(I haven't read the post yet) The mention of the Knox posts made me think of this comment chain about the slowly-growing number of similar posts on LW: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YTJp5WBcktBimdxBG/staying-split-sabatini-and-social-justice?commentId=xctop8E3zpuCFjj4p
I don't know if it's worth adding in to your post anywhere, but here it is if you would like it.
Yes, that's what I did the first time, haha
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I didn't agree-vote but I want to bet on
Rot13 because I can't get spoilers to work: Crbcyr nterrvat jvgu gur cbyvpl nf n tbbq bar, juvpu vf frcnengr sebz gur abezny hcibgr bs "Lrnu V yvxrq guvf"
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Could you help out by firmly explaining what you see as the difference from "morbid curiosity"? Maybe exploring the failings of the closest neighboring term would give a good motivation for the new jargon!
Depending on how cold your hands are, you should NOT use hot water. I was always taught that this is really bad for your body to go from freezing to hot.
Edit: To be clear, this is emphatic agreement, not disagreement
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I think this is no longer correct, looking at the link I believe displays the code: https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/blob/devel/packages/lesswrong/lib/voting/voteTypes.ts
I don't think anyone is likely to care, but it is my understanding that a new reader will see the sidecomment when they read the post and so this clears up that possible confusion.
Amusingly, this is one of the previously suggested voting axes ("Clear"/"Muddled"): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ywpWMnJmqAkeaDtne/open-thread-jan-2022-vote-experiment
Oh, wow, I didn't know where the shortform button was before. I'll toss some interesting stuff in here soon (but I'm making the shortform first to make sure my posts don't get eaten).
Ah, the title of the shortform starts with [Draft], this is likely it. Still a very odd interface.
User LVSN has several shortform posts but no visible shortform. The shortform posts appear as comments with no attributed post title which link to lesswrong.com (the href property is set to "/"). They have no shortform post, which appears to usually be pinned on top of a user's posts.
Does anyone know what this means? They were not aware of it when I talked to them.
Yes, it's an interesting issue.
I wonder if koans work best under partial supervision. Instead of the master having to check each attempt, they check 1 in 100 attempts, allowing them to teach roughly 100 times as many students at once.
If any teachers out there use koan-likes, do they work well for homework?
Also koans. You give a pattern which will be significant when understood, but insignificant until then. The student tries random interpretations until the pattern is understood, and know that the random data they have found is valuable. This is done because the data is difficult to describe directly, but easy to hold once achieved.
I've got a little sample of a similar idea in my mind, which I think may be similar enough it's worth mentioning. I'll describe it using "is" language instead of "sounds like it is" language below for brevity.
A sazen is a description of a completed process which is not a description of how to start the process; an island of self-supporting concepts which you cannot jump directly to from pre-existing concepts.
Picture a resource-management game (like Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, etc). You might need Resource A to get Resource B and Resource B, like needing elec...
Please add ALL of these to the Sequence that got made! I have 2 times now found more of these really fun posts and wish I'd read it earlier!
I had someone online recently ask if anyone was curating a playlist which could be subscribed to for the highlights from the sequences. If you have the ability to make public playlists (maybe on Spotify, but I haven't used it in years), people may get value out of that.
You guys can use agree/disagree on this comment to say if you'd get value out of curated playlists.
Yup, I wrote the program and still get owner-value-portion-grabbing. If it's any help, I can now generate any simple pattern you want very quickly and easily.
I did a really simply and naive thing in an online calculator, and I'd like to state explicitly that I'll be quite intrigued if you show me I did it wrong as I feel I must have made a mistake looking back over this comment.
I used http://shapleyvalue.com/ with several (ANNOYING TO INPUT) sets of values (10 utility in each).
Here I did a trivial thing where you need all owners and 2 workers here, and included only those people. You can see that they trivially are going to telescope to each getting 1/n of the value out.
1 owner / 2 worker = ( 3.33333 / owner, 3...
I'll pass this along! It wasn't for me, it was for someone who apparently likes to queue up LW posts in their podcast player and wanted to know if there was an automatic way to do so.
Someone recently asked me if there was audio for https://www.lesswrong.com/highlights compiled into a playlist anywhere. I can't seem to find it; does this already exist?
Thank you for doing that; I'll do this some day soon when I'm ready to keep my laptop open on the tab for a while.
