I’m fairly sure we’re limited to 16 chess pieces available to white, otherwise the problem can be trivially solved with 64 queens.
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So the set of pieces you can use is eight pawns, one queen, one kind, two bishops, two knights, and two rooks?
Can the bishops be placed in squares of the same colour?
Jasen Murray suggested specific techniques and specific resources, which I unfortunately cannot remember (I was not that interested in that part of RBC).
The food at RBC was awesome, mostly due to a small number of attendees being very good cooks. Many of us also had similar fitness goals with regards to gaining muscle, so we had a 25 pound tub of protein, and cooked high-protein meals.
My diet has been nowhere near as good since leaving RBC.
RBC was mostly young college age students (oldest participant was 29 years old if I recall correctly. I believe I was the first or second youngest at 21). The median age for the minicamps was probably a bit higher, but not substantially so.
The previous camps were held in Berkeley, and I’m fairly sure these will be held there as well. They also picked up the camp participants from the airport last time.
I highlight things, mostly new ideas, that I want to memorize as I’m reading the book (the number of highlights is a good proxy to how good the book was). Then I login to Amazon, and for each highlight I make an Anki card.
This saves me from having to go through the book and find all the highlights, and also from copying the text into Anki (since I can just copy and paste).
A kindle has finally allowed me to start reading one book per week, something I’ve been trying to do for quite a while now with little success. The ability to buy books instantly, and the fact that it’s much easier to take along than an actual book, means I get a ton more reading done. The ability to highlight and have it automatically sync to Amazon servers makes Anki deck making A LOT easier.
You can also sell your gift card for ~80% of its value (just google “sell gift card”).
Retracted.
This is why I said “average” venture-backed founder. You may have tons of assets such that losing/gaining 10% is not a big deal, or you may be naturally less risk-averse than the average person.
Some level of risk-aversion is rational, and it’s not obvious to me if people are naturally over or below that level. it’s also not obvious to me at all that people on LW would have unnaturally low risk-aversion.
The exact figure I’m aiming for is $5 M USD or above. I’d quit trying to make money as soon as I hit $5 M basically.
It’s more or less win/lose. Being the average venture-backed founder actually has negative expected utility.
I’ve spoken to Carl about the subject and he pointed me to this paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14219
This paper puts the success rate of venture-backed companies at ~18%.
Name amnesia (I saw you mention this on the link you gave).
I think this as a result of:
My prior that you’re a good hypnotist
My prior that I am a suggestible person
My prior that this can be done through online means
However, it doesn’t seem to specify why the very end of life is a significantly more important time than say, the first 12 weeks after turning 65.
It’s probably not—I was simply replying to your point about how all 12 week periods of life are equally valid.
More time to think about past experiences and also more time to see their long-term consequences.
Should I care more about making money or doing something that I have a “passion” for?
Depends on what your passion is. If it’s something that allows you to make a lot of money, and doesn’t otherwise obstruct you from taking part in other things that you enjoy, then your best bet would probably be to choose that—even if there is another, passionless option, which gives you more money.
If on the other hand the things that you are passionate about you do not make money (which will hamper your ability to produce utilons in a variety of ways), then your best bet will probably be to become wealthy by means of doing something you’re not passionate about. With something like tech entrepreneurship you can become a millionaire in 5-8 years, and then focus on producing utilons at optimal exchange rates for your entire life.
Personally, I’m not passionate about any careers that make a ton of money, so my current plan is to become a millionaire through tech entrepreneurship, and then focus on studying/writing philosophy and dancing afterwards.
How long have you been doing this?
What is your 15 minute morning ritual?
I go out social dancing 2-5 times a week.