So basically the whole universe is a Boltzmann brain.
marchdown
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Please, no. The world already has a sickening amount of steampunk.
Does it now? Care to recommend some?
It may be hard to rob you, but easy to shoot you down.
It would be fun to have corporations build space stations, ostensibly for technological benefits, but not disclosing details, so that your question would remain unanswered inside the story.
I would also mention Deborah Anapol’s “Polyamory: the new love for the 21st century”. I think about it as a survey of polyamorous practices, struggles, communities. It was crucial for me to get the sense of normality. Haven’t read Taormino.
This may be a case of regression to the mean, with the thing which parameters regress being conscious and not caring about these particular parameters.
And… done. I would like to point out that X-Risk question may be confusing when skimming. P(X-Risk) looks as if it were asking for probability of catastrophe coming to pass, but the explanations spells out that the probability of humanity successfully avoiding catastrophe should be entered.
This is weird. I haven’t noticed that until you’ve pointed it out, but I believe that my masculinity score was only a little lower than all the benchmarks and not extremely low only because I’ve considered how my partner would gauge BSRI questions. They seem to push me towards expressing masculine traits. Isn’t it interesting that a sex-role inventory doesn’t make allowances for situations priming different sex roles in people?
Ooh, missed the announcement. I won’t make it in time now. Anyhow, I’ll keep it in mind to get in touch with you next time I’m there. Have a blast!
WHEN: 26 October 2014 03:00:00PM (+0400)
We start at 14:00 and stay until at least 19-20.
So which one is it?
It looks as if it might be worth to manually disable pictures (e.g. with HTTP switchboard) and browse profiles only seeing text.
Immersion is not an option for me currently.
Whatever you do, immerse yourself as much as possible in your circumstances. This most likely means having radio blaring in Hebrew most of the time when it’s not actively obstructing whatever you’re trying to do; plastering your living space with labels, adding Hebrew blogs to your blogroll, seeking social activities outside your comfort zone such as volunteering at a retirement home with lonely seniors or attending insipid school plays at your local center for Hebrew language and culture.
Yes, I have had similar issues and I can’t say that I did manage to overcome them successfully, but I’m committed to continue, and I’m in the middle of reorganizing my life so that I could direct more resources there.
I’m not offering any specific advice for now, beside the obvious: http://www.sparringmind.com/changing-habits/, http://www.sparringmind.com/productivity-science/, but I’m responding here to start the dialogue and to nudge us both in the right direction.
So yeah, I wish for you to untangle your motivations and follow through.
In what way were their hormone levels affected? I can’t even begin to guess.
Aren’t psychostimulators, such as amphetamine and its derivatives or modafinil¹, legitimate means for augmenting mood, cognition and productivity? Or are they seriously dangerous? Can you point out some relevant research?
¹ Can modafinil be lumped together with other psychostimulators?
It’s as if you’re participating in a prediction market such as PredictionBook or The Good Judgement Project.
It seems that you could capture benefits of both having the material online and searchable and retaining interested readers with regular updates by publishing everything at once, and then regularly posting your analytical readings of Eliezer’s material. If you have the audience already, those could naturally grow into discussion posts.
May I suggest applying CSS skills to styling Anki cards? A personal anecdote: I have a lot of decks for various languages, and having cards styled differently helps with switching context. It’s also nice to have them look pleasant.
Survey taken.