Thanks for the report! I’ll look into it.
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I thought I’d share my pick-thing-to-do-at-random app that helps somewhat. You just add things and then it shows you them at random. You can click to commit to do something for a while, or just flick to another thing if you can’t do that now. I’ve added hundreds of both timewasters and productive activities there and it’s quite cool to do this kind of lottery to determine what to do now.
Obviously it won’t work if you just keep flicking until you happen upon a favorite timewaster, nor when you have something that needs to be done now. It’s also essential to have clearly defined activities, even if it’s just “think really hard about what to do about and make that a new activity” or whatever. Tell me what you think.
http://things-be-done.appspot.com/ (google login needed for persistent storage, but you can play without logging in, data will be associated with a cookie left in your browser (and will be transferred once you do login))
This is spot-on. That’s exactly how I do it, although I seem to have a good coprocessor for emotional empathy (tuned towards the opposite gender, no less), which does help tremendously; I only have to do social in software and while I’m rather bad at it, the empathy compensates for that and makes people more forgiving for miscalculations.
Consequently I tend not to like and avoid my own gender, because the empathy processor fails there and what’s left is pure awkwardness.
That, or I’m just rationalizing over competition anxiety.
(EDIT: BTW, I got 32 on the test.)
(Another edit: in case it’s not apparent, note that I strongly prefer the opposite gender for mating. And, well, for pretty much anything at all.)
And here I thought lesswrong would be the one place on teh internets where I wouldn’t get confused by obscure Harry Potter references and consequently feel out of place for not reading it.
I agree, all that good grammar just gets in the way. There’s too little appreciation for bad grammar here on lesswrong.
“is an accurate belief” is a property of the belief only
Technically, it’s a property of the (belief, what-the-belief-is-about) pair. Beliefs can’t be accurate by themselves; there has to be an external referent to compare them with. (Only-)self-referencing beliefs degrade straighforwardly to tautologies or contradictions.
That’s the remaining 10%. You know, the part which isn’t covered in ‘teach yourself GTD in one hour’ audiobooks.
But seriously, there’s much stuff about higher levels of planning in GTD. See ‘someday maybe’ lists, monthly review, putting analysis tasks on monthly lists, analysing farther horizons periodically, etc.
I’m not quite sure that’s what the parent meant. I understood it literally and it does make sense as well.
Hi!
(Lurking since Eliezer had still been writing his sequences on OB.)
In Poland there’s a whole genre of jokes based on one-upping such ad hoc status markers. It could well be “my husband is so stupid that he...”. “I’m so ill that...” fits the genre perfectly.
I reckon it is public good anyway, insofar as public libraries are public. In fact, you can most probably access many of those journals for free at your nearest public library, even if not necessarily by direct web access, but by requesting a copy from the librarian.
EDIT: Of course if you want convenience, you have to pay. (Perhaps) luckily enough people and institutions are willing to.
I think he meant people doing self-surgery on their own. Ie. you can’t go to a pharmacy and buy lidocaine just because you want to implant an RFID chip in your hand. As for why, well, that’s perhaps another point.
But five hundred years ago ancient Greeks hadn’t lived for centuries already.
Any pointers to those studies?
Is it to say, if you had to make such a bet (at a gunpoint, if you will), you’d be indifferent and might as well flip a coin to choose? If so, fair enough. If not, what’s more to it? (Assuming you don’t want to get killed on refusing to take the bet.)
For satisfying SoullessAutomaton’s curiosity I think phrasing it differently would have been better: which one would you bet (say, $100) if you had to do and could only pick one? (Assuming that both questions would get truthfully answered immediately after making the bet. It’s just so that you wouldn’t pick one of these just because the question seems more interesting.)
s/D端hring/Dühring/. Perhaps review OB->LW conversion scripts?
How about corporate AI evolution? You’ll find a clever depiction of such (runaway) evolution in Accelerando, www.accelerando.org. Great book, that, btw, in other respects, too.
It should work now, please test. Sorry about that problem.
I needed to change the method to pick a random entity—no easy feat in app engine, apparently. As a side effect, there might be some apparent nonuniformity in sampling when you have few todos. It will smooth out as you start/stop them and add more.