1) I learned to reconcile my postmodernist trends with physical reality. Sounds cryptic? Well let’s say I learned to appreciate science a little more than I did.
2) I learned to think more “statistically” and probabilistically—though I didn’t learn to multiply.
3) Winning is also a pretty good catch-word for an attitude of mind—and maybe a better title than less-wrong.
6) Something I didn’t learn was the long list of cognitive biases. It’s ok to know about them—but I don’t think they are very useable in practice. The one I like best is “overconfidence”.
7) Something else I didn’t learn or understand was your stance on ethics. I am going to rush and take the child of the rails as well—but all else is muddled mud to me.
1) I learned to reconcile my postmodernist trends with physical reality. Sounds cryptic? Well let’s say I learned to appreciate science a little more than I did.
2) I learned to think more “statistically” and probabilistically—though I didn’t learn to multiply.
3) Winning is also a pretty good catch-word for an attitude of mind—and maybe a better title than less-wrong.
4) Oh! - And I stopped buying a lottery ticket.
5) The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence—the symmetry of confirming and disconfirming evidence
6) Something I didn’t learn was the long list of cognitive biases. It’s ok to know about them—but I don’t think they are very useable in practice. The one I like best is “overconfidence”.
7) Something else I didn’t learn or understand was your stance on ethics. I am going to rush and take the child of the rails as well—but all else is muddled mud to me.