You mean that most cognitive skills can be taught in multiple ways, and you don’t see why those taught by programming are any different? Or do you have a specific skill taught by programming in mind, and think there’s other ways to learn it?
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On your last point, no. To put it colloquially, the simpler answer is more likely.
In practical terms, saying that all binary choices without evidence causes conflicts. Namely, if there’s a 50⁄50 chance that your consciousness dissolves when you die, and a 50⁄50 chance that a hidden FAI captures your brain state, and a 50⁄50 chance that a hidden UFAI captures your brain state. That implies that in every case that a FAI captures your brain state so does a UFAI.
If the farmer is actually a subsistence farmer, they save their own seed, so they don’t care about the price of seed, nor would they buy single generation seed (say of a new crop or variety) knowingly. However, if someone nearby plants single generation seed, they can end up with genetic material in their variety of that crop, which cuts their germination (or seed baring) rates the following season.
Subsistence farmers don’t trade for their sustenance, they farm what they subsist upon. So perhaps the moral is do be a subsistence farmer...
Also, avoiding dying in ways that destroy brain state. I’m not sure how probable those are, or how easy they are to avoid, and if that includes dementia (and so on) it gets rather common and tricky.
Because your cars run on gasoline and would have filled the tunnels with choking fumes, without either (1) a big expensive ventilation system, or (2) expensive electrified rails that would...impose friction costs?
For 2) you can use magnetic levitation: Inductrack which now manifesting out as Skytran. (Costs are about 1/50th your transportation mass in magnets.)
I know at the moment it seems to me that the colors are far enough apart that light conditions at my PC are not the main problem. Your monitor emits light, so the light conditions matter less, mostly needing to overcome the ambient light (laptop in sun).
Most things don’t produce their own color though, they reflect varying amounts of the incoming spectrum. If that incoming spectrum is different, the outgoing spectrum is different. You can take advantage of that in various ways, but it might also confound the question of what color “is” this object.
Or maybe you automatically take that into account by using the ambient light as a reference, I was wondering whether you had tested for that or not?
Under different light contexts an reflective object might be closer to either midnight blue or navy. Have you attempted using paint chips or something to test yourself under sunlight versus florescent light or anything?
Also, for sound perception: sox(1)
The relevant studies all seem to be behind paywalls, but the graphs from this one looked promising.
Jay L. Zagorsky (2007): “Do You Have to Be Smart to Be Rich? The Impact of IQ on Wealth, Income and Financial Distress.” Intelligence, 35 (5), 489-501.
If someone starts a meetup in a small town, it would not be difficult for them to get a newspaper article talking about the event. Though I’m not sure Wikipedians would consider little-tiny-newspaper to be adequate coverage...
I admit to hyperbole, now, with a little more thought, I would have worded it differently. Both to clarify that it’s pretty far down on our list of societal problems, and that it’s more an individual level mistake rather than a systematic one (though there are systematic benefits to fewer flush toilets).
Translate it to “In x% of new non-urban houses, there are options better than flush toilets.” My confidence in my confidence assignment isn’t very high yet though, so I am quite open to being overconfident.
And obviously both lists are non-exhaustive.
Flush toilets handle large numbers of people for a long time fairly easily.
Flush toilets get clogged.
I suppose my actual belief is that flush toilets are a mistake outside of urban areas, I don’t have much experience with urban living or what other poop strategies could work with it.
Advantages, flush toilets:
Provide easy long distance transport of human waste in urban environments.
Exchanges weekly-to-yearly chores for purchased services.
Disadvantages, flush toilets:
Create additional dependency on water (and by extension outside water districts, electricity).
Turn (vast amounts of) drinking water into black water.
Create a waste product from human manure, which is a valuable resource (fertile soil) when dealt with properly.
Adds significantly to the cost of housing (especially outside sewer districts).
Irrationality Game: (meta, I like this idea)
Flush toilets are a horrible mistake. 7b/99%
Most teaching jobs around here involve significant use of internet capable machines for grading, communication with other teachers and administration, and increasingly communication with students. Mathematics is probably more resistant to online teaching materials than most subjects though, and you may be able to find a school that eschews such things.
I wonder how much people’s interactions with other aspiring rationalists in real life has any effect on this problem. Specifically, I think people who have become/are used to being significantly better at forming true beliefs than everyone around them will tend to discount other people’s opinions more.
New datapoint on mass downvoting:
Sometime between this comment and my last comment, approximately all of my comments were downvoted exactly once. Seems kinda strange.
(I don’t have anything that I want to post to Main prepared anyway, so karma’s kinda a moot point, but I hoped this could be helpful if anyone ever does look into it, and times are included in downvote logs.)
Edit: Hehe! And within ten minutes, this one joined the rest of them...
Perhaps the reference is to “nutritional yeast”, which are all dead, and won’t impact your gut bacteria aside from being provided with more nutrients.
The adventurer probably does the most for me, finding new paths and places and people brings such delight. My conscious identification as a person sidestepped a bout of gender-confusion when I realised I hadn’t ever identified as man or woman, merely with pieces of each.
I’m less sure about, say, my combination of someone who “gets it done” and “doesn’t show imperfect work”. The majority of interesting work that gets done is done coincidentally, because it needs doing, and isn’t up to my standards. I’ve been experimenting with ways to overcome this, but with social commitments to share interesting work, not with identity changes.
I have been for a very long time a cryptic, who doesn’t bare theirself to strangers, much less the public, and likes to play with words more than express clearly, I’m slowly replacing that with “an open person”. I conciously push to show a more vulnerable bit of myself before I normally would these days, so far just with people that I imagine eventually sharing with anyway. I got burned pretty badly my second time trying that, but the the first time had me already completely convinced. Plus, I never could have written this if I hadn’t.
New programmers (not jimrandomh), be wary of line counts! It’s very easy for a programmer who’s not yet ready for a 10k line project to turn it into a 50k lines. I agree with the progression of skills though.