Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned? she wondered. Did you teach him how to kneel? The graveyards of the Seven Kingdoms were full of brave men who had never learned that lesson
-- Catelyn Stark, A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
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I’ve since learned that some people use the word “rationality” to mean “skills we use to win arguments and convince people to take our point of view to be true”, as opposed to the definition which I’ve come to expect on this site (currently, on an overly poetic whim, I’d summarize it as “a meta-recursively applied, optimized, truth-finding and decision making process”—actual definition here).
The monty python link is stale
Exercise: Dancing
Single/Partnered dancing lessons. Increase body awareness and consciousness of body language signs, both emitted and received. Practice basic skills that can lead to other benefits—confidences speaking with strangers, and hugging at meet-ups.
A more challenging alternative might be to try getting a handsome guy to show genuine affection—ie., give you a hug and some words of encouragement (“don’t worry about it, you’ll do well on that test”), in exchange for nothing offered.
Maybe keep track of strong emotional reaction, with modifiers for how strongly it’s affecting your response to the conversation
I’m trying to understand where the bad is in this idea.
Are you maybe opposed to details of the implementation? Would you think the idea is bad if the option to filter out results is opt-in and explicitly stated? For example, offer users a “only use votes from teenagers when displaying data on the site” option, which they can enable or disable at will.
Are you opposed to it because it’s divided along gender lines? Would you be more receptive to it if it was divided along, say, age lines, or proficiency in rationality lines?
I’m a bit confused by the downvotes. Did I miss something? I figured that my suggestion, or some approximation in the same solution space, would both provide useful information about the cause of the gender imbalance, and tools to try and address it.
Could some of this be resolved through technology?
Imagine a voting system which takes into account the gender of the person voting, as well as the gender of the person viewing the page. A woman reader’s view might place higher value on women’s votes, relative to men’s, such that maybe a single downvote from another woman will count much farther towards making a comment invisible than several upvotes from a men.
(with maybe a twiddle somewhere that says something like “show me the men’s view” “show me the women’s view” “show me both views, highlighting differences” “show me both views, ignoring differences”)
I would guess that the culprit is the difference between speed of technological advance and biological evolution.
As we have become richer in resources and free time, we both have the option to and the tools required for overstimulating any of our “drives” (sex, apetite for eating food, socializing online), without having had the time for individual level evolution to catch up. We see adaptations at the group/cultural level because changes there happen more quickly, and are easier to notice. If the pressure remains sustained for a long enough time, we’ll see biological changes, too.
You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
-- David Foster Wallace
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
-- Terry Pratchett
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying
-- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Can a bayesian agent perfectly model arbitrary non-bayesian agents?
Given a bayesian model for someone else’s non-bayesian decision system, won’t a bayesian agent have a straight forward time of deciding which priors to update, and how?
“I don’t think anyone should have to do anything educational in school if they don’t want to.”—Cordelia’s character, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
I’m above average in talent, but where I think I excel is psychotic drive. All I need is for somebody to say I can’t do something and this crazy switch inside me makes me attack whatever I’m doing. Psychotic drive is where I excel over people that are probably more naturally gifted.
-- Will Smith
I once played a game where a similar kind of setup was arranged with armour—however, the armour selection was not necessarily fixed over each battle. Players could effectively change armour at specific points throughout the combat.
If you want to try an even more interesting arrangement, imagine players get to switch one item of their setup every, say, 10 or 15 rounds.
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