Anonymous asked:
No. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/19/can-you-condition-yourself/ . Conditioning seems to work not so much on reward itself as on surprise - that is, reward (or punishment) that you didn’t expect.
Anonymous asked:
No. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/19/can-you-condition-yourself/ . Conditioning seems to work not so much on reward itself as on surprise - that is, reward (or punishment) that you didn’t expect.
Anonymous asked:
The studies show that the death spike is the same in northerly cold latitudes vs. southerly warm latitudes, so probably not.
Anonymous asked:
Man, I don’t know. I think during that scene I was thinking that I would leave without the watch, then have a friend get it a few weeks later and mail it to me. I know that’s a cop-out answer, but cop-out answers are all I’ve got.
But if I did, I definitely wouldn’t stay around to make Pop-Tarts.
Anonymous asked:
I have Greg Cochran on my blogroll. I’m less sure than I once was that this means I can never get elected to anything, but I’m pretty sure it still means I can never get elected in Berkeley.
I understand that @uncrediblehallq is considering running for office someday with a pretty reasonable and EA-influenced platform. He seems like a much better candidate, and if he runs then of course I will support him in any way I can.
Anonymous asked:
Visiting board billed as “rationalists on 8chan” =
Anonymous asked:
I can’t do anything fancy, so I vote for just seeing if you took Fast Acting Symptom Reliever less in the three month period after you started Daily Preventative than the three month period before.
Anonymous asked:
Request fewer of these “you are wrong and bad but I will not explain why” asks.
Anonymous asked:
Some examples -
Coyote Run:
Turisas:
Decemberists:
Ayreon:
Arcade Fire:
Anonymous asked:
I am sorry that you are part of the 20% or so of people diagnosed with ADHD who were misdiagnosed.
If it makes you feel better, this is why I refuse to do child psychiatry more than I have to.
Anonymous asked:
I don’t know.
I recently learned that the main reason planes haven’t been getting any faster lately is because there’s a really nonlinear discontinuity in fuel requirements as you get close to the speed of sound, to the point where it becomes economically prohibitive. This seemed really interesting to me as an example of apparent technological stagnation actually having a meaningful physical-sciences explanation (although poorly-written regulation around sonic booms doesn’t help either). It does seem to me that we’ve cracked certain easy diseases where your thyroid is ten times normal size or something, and we’re left with really complicated things that require full knowledge of the immune system.
I don’t want to rule out “science has gotten worse” either. Now that Peter Thiel is Official Shadow President, I hope he does something useful about this. Maybe make Michael Vassar Secretary of Energy.
Overregulation of drugs is really bad, but I doubt it’s to blame. Drug companies still really really want good blockbuster drugs and if there were really good ones they would spend whatever it took to push it through. Overregulation of the pharmaceutical industry probably prevents a lot of marginal drugs from existing, and makes existing drugs cost much more, but I doubt it’s the reason we haven’t cured schizophrenia.
Anonymous asked:
I think many people have gotten to a point where they have one thing figured out and limit themselves to doing that one thing.
I feel pretty safe and happy as long as I am allowed to just keep doing the job I have been doing for a few years, and live in my house, and not get exposed to any weird and challenging situations. I am very lucky that I have a job I can keep doing indefinitely, and some friends and partners I really like so I don’t need to worry about finding more. Having a job and a partner seems to be all society really demands of me, so as long as neither of those things implode I feel pretty happy and able-to-handle-stuff. If either of them ever disappeared or something out of the ordinary happened, I would definitely be panicking and flopping around like a fish out of water.
I don’t know if there are people who just feel completely secure in general and ready for everything. I assume that there are. People’s minds seem to differ a lot and it would be weird if nobody wasn’t neurotic. As attractive as it is to imagine Genghis Khan riding into every battle thinking “OH GOD OH GOD I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING”, it seems easier to believe he was calm and composed than that he was a really good faker.