[Bayesian Conspiracy] Reminder: Meeting Today

[Nathan Hwang]

Same place, same time.

That is, somewhere in Hamilton (probably on the 3rd floor), at 8PM.

If you want pizza/other foodstuff at this meetup, speak up. I have no
idea where to order from, but I can be bothered to figure it out if
people start telling me they can be bothered to show up if there's
pizza.

If someone knows what we're talking about (if there *is* a set topic),
and tells me before 2AM, then I can whip up a flyer that people can
throw up around campus. Heck, even if we don't have a set topic, and
people want to help flyer, I can do a generic 'come talk about
rationality!' flyer.

Okay, I think that's everything
Nathan Hwang

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

I won't be taking charge of ordering pizza, but Andrew has asked me to
run the session, and this I shall do. My plan is to run over some
basic biases and their implications which aren't in my usual talks,
like "prospect theory and the status quo bias: how the fear of losing
something we already have, prevents us from daring to try for more" or
"the sunk cost fallacy: probably the main thing that keeps people from
leaving grad school or their failed relationships". This essentially
makes you the test audience for an ad-hoc talk I haven't polished, but
you're all okay with that, I'm sure.

--
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

[Andrew Rettek]

(212) 222-1566

Phone # for Koronet Pizza

[Nathan Hwang]

If anyone checks their e-mail, I'm camping out in 407, with pizza ordered.

[Nathan Hwang]

Never mind, we're in 316

[Hadiza]

Yesterday was fun!

Why did you have to leave Yudkowsky? Whyyyy?

Does anyone have the official names of all the bias' we learned about?

Oh and that book I was talking about was "Stumbling on Happiness" by
Daniel Gilbert, and it was about couples ordering -different- meals,
not the same...

On Apr 18, 8:04 pm, Nathan Hwang <beta.entit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Never mind, we're in 316

> On Apr 18, 2011 7:52 PM, "Nathan Hwang" <beta.entit...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > If anyone checks their e-mail, I'm camping out in 407, with pizza ordered.

> > On Apr 18, 2011 12:29 PM, "Andrew Rettek" <andrew.ret...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentie...@pobox.com>

> > wrote:
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> >>> I won't be taking charge of ordering pizza, but Andrew has asked me to
> >>> run the session, and this I shall do. My plan is to run over some
> >>> basic biases and their implications which aren't in my usual talks,
> >>> like "prospect theory and the status quo bias: how the fear of losing
> >>> something we already have, prevents us from daring to try for more" or
> >>> "the sunk cost fallacy: probably the main thing that keeps people from
> >>> leaving grad school or their failed relationships". This essentially
> >>> makes you the test audience for an ad-hoc talk I haven't polished, but
> >>> you're all okay with that, I'm sure.
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> >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Nathan Hwang <nyh2...@columbia.edu>

[Nathan Hwang]

Eliezer's email kind of has names for the two main biases we talked
about, not sure if they're official or not.

[Kenneth Chen]

The important one to have is Motivated Stopping and Motivated
Continuation, because it mitigates the harm done by knowing about the
other biases.

[Brian Rabkin]

Breaking news. Apparently, amongst our Haidtian weaponry may be diverse elements such as: liberty. This is in addition to the other five discussed at the meeting: harm, fairness, ingroup/outgroup, tradition/authority, and purity.

As the attached paper has not been peer reviewed, it is not matured as science yet. 

 

In our original conception of Moral Foundations Theory, we had not included liberty (or autonomy or freedom) as a foundation. But as we began to collect data on libertarians, and to hear objections from libertarians that their core value was not well represented, we realized that liberty was an excellent candidate for being a sixth foundation.

[Saliency]

Looks interesting I will read.