That’s the kind of knowledge humanity is better off not having.
Emile
Karma: 10,773
There’s already a thread in discussion: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/lbw/december_2014_bragging_thread/
?! But your name seems even less tractable to yourself than mine is, and I don’t worry about that!
(also, if you take into account the probability that they will link those comments to you, and that they will think badly of you because of it, no?)
exactly what the singularity is god for
… I’m not sure whether that is a misspelling … (Freudian slip?)
(ok, I deleted my duplicate post then)
Also worth mentioning: the Forum thread, in which Eliezer chimes in.
From here:
(Do not write his name in the comments without the dots. Writing his name online summons him. I’m not joking.)
(not that this policy has been applied much here; and indeed he has been summoned)
(I also wondered whether it was that person, but decided the russian thing made it unlikely)
What’s so great about impacting the status quo? That doesn’t seem like something worth aiming for. I mean, yeah, sure, most ways of making the world a better place impact the status quo; but most ways of making the world a better place involve making noise at one point of the other, that doesn’t mean that making noise is some great thing we should aim for.
Things that make the world (or lesswrong, or your family, etc.) a worse place are more likely to make people upset than things that make the world a better place. There are also more ways to make things worse than to make things better.
if I’m not upsetting some people, I’m not doing a good job
Why?? I occasionally hear that repeated, but it sounds like a cheap excuse to act like a dick, or to retroactively brush off when people point out when you said something wrong in public. It calls to mind the image of a lazy teen spouting out every random stupid idea that goes through his mind and considering that the essence of being a Brave Independent Thinker.
(this is not targeted at you, Capla, I haven’t been paying special attention to your posts)
Open Thread: What are your important insights or aha! moments?
As others mentioned: mining, special manufacturing exploiting microgravity.
A lot of competition and innovation in the area of data transfer protocols and encryption and localization and espionage increasing the need for engineers that can build, test and maintain new communications directly from orbit, which is cheaper than launching prototype after prototype.
A fad for having a marriage and honeymoon in space, making luxury space hotels commercially viable.
Companies having headquarters in space as the ultimate signal. Especially if it gives them an advantageous legal environment.
China wanting to outshine the US, so heavily subsidizing the stuff above for it’s citizens / companies.
Space junk becoming enough of a problem that specialized repair and disposal jobs become viable, mostly financed by the satellite insurance companies.
Some of the things above increasing the number of space flights, and so decreasing prices and making a few more uses become viable.
I was expecting you to write about another kind of invisible problem, one that you just don’t know exists, such as “I have really bad breath”. That kind of problem is harder to detect!
(you also have “soundign” in your article)
Apparently I have 6887 cards (though that includes those I suspended because they’re boring, useless, too difficult, duplicated, or possibly wrong; I tend to often suspend cards instead of deleting them); of those around 3000 are Chinese pinyin cards I automatically created with a Python script (I set them up to get between 1 and 5 new ones per day, depending on how busy I tend to be), 1000 are Japanese (the biggest deck of manually-entered cards), and the remaining decks rarely go over 300 cards.
I study probably between 20 and 40 minutes per day, usually in public transit or during “downtime” (waiting in line, carrying the baby around the house hoping for him to sleep, in the restroom, the elevator...). The time depends of how many new cards I entered recently.
You may be interested in “Chimpanzee Politics”, by Frans de Waals (something like that), which is about exactly that (observing a group of Chimps in a zoo, and how their politics and alliances evolves, with a couple coups).
These days, most of my time on Anki is on Japanese (which I’m learning for fun) and Chinese (which I already know, but I’m brushing up on tones and characters).
Looking through my decks, I also have decks on:
Algorithms and data structures (from a couple books I read on that)
Communication (misc. tips on storytelling, giving talks, etc.)
Game Design (insights and concepts that seemed valuable)
German
Git and Unix Command Line commands
Haskell
Insight (misc. stuff that seemed interesting/important)
Mnemonics
Productivity (notes from Lukeprog’s posts and vairous other sources)
Psychology and neuroscience
Rationality Habits (one of the few decks I have that come all made, from Anna Salmon I think, though I also added some stuff and delted others)
Statistics
Web Technologies (some stuff on Angular JS and CSS that I got tired of looking up all the time)
(also a few minor decks with very few cards)
I review those pretty much every day (I sometimes leave a few unfinished, depending on how much idle time I have in queues, transport, etc.)
I’m not saying that friendships would prevent a war, I’m saying that I know people on both sides of the border and that from both point of views the idea of war is ludicrous and unthinkable. The French don’t hate the Germans, the Germans don’t hate the French, and the kind of flag-waving gun-toting nationalism you’d get in the US or China or Russia is highly unfashionable.
Predicting Franco-German war on a French talk show would probably get you laughed off stage …
I have filled in the survey (I wouldn’t have minded if it was longer!)
As a Frenchman with German friends, and family near the border, this seems outrageously stupid.
I usually don’t use the term “rational”/”rationality” that much, and would rather talk about things like “being effective at what you care about”.
Maybe completely blanking on that question is a sign of having studied some physics?