I’m Jost, 19 years old, and studying physics in Munich, Germany.
I’ve come across HPMoR in mid-2010 and am currently translating it into German. That way, I found LW and dropped by from time to time to read some stuff – mostly from the Sequences, but rarely in sequence. I started reading more of LW this spring, while a friend and I were preparing a two day introductory course on cognitive biases entitled “How to Change Your Mind”. (Guess where that idea came from!)
I’m probably going to be most active in the HPMoR-related threads.
I was very intrigued by the Singularity- and FAI-related ideas, but I still feel kind of a future shock after reading about all these SL4 ideas while I was at SL1. Are there any remedies?
There are two remedies: Thinking about the ideas, and reading other people’s thoughts about the ideas.
I generally recommend the former first, followed by the second, followed by the first again—don’t read too much without giving yourself time to think the ideas through for yourself.
My general rule with new ideas is to get the summary first and think it through—my personal goal is to have (at least) one criticism, (at least) one supporting argument, and (at least) one derived idea before I read other people’s thoughts on the matter.
Hey everyone,
I’m Jost, 19 years old, and studying physics in Munich, Germany. I’ve come across HPMoR in mid-2010 and am currently translating it into German. That way, I found LW and dropped by from time to time to read some stuff – mostly from the Sequences, but rarely in sequence. I started reading more of LW this spring, while a friend and I were preparing a two day introductory course on cognitive biases entitled “How to Change Your Mind”. (Guess where that idea came from!)
I’m probably going to be most active in the HPMoR-related threads.
I was very intrigued by the Singularity- and FAI-related ideas, but I still feel kind of a future shock after reading about all these SL4 ideas while I was at SL1. Are there any remedies?
There are two remedies: Thinking about the ideas, and reading other people’s thoughts about the ideas.
I generally recommend the former first, followed by the second, followed by the first again—don’t read too much without giving yourself time to think the ideas through for yourself.
My general rule with new ideas is to get the summary first and think it through—my personal goal is to have (at least) one criticism, (at least) one supporting argument, and (at least) one derived idea before I read other people’s thoughts on the matter.