zxcvbnm

• zxcvbnm 6 Jul 2011 4:51 UTC

  5 points

  on: The Blue-Min­i­miz­ing Robot

  Robin Hanson would also argue that the robot wants to minimize things that are ‘far’, since blue is ‘far’

• zxcvbnm 4 Jun 2011 17:08 UTC

  1 point

  on: Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

  The example of ‘live music’ here is distracting because in a lot of cases ‘live music’ shows entail a kind of socialization that only extroverts enjoy. So the aversion could have been much more complex and less likely to be solved by introspection alone had you not been so confident that it was your hand. Should we not qualify, then, that some kinds of aversions are systematic to one’s personality as a whole and so less likely to be revealed by introspection?

• zxcvbnm 3 Jun 2011 19:28 UTC

  3 points

  on: Ac­tion and habit

  Too much speculation. Topic discussions on these matters are also biased by all the usual biases that occur in comparing oneself to another.