, and I think you will find it interesting:
It is intended to be a community for intelligent discussion about rationality and related subjects. It is still a beta version, and has not launched yet, but after seeing this topic, I have decided to share it with you now.
It is based on the open source platform that I'm building:
https://github.com/raymestalez/nexus
This platform will address most of the issues discussed in this thread. It can be used both like a publishing/discussion platform, and as a link aggregator, because it supports both twitter-like discussion, reddit-like communities, and medium-like long form articles.
This platform is in active development, and I'm very interested in your feedback. If LessWrong community needs any specific functionality that is not implemented yet - I will be happy to add it. Let me know what you think!
I am working on a project with the similar purpose, and I think you will find it interesting:
It is intended to be a community for intelligent discussion about rationality and related subjects. It is still a beta version, and has not launched yet, but after seeing this topic, I have decided to share it with you now.
If you find it interesting and can offer some feedback - I would really appreciate it!
Hey, everyone! Author of rationalfiction.io here.
I am actively building and improving our website, and I would be happy to offer it as a new platform for LW community, if there's interest.
I can take care of the hosting, and build all the necessary features.
I've been thinking about creating a LW-like website for a while now, but I wasn't sure that it will work. After reading this post I have decided that I'm going launch and see where it goes.
If there's any ideas or suggestions about how such platform can be improved or what features we'll need - let's discuss them.
By the way, the platform is open source(though I will probably fork it as a separate project and develop it in a new repo).
Hey, everyone! I want to share with you a project I've been working on for a while - http://rationalfiction.io.
I want it to become the perfect place to publish, discover, and discuss rational fiction.
We already have a lot of awesome stories, and I invite you to join and post more! =)
Hey, everyone! So I've been reading an article about the expected utility, apparently to figure out whether the risk is worth taking you multiply expected value of the outcome by it's probability.
And apparently insurance companies can make money because the expected utility of buying insurance is lower than it's price.
So why would buying insurance be the rational action? I mean intuitively it makes sense(you want to avoid the risk), but it doesn't seem to fit well with this idea. If insurance is almost by definition is worth slightly less than it's price, how is it worth buying?
(sorry if it's a dumb question)
How do you think curriculum of rationality 101 should look like? I want to make a brief course(a series of short animated youtube videos), ideally on the level accessible to a normal 14-17 year old person. Can you help me to make the list of concepts I should start with?
Do you guys ever have meetups in English? Do you know if anyone in Moscow does?