matt

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

• mattJan 16, 2013, 4:09 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: Maelin’s comment on: Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

  I expect to attend.

• mattJan 3, 2013, 12:39 AM

  0 points

  on: Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

  Judging by https://​​groups.google.com/​​forum/​​?fromgroups=#!topic/​​melbourne-less-wrong/​​2dFTXTJRHZY and posts here (thanks Maelin) it’s going to be a quiet one. I’ll bring a couple of games in case we don’t get critical mass for a raging storm of rational self improvement.

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

• mattDec 6, 2012, 11:59 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: palladias’s comment on: Recom­men­da­tions for good au­dio books?

  If you’re doing anything else, you may also want to speed up the playback and shift down the pitch. To achieve that you may use a tool like Audacity (open source, many platforms, Effect > Change Tempo…) or SoundStretch. I use this to automate podcast shifting on my mac.

• mattDec 4, 2012, 10:37 AM

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  in reply to: palladias’s comment on: Recom­men­da­tions for good au­dio books?

  (duplicate comment removed)

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• mattNov 13, 2012, 10:01 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: roland’s comment on: Open Thread, Novem­ber 1-15, 2012

  Hmm… you’re not being moderated. I’ll followup on possible causes by PM.

• mattNov 13, 2012, 9:54 AM

  3 points

  in reply to: carey’s comment on: Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

  There is, of course: http://​​hpmor.com/​​
  Eliezer recommends The World of Null-A (which I’ve not yet read) and Eliezer and I recommend David’s Sling.
  Eliezer recommends Lawrence Watt-Evens’s fiction. I merely point it out (it’s not particularly well written or engaging, but it is nice to watch a protagonist be completely derailed from a quest to set up a business because he sees an opportunity).

• mattOct 24, 2012, 11:12 PM

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  on: Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

  We’re planning on discussing ways CfAR (and anyone else) might measure practical rationality to provide feedback for their training.

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• mattOct 5, 2012, 1:43 AM

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  in reply to: blob’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 5/​21/​12

  All of the materials from the July minicamp are available at https://​​github.com/​​CfAR/​​core-materials … for those with access to that private repository. The modules are all in Markdown format and the project includes build scripts that make HTML and PDF “books” that select some or all of the material. The formatting needs some work, and the project needs an owner.

  I think the CfAR brass are happy that I give access to Alumni of past minicamps, but I’ll need to confirm that before I add anyone. If you’re interested in having access to the materials, please contact me with your github username and I’ll seek permission to give you access.

  Rationale: Github and Markdown is geekier than a wiki would be, but many of us are geeks, and having a build script to generate actually usable materials makes it easier to treat this repository as a master, rather than having available the shortcut of just using the MS Word document you used last time and you’ll come back and update the repo as soon as you have time and ohh, look at that shiny thing over there… … ooo! Other shiny thing… (repo not updated, master materials scattered across many hard drives and not available to meetups).

  Practical reality so far: I think CfAR instructors have made further modifications to their old sources for the materials and since August no-one but Trike employees have made any contributions to the repo.

  I think this can work if someone drives it, and Trike is available to help where we can.

  (cross posted to the meetup organisers Google group)

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• mattSep 3, 2012, 6:26 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: drethelin’s comment on: Prevent­ing dis­cus­sion from be­ing wa­tered down by an “end­less Septem­ber” user in­flux.

  It seems not hard to implement naively.

  Discussion threads would truncate for new users from new user comments (experienced user comments on new user comments would be invisible to new users).
  Our caching gets more complicated.
  Many candidate tests for “experienced” seem obvious, but some might be very easy to game (funny comments on HPMOR posts qualify you).

• mattAug 31, 2012, 6:50 PM

  6 points

  in reply to: lukeprog’s comment on: [META] Karma for last 30 days?

  Sorry people—I should have posted when we did this. Leaving y’all in the dark was unkind.

• mattAug 31, 2012, 6:46 PM

  33 points

  in reply to: JoshuaZ’s comment on: Deal­ing with trol­ling and the sig­nal to noise ratio

  Downvoted for putting more than one suggestion in a single comment.

  Punish me for this anti-social act if you must, but as one of the dudes who tries to act after reading these suggestions (and tries hard to discount his own opinion and be guided by the community) this practice makes it much harder for me to judge community support for ideas. Does your comment having a score of 10 suggest 2.5 points per suggestion? ~10 points per suggestion? 15 points each for 3 of your suggestions and --35 for one of them (and which one is the −35?)?

  Can we please adopt a community norm of atomicity in suggestions?

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• mattAug 27, 2012, 5:47 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Risto_Saarelma’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​20/​12

  And, your body repartitions your sleep on a polyphasic schedule. My sleep really isn’t like yours any more. See the bar charts waaaay down the page here: http://​​trypolyphasic.com/​​forum/​​post/​​8455/​​#p8455

• mattAug 26, 2012, 9:58 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: Risto_Saarelma’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​20/​12

  We get about as much REM and SWS (deep sleep) as monophasic sleepers—about 90mins each per 24hrs. This is one hypothesis to explain why so many people (me included) have so much trouble adapting to the original Uberman schedule (which, properly adapted, gives you 50+ mins each).

• mattAug 26, 2012, 1:09 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Viliam_Bur’s comment on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​20/​12

  I think 10hrs awake, especially while adapting, is going to be very tough. I think you want to aim for 4 to 6:30 hr periods awake. I know that that requires a nap during normal working hours—as I said in my minicamp unconference presentation (unconference: polyphasic sleep isn’t endorsed by CfAR) I think you’re going to have to try talking to your employer about it, or sneaking off during a break.

  Duplicate http://​​bit.ly/​​poly-schedule-tool and play with the times in blue for my advice—the blue cells will turn red if I think what you’re attempting is going to be hard to make work.