Here are several more coordinates I did up:
39.25538, -76.71480 39.25538 N, 76.71480 W 18N 352043 4346518 87F5774P+53 18S UJ 52043 46518
The point of (me linking) "Don't fight the hypothetical" is that the author of the thought experiment could come here and comment "The boy has incredibly calibration about coyotes and other beasts, made using old predictions and cross validated with reserved old predictions, but the others in the village don't know this and won't listen now that he's had one false alarm" and it would be completely uninteresting to discuss.
Meta level: Why on earth would you say "Here is my secret idea, internet"? That doesn't make any sense to me
I don't know where you got that definition from, but it disagrees with common usage and the dictionary. All of the "cides" are about murder, not death (patricide, regicide, suicide, etc), which could have been a clue, since "suicide" would be nonsense if this pattern held.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homicide
...homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)
- (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
- (countable) A person who kills another.
- (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of
If the program has not ended, there is a feedback and proofreading service that you can access, which would be really helpful if you don't have any local proofreaders for making sure the audience will understand you.
Don't put more effort into spellcheck, just paste your essay into a wordprocessor that has spellcheck! Spelling is so uninteresting that you should find the easiest way to touch it up.
Small confusions:
I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but I am curious: The bounty page says the bounty was discontinued as of March 2020 due to Coronavirus. Are there plans to bring it back at any point?
The link on "anecdote about Brewster's angle" goes to a story about Richard Feynman contains the paragraphs:
...Therefore I am brave enough to flip through the pages now, in front of this audience, to put my finger in, to read, and to show you. So I did it. Brrrrrrrup-I stuck my finger in, and I started to read: "Triboluminescence. Triboluminescence is the light emitted when crystals are crushed ..." I said, `And there, have you got science? No! You have only told what a word means in terms of other words. You haven't told anything about nature-what crystals
Actually, I just checked this, if you split the factory owner into multiple agents, the workers capture less and less of the value.
If you downvote, I'd appreciate an explanation as well, even if you PM me so you don't incur downvotes as well. I also will not respond to your feedback unless you ask for it, to lower the cost of giving some even more. Thanks.
I like the bit, I took the time to try it out in my head too and it was a fun puzzle. I wonder if I can actually get better at visualization practicing problems of that difficulty level?
Goofus: "Let us, for this argument, define 'horse' to mean 'human'."
Gallant: "Alright."
Goofus: "So you accept then, that humans should wear horseshoes?"
Gallant: "What??!"
I'm actually amazed how little it seems that most people track the definition of words in a conversation to see if they're changing. Something like the points made in Arguing "By Definition" or Scott Alexander's popularization of the term "Motte and Bailey" should be obvious. When someone makes one of these arguments to me, I am confused what is literally going on in their head. Unless the speaker does not care if their argument is sound, I have no map of what it is like to expect the switcheroo to work. In my brain, I resolve words into concepts, but it s...
Damn, I just used up half a cup of sugar and the only result I got was learning sugar packs into the grooves of my pliers INCREDIBLY WELL. I will have to try again later, maybe after making some larger crystals (so that the pliers are capable of breaking them apart).
Edit: Dissolving the sugar (in coldish water, just by stirring) and then letting that dry worked! Little greenish flashes. Fun
As with all good advice for thinking, I cannot tell whether this is novel or trivial or both. I'd love more examples in either case, so I can make sure I understand what you're talking about.
As I read the post, it would also recommend (for example, duh) testing lots of life coaches, seeing whose advice performed the best in the first month, and then getting lots more advice from them. In that sense, there is something of an Explore/Exploit dynamic going on here, with a framing focusing on evaluating data sources.
I think this article might be related, if you decide to write more on this: https://www.gwern.net/Modus
I say this as genuine feedback, not a snipe: Use more spellcheck next time. Less concretely, use more editing, of which spellcheck is one method. I think your post would have stood stronger if it had incorporated some feedback before publishing! You have many small things you say which indicate what seems to be a confusion you have about what people say, and people will tell you this if you ask.
I'll note that there are some really neat comments on here, and that the button could be hidden in our 3-dots on the top left of comments (though I've never really ached to bookmark a comment before)
Gahhhh I've been waiting for the rest of BeWellTuned for a while now. I was hoping it was held up for a happy reason, like the author being busy with work they found important. :(