This little arc starts here and has a few gems.
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Dr. Bunnigus: Are there ’bots (nano-machines creating new neural pathways) in my brain?
Petey: Nope. I don’t need them. Your brain is working correctly. All I need to do is explain things to you, and you’ll be able to make the right choice.
-Exchange between Dr. Bunnigus and the Benevolent Overlord AI (Petey) that turned the galactic core into a power generator. Schlock Mercenary 2015-07-25 by Howard Taylor
This Video Will Make You Angry by CGP Grey discusses the meme-ic virility of controversial arguments.
A few different sources have also discussed the idea that we are out of the Age of Information, and into the Age of Attention, and that attention is the currency of the day.
Now, has anyone found these ideas combined in a short online text or video to present the idea that: If you find an idea to be ideologically offensive, the best way to fight it is to not engage it in argument but to starve it of attention and let the cat photo and inspirational quote weeds of social media grow over what ever fertile soil it may have found.
This Video Will Make You Angry by CGP Grey is a great discussion on the meme-ic virility of controversial arguments.
The typical theme is reference material on one screen, and working material on the other screen. The equivalent of having all your reference material open on your desk so you are not flipping back an forth through notes.
Edit: Read The Intelligent Use of Space by David Kirsh as recommended by this LessWrong post.
It is because you forgot to pack TP. Bring TP and things will be ok.
Of course, refusing to examine oneself is the shortest distance to becoming an a**hole.
Upvote for references, links, and avoiding weak anecdotal evidence.
And they never claim to be doing science (other than that “For Science” tag, but who would take that seriously on an entertainment website?). They are introducing the idea that our minds have flaws and are full of bias to their audience through highly relatable example material.
I don’t know if the Kadala bug is real, and I don’t care, that is a tree in the forest. And the article is about the forest. (If the Kadala bug is real, that is just poor fact checking. The lesson on Confirmation Bias still stands.)
A few comments from my experience, these may not be applicable to all circumstances.
I found material to have a digestion time, to much material too fast and I would stop learning. If understanding A depends on understanding B, which depends on C, It was easier to learn C, and sleep on it, then learn and sleep on B, then A. As opposed to taking ABC all in one bite. In addition to the short term, I experienced this in the long term; I would frequently look back at courses from the previous years and wonder how I ever found them challenging. When I had Calculus 1 and 2 back to back I struggled hard, When I had a year break, then Calculus 3, another year break, then Calculus 4, I felt I had a better grasp of the material.
Also, as you approach higher levels of education and specialize, your classes overlap material more and more. In high school I took grade twelve physics then grade 12 calculus. I was very upset to discover after the fact the derivative relations between locations, velocity, and acceleration, and that the equations were simple to derive once the missing calculus piece of the puzzle was provided. Once I got to the end of my undergrad, every class I was taking was looking at the same problem from different perspectives, so any one taken by themselves would be without supporting knowledge to lean on.
And lastly, Topic burn out would kill me. This has to do with mental digestion time, but some times it was nice to skip a class or two, not think about the topic for a week, and then jump back in with renewed energy.
But of course also am full of bias, because learning is complex and I’m just latching on to the few patterns I’ve recognized.
14 Ways Cognitive Biases Hamper Your Diablo Toon
It is actually titled “How Your Mind Screws with You in Games Like Diablo”. Not novel material, but novel to see on a gaming website.
Plan A: Change your environment; spend three hours a day preparing a proposal for management/ownership to work as a contractor paid by entry opposed to an employee paid by the hour. Find the relevant tax and overhead savings to make this a mutually beneficial arrangement. Find out who in management/ownership can approve your proposal and who it just creates headaches for, buy beer for both.
I understand that goes against the spirit of your question, that your work environment may be to rigid, management that could approve the proposal are out of reach of the data entry staff, or one of many other arguments, but 60 hours a month is a large amount of time, it is shocking what could be done.
Plan B: Now on to things I’ve actually done in that situation; spend 60 hours preparing a bulletproof argument/presentation for a raise, spend 60 hours learning how to create better resumes, spend 60 hours learning how to job hunt without a resume (handshakes and recommendations), spend 60 hours job hunting, and last on the list spend the time on entertainment so that you are mentally recharged to make the most of your personal time.
“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
I couldn’t find the sequence that covers it directly, but going through my old journals, this one came up repeatedly while facing hard decisions.
As an aside, arguments that use infinite time come up enough that I’m trying to find a brief graphic or write up that teaches ∞/(2*∞)=1/2 and the ∞/(∞^2)=0. Any pointers?
I don’t know what infinity over infinity is, but I suspect that it will be undefined.
This. This matters.
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
This is more that metaphor. A exponentially larger infinity divided by a small infinity will be infinity. A exponentially small infinity divided by a large infinity will be zero. A division of proportional infinities will be a real number.
So if the chances of a Boltzamann Brain becomes increasingly less likely as enthropy increases. and enthropy increases as time approaches infinity, you have a division of infinities which can equal infinity, a real number, or zero. You won’t know which without actually crunching the numbers.
Thank you kind stranger for showing me something new. I’m glad to have learnt that.
But to paint the full picture, I used that location password to find my lost phone very rarely. It was mostly used during festivals, conventions, and travelling so that my friends and co-travelers could easily find me. People are uncomfortable adopting it, but it is a real easy fix to the ‘I’m here, where are you?’ coordination problem.
Made the phone report it’s location if you texted it the password. Security updates added hoops to jump through, and FindMyDroid came out for free with all the functionality.
Made the phone autoplay music when headphones were plugged in. I stopped needing these when I got a new car with a bluetooth stereo and stopped using the aux plug in.
Yes, as much I could tolerate it.
But yes, we have a fundamental difference of perspectives here.
“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him.”
Miyamoto Musashi wrote, in The Book of Five Rings:
Musashi spoke of swordsmanship here, but this applies to any endeavor that aspires to excel. Like an electric train’s regenerative brakes charge its batteries, and the exhaust gas of a firearm chambers the next round and cocks the hammer, I expect even my down-time and indulgences to provide future prosperity.
Time is what life is made of, why squander it on something so temporary as a week’s bliss. Are you so content that you will delay improving your future for a week?
I think being personally responsible for a googleplex^googleplex dust specks arriving in a googleplex^googleplex eyes is a worse thing than that that can happen to a person.