A good paper!
I’m curious how you found the paper. I asked myself how I would find such a paper (rather than just stumbling on it here). I first checked Tenenbaum’s homepage, but it’s out of date. Then I checked the CBMM publications page and found it.
Another interesting paper from that page: “Foveation-based Mechanisms Alleviate Adversarial Examples”
My parents were similarly irrational.
I think you could still take the GED and apply to colleges right now. I think it sometimes can help to discuss things concretely “I have my GED and have been accepted to XYZ Uni to study ABC” v. “I could get my GED and apply to colleges.”.
If you can’t graduate 2 years early with a GED, you could try graduating 1 year early by just earning all the necessary credits. My school offered credits for passing AP exams, and I just self-studied for several of them and passed them.
OP said:
it’s very hard to socialize when you don’t board at the school,
I’m saying it’s very easy to socialize on a college campus. Not necessarily drinking and fucking your way through college. To give one example, Just hanging around and chatting with people after class if you don’t have a class immediately afterward.
If I could re-do high school, I would get my GED as early as possible, and then do something useful with my time instead of gong to high school. For example, you could self-study a bunch of APs exams, test out of all the general education requirements at many universities, and then graduate from college early too.
Then, when you get to college, you can spend a bunch of your time socializing, on campus.
I really like your knowledge maps.
I found a small typo: “Luck of ability to see consequences”. I think you meant “lack”.
I’ll add some sub-points:
1) AI risk is important
ToolAI: http://lesswrong.com/lw/cze/reply_to_holden_on_tool_ai/
Ng’s position: “Worrying about AGI is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars”
MIRI’s actual effectiveness.
item 1
2) Everybody should be vegan.
Veganism is healthier than other diets (e.g. paleo, keto)
Even if veganism is less healthy, it is still morally superior to other diets.
Other people have mentioned:
Cryonics
Relationships / PUA
Political topics:
Free Market Policies
Social Justice Movement
The importance of environmentalism
It could be also be casein intolerance. I actually feel fairly okay when I drink milk, but consuming a casein protein powder makes me bloated.
Probably people have seen this before, but I really like it:
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily.
I realized this about my own mood swings.
I tend to do a lot of “writing therapy” in workflowy. Thus, if I’m ever at a high, or a low, I record a lot of my thoughts into workflowy so that I can refactor/combine them later.
I like model this as “emotional retrograde amnesia”. I like the movie “Memento” by Nolan because the protagonist writes lots of notes to himself because he has actual retrograde amnesia; similarly, I have emotional retrograde amnesia, so I write lots of notes to myself, so that I can piece together the “puzzle” later.
Just click on his username.
So, it seems like lots of people advise buying index funds, but how do I figure out which specific ones I should choose?
Another thing I’ve heard recently, but not looked into much is living in a house boat off of the coast of San Francisco, and then paddling in on a Kayak.
Umm, would anybody here have invites for torrent trackers for textbooks (e.g. BitMe, The Geeks, Bibliotik)? PM me.
I have some questions about step 1 (find a flexible program):
My understanding is that there are two sources of inflexibility for PhD programs: A. Requirements for your funding source (e.g. TA-ing) and B. Vague requirements of the program (e.g. publish X papers). I’m excluding Quals, since you just have to pass a test and then you’re done.
Elsewhere in the comments, someone wrote:
“Grad school is free. At most good PhD programs in the US, if you get in then they will offer you funding which covers tuition and pays you a stipend on the order of $25K per year. In return, you may have to do some work as a TA or in a professor’s lab.”
So, there are two types of jobs you can have to fund your PhD (TA-ing and being a RA/Research Assistant to a professor). How time-consuming is TA-ing generally? I imagine it varies based on the school/class. How do you find a TA-ing gig that isn’t time consuming? Can you generally TA during your entire PhD? I think I vaguely recall a university that only would let you TA for so many semesters.
You could also fund your PhD by getting a fellowship. Philip Guo has written about applying for the NSF, NDSEG, Hertz fellowships. I’m poorly calibrated about how hard it is to get one of these fellowships. I’ve also heard that certain schools will offer fellowships to some of their students. How hard are these to get relative to the fellowships mentioned above? There are ~33K science PhDs awarded each year. I wonder what distinguishes the ~4% who get fellowships from the median science PhD student.
Let’s say that you were really frugal and/or financially independent already. My impression is that many schools would still require you to TA in order to have your tuition waved.
Let’s assume you have the financial aspect of your PhD taken care of (e.g. You have an easy/enjoyable TA job). What other requirements are there other than passing Quals? Could I read interesting books indefinitely until I find something interesting to publish?
I’d like to believe that achieving step 1 is possible, but as eli_sennesh pointed out, this is hard.
Tools can be used to build agents.
Introduction to Connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes. Reviewed on LW here.
I have a question:
In your post, “A Workable Solution to the Problem of Other Minds”, you talk about solving the problem by connecting and disconnecting minds (i.e. doing mind-coalescing and decolescing). I also had this idea, but I didn’t really develop it much. Do you know where I could read more about this proposed solution to the problem of other minds?
So, I did a bit of googling for counter-arguments. Here’s what I found:
http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/porn-addiction-healthy-research/
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/5-reasons-you-need-watch-porn/
There were a few different studies that showed that it wasn’t as bad as people thought.
So, I think the correct answer to the question “I have a 5-figure sum of money to invest” is to just go with Betterment/Wealthfront rather than Vanguard, so that you get diversification between asset classes (whereas a specific index fund will get you diversification within an asset class). If I’d known this when I’d asked the question, I would have picked a better mix of Vanguard index funds, and not hesitated as much with figuring out where to put the money. To be fair, Vaniver basically said this, I just think the links below explain it better, so I could feel certain enough to make a decision rather than let the money burn away through inflation.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/02/17/book-review-the-intelligent-asset-allocator/
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/11/04/why-i-put-my-last-100000-into-betterment/