JackEmpty

• JackEmptyAug 3, 2011, 6:28 PM

  10 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2011

  The HamletHenna(now) wants to be more patient, humble, energetic, experienced, diversely skilled, productive, motivated, dedicated, disciplined, courageous, self reliant, systematic, efficient, cautious, pragmatic, sociable, polite, forgiving, courteous, cooperative, uninhibited, consistent, generous, expressive, coherent, observant, imaginative, adaptable, witty, inquisitive, gracious, tranquil, impartial, and sincere.

  If there were a HamletHenna(past) that did not want to be more patient, humble, energetic, …, would HamletHenna(now) want to edit themselves into HamletHenna(past) to save the trouble of becoming more patient, humble, energetic, …?

• JackEmptyJul 28, 2011, 1:43 PM

  10 points

  in reply to: IanSean’s comment on: Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

  This comment is well below the threshold, but I will reply anyway...

  This article is less about passing judgements, and more about understanding what happens in another person’s mind.

  You seem to be very new to the site, so I recommend reading some of the Sequences, or at the very least the one of which this article is a member to gain a little more context.

  I am just trying to assist in further discussion, so if you respond negatively to this, I won’t comment further. I won’t assume you are a troll now, but a negative response to help would raise my probability that you are a troll.

  Thanks, and welcome to LW.

• JackEmptyJul 27, 2011, 7:23 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: [LINK] Father of Cry­on­ics “Dies” at age 92

  Ah, shoot, my mistake for not searching first.

[LINK] Father of Cry­on­ics “Dies” at age 92

• JackEmptyJul 27, 2011, 5:10 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: How to en­joy be­ing wrong

  you’re other-optimizing

  less of this genre of writing

  While I agree with the first, I don’t see how the second follows. Would an adjustment in delivery to be more like “These are methods for solving problem X that worked for me, in case you hadn’t considered attempting something similar in solving X for yourself.” be more acceptable?

  Unless you’re against the personal-self-help-story sort of writing in its entirety for other reasons?

  I guess I’m just asking for an elaboration on why you wouldn’t want to see this sort of writing.

  ETA: Or… exactly what jsalvatier just said.

• JackEmptyJul 27, 2011, 12:36 PM

  15 points

  on: How to en­joy be­ing wrong

  Just to be pedantic: Enjoying being wrong probably not good.

  Enjoying having been wrong, and now being (potentially) less wrong is good.

  But the latter doesn’t make as good a title :D.

• JackEmptyJul 26, 2011, 4:47 PM

  9 points

  in reply to: MixedNuts’s comment on: Sen­sual Experience

  I’d interpret “old age” as “(neurological [and therefore identity] breakdown as a result of common diseases from) old age”.

Free (old) sci­en­tific pa­pers [Link]

• JackEmptyJul 15, 2011, 1:07 PM

  −1 points

  in reply to: dripgrind’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

  Or is it, as I increasingly suspect as I edit and re-edit this comment, that I’m a total dick?

  Upvoted for having a very good point, downvoted for being a dick, then upvoted again for having attempted to edit out dickishness :D

• JackEmptyJul 14, 2011, 6:29 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: handoflixue’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

  IE8 (work machine) and XP.

  And yes, I see it too. Odd.

• JackEmptyJul 14, 2011, 4:38 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: scientism’s comment on: Vol­un­tary Be­hav­ior, Con­scious Thoughts

  Note: assumption made that thought is in a particular language.

  I can speak English and am learning Esperanto. When I think of the referent known by the English pointer “dog” my mind most strongly associates the pointer “dog” and much less strongly the pointer “hundo”.

  But as per internal narratives? I’d agree, yes, that articulating words, whether in an internal narrative or externally spoken, is separate from understanding.

  I think what byrnema is saying is that they don’t articulate their running internal narrative. They are developing an internal narrative along with the worldess-concept kind of thought that is already in place.

• JackEmptyJul 14, 2011, 2:17 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

  I don’t know one way or the other if explicitly mentioning a group of rationalists is a good idea or not, so bear that in mind...

  But I’m think of ways to spin it that might sound better than “club”, while still being accurate: “Rationalist association” “rationalist society” “rationalist fellowship” “community” “fraternity” “(semi-official) group of rationalist individuals who meet regularly for discussion”

• JackEmptyJul 14, 2011, 1:40 PM

  −3 points

  in reply to: Bond5667’s comment on: 9/​26 is Petrov Day

  No guarantees to the accuracy of this data, but InformationIsBeautiful is TYPICALLY fairly reliable and will cite sources.

  But you may want to rethink that.

  ETA: And I don’t know about you, but I have enough survival/​first aid skills to survive without external medical care, electricity, or painkillers.

• JackEmptyJul 14, 2011, 1:01 PM

  7 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

  I think I’ll start doing this.

  And regarding #4, I think that a phone recording audio in a shirt pocket to aid later transcription wouldn’t be amiss. Maybe putting the audio up online would, but in the news/​reporting field it’s pretty standard practice to have audio going while interviewing.

  Also, if you [have/​know somone with] a fairly “official-looking” camera with an externally attachable interview-style microphone, then you can go around and do some street spots with less awkwardness. When people see somone talking to a person on the street like that, they get the impression it’s one-on-one. And if you approach someone, they’ll be more likely to be comfortable with an interview-style conversation.

• JackEmptyJul 13, 2011, 6:44 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: erniebornheimer’s comment on: Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

  I believe we’re already as smart as we need to be, so any efforts to try to increase intelligence are a waste of resources.

  You’ll find that this is a meme many on LW disagree with profusely.

• JackEmptyJul 12, 2011, 1:19 PM

  5 points

  in reply to: byrnema’s comment on: Vol­un­tary Be­hav­ior, Con­scious Thoughts

  This is receptive language versus productive language.

  It’s the same if you have ever tried to learn a new language. Typically you can understand much more people who are fluent speaking than you can actually say, even though when you recieve the words, you’re processing them with the same brain that you produce the words with.

• JackEmptyJul 11, 2011, 4:49 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: TabAtkins’s comment on: Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

  This is why learning to speed read is so difficult for me.

  If I look at a word I’ve read and subvocalized it. I can’t not read a word that I look at. I can try to ignore parsing full sentences and their relation to each other, with limited success, but not at the scale of individual words or letters.

• JackEmptyJul 11, 2011, 2:16 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: komponisto’s comment on: In­suffi­ciently Awesome

  Any Esperantists who are willing to be a conversational partner to someone just beginning to learn the language (myself)?

• JackEmptyJul 6, 2011, 5:48 PM

  7 points

  in reply to: XiXiDu’s comment on: Ba­sics of An­i­mal Reinforcement

  You’ve proably been in a skinner box though.

  “Instant win” prizes on fast food and soft drinks.

  WoW drop tables. Or basically any game where a prize or reward for victory is not guaranteed.

• JackEmptyJun 30, 2011, 2:41 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Halceon’s comment on: The True Re­jec­tion Challenge

  I took the specification of Portal to mean more highly visually disorienting games. It’s why I didn’t recommend Mirror’s Edge. Maybe I parsed it incorrectly? If so, yes. Yes you do have a point there.

  And I didn’t really find it all that gripping, in the getting-addicted-to-it sense. I am generalizing from my own personal experiences here though, so I may be an outlier, where the majority of players do get sucked in?

  My reasoning is more that there’s no real plot. You don’t need to “finish” the game, you can just play it whenever and it is just as satisfying from an entertainment standpoint.

  shrugs I will take your dissent as evidence, however. I am quite new to the game.