I don’t understand. I was quite intrigued about platform 9 and a half, about detecting things by explicitly ignoring everything of interest, really nice ideas. I’m usually able to read fics in English and understand most of it, but in this case, I fear I failed a lot. I do not know whether it is because some things were removed from history or whether it’s because it ’s a LL point of view. I can imagine that it’s a really good point of view, but that’s too confusing for me to follow. It’s not even clear to me what occured at the end
Arthur Milchior
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Remembering people’s name with Anki
FYI: the link https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5YzC6wECNxGP3XGKA/willpower-and-hufflepuff-traps is broken
A small note, which would probably have been better before it get published. For someone not following US politics, the story of Doug Jones is hard to follow as I don’t have any context about it. My first reading suggest that some people would have wanted to expel a senator, leaving the senate with one less member on the democratic side. But it does not seems to make sens, unless some party have the power to expell a senator from the whole senate
I really like the whole feeling. I am just confused about the fact that “I can not confirm nor deny” is used so widely. I can get how Mad Eye could get it from HJPEV, not how Lockhart could, and especially why he would use such a complex formulation.
Sounds quite cool!
There are quite a lot of interesting things, but it’s hard to read less wrong as there are just so many links, and finding what to read next is computationally very costly. A book solve the problem! I may imagine buying the ebook version just for having this order simplifying the reading decision.
One question: do you have any plan to make an audiobook of it? I listen more than I read, and would really love to listen to it, assuming that some texts can be understood without the drawings. I assume that some textes from Scott Alexander may already exists in audio thanks to SSC podcast. A LW Best-Of podcast, similar to SSC podcast and to the RAIFTZ audiobook would be extremly wonderful.
The comment was not about having facebook or any big company/administration knowing your data. I admit there is little advice relevant here. Personally, I share often my notes and don’t really check everytime what’s in them. It would be too complex, so I avoid to put anything that I should not share in them (and warn the recipient that there may be some NSFW things)
I am honestly not that sure. I know personally I won’t apply all of those low-hanging fruit, and I doubt anyone will. Even if some “fruits” may be useful to me, there is so many fruits that it would take far too much time testing all of them. So in my opinion, I need to have a small quantity of fruits at once. A one-hour even with one fruit by person is nice, because it gives a clear time-frame. Going to read list of fruits seems too hard intellectually, since so many fruits are different I need to constantly context-switch.
Furthermore, a live even allow to see each person’s enthousiasm, it allow them to explain in details. I have a hard time imagining how that could be done in such a big list, especially if it’s one person’s fruit.
To be honest, I don’t expect this current list to be useful to anybody that was not here, but I expect it to be really cool for people who want to recall the details of what they heard.
I used to give (good quality) harmonica to people wanting to start playing without too much trouble. Tried twice. None of the receiver plays it (one I know because we know live together, the other I only guess, but they may be using it at home maybe. )
Low hanging fruits (LWCW 2020)
thank you for your comment.
I think I don’t understand what you mean by
Explain general effective approaches/how they are found
If you mean that they can convince someone easily that they could be cause-agnostic by explaining how to do research, I guess that you’re technically right. However, this is really long, because doing actual research work is complex, long, and boring. The reason why I wanted to give a “detrimental” example is because this is a quick explanation. If you say “you need to interview dozens of people, ensure that your metrics and questions are not biased” is something that does not speaks to my guts. If you say “our methods are general, you could try to use them to defends traditional mariage and fight LGBT rights” that speaks really loudly to my me. I get the point that EA gives tools, and that those tools are general, even if they are mostly used by people caring about suffering and death
Effective altruism and criticism toward activism: Answer to a paradox
Thank you for your answer Davidad. For some reason, I was pretty sure that I did ask you something as “why did you try to do that if it could leads to AI faster, through em” and that your answer was something like “I probably would not have done if I already knew about AI safety questions”. But I guess I did recall badly. I’m honestly started to be effraied by the number of things I did get wrong during those 4 days
I certainly do agree that it’s worth spending time with anki. I’m not sure why you told it in a comment here. I might be the only person seing this comment (given that it was posted just before the event), and I don’t really need to be convinced.
I honestly state that I’m not in any way an expert in memory, nor in neuroscience. I am highly skeptical of your claim. In my experience, improving my learning process means that I remember more and more things. It’s true that I probably discover new things more slowly, because know, instead of just reading a thing, thinking “how, that was interesting” and forgetting it a week later, I need to take time to add the thing in Anki and review it. However, here, anki means that I can discover things I was not able to discover before. Indeed, since I kept forgetting the fundamentals notions of a domain I wanted to discover, I have never been able to advance and discover more advanced notions. Now I can.
Anyway, I share @Pattern’s point of view. Even if you were right, Anki will help you to prioritize and remember what you want to remember, instead of remembering what stayed in your mind for some unknown reason. And, whether you’re right or wrong, anki takes time; which is some time you can’t spend doing other things. So, you certainly need to decide what you will or won’t add to anki, and how much time you want to spend on it. Given your worry, you might want to avoid following my advice about how to learn math with anki, since you believe it’ll be useless. My job rely heavily on math, so I just adapted anki to my own priorities, and it makes a lot of sens to assume they are not yours
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Do we register the talk in advance ? Is a talk about an app considered to be a programming related talk ?
You are welcome. I won’t repeat what I answered to Buck’s comment; some part of the answer are certainly relevant here. In particular regarding the above-mentioned “rule”. While I did not write about «space» above, I hope my point was clear. You and all the staff were making sure we were able to process things safely. While I would not have been able to state explicitly your goals, I was trying to emphasize that you did care about those questions.
AIRCS [...] is not entirely a MIRI recruiting program I believe that I explicitly stated that a lot of people are here for different reasons than being recruited at MIRI. And that your goal are also to hope that people will work at other place on AI safety. I’m actually surprised that you have to clarify it. I fear I was not as clear as I hoped to be.
There is one last thing I should have added to the post. I wrote this for myself. More precisely, I wrote what I would have wanted to read before applying at MIRI/attending AIRCS. I wrote what I expect other applicants might find useful eventually. It seems safe to assume that those applicants sometime reads Less Wrong and so might looks for similar posts and fin this one. Currently, all comments had been made by LW/MIRI/CFAR’s staff, which means that this is not (yet) a success. Anyway, you were not the intended audience, even if I assumed that somehow, some AIRCS staff would hear about this post. I didn’t try to write anything that you would appreciate. After all, you know AIRCS better than me. And it’s entirely possible that you might find some critiques to be unfair. I’m happy to read that you do appreciate and found interesting some parts of what I wrote. Note that most of the things I wrote here related to AIRCS were already present in my feed back form. There were some details I omitted in the form (I don’t need to tell you that there is a lot of vegan options), and some details I omit here (In particular the one mentioning people by name). So there was already a text in which you were the intended audience.
Because I’m lazy.
More generally, usually, the path is: I see someone every week, then I don’t see them at all anymore. This is usually the case when I move to a new country/job. That’s the moment where the interval/setting should change. Even if I don’t do it manually, the next time the question is asked and I press again, the fact that I forgot means the interval will become small again. In this case, the app will mostly deal with it by itself, even if it takes some time, so no reason to take time dealing with it myself.