I was specifically thinking of the worst group of all, the atheists of r/atheism who are both very vocal and very hostile. For an issue like this, there’s hostile people on either end of the spectrum and being vocal helps makes them more so. A quiet and hostile person isn’t particularly threatening and neither is a vocal and nonhostile person. I was not trying to suggest that being vocal alone makes someone hostile.
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The quiet, nonhostile atheists are not the ones heard about, so this is selection bias. The theists offended probably do meet unjustified hostility from the vocal and hostile atheists, so in this case it’s a very weak sign of being deserving.
In some situations, such as leading a group, if you meet unreasonable hostility or dislike everyone, yes, there is something wrong with that your leading abilities. Labeling assholes as such would be making the fundamental attribution error.
Which might mean: By declining to do favors/tasks for people, you may feel like a selfish person, but limiting what work you take on you will reduce your stress, increase the quality of your work, and and increase your status. Plus you don’t feel used or resent being helpful.
A good strategy could be to decline first, check schedules, then accept if possible: “I may be able to do that, but let me check my schedule first.” Good for many situations.
Thanks! The 7-minute workout sounds reasonable and I might consider adding elements of it into my 4-minute abs workout I have already. It wouldn’t replace running altogether since 1) I enjoy running, so it is not time lost and 2) I’m training for 5k cross country races.
I’ve been using HabitRPG for around a month now to increase the amount of exercise I do and decrease the amount of chocolate I consume. It’s caused successful habit formation—I’ve reduced the motivation needed to do unpleasant strength exercises and 3+ mile runs, even on days where I get no points for completing them. I have little success with decreasing my chocolate consumption, partly because I eat first and pay for it with the game-gold later. I’ll keep using this system.
HabitRPG may work for me because I have freakishly great self-motivation and this helps me channel it. It’s also my to-do list, though the site crashes with annoying frequency.
The recent xkcd supports that small hacks have a large time-saving potential.
(1) ties into the adage “Say it strong, even if you’re wrong.” Speaking quietly only compounds the problem.
Related: Should I alter my Big 5 personality traits?
Similar for music and other arts. Despite the lack of science, the successful teachers tend to produce the best students (or they wouldn’t be successful). Yes, this forces each new teacher to start from scratch, but old, good teachers should be fairly trustworthy after years of internalized, natural experiments.
To find your older posts use Wei Dai’s tool.
It’s been repeated somewhat. Joseph Henrich explains his methodology in his paper here. He used UCLA grad students because of their similar community closeness, offering $160 (2.3 days of wages) vs 20 soles, which is supposedly the Machiguenga equivalent. It was compared to tests done by another group in other non-western locations (Tokyo and Java), which show similar results to those of the UCLA students.
As a teenager, I don’t see how it can be horror. I thought it was inspiring, honestly.
On this site, rube generally means ‘red cube’, and I had to look up the word to figure out what you meant here. Though this still makes a bit of sense—you can’t signal to red cubes either.
Huh, I always assumed I was a psychopath, but now that seems like giving myself way too much credit for being mildly odd. Is there any test online to check?
Do strands of hair really become thicker over time? I doubt this.
Yeah, It wouldn’t be a way to win, since in the original problem you could throw a coin and base your decision on that. Average gain of $500,500 isn’t so bad, but not nearly as good as $1,000,000 from one-boxing. You’re right, it’s not a resolution to the paradox, but if the situation is changed it’s a possible way of winning.
I guess I’m looking for ways to beat Omega, and I’m trying to figure out if this would be one of them. Something like “harnessing the power of random”?
About Newcomb’s problem + something non-deterministic:
If the contents of box B are increased so that B > A, it seems like by basing the choice of one-boxing or two-boxing off of a quantum coin toss, one could limit Omega’s predicting powers from 100% accuracy to a mere coin toss with 50% accuracy.
Where A has $1000 and B has $2000, the average payoff would be $1500 the coin toss ($0 or $3000) versus $1000 by one-boxing and $0 by two-boxing in a way Omega can predict.
Has something like this been considered as a possible resolution?
100 pages left of GEB—the last few days I’ve read 300 pages, the only problem is not comprehending half of it.
Also, I started writing daily for 750words.com after hearing about it from OnTheOtherHandle in this. I’ve kept it up for 20 days so far and will try to keep doing it—My writing won’t improve by doing 3 pages of stream-of-consciousness, but if I have emails/essays to write I draft them there. Since I procrastinate the most on writing tasks, this encourages starting right away. When school starts I might stop using it, but I hope I find time.
This happens to me as well—I was shocked recently when someone pointed out some people I interact with daily are on the black side of the spectrum. It just doesn’t occur to me.
Congratulations for putting the dilemma to test. That was the hardest survey I’ve taken since the 2012 one.