folkTheory

• folkTheoryJun 16, 2017, 11:41 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: dianaelt’s comment on: Wel­come to LessWrong (10th Thread, Jan­uary 2017) (Thread A)

  Hello and welcome! I love your enthusiasm for learning!

  Yes, feel free to ask things in the discussion threads.

• folkTheoryFeb 3, 2017, 3:39 AM

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  in reply to: RomeoStevens’s comment on: 2017: An Ac­tual Plan to Ac­tu­ally Improve

  I could really benefit from a better note taking system such as the one you mention in item 2. Could you give me some pointers for improving note taking? Relatedly, what system/​app do you use for the note taking?

Wel­come to LessWrong (10th Thread, Jan­uary 2017) (Thread A)

• folkTheoryDec 24, 2015, 11:18 PM

  29 points

  on: Why CFAR? The view from 2015

  Just donated $1100

• folkTheoryMar 16, 2015, 10:29 PM

  4 points

  on: An­nounc­ing the Com­plice Less Wrong Study Hall

  This is fantastic Malcolm, thank you!

• folkTheoryFeb 10, 2015, 3:12 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015

  Good point, thank you.

• folkTheoryFeb 9, 2015, 5:24 PM

  10 points

  on: Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015

  I recently got into practicing meditation, and got a lot out of the old LW posts about it. I was wondering if there is any interest to have a meditation retreat for rationalists?

• folkTheoryJan 31, 2015, 7:27 PM

  36 points

  on: CFAR fundraiser far from filled; 4 days remaining

  Donated $1000

• folkTheoryJan 27, 2015, 6:55 AM

  −4 points

  on: Im­mor­tal­ity: A Prac­ti­cal Guide

  Alternative title: How To Live For Very Very Long And Yet Not Live At All.

• folkTheoryJan 16, 2015, 3:25 AM

  7 points

  in reply to: BenLowell’s comment on: Elon Musk donates $10M to the Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute to keep AI benefi­cial

  Upvoted for phaticness

• folkTheorySep 16, 2013, 7:40 AM

  2 points

  on: Two spe­cial CFAR classes in Sept: In­stal­ling Habits and Ra­tion­al­ity for Programmers

  I’m signed up for the programming one. This’ll be my first time at CFAR. pretty excited!

• folkTheoryJul 22, 2013, 1:07 AM

  3 points

  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

  I am not currently married.

• folkTheoryJul 18, 2013, 7:02 AM

  7 points

  on: Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

  I’m trying to decide whether to marry someone, but I’m having a lot of trouble deciding. Anyone have any advice?

• folkTheoryJun 7, 2013, 6:19 AM

  4 points

  on: Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013

  Does anyone know of a way to convert .anki files to .apkg files?

  I recently started using anki, but most of the decks I downloaded are .anki, and can’t be opened by ankidroid...

• folkTheoryOct 17, 2012, 3:47 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: The Fabric of Real Things

  It would be completely random, with all events being equally likely at every point in time. It would have no history, since the past has no effect on the present or future

• folkTheoryOct 17, 2012, 3:42 AM

  −5 points

  in reply to: Eugine_Nier’s comment on: The Fabric of Real Things

  Causality is a useful tool in the map, to describe the territory. The Territory just is. It doesn’t have causality, laws of physics or anything else. Those are just the best tools we have to form accurate maps of it.

• folkTheoryOct 17, 2012, 3:20 AM

  0 points

  on: The Fabric of Real Things

  Is there some reason this article hasn’t been promoted to the frontpage?

• folkTheoryOct 17, 2012, 2:59 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: thomblake’s comment on: The Use­ful Idea of Truth

  But, from the article:

  you can nonetheless take many literary professors and separately show them new pieces of writing by unknown authors and they’ll all independently arrive at the same answer, in which case they’re clearly detecting some sensory-visible feature of the writing.

  Seems like what I was saying...

• folkTheoryOct 16, 2012, 4:12 PM

  1 point

  on: The Use­ful Idea of Truth

  I don’t understand the part about post-utopianism being meaningless. If people agree on what the term means, and they can read a book and detect (or not) colonial alienation, and thus have a test for post-utopianism, and different people will reach the same conclusions about any given book, then how exactly is the term meaningless?

• folkTheoryAug 28, 2012, 7:50 AM

  14 points

  in reply to: fubarobfusco’s comment on: The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

  and hence normal people’s acceptance that nerd-contradictory things can be normal-”true” at the same time.

  Namespaced that for you.