JayDee

• JayDeeSep 20, 2013, 3:25 AM

  5 points

  in reply to: therufs’s comment on: Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 16-30

  I’ve found it useful to add time-estimates to my to-do list, and I stop adding things once I have eight hours of work down for the day. For me, the “I’ve acheived everything I set out to today” feeling comes partially from getting lots done and partially from setting realistic expectations.

• JayDeeAug 27, 2013, 9:46 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Sheaman3773’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 21, chap­ters 91 & 92

  That is a good point. And in canon, it was a useful thing to do since it was only the Order & Co. who dared say the name, allowing for decent signal to noise.

  I’d thought maybe in HP:MoR the order might be showing more caution, but in Multiple Hypothesis Testing Dumbledore uses the word—and with Moody there. I’d expect the HP:MoR versions of Dumbledore and Moody to to avoid it if they thought there was serious risk.

  That said, the specific mention of not screening for listeners does still jump out at me like a Hint.

• JayDeeAug 18, 2013, 10:55 PM

  4 points

  in reply to: Ben Pace’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

  Facepalm, of course. I was thinking there would be a meeting along the lines of the previous private conferences—pretending to be wise in particular. Didn’t actually get around to checking which meetings had happened versus which characters I’d expect.

• JayDeeAug 17, 2013, 12:56 AM

  21 points

  in reply to: Shmi’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

  There is at least one list on Reddit.

• JayDeeAug 17, 2013, 12:49 AM

  5 points

  in reply to: WalterL’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

  They’ve been listening to Dumbledore’s ‘Life Is A Story’ pitch a bit too much.

  Seems likely to me that tearing this down will be the climax of the Roles chapters. Dumbledore is the big character we have left who hasn’t had a ‘meeting’ with Harry. And all throughout the story—referencing Gandalf and LotR, “that’s not his style”—Dumbledore has been about playing a role in a story.

  Also, revealing Dumbledore’s secrets is one of the big elements of Rowlings’ book 7, and one of the things HP:MoR would have to deal with to resolve all the canon plots in Harry’s first year.

• JayDeeJul 26, 2013, 3:27 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Metus’s comment on: Open thread, July 23-29, 2013

  I’ve found that preference to be common in Parkour communities, which might be another place to look.

• JayDeeJul 25, 2013, 10:43 PM

  15 points

  in reply to: Carwajalca’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 25, chap­ter 96

  My second guess is that Minerva got in touch with Draco. She knows Harry taught him the Patronus from a conference in the headmasters office and has seen Harry’s reaction to losing Draco.

  At first I dismissed it at a silly thing for her to try, but now that she will be really making an effort it seems much more likely.

• JayDeeJul 25, 2013, 10:39 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: elharo’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 25, chap­ter 96

  Something like this would be my first guess. Draco torn between the roles of son and friend, either revealing to Harry information about Malfoy faction involvement in Hermione’s death or trying to convince Harry that they aren’t responsible.

• JayDeeJul 23, 2013, 3:15 AM

  5 points

  on: Daily Sched­ules in Com­bat­ing Akra­sia

  I noticed significant improvement at work in specifically listing how long I expected task to take, over creating a list of everything that needed doing. That said, the improvement was in how I felt about how much I got done: “today I did more than I thought I’d be able to in eight hours, awesome!” versus “gah, only got half the things on my list done today.” which could both be reactions to getting the exact same work done.

  Having realistic expectations of how much I will get done boosted my motivation.

  What links here?

  • JayDee's comment on Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 16-30 by therufs (Sep 20, 2013, 3:25 AM; 5 points)

• JayDeeJul 23, 2013, 3:08 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: Bill_McGrath’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 24, chap­ter 95

  I’ve only read the first one, where Katniss jvaf gur tnzrf ol guerngravat gb pbzzvg fhvpvqr va n yvgrenevyl hafngvfslvat jnl.

• JayDeeJul 21, 2013, 1:29 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: BraydenM’s comment on: Meetup : Melbourne Ex­cur­sion: Com­fort Zone Expansion

  It’s possible we have? If so it would have been in August 2011.

  Instead of being harsh on myself, I decided to go ice skating (which was also on my list of things I’ve been meaning to do for ages.) and that worked out really well. These comments are more along the lines of ’take actions that increase the odds of my attending a meetup at some future point.”

• JayDeeJul 20, 2013, 10:47 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: elharo’s comment on: July 2013 Me­dia Thread

  The Black Widowers Tales are right at the top of my 2ndhand bookshop foraging list, although I seem to only find copies of the one volume I’ve already read. Still not sure how I would justify my existence, but they sure are a great read.

• JayDeeJul 20, 2013, 10:31 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: Bill_McGrath’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 24, chap­ter 95

  Brings to mind the Hunger Games, personally.

  Could make a fun Omake?

• JayDeeJul 20, 2013, 10:29 AM

  −1 points

  in reply to: JayDee’s comment on: Meetup : Melbourne Ex­cur­sion: Com­fort Zone Expansion

  And nope. So close. Made it to Leicester street, chickened out before ringing the bell. Next time...

• JayDeeJul 19, 2013, 10:40 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: teageegeepea’s comment on: Some high­lights from Nate Silver’s “The Sig­nal and the Noise”

  Not that I recall, and searching the text for Kuran nets nothing.

• JayDeeJul 19, 2013, 10:29 AM

  1 point

  on: Meetup : Melbourne Ex­cur­sion: Com­fort Zone Expansion

  Sounds awesome, I will quite probably be there. (Mostly leaving myself an out in case I sleep in.)

• JayDeeJul 7, 2013, 12:30 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Prismattic’s comment on: What are you work­ing on? July 2013

  First syntax error I got was the capital W in While, should be all lowercase.

• JayDeeJul 5, 2013, 10:07 AM

  13 points

  in reply to: tim’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 21, chap­ters 91 & 92

  I suspect Quirrell was aware of the exchange, if he can do the same trick as in canon with names:

  “No! You-Know-Who killed Hermione!” She was hardly aware of what she was saying, that she hadn’t screened the room against who might be listening. “Not you! No matter what else you could’ve done, it’s not you who killed her, it was Voldemort! If you can’t believe that you’ll go mad, Harry!”

  Specific mention of not screening the room, and then saying the V-word out loud.

• JayDeeFeb 25, 2013, 9:58 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Risto_Saarelma’s comment on: Think Like a Supervillain

  In the X-Men Comic Cable and Deadpool (2004-2008) Cable makes a a proactive effort to improve things, attempts to create a little utopia. While it all goes pear shaped, I got the impression that was mostly for editorial reasons (actually I only got interested in the series after the cross-over in question de-railed things).

  Haven’t re-read it recently, but it got me asking questions at the time about whether a superhero with knowledge of the future could actually make things better.

• JayDeeFeb 20, 2013, 11:30 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: Tenoke’s comment on: Open thread, Fe­bru­ary 15-28, 2013

  I watched “Century of the Self” based on the recommendation in this post, point 14.

  14 . Avoid consumerism.[...] One way to start deprogramming is by watching this documentary about the deliberate invention of consumerism by Edward Bernays.

  I second the recommendation, although I will say I found the music direction to be hilariously biased; there was clear good guy and bad guy music. I found the narrative it presents eye-opening and was inspired to research a bunch of things further (always a good sign for a documentary, in my opinion.)