| bio | website | profiles.google.com/simfish |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 93 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | Mar 13 at 19:23 | |
| stats | profile views | 55 |
- Quora page: http://www.quora.com/Alex-K-Chen
- Google+: http://profiles.google.com/simfish
- Email: simfish+s[at]gmail.com
Feel free to stalk my Internet name(s) if you wish - it's how I make most of my closest contacts these days. Just note that I don't really believe in social constructs when they get in the way of satisficing (or in the way of my goal of learning as much as possible).
Don't take anything I say/do too seriously. A lot of the things I do (that may look weird/stupid on the outside) are the types of things that help me adjust my posterior probability of various things - especially low probability events.Sometimes I hit on a jackpot/very interesting idea. I'm kind of messy since it helps facilitate creative destruction.
I have a lot of respect for all of the sciences. Tactically, I'm developing heuristics for rationality, impartiality, anti-laziness, and creation+identification+searching for what's relevant+reliable. Strategically, I just want to learn everything.
A lot of my thought processes involve my creating new hypotheses and refuting them on my own. I still document the thought process since it's important and may be important for future "true" hypotheses.
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May 10 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 22 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Jul 14 |
awarded | Taxonomist |
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Jun 7 |
accepted | Are IQ tests “biased” against individuals with Asperger's Syndrome? |
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Feb 4 |
accepted | What is the effect of ADD/ADHD on performance variability on cognitive tests over time? |
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Jan 26 |
awarded | Tumbleweed |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Beta |
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Jan 23 |
accepted | Is the decline of fluid IQ with age less severe for professors and scientists than it is for other people? |
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Jan 23 |
accepted | Do people with ADD or Asperger's Syndrome often show different learning curves than neurotypical individuals? |
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Jan 23 |
accepted | How does posture affect cerebral blood flow? |
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Jan 22 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on How to measure emotional intensity? |
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Jan 22 |
asked | How to measure emotional intensity? |
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Jan 22 |
comment |
Do people feel emotions less strongly as they grow older? Okay. By ability to feel emotion: I mean emotions like anger, happiness, and sadness. By how we can answer this empirically - this is sort of hard to answer. Hm - I'll ask this here: cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/124/… |
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Jan 22 |
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Can intense multitasking improve fluid intelligence/working memory? Added another link, and added the part about using a cellphone while driving a car. Regarding the Starcraft II relationship - someone from LessWrong says something very similar (lesswrong.com/lw/6sj/experience_with_dual_nback/4jme) and I'd like to see that investigated more rigorously. |
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Jan 22 |
revised |
Can intense multitasking improve fluid intelligence/working memory? added 24 characters in body |
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Jan 22 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Jan 21 |
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Beyond a certain level, is reading comprehension affected more by psychological intuition than by verbal intelligence? Very good points. And yeah - it's probably true - most reading comprehension passages are small, so they don't involve complex psychological issues that you'd see in, say, a longer book. |
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Jan 21 |
accepted | Beyond a certain level, is reading comprehension affected more by psychological intuition than by verbal intelligence? |
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Jan 20 |
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Are IQ tests “biased” against individuals with Asperger's Syndrome? I actually suspect, though, that the lower-than-average IQ Aspies simply get diagnosed with autism instead, which could explain why Aspies have higher-than-average IQs. In fact, I suspect that this might be a major reason why they're considering merging Asperger's Syndrome with high-functioning autism in the DSM-V. |