Why can’t we have both?
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It could be a difficult endeavour but I’d love to see what we can do with what we already have on LW. I don’t see any easily-discoverable links to (for example) the Repository repository. Would anyone be kind as to share links to some pages they believe are useful, but are not easily reachable?
Here’s a possibly bad list, but some useful-looking results by searching for ‘economics’:
Here is a post with a few recommendations in the comments, which seem interesting but I don’t really know if the recommendations are still good, or have been superseded by fresher material.
Here is an interesting analysis by Jonah Sinick.
Here there is a collection of lectures about economics.
Here should be more, but I trust that the veterans could fill this in higher numbers and higher quality than I possibly could.
I vaguely remember a comment made by Vladimir_M, citing PUA as ‘the elephant in the room’. I’d imagine there’s some variant of Godwin’s law in which someone will eventually say ‘hey, why does nobody care about the elephant in the room?‘, so maybe the question should be ‘Are we fully prepared and able to debunk PUA beliefs?’.
Can someone help me dissolve this, and give insight into how to proceed with someone who says this?
You don’t, they just don’t want to talk about it. Some people can sadly not be saved.
Have you ever had a moment where they could not directly recall something, but you could recall it indirectly, if you were given a list of words with the correct one in it?
I’m going to try this for myself with Anki, but I’m curious if anyone else ever had this. Something like the information is stored, but cannot be retrieved.
For example: “What is the ___ word?”
1) Right 2) Code 3) Missing 4) Test
Any of those don’t seem inappropriate, but option (3) should be the correct answer.
Are you going to print it yourself or pay a printing company? Printing it yourself can be some work (binding all the pages and the cover) but maybe a printing company wouldn’t want to print it due to licensing issues.
Will you be using the HPMOR PDF? It was (probably) made to be identical to the style of the original HP books, but it’s your choice if you want to keep it that way.
ie for 17, do 7, 6, 3, 2, 1),
That rounds up to 19, not 17.
depend on the specific person
I’m not really sure how to pinpoint individual differences. I’m going to stop here but I honestly think it would be nice to break this down further. A potentially harmful practice could be taking some sort of average ability to digest food, and then start deriving standard deviations from it. I’m saying ‘harmful’ because I (1) do not know how to do this and (2) I have no idea if this is the right thing to do.
Now apply this argument to the calories themselves. Is it possible that two people eat the same food, yet one of them extracts 1000 calories from the food, and the other extracts 1500 calories?
I’d imagine that people who had a less economical digestion would probably have less offspring, but that’s just a guess.
Well, you have just returned my question. I was curious whether there are ways to spend calories that most people would forget to think about when thinking about “work”.
It would be greatly helpful to have a list of energy spendings by the body, then. Can someone provide directions?
Can we get in some agreed upon middle ground?
A simple daily-iterated formula to start: WEIGHT = WEIGHT—WEIGHTBURN + FOOD
My assumptions are that WEIGHT is the person’s current weight. WEIGHTBURN is the amount the person burn per every day from energy consumption + bodily maintenance. FOOD varies from person to person.
My questions for you:
But it is possible that some of the “calories in (the mouth)” may pass through the digestive system undigested and later excreted? Could people differ in this aspect, perhaps because of their gut flora?
Not unreasonable. I remember reading that while brocoli has more calcium than milk, the composition of milk allows the calcium to be absorbed better. In fact, the components of brocoli seem to contain something that actually inhibits calcium absorption!
More generally, I assume your reasoning here to be that actual food digestion is not a 1:1 to, say, food labels. Correct? (I assume that food labels use some sort of average, say, 10,000⁄100 = x per 100g. Correct me if this is wrong please!)
Also, what if some people burn the stored fat in ways we would not intuitively recognize as work? For example, what if some people simply dress less warmly, and spend more calories heating up their bodies? Are there other such non-work ways of spending calories?
Define your ‘work’. Is it physical activity without any body maintenance? Keeping your body temperature, for example. Digesting food also takes ‘work’. I don’t think you can burn so much calories from exercise alone, in fact. Calorie counting is a better choice for fat loss than walking/running distance.
Can you give a picture of your workspace?[0] Mine is just a one screen with dwm[1]. dwm is simple and useful and I can easily switch between ‘workspaces’ with two buttons.
[0] Screencap works as well. [1] http://dwm.suckless.org/
Excellent!
Is there a possibility that those diseases will move to a different animal?
Meta question: are there ‘gray area’ quotes that can fit both rationality and irrationality?
Let’s take ’You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” for example. On the positive side, it means that you should definitely do X, because otherwise you could never get it. The gray area is that it’s abstract and situation specific, there’s nothing that guaratees success or failure. The negative side could end up you making a fool of yourself.
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this. It seems like rationality quotes provide wisdom, and things to consider. Irrationality quotes provide the opposite: they have faulty reasoning and should be things to avoid. This binary situation reminds me of the part of GEB where it discusses if machines are ultra-flexible or ultra-limited. Can a (ir)rationality quote have the paradox of being both useful and harmful at the same time?
open-source prisoner’s dilemma
I believe the GNU GPL was made to address this.
It seems like we are moving in this direction, with things like Etherium that enable smart contracts.
Does anyone have proof that Etherium is secure? There’s also the issue of giving whomever runs Etherium complete authority over those ‘smart contracts’, and that could easily turn into ‘pay me to make the contract even smarter’.
Technology should enable us to enforce more real-world precommitments, since we’ll be able to more easily monitor and make public our private data.
People are going to adapt. And I see no reason why would anybody share particularly private stuff with everyone.
And then there’s the part where things look so awesome they can easily become bad: I can imagine someone being blackmailed into one of those contracts. And plenty of other, ‘welcome to the void’ kind of stuff.* Where’s Voldie when you need him?
I’ve lurked around a bit and akrasia seems to be a consistent problem—I’d imagine that requires mental effort.
But on topic I doubt lifting weights doesn’t require mental effort. You still need to choose a menu, choose your lifting program, consistently make sure you’re doing things right. In fact, if common failure mods of dieting are usually caused by not enough mental energy put into proper planning.
And I’d give a special mention to the discipline required to follow on your meal plan.
Those things definitely take mental effort.
TLDR: What’s the ‘mental effort’ you’re talking about? Running calculations on $bitrate=(brainsize)* all day long?
formula not researched!
Rationalists don’t even lift bro.
Why not?
To clarify, what I meant was: Are the famous, top n, or places for education do provide a substantially better outcome for their students on average in comparison to less exceptional ones?
Thanks for the long answer! I just looked at the Cambridge prices for overseas students and it made me feel poor. Might as well seen a 500,000 ILS debt in my bank account.
I live in Israel and maybe I should study here. None of my family has any education though so I’m not really sure what to do. Do you know any universal things I should look for when considering higher education? (‘Is it worth it?’ sounds like a good question now..)
Is there a list?
Do we really need to take the whole package in? If we have (n) beliefs, some number of them might be useful, some of them would be less effective than advertised, and some could be useless if not harmful.