And our first child, Merlin Miles Blume, was born October 12th, 2016 =)
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I think for me the problem is that I’m not being Bayesian. I can’t make my brain assign 50% probability in a unified way. Instead, half my brain is convinced the hotel’s definitely behind me, half is convinced it’s ahead, they fail to cooperate on the epistemic prisoner’s dilemma and instead play tug-of-war with the steering wheel. And however I decide to make up my mind, they don’t stop playing tug-of-war with the steering wheel.
...amusingly enough, “sit in my room and write posts on Less Wrong” turned out to be a pretty good move, in retrospect.
Further update for future biographers: we got married on September 21st at the UC Berkeley botanical garden, Kenzi officiated and YVain gave a toast =)
Thank you for causing me to read that =)
“Anyone who wants to make disturbing the peace a crime is probably guilty of ‘hating freedom’”
No, they have different priorities from you.
I’ve always assumed it meant “flight from death”
Harry frowned. “Well, I could listen to it, or the Dark Lord… oh, my parents. Those who had thrice defied him. They were also mentioned in the prophecy, so they could hear the recording?”
“If James and Lily heard anything different from what Minerva reported,” Albus said evenly, “they did not say so to me.”
“You took James and Lily there? ” Minerva said.
“Fawkes can go to many places,” Albus said. “Do not mention the fact.”
Frankly, this reads like a non-answer to me.
Fantastic work, thank you =)
For anyone else unpacking the zip file, note you’ll want to create a new directory to unzip it into, not just unzip it in the middle of your home folder.
Physicalism is the radical notion that people are made of things that aren’t people.
Er, walking on a narrow ledge 300 feet off the ground is still a bad idea because, y’know even with something simple like walking, sometimes you roll a natural 1 and trip.
This seems to be a serious problem. What do you do when you have enough vague procrastinatory ugh-fields that just reading good advice about procrastination makes you deeply afraid that you’re going to have to think about one of them, so you wind up afraid to read/process it?
Thanks XD
I mean, assuming that sea piracy to fund efficient charity is good, media piracy to save money that you can give to efficient charity is just obviously good.
I skimmed the options too quickly—I’d have picked “not offensive” if I’d noticed it.
See also: success myth
I feel like there is a bias against reproduction on LessWrong.
Is there? I kinda hope not.
I’m not sure what “supernatural” means. Out of the ordinary? But isn’t deep rationalism out of the ordinary? What are we talking about?
In the local parlance, “supernatural” is used to describe theories that have mental thingies in them whose behavior can’t be explained in terms of a bunch of interacting non-mental thingies. Pretty sure the definition originates with Richard Carrier.
You get 14 points anyway! ^_^
I believe Alicorn meant to claim that the larger class of electric vehicles for ~1 person—scooters, tricycles, skateboards, ebikes, etc—are about to take off in a big way because there are a lot more people who would buy them if they knew about them/saw their friends using them than there are using them now