An implementation of a solution to your problem #2 and #3 for MO: instead of corresponding with people through email, write that email as a MO question and email them that question. Two problems with this though are that you have a more restrictive format—you have to make it up to MO’s standards—and that you have to convince other people to do it.
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I want to improve my exposition and writing skills, but whenever I think “what do I know that I can explain to people that isn’t explained well elsewhere?” not much comes to mind. I think that happens because it is hard to just do a search of everything that I know. The main topics that I know are math and rationality (mostly LW epistemic rationality, but also a little instrumental and LW moral philosophy). So I ask:
What is a topic in math or rationality that you wish were explained better or explained at a different level (casual, technical, etc.) than what already exists? Like, something that you know now but wish had been explained to you better, something that you don’t know but wish you did, or something that you wish you could explain to other people but don’t know of any sources to send them to.
Tangentially related question: what are the best ways to get people hooked on lesswrong stuff? My goal is to get certain people to read the sequences. HPMoR is good for certain demographics, but not others (I don’t think it would be suitable for my dad, a 60 year old actuary). Right now, for people where HPMoR is not suitable, I link the humans guide to words sequence. I think it would be better to link a particular article, but I don’t know which one. So I guess, which articles are the most fascinating, that would get one to want to read more?
Why do we even need to deal with outcomes in the first place? For any outcome O, it is equivalent to the lottery L = pO where p = 1.
Also, how do you do LaTeX here?
Can you give an example? I am having a hard time imagining preferences contradicting that axiom (which is a failure on my part).
Initial, symbol, or phrase. Then you can go somewhere else and write down who each of the symbols refers to, but in a different place so that someone would need to find both objects in order to decipher. And then you could encrypt it to be super safe! (and save the encryption key yet somewhere else)
Out of curiosity, why don’t you trust the transitivity axiom?
Well, you are writing for yourself, but you aren’t writing yourself right now who has the event readily accessible in memory. Do you think that you will remember why you decided not leave apartment after seeing the blue civic in a week? A month? 5 years? If no, then fill in the details. For censoring, just make sure the file or physical thing is safe, or you can pretend that you are communicating to your future self through some insecure means and need to encrypt it.
1) We don’t understand human rationality well enough to systematize it completely.
We can try and see what happens. Right now we have a whole bunch of advice and it would be interesting to see what would happen if you collate all that advice into a system. It would be interesting to see where all the ???s are.
We would call subconscious functions instead of well-defined sub-algorithms because they are much faster, and time is valuable.
I suspect that in some cases the subconscious function will be more accurate than most sub-algorithms and you would choose it because of that.
The problem with such things is that bleach (and alcohol) kill everything. If you make something that is safe for humans, the mechanism that protects our cells could probably work for the infectious agents as well.
Luke still could have said what he said with a whole lot more tact.
Oh good. The best predictor for whether or not I successfully introduce someone to LW is whether or not I remember to tell them not to read The Simple Truth first.
http://code.reddit.com/wiki/help/faqs/math
Also, search youtube. As Xachariah said, Khan Academy is good and you will probably find it as a suggestion as a source in a bunch of the places I posted.
And hey, while you are here, check out the site: the about section.
More than two years later—did you ever come up with an example?
And put the child in all sorts of extracurricular activities perhaps related to those interests.
Product rule skill level 2 achieved! New skill unlocked: Chain rule!
A wild composite function appears!
Would have to be randomly generated levels with no restart so that players can’t just set their estimate low and play until they achieve that estimate.
Perhaps certain variables (like value of corn vs grapes, cost of hiring researcher) are either strictly increasing or strictly decreasing during the level, so you can see what is coming.
Out of curiosity, what is your subfield?