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Convert your principles into algorithms and have the computer make decisions alongside you - At some point I want to create an implementation of this. Dalio likely already has something for this but it's not clear to me that there's any decent publicly usable implementation. Below is from...
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Checking if Books Replicate - I have friends that like the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. I thought the book was cool when I read it but I don't have good habits now. Tesler's Law: This law states that there is a certain...
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Onward - Marc Andreessen - TIM: “What advice would you give to Marc, the 20-something, at Netscape?” MARC: “I’ve never for a moment even thought about that. I don’t do replays well. The question I’ll never answer is, ‘What...
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How can you increase your actions per minute? - my friend once told me a story along the lines of...
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How could you filter through (most) human knowledge? (a vague idea) - How could you filter through (most) human knowledge? (a vague idea) note: still a work in progress What problem is this idea meant to solve? Human knowledge is terribly vast. What you see every day is...
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How can you learn and iterate from reality, empirically? - There are many problems in my life I have not solved. Why does Mattie make me see reason? Why can't I do it on my own? How do I correct my natural pessimism? What advice would work in my head? How do...
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Reflection Cycles - Reflection Cycles Inspired by this post I read a few months ago from Hacker News: from mikekchar I bought a physical HIIT timer with 8m of working/1m reflecting on a specific question: What would the...
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Aliveness (title WIP) (post also WIP) - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqno2YNUVw is one of my favorite songs. It has a feeling of aliveness, assuming the world has meaning. find thing from heroic about aliveness
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How refined do posts need to be to not suck? - People like Paul Graham say that they spend a lot of time editing/writing their posts. Is this necessary for posts to be good? What makes a post good? The measure of the value of a post should be the...
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Bay Area Rationalist/Effective Altruism Group List - Bay Area Rationality Server (this is the one I post events to the most) Bay Area ACX Meetups Bay Area Lesswrong Mailing List East Bay Effective Altruism Effective Altruism San Francisco
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What does it mean for a relationship to be non-transactional? - please email raj@incrium.com with thoughts
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Journal #1 - Why am I so happy? - I feel good today too. I'm having some sort of feeling like what I had as a child. I don't know what but I quite like it. It's a sort of gentle relaxed power, kind of similar to the solidness of a...
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Journal #1 - Why am I so happy? - I feel pretty happy this morning. I like it a lot. It feels easy to just write and learn. I wish all my mornings were like this. I'm going to try: comment on this...
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How can we make reading not useless? - most reading seems not useful by default. usefulness of reading to me is just: how do your moments of reading reverberate over time? Will it change what you're doing 10 years from now? (I will take...
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Should you keep a closed or open door? - both from You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html) these are in conflict. when you have an open door policy now, to a large extent this...
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Why drink yerba mate and other caffeinated beverages? - Why drink yerba mate and other caffeinated beverages? For being alert and sleeping better (via caffeine). Why isn’t that a contradiction? Firstly, it doesn’t do those things at the same time...
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How true should things be for you to trust them or use them? (VWIP) - I think i have epistemological learned helplessness (link scott) about a lot of things. what is true pragmatically? How true should things be for you to trust them or use them? How to question things...
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Should your barrier to ideas be high or low? (VWIP) - I like generating ideas. Filtering them leads to less ideas generated + potentially good ideas dying. But if I share all ideas with other people. this can be overwhelming or lead to people assuming...
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How can you remove energy conservation mechanisms to increase brain performance? - Sid (of NY) mentioned that when he had a near death experience he was able to think ultra fast about his options for survival, at a level he couldn't normally. He also said he was more hungry...
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disipline vs fun - your right is to work but not its fruits thanks for doing the scent thing Saturday! it was a lot of fun. I've been thinking today about qualia vs. desire and desire is bad discipline, stoicism...
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Many Words (VWIP) - https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1026301560668581889 https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1516594790413996033
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Journal #1 - Why am I so stressed? - Read a great thread by visa, he said he was bad at delivering and felt bad. This has happened to me a lot. I generally feel really bad about mistakes and i think this is largely because i want to...
