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Other utopias or searching the reference class for the rationality hub project 2021-02-15T15:38:02.435Z
gogishvilli's Shortform 2020-10-28T21:47:02.782Z
Reasons that discussions might feel hopeless 2020-10-28T19:59:02.926Z

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Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2021-07-15T07:54:22.379Z · LW · GW

I just had to share this, one person in a similar task imagined that a brick is a toy coffin in a puppet show.

Comment by gogishvilli on Other utopias or searching the reference class for the rationality hub project · 2021-02-15T18:39:44.994Z · LW · GW

My impression is the same, but "demands" here is meant more like a demand to wear a silly hat or be severely peer-pressured, not "not being invited to a party". But I may misunderstand the problem or be too excited to properly react to it. If you have an example that could deliver it more viscerally - I'd appreciate that.

Comment by gogishvilli on The rationalist community's location problem · 2021-02-07T19:31:57.703Z · LW · GW

If it will be a big community - would it be legal to organize some kind of private mini school? Something like Elon made for his kids - it could be better than homeschooling and regular private school both.

Comment by gogishvilli on gogishvilli's Shortform · 2020-10-28T21:47:03.220Z · LW · GW

Two Yodas about inferential distances about relationships.

This is what I usually need to tell a normie to start discussing relationships and their possibility between us:

  1. Ask, guess, tell
  2. Kinds of attraction
  3. Exclusivity for what?
  4. Off the escalator
  5. Relationship Anarchy
  6. Types of nonmonogamy

I'm going to write an expanded version - tell me if you'd be interested in having something like this for your own use.

Comment by gogishvilli on The Felt Sense: What, Why and How · 2020-10-13T20:18:11.701Z · LW · GW

Should we have a list of stuff to try to feel? Seems potentially interesting to me

Comment by gogishvilli on The Felt Sense: What, Why and How · 2020-10-13T20:16:43.648Z · LW · GW

I was reasonably sure that I don't have felt senses or won't get in touch with them without years of psychotherapy(I tried Yoda). While reading this, I finally got it and decided to talk about it with my friend, so I decided to put it into my inbox. That moment, my neck got cramped, my upper back got tense and I wanted to get away from it. Felt sense of thinking about my graveyard-inbox is my first one, forever and ever. 

Kaj, thank you so much.

Comment by gogishvilli on Training Regime Day 12: Focusing · 2020-10-08T06:43:42.148Z · LW · GW

My delta it's waiting for the sense by the clock, and trying again and again. Thanks

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-03T09:45:35.128Z · LW · GW

45 is my favorite

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-03T06:31:46.431Z · LW · GW

22 and 42 are awesome!

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T20:28:41.032Z · LW · GW

13 and 19 are cool

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T08:40:22.367Z · LW · GW

14 is really creative, 19 is hilarious!

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T08:36:51.794Z · LW · GW

31 Is also fun

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T08:34:35.916Z · LW · GW

I like 22 and 24, but the 42 is genius! Did you intend to put the best under the 42?

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T08:25:20.906Z · LW · GW

I can easily relax my prunes and babble a lot - generate names, interpretations, whatever. But I'm quite disappointed that the babble is still of a low quality. What's the point of generating 100 names for my startup if all of them are bad? @jacobjacob Are there any exercises specifically for that?

(Should I reread the sequence?)

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T07:53:27.168Z · LW · GW

Two years ago I spent 24 hours to write 100 paperclip uses. In Russian here https://docs.google.com/document/d/15rgEl3J36lNywte0CQ6kcN2QwjGhPswJZ1TnnXQBxIQ/edit?usp=sharing

Comment by gogishvilli on Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon · 2020-10-02T07:40:38.175Z · LW · GW

Weird, but it took me exactly an hour. 

UPD: I just realized that the task wasn't to get myself to the moon. Works as an exercise, anyway

  1. Jump
  2. Build a high building on the equator and blow it up
  3. Zipline through a vacuum tunnel-like hyperloop
  4. Meditate until you learn to levitate and hibernate simultaneously
  5. Build a human tower
  6. Blow up the moon until it lands
  7. Blow up Earth until the tectonic plate we stand on collides with the moon
  8. Teleport via future technology
  9. Wish yourself to appear there
  10. Placebomanically convince the reality that I actually am there
  11. Pray
  12. Upload myself to Equestria Online and go to the moon with my unicorn magic
  13. Bend a palm tree and launch myself. Don’t forget to put an aquarium on my head
  14. Get a time machine and go into the moment of time when my absolute coordinates are close enough
  15. Achieve immortality and buy a ticket for a commercial flight
  16. Upload myself into a spaceship body
  17. Chinese believed that one can alter reality with music. So, let’s jam in different scales and music systems
  18. Get punched by Captain America
  19. Accio Moon
  20. Wingardium leviosa myself+immortality
  21. Broomstick magic on my bones+immortality
  22. Immortality+Just wait until it fails on me? I’m not big on astronomy
  23. Wait until the sun explodes and my atoms mix with Moon atoms and we’re technically in the same object
  24. Get on hyperloop and blow it up
  25. Get a heart stimulator and fuck so hard like in Crank and just run there
  26. Ask Sonic the Hedgehog to launch me
  27. Spaceship
  28. Actually, in some very improbable realities, I’m just spontaneously appearing there
  29. Become an Erogamer and wait until the plot takes me there
  30. Pay someone to select the wildest stupid and conspiracy stuff and then ask some performer to read it in a most butthurt-provoking way and watch it on my phone until I fly to the moon. Afterward, get a Guinness record for the largest and the hottest anus.
  31. Become a saint and wait for wings to be granted and fly there
  32. Go to a bod mod surgeon an ask to add me skin between my legs and hands and train until I can fly
  33. Use nanobots to enforce my genitourinary system and come so fast that I can fly as a rocket.
  34. Shout down really hard
  35. Fart and ignite (Thunderpants)
  36. Shit fast
  37. Become really small and fast and position myself just right when the next meteor comes down so that I fly to the moon
  38. Become a firebender and fly there
  39. Get a small and VERY powerful perpetuum mobile and an energy-mass converter and launch that mass down
  40. Wake up and realize I’m Goku from the Optimal Wish project and I can shoot ki-beams from any point on my body. Imma rocket, dudes
  41. Adapt Project Orion to fly on a supervolcano and wait/provoke a supervolcano
  42. Become immortal, arrange the moon to be a new Australia(prison-vise) and get convicted for embezzlement
  43. Just commit to get to the moon, trust my future self to get there and for now - expand my capabilities
  44. Get a time machine, go back and replace Neil Armstrong
  45. Make friends with someone who flies there, instigate a planet-moon battle, and cast Ally Swap
  46. Become flat and therefore, loose mass and ask someone to throw me very precisely
  47. Shake lots of cola and mentos, pointing downwards, in a gas tank, while hugging it (Is it the same as “Build a spaceship”?)
  48. Command nanobots to turn Earth into me, then just grab the moon
  49. Find a philosophy that can explain why I’m already there(Probably the most anti-rationalist while not being cartoonish stupid)
  50. Accept open individualism and realize I’m identical to all conscious beings ever and I was and will be there anyway
Comment