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.
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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.
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...
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/
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.
I think this is a great idea. Depending on CFAR’s objectives this could be worth a significant effort.
An investigation of evolutionary stability of the ZD strategies can be found in this preprint.
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.
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).
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”.
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....
Thumbs up from me for lesswrong-mode!
If you are Emacs user then this does what you need: pomodoro.el.
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...
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!
gwern is at http://www.gwern.net/ Very good content!
Yes, I think so and apparently so does Kahneman. I don’t think this is particularly controversial. Kahneman does say that positive reinforcement is more efficient (both in animals and humans).
Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow:
I had stumbled onto a significant fact of the human condition: the feedback to which life exposes us is perverse. Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.
There reason for that lies in regression to the mean when training (example of flight instructors in the israel airforce):
I pointed out to the instructors that what they saw on the board coincided with what we had heard about the performance of aerobatic maneuvers on successive attempts: poor performance was typically followed by improvement and good performance by deterioration, without any help from either praise or punishment.
Since positive reinforcement is so counterintuitive: don’t forget to reward yourself for rewarding somebody for good behaviour! :)
Me neither. I am actually not familiar with his work, but knew he is known in the singularity/transhumanism camp. I’ve heard two discussions with him (with Paul Krugman and on Singularity on 1 on 1) and he came across as well articulated and with a decent understanding of the issues. He talked about how he changed his mind and grew more skeptical of singularity, but I don’t know what causes this hostile reaction… :) Oh well...
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...