Fabien Benetou's PIM | Events / LessWrongBrusselsMarch2012

Own objectives

put my set of beliefs expressed in Beliefs straight
discuss computer security and the popular decisions against it
(w/ potential implication for mind uploading or whole brain emulation).

cf Hermione's notes

questions that make people think
- importance of the formulation of the question
  - e.g. priming for discarding the "obvious" answer
- a la Google interview
importance of the social context
gamification
- with reward e.g. signed book, invited talk, karma points, ...

	Rational behavior	�Rational behavior	Notes
Problem occured	/!\	hand on hot iron, smoking, overeating	Seriousness might be relative
�Problem occured	(QED)	shyness	Difficult to spot then
Notes	Typically filtered out by somebody considering himself or herself rational	Seem often related to "youth", emotionally heavy situations or socially enforced decisions

difficult execise to do in public
could be interesting to privaly keep up to date, e.g. nightly, and see how it evolved over time
- also input from close ones could help to add situations

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overall extremely strange feeling, still very positive experience
potential bias based on the crowd present during the meeting
difficult of disproving certains beliefs
- falsifiability
predictive power or information/action ratio to discuss, especially questionned during discussion on free will
cf Beliefs

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list of biggest impact (e.g. measure on life expectency increase) political decisions
experience in physics helps to think outside the mesoscale
proposal of presentation for next meetup (potentially 14th of April)
- navigating through social rules
  - Why it matters, society and collaboration, distribution of skills, increase in complexity, stability
  - experiments e.g. Axelrod, constraints e.g. Dunbar number
  - social rules as heuristics to decrease cognitive complexty, imperfect information thus taking risks, ...
  - litterature
    - Petit usage de manipulation a l'uage des honnetes gens
    - Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior, PNAS February 2012
    - Positive Relationships: Evidence Based Practice across the World Springer 2012
    - SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed, Harvard 2010
  - invite socially aware guest, watch social faux-pas
- WithoutNotesNovember11#AnaisSaintJude
related events
- QSBXL2012
- http://brussels.skepticsinthepub.org

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