I have a degree in it. My curiosity is mostly satisfied.
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By this all will know that you are rationalists, if you have less akrasia than most.
I’ve been accepted at UNC-Chapel Hill for graduate school in computer science. It’s my top choice, so that’s where I’ll be soon, assuming my visit goes well.
I may soon be moving to a city with one of these. I’ll check it out.
I upvote programming. This gets you used to the concept that all problems are fixable with the right algorithm. Being in a problem-solving mindset can benefit you in fields orthogonal to CS, life your social life.
I downvote video games. They are too much of a time-sink. I don’t think that video games teach me anything useful, so I avoid them now.
Chess — I’d like to spend more time playing chess and go. My ability in these games are awful but I think I could learn to be awesome at them. I’m not sure that these skills are transferable to another domain, but maybe the meta-skill is.
I formulated this hypothesis on my own, but I have not seen evidence to back this up. I think a misunderstanding of this process has lead to the profusion of anti-bacterial soaps, which may be breeding hard-to-kill bacteria.
I’m going to have to sit down and read this whole essay and take notes one of these days, when I have more time.
Also, I am not a psychiatrist, but I doubt that thinking in these terms is harmful, just non-standard.
Also, I don’t know how the average person would see their own mind, if they took the time to understand themselves. I only know me.
I know that I am being run by agents with different goal systems. I’ve successfully fought my unconscious mind over the question of how many calories I ought to be eating. But I would never consider negotiating with that mind.
When intoxicated, I’m still me, but less capable of thinking. Same level of intelligence, but I can’t hold as many things in my head at one time. Like three-quarters of my registers have been disabled and I lose all my cycles to loads and stores. That, and euphoria, followed by nausea. So if I make a judgment error while intoxicated it is because I didn’t have the time to think it out.
What I meant to say was that I had imagined being bipolar was like the normal mood swings I have, but more intense. This essay describes a different state altogether; I’ve learned something new.
And yes, normal people who enjoy watching television strike me as alien, too. There are books full of ideas to be read! Why are you watching people talk about nothing?
This seems completely alien to me.
I’m about halfway through the sequences, and I really appreciate that they are available in ePub format. Thanks!
Regarding this, I noticed that you use Calibre to do the conversions to ePub format. Calibre indents paragraphs automatically if you click the checkbox “remove spacing between paragraphs.”
Also, since you already have the scripts to do it, is it possible to have a single ebook with all the sequences in it, with no duplication of content? The duplication of “(Related) …” articles is confusing.
Zendo should be a national sport.
Wait, you have to keep t as a formal variable so you can take a partial derivative w.r.t. it.
But someone would have noticed if the resulting flames were less holy.
″...separate grading/certification and teaching....”
John Stuart Mill advocates that in the last chapter of On Liberty. He wanted the state to be in charge of testing and certification, but get out of the teaching business altogether (except for providing funding for educating the poor). I like the idea.
The rule of thumb that helped me lose 120 pounds is this: long term (due to being not fat) happiness is greater than than short term, ephemeral (due to eating lots of pizza) happiness.