Conscientiousness: Alice keeps putting off a project, since she knows it’ll only take an hour (say, fixing a roof—after all, you only need to start an hour before the rainstorm). Bob just does it. Alice gets rained on.
Coonscientiousness: Alice and Bob’s town is slowly invaded by a herd of raccoons. Alice looks up how to deal with raccoons, asks for advice, and looks for successful people and copies them. Bob just does what he thinks of first, yelling at them to stay away from his garden, until he gets to tired and raccoons eat all his vegetables.
Steal the plotline of “Feeling Pinkie Keen” from My Little Pony and fix the ending so instead of being about taking things on faith, it’s about updating on the cumulatively overwhelming evidence that the quirky character’s predictive ability actually works.
It’s not about taking things on faith, it’s about accepting that you don’t have to know the inner workings of a model to realize that it’s a good predictor.
Or is that what you just said? I guess I need to watch the episode again, the moral must be different than what I remember.
I’d settle for a well-executed cartoon adaptation of Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Almost as good in terms of rationality, and a lot more marketable.
“Super Rationality Adventure Pals the Saturday morning cartoon! On 1080p from a BitTorrent near you.” Please post plotlines and excerpts.
[an old comment I thought I’d revive.]
Conscientiousness: Alice keeps putting off a project, since she knows it’ll only take an hour (say, fixing a roof—after all, you only need to start an hour before the rainstorm). Bob just does it. Alice gets rained on.
Coonscientiousness: Alice and Bob’s town is slowly invaded by a herd of raccoons. Alice looks up how to deal with raccoons, asks for advice, and looks for successful people and copies them. Bob just does what he thinks of first, yelling at them to stay away from his garden, until he gets to tired and raccoons eat all his vegetables.
Please, either ‘a gaze of raccoons’ or ‘a nursery of raccoons’.
The moral of the episode: a group of raccoons is called a “gaze” or “nursery”.
The More You Know
Zombie raccoons!
Steal the plotline of “Feeling Pinkie Keen” from My Little Pony and fix the ending so instead of being about taking things on faith, it’s about updating on the cumulatively overwhelming evidence that the quirky character’s predictive ability actually works.
It’s not about taking things on faith, it’s about accepting that you don’t have to know the inner workings of a model to realize that it’s a good predictor.
Or is that what you just said? I guess I need to watch the episode again, the moral must be different than what I remember.
I’d settle for a well-executed cartoon adaptation of Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Almost as good in terms of rationality, and a lot more marketable.