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17 years old, I'm interested in AI alignment, rationaluty & philosophy, economy and politics.

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I disagree with argument of your article in this context.

I didn't wrote it explicitly, but if peoples of future spend 0.01% of their time in simulation of the Earth of 21st century, most of peoples, who think they are living in 21st century are wrong.

It's like you have 2 bag of numbered pieces of paper, in the first one there are 1 million of them, and 1% of them have number 6. An other bag have 10 pieces of paper and they are numbered correctly. Each piece of paper have equal chance to be taken. You take one, and you see 6. From which bag did you take the paper?

Can you explain with few exemples what do you mean by "more complicated"?

This is a distinction between pleasure and happiness.

I wrote about distinction between pleasure and happiness later in the article.

My model is this: there are different experiences. Each one give some amount of long-term happiness and pleasure. But there's no big correlation between these 2 things.

Although in short term, pleasure does bring happiness, so if you do something pleasant, you would be happy while you do it and unhappy when you not.

But there are many nuances here that I did not mention. For example, if you have strict schedule like home/work, your brain will create a default level of pleasure for each activity. This way, you would not suffer during all work hours and won't feel overwhelming pleasure all the time at home.

I sometimes argue that even the common drive to variety is distinct from hedonic adaptation

I think drive to variety is all about happiness, not pleasure.

Do you disagree with my model, or do you think I should add those remarks to the post ?

For the third- yes, I mean exactly it.

I'm interesting on your model, but I didn't understand it, because this comment is too abstract. Can you give few example that proof your hypothesis, please?

I have few ideas about improving lesswrong.

  1. Creation of list of articles read. Sometimes I remember some post and realize, that I’ve forgotten an idea from it, even though I need it. I want to reread it, but usually I can't find it.
  2. You know how there’s a “Watch Later” list on YouTube? It would be great to have something similar on LessWrong for articles.
  3. Also, what about some kind of paid subscription? The absence of one is the reason why Scott Alexander doesn’t write on LessWrong, and why I was considering posting on Substack, even though I appreciate LessWrong’s policy of not rewarding dislikes and the people here.
    (than I decided to just add a link to my Boosty in future posts and say that I won’t publish much going forward unless I receive some financial support—assuming, of course, that my posts get a lot of karma)

    Edit: first 2 points actually exist on LW

 I think that [awareness that the other kind of person even exists, at all] is sorely lacking, and spreading that awareness is a noble and important goal in and of itself

An explanation here:

People in the same social circle are very similar. Maybe, there are fundamental things like low education or low IQ, which influence a lot of parameters, and [egoism/don't trying to hide egoism] is one of them. Peoples with low education are similar in a lot of things so they become friends. So someone with low education or IQ would know a lot of bad peoples, and that with higher education would know a lot of good people.

I know a lot of peoples in my high school, and I see strong negative correlation between notes and egoism/don't trying to hide egoism (I mean, I don't know what is it exactly. I saw few peoples who was wary nice with friends but was egoist with peoples they newer know)

Light bulbs, phones and laptops consume ≈0 energy. Don't skimp on them.

Edit: more precisely- cost of 1 hour of working of:

 A light bulbs≈ $0.01/hour and ten time less for an energy-saving one

A phone≈ $0.0017

A laptop≈ $0.01

It is a false dilemma. Just call your articles so that everyone understands the meaning, and let the new people to read each important thing they don't know (they may know something before comming to community), and the oldfags to don't reread  things thay already know.

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