This worked out good enough. We played the Guess the number principle game, tried the wason card test, and planned for future meetup ideas. Here’s a set of pics. https://plus.google.com/photos/110235589351841913894/albums/6084556792473790881?banner=pwa . *
-- I haven’t named/tagged anyone, but if you’re still uncomfortable with public sharing pics, let me know on the mailing list.
but it seems to be almost exactly 1, possibly slightly higher. (I am unambiguously male, which makes me wonder if my methodology is bad) Well I had a similar problem(tried to measure with tape directly next & parallel to the fingers) and instead drew the outline of my spread out palm on a sheet of paper and got 1.01.
This is also the same reason I like Alan Perlis’s quote on programming languages. Paraphrased it reads “There’s no point in learning a new language that doesn’t teach you a new way of thinking.” I equate “the new way of thinking” with maps here.
Changed to Nov.15th. I won’t be checking this page often. If you want to discuss the actual dates do it on the meetup site link above.
Can we take these discussions to meetup. Am happy to change dates, as it works for me, but last time there was a mess up due to continuous mess-ups.
Couldn’t find a bangalore specific group so started a google group and a meetup group. Here are the links below. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bangalore-lesswrongers.
http://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-LessWrongers-Meetup/. Have also scheduled a first meetup for Nov. 14th. Let’s see how many turn up.
The only part I object to what you wrote is emotions shouldn’t interfere with cognition. I think they already are a part of cognition and it’s a bit like calling “quantum physics is weird”. Perhaps you meant “emotions shouldn’t interfere with rationality” in which case I’ll observe that it doesn’t seem to be a popular view around lesswrong. Also observe, I used to believe that emotions should be ignored, but later came to the conclusion that it’s a way too heavy-handed strategy for the modern world of complex systems. I’ll try to conjecture further, by saying, cog, psychologists tend to classify emotion, affect, and moods differently. AFAIK, it’s based on the temporal duration it exists with short—long in order of emotion, mood, affect. My conjecture is emotions can and should be ignored, mood can be ignored ( but not necessarily should) and affect should not be ignored, while rational decision-making.
While some parts of me agree with it, there are other parts that set off alarms like: but judges will try to use this as a rationalization for what looks like a kind behaviour(by habit, social proof) instead of trying to evaluate the justness, especially when it looks like it’s complex or is likely to threaten one of their biased beliefs.
Oh well nobody showed up.. Guess nobody was interested. If am wrong someone else post another meetup. Thanks. Cya.. Anand
Ok anybody here yet?
Besides, Am hoping people will be interested in meeting regularly. So let’s see later(say next month then)
Sure.. As of now, I am hoping we can have something ongoing on a monthly basis at the very least. I’ll set up a meetup account based on how it turns out this saturday. 21st. Perhaps you could make it?
Hi, I am going ahead with the saturday evening schedule.
Sorry dude. There are other people who are interested and I can’t change it now. We can meetup personally, though not sure what will come out of that.
As regards to the actual agenda, We can have two parts.
A rationality game (First thought like this http://acritch.com/credence-game/, or this http://rationality.org/calibration/) or something else.
Ideas/feedback about what each of us want to get out this lesswrong meetups. (Personally, right now am looking forward to learning how to introduce rational thinking in more aspects of my thinking).
Hi, Let’s change that date to June 21st evening 5:30 PM. There is a coffee shop inside leela palace. It’s called “Lavazza”. Let’s meet there. I’ll post my contacts 3-4 days before the meetup. Comment/reply if you have trouble with that date.
@Anand: Cool.. Let me check out the rationality meetup guide.. I’ll look out for activity/agenda planning for a group of under 10.
But, as compiler optimizations exploit increasingly recondite properties of the programming language definition, we find ourselves having to program as if the compiler were our ex-wife’s or ex-husband’s divorce lawyer, lest it introduce security bugs into our kernels, as happened with FreeBSD a couple of years back with a function erroneously annotated as noreturn, and as is happening now with bounds checks depending on signed overflow behavior.
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