What does /prog/ think about decision theory, and this years new advances in the field, including Timeless Decision Theory and Anthropic Decision Theory?
Yudkowsky
I think jews are evil. Consider that, some hollywood jew speculated and invested into new movie. And then this jew has a gut to demand money from you, cuz you downloaded movie from P2P. No. I think all jews should be put to gas chambers to end this specualtion.
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Anonymous2011-11-04 16:43
But Yudkowsky announced that he's an agnostic atheist and a humanist, something of a finitist, views the Judaic religion as evil and is against Israel and Zionism.
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Anonymous2011-11-04 16:48
>>3
Betrayers were always hated. If he betrayed his own religion, nothing will stop him from betraying you.
>>4
That's assuming he betrayed his religion for personal reasons. That is not so. He saw how evil it was for all of humanity, and the rational altruistic thing to do was to have no part in it.
You know, lw should attract the finest minds in the world, but every time I try to step foot there, I only see a MTF aspie circlejerk.
Someone needs to make a web sight with all the good Yudkwowsky articles and none of the discussion and community junk.
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Anonymous2011-11-04 20:43
>>7
It attracts the finest mentifexes in the world, for sure.
>>4
So people are not allowed to change? People are born into being evil and nothing they do will stop their birth nature? You take crazy beyond crazy.
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Anonymous2011-11-04 21:51
>>10 >>4 is absolutely right, now check my dubz and go hug a tree.
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Anonymous2011-11-04 22:09
>>7
It already exists, it's the LW Wiki Sequences which has compiled and categorized all of the good postings by Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom and others.
It's kind of unfortunate that it has attracted the new age hipster aspies as you've said, but so be it. They won't matter so much going forward, they're getting left behind in the more theoretical and mathematical topics coming out now.
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Philosophy is a pseudoscience, just like mathematics.
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Anonymous2011-11-05 0:50
>>7
It already exists, it's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality which has compiled and categorized all of the good postings by Yudkowsky and his fangirls.
It's kind of unfortunate that it has attracted the theoreticians and mathematicians as you've said, but so be it. They won't matter so much going forward, they're getting left behind in the more erotic chapters coming out now.
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Anonymous2011-11-05 0:58
Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfiction actually received favourable reviews from Eric S. Raymond and David Brin.
I studied decision theory in a university, and it seemed like every method in the end boiled down to a step where you pulled stuff out of your ass (like probabilities or possible outcomes). Honestly I see the whole field is not about making decisions, but instead about making decisions seem like they've been made objectively and methodically, while in reality you just made the decisions subjectively based on a gut feeling or you blindly followed the random result of some algorithm that you fed random numbers.
1) create a data structure that represents the environment you are in
2) choose a goal
once you have these you can objectively find the best action to make (or at least approximate it well with enough computing time). In the case of humans evolution built (1) and (2) in the case of a university education you'll be doing hypothetical situations where everything is pulled out of someones ass.
the site is about cognitive biases and trying to improve yourself by correcting for them.
a lot of the people on the site care about doing this because they want to create an AI that will fix all the worlds problems, but doing so is very dangerous so they don't want to overlook anything.
also most of people on it are idiots.
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Anonymous2011-11-06 16:17
>>36
They should not allow comments, it only gives them a poor image.
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Anonymous2011-11-06 16:31
So I broke up with Alice over a long conversation that included an hour-long primer on evolutionary psychology in which I explained how natural selection had built me to be attracted to certain features that she lacked. I thought she would appreciate this because she had previously expressed admiration for detailed honesty.
>>38 Self-help books often focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationships, or aspects of the mind and human behavior which believers in self-help feel can be controlled with effort. Self-help books typically advertise themselves as being able to increase self-awareness and performance, including satisfaction with one's life. They often say that they can help you achieve this more quickly than with conventional therapies. Many celebrities have marketed self help books including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Fitzmaurice, and Cher.
Like most books, self-help books can be purchased both offline and online; 'between 1972 and 2000, the numbers of self-help books...increased from 1.1 percent to 2.4 percent of the total number of books in print'.