mapnoterritory

• mapnoterritorySep 25, 2012, 9:39 AM

  2 points

  on: Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup, Oc­to­ber 28th

  Oh no! First Meetup I could attend… except I can’t on the 6th… I just hope the next one won’t be again in a year...

• mapnoterritorySep 23, 2012, 1:03 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Life-chang­ing de­ci­sions per­tain­ing to ed­u­ca­tion. Help.

  Have you encountered specific instances where asking such a question in the open thread didn’t provoke a desired response?

  No, I haven’t. Actually, I very rarely check the open thread (though trying to rectify this). I think it might help to have this (and maybe a couple other recurring threads) to be sticky.

  If there was enough personal questions it might be worth to have a thread for them. If one of the aims of LW is to improve life via rationality, this is well aligned and likely a useful thing. How to properly ask such a questions would have to be worked out too...

• mapnoterritorySep 22, 2012, 7:08 AM

  5 points

  on: Life-chang­ing de­ci­sions per­tain­ing to ed­u­ca­tion. Help.

  I’ve been long time thinking about asking whether we could have something like a “Ask the LWers” thread where you could post personal questions in hope to get some helpful rational outside view.

• mapnoterritorySep 6, 2012, 7:47 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: LessWrong Wiki as Anki deck

  As said—the deck is not intended to serve for memorization of the definitions as they appear in the wiki, but to get acquainted with the concepts.

  This is how I approach also other LessWrong decks (those listed in the wiki for example). It is a bit different from the type of information for which Anki is actually best applicable such as learning vocabulary, capital cities etc.

  The default rate in Anki is ~20 new cards—creating this amount of proper cards daily is a huge time barrier (at least for me… even at 10/​day).

  That been said it woud be great to have a proper Anki deck with the LessWrong glossary.

• mapnoterritorySep 6, 2012, 5:32 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: gwern’s comment on: LessWrong Wiki as Anki deck

  This is something I didn’t thought of… I can include a copy of the licence in the google docs directory, but is it enough?

  Curiously the licences page: http://​​www.wikia.com/​​Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License linked from the LessWrongwiki:Copyrights page is empty...

LessWrong Wiki as Anki deck

• mapnoterritorySep 4, 2012, 7:35 AM

  5 points

  on: How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)

  Most (maybe all?) sequences are available in alternative formats here:

  http://​​wiki.lesswrong.com/​​wiki/​​Sequences#Alternative_formats

  There is also a huge single file version of all Eliezer’s post up to end 2010 here:

  http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​72m/​​an_epub_of_eliezers_blog_posts/​​

• mapnoterritoryAug 29, 2012, 9:09 PM

  1 point

  on: What Are You Do­ing for Self-Quan­tifi­ca­tion?

  I’m using rescuetime to track my work. I use pomodoro only if I can’t really get myself to start working on a task (helps only rarely), if I get working I turn it off because it brakes my flow… I keep a detailed todo list in org-mode.

  I also keep a weekly gratitude list.

• mapnoterritoryAug 21, 2012, 6:34 AM

  2 points

  on: Can we teach Ra­tion­al­ity at the Univer­sity of Red­dit?

  I think this is a great idea. Depending on CFAR’s objectives this could be worth a significant effort.

• mapnoterritoryAug 16, 2012, 4:23 PM

  2 points

  on: Paper: Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma con­tains strate­gies that dom­i­nate any evolu­tion­ary opponent

  An investigation of evolutionary stability of the ZD strategies can be found in this preprint.

• mapnoterritoryAug 6, 2012, 7:36 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: [video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101

  Thanks! I didn’t actually know about the open thread but felt that it might not be best to post in the discusion. Still think a lecture thread would be the best place for posts like this one.

• mapnoterritoryAug 5, 2012, 9:07 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: RobertLumley’s comment on: Au­gust 2012 Me­dia Thread

  Could/​Should we have a “Lecture/​Talks/​Discussion” thread for videos/​audio/​transcripts of talks and discussions? “Other media” sounds too broad and this could be big enough to merit it’s own thread. Documentary movies are another item that could go under this (or stay under Movies and TV).

  What links here?

  • [deleted]'s comment on [video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101 by mapnoterritory (Aug 5, 2012, 9:44 PM; 4 points)

[video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101

• mapnoterritoryJul 17, 2012, 8:38 PM

  3 points

  on: Sum­mary thread for Coursera classes

  I’m doing now Model Thinking. It’s rather slowly paced and very superficial (but also quite broad—this is fine with me, I wanted to get some overview of modeling in social sciences). I watch it on top speed while doing dishes or some other work and that way it is okay, but for sure not enough meat for “deep studying”.

Sum­mary thread for Coursera classes

• mapnoterritoryJul 10, 2012, 3:00 PM

  13 points

  on: Dual N-Back browser-based “game” in pub­lic alpha-test­ing state.

  A decent (randomized, has placebo control) recent article finding no transfer here (pdf). Not saying this is the final word on dual-n-back but enough for me to spend time elsewhere until more evidence comes in....

• mapnoterritoryJul 9, 2012, 10:05 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: kajro’s comment on: Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 3

  Thumbs up from me for lesswrong-mode!

• mapnoterritoryJun 27, 2012, 5:59 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Athrelon’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 6/​25/​12

  If you are Emacs user then this does what you need: pomodoro.el.

• mapnoterritoryJun 26, 2012, 9:19 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: shokwave’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 6/​25/​12

  This is interesting. Today was my first day of pomodoro usage (I use Rescue Time since a while). Afternoon I just decided to switch it off because I found it to kill my flow… That been said the reason why I started with pomodoro today was because I was procrastinating and used the time to try several pomodoro timers. My problem is getting started and hoped that setting myself to just do 1 pomodoro would make it easier to get going (which it didn’t help...).

  But once I am going I can work easily more than an hour without distractions (this I know from Rescue Time) and maybe pomodoro won’t be a good solution for me. Stil it was just a first day, will try again, maybe also experiment with longer work units...

• mapnoterritoryJun 26, 2012, 9:30 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Mercurial’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 5/​14/​12

  Hi, I’m bit late to this discussion, but this sounds like something that I could try to implement. Do you know whether these techniques are written up somewhere (I know pomodoro, but I mean the notice/​reward part)? What constitues a reward? Thank you!