What is your information diet like? (I mean other than when you engage in focused learning.) Do you regulate it, or do you just let it happen naturally?
By that I mean things like:
Do you have a reading schedule (e.g. X hours daily)?
Do you follow the news, or try to avoid information with a short shelf-life?
Do you significantly limit yourself with certain materials (e.g. fun stuff) to focus on higher priorities?
This is not much about Singularity Institute as an organization, so I’ll just answer it here in the comments.
I do not regulate my information diet.
I do not have a reading schedule.
I do not follow the news.
I haven’t read fiction in years. This is not because I’m avoiding “fun stuff,” but because my brain complains when I’m reading fiction. I can’t even read HPMOR. I don’t need to consciously “limit” my consumption of “fun stuff” because reading scientific review articles on subjects I’m researching and writing about is the fun stuff.
What I’m trying to learn at this moment almost entirely dictates my reading habits.
The only thing beyond this scope is my RSS feed, which I skim through in about 15 minutes per day.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only fan of Eliezer who isn’t reading HPMOR.
In general, like you I also don’t tend to get any fiction read (unlike earlier). For years, I haven’t progressed on several books I’ve got started that I enjoy reading and consider very smart also in a semi-useful way. It’s rather weird really, since simultaneously I do with great enthusiasm watch some fictional movies and tv series, even repeatedly. (And I do read a considerable amount of non-fiction.)
And I follow the news. A lot. The number one fun thing for me, it seems.
What is your information diet like? (I mean other than when you engage in focused learning.) Do you regulate it, or do you just let it happen naturally?
By that I mean things like:
Do you have a reading schedule (e.g. X hours daily)?
Do you follow the news, or try to avoid information with a short shelf-life?
Do you significantly limit yourself with certain materials (e.g. fun stuff) to focus on higher priorities?
In the end, what is the makeup of the diet?
Etc.
Inspired by this question (Eliezer’s answer).
This is not much about Singularity Institute as an organization, so I’ll just answer it here in the comments.
I do not regulate my information diet.
I do not have a reading schedule.
I do not follow the news.
I haven’t read fiction in years. This is not because I’m avoiding “fun stuff,” but because my brain complains when I’m reading fiction. I can’t even read HPMOR. I don’t need to consciously “limit” my consumption of “fun stuff” because reading scientific review articles on subjects I’m researching and writing about is the fun stuff.
What I’m trying to learn at this moment almost entirely dictates my reading habits.
The only thing beyond this scope is my RSS feed, which I skim through in about 15 minutes per day.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only fan of Eliezer who isn’t reading HPMOR.
In general, like you I also don’t tend to get any fiction read (unlike earlier). For years, I haven’t progressed on several books I’ve got started that I enjoy reading and consider very smart also in a semi-useful way. It’s rather weird really, since simultaneously I do with great enthusiasm watch some fictional movies and tv series, even repeatedly. (And I do read a considerable amount of non-fiction.)
And I follow the news. A lot. The number one fun thing for me, it seems.
This information has caused me to revise my estimate of your humanity significantly downwards.
(This is a compliment.)