The second paper also points to several sub-traits of the big five that have much larger differences than the big five. The ultimate question is: for a particular purpose, do the relevant personality traits generally point in the same direction or different directions? Which is necessary but not sufficient for them to exist in places that we care about. But what do you mean by sex differences or sex similarities? Do you care about particular personality traits? What the second paper says is that by using all personality traits, it is easy to distinguish sex. Yes, most personality traits have small sex differences, maybe d=0.3. Scott posted another study in a link dump and there’s some discussion there, but it’s buried in all the discussion of the other links. He decided that a collision between the RGU and a passenger train was likely to have worse consequences. He appreciated the possible consequences for anyone on the RGU if it was derailed or ran into buffer stops. When he was deciding what to do, he did not know that they had jumped off at Highgate. The service manager knew that there were staff on the RGU when it started to run away. Routing the RGU into a reversing siding at Kennington provided the opportunity to stop the RGU by sending it towards a set of buffer stops (figure 1). The opportunities to derail the RGU were provided by trailing points which could be set against the RGU’s route at Mornington Crescent and at Charing Cross. It also provided two opportunities for trying to derail the RGU and the certainty that the RGU could be stopped at Kennington. He concluded that routing the RGU onto the Charing Cross branch gave the best opportunity to avoid a collision with a passenger train. He had no means of knowing how far the RGU would roll. The service manager then reviewed the situation. It was heading towards a working section of track which had running passenger trains There’s an even better British real-life trolley problem, that’s almost unknown other than to train enthusiasts, since the only report of it is buried on page 17 of a 65 page incident reportĪ broken down maintenance locomotive (RGU) with two workers on board, and with its brakes disabled was being towed uphill when it broke away. A request for legal advice, but it’s long enough that I’ll stick it in the comments rather than write it all out here. Comment of the week is this real-life trolley problem and the British government’s weird response to it.ħ. See their website for more details and the application.Ħ. Many of the instructors are friends of mine and/or Slate Star Codex readers, and one of the instructors is the aforementioned Eliezer Yudkowsky. If you are a high school student, you might want to think about applying to SPARC, a free camp for talented children focusing on game theory, cognitive science, and statistics. If anyone else in Michigan is interested, come to 1481-A Wordsworth, Ferndale, Michigan 48220 at 3 PM and hopefully I’ll see you there.ĥ. I’m on call Saturday morning, but if it’s not too hectic I’m going to try to make the Detroit party, which looks like it’s about 20 people strong now. Check the map here to see if there’s one with you, or get more information on this page.Ĥ. And for those of you who are familiar, you might be interested in the HPMOR wrap parties going on Saturday in various cities around the world. Most people either love it or hate it in a hilarious over-the-top way since both are interesting, I can highly recommend it to people who like that sort of thing. For those of you who aren’t familiar, this is a Harry Potter fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, the guy who taught me most of what I know about rationality and writing. Relevant to the title: Harry Potter and the Methods Of Rationality is ending Saturday. For those of you at the Google meetup, Jesse has created a relevant internal mailing list at slatestarcodex-discussĢ. It was nice to finally get to meet some of you. Thanks to everyone who attended the meetups earlier this month. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever.
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