I got similar results when I tried the more nondescript “focus on your breathing, if you get lost in your thoughts, go back to breathing, try to observe what happens in your mind” style meditation. Also, I got intense feeling of euphoria on my third try, and feelings of almost passing out under the storm of weird thoughts flowing in and out. That made me a bit scared of meditation, but this post series managed to scare me a whole lot more.
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This probably doesn’t interest many of you, but I’d be curious to know if I’d hear here any suggestions to inspiring works of fiction with hypercompetent characters in them. Watched the Bourne trilogy in the middle of reading this post, now I want more! :)
My own ideas
Live: -James Bond Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace/Skyfall -House MD -Sherlock
Anime: Death Note Golden Boy
I do think it is good to have some inspirational posts here than don’t rely that much on actual argumentation but rather paint an example picture where you could be when using rationality, what rationality could look like. There are dangers to that, but still, I like these.
I guess the subject is a bit touchy now.
I had missed this. The original post read as really weird and hostile, but I only read after having heard about this thread indirectly for days, mostly about the way how later she seemed pretty intelligent, so I dismissed what I saw and substituted what I ought to have seen. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Is there any data supporting the idea that dvorak/colemak/some other new keyboard layout are actually better than qwerty. Like, actual data collected by doing research on actual people that type stuff, how their layout of choice affects their health and typing speed. I do know that you get figures like “on average your fingers travel twice the amount if you type on qwerty as compared to some other layout”, but actual data from actual typists?
I’ve been practicing dvorak for about a month. Not much since I got above 10wpm(1 hour a day for a week), but I’ve used it when there has been typing to be done. I’ve gotten to 40wpm, and I started with 70wpm qwerty speed. Incidentally, I’ve also forgotten how to type with qwerty.
I’d suggest you find a week when you are free to use about an hour of your time every day to practice dvorak and don’t need to type anything really, and then maybe another week when you are not under any stress about your typing speed. After that, you should be able to type well enough to cope, but its gonna take more time than that to get even faster. If you know some systematic touch typing systems already, and know how to use them, i think you might be able to retain your qwerty ability. I lost that because my touch type system for qwerty was so wild and unorganized, and learning this more proper style pretty much overwrote that. Also, knowing these proper touch type systems probably help you learn dvorak faster.
Welcome, its fun to have you here.
So, the next thing, I think you should avoid this religion-topic here. I mean, you are allowed to continue about it, but I fear you are gonna wear yourself out by doing that. I think there are better topics to discuss, where both you and LW have chance to learn new and change their opinions. Learning new is refreshing, discussions about religion rarely are that.
Admittedly, I think that there is no god, but also I’m not thinking anyone here convinces you of that. I think you actually have higher chance of converting someone here than someone here converting you.
So, come, share some of your thoughts about what is LW doing wrong, or just partake discussions here and there you find interesting. Welcome!
“Ylioppilasaukio 5”? I can’t find Cafe Picnic at an address like that
I’m interested, and most likely I’ll be there.
If you make copy, then inform both original and the copy of their states(“You’re the original” “You’re the first copy”), and then proceed to make new copy of the original, information equivalence exists only between copy number 2 and the original, making it back to 1⁄2, 1⁄4, 1⁄4
Even majority of readers participated to these meetups every time, it doesn’t matter. Quoting the about-post: “”Promoted” posts (appearing on the front page) are chosen by the editors on the basis of substantive new content, clear argument, good writing, popularity, and importance.”
Meetup-posts do not contain new, important, argumentative content. It’s meta-level discussion, meta that it bit by bit trying to take over the whole LW. I don’t want LW that exists for posts about LW. Meetup-posts are not the only thing driving LW towards uselessness, but as far as I can tell, having those posts in the front page is by far the most visible and obvious warning sign.
Meetup posts as discussion threads, please
So you can avoid being punished by not predicting potential punishers well enough, or by deciding to do something regardless of punishments you’re about to receive? I’m not sure that’s good.
Oh, thanks to more discussion today, I figured out why the dangerous idea is dangerous, and now I understand why people shouldn’t seek it. More like, the actual idea is not dangerous, but it can potentially lead to dangerous ones. At least, if I understood the entire thing correctly. So, I understand that it is harmful for us to seek that idea, and if possible, it shouldn’t be discussed.
I sought out the dangerous idea right after I heard about the commotion, and I was disappointed. I discussed the idea, and thought about it hard, I’m still a bit unsure if I figured out why people think of the idea as dangerous, but to me it seems to be just plain silly.
I don’t regret knowing it. I figured right from the start that the probability of it actually being dangerous was low enough that I don’t need to care about it, and seems that my initial guess was right on the spot. And I really do dislike not knowing about things that everybody says are really dangerous and can cause me and my loved ones much agony for reasons no one is allowed to tell
Yes, but that incomplete-one means that his power can’t override powers others have. Even if he could, after paying attention to Allirea, understand her power, it doesn’t follow from what we know of his powers up to now that he could pay attention to her any more than any other person there. Even some sort of power-detection field would fail to reveal other than “There’s is vampire that diverts attention paid to it in that general direction”, if we assume it overrides her ability, which would make Eleazar severely handicapped in a fight anyway.
Yeah, and I wanted to say that you’re treating the characters you create in an awful and cruel way. Stop that. They should be happy at least once in a while :p
Chapter 11:
Is Allirea + Eleazar thing canon? It sure doesn’t seem to follow from what we’ve seen before, unless Eleazar lied to Bella.
Mind explaining why? I don’t see any reason it’s any more true than it is false.
Interaction of this simulated TDT and you is so complicated I don’t think many of commenters here actually did the math to see how should they expect the simulated TDT agent to react in these situations. I know I didn’t. I tried, and failed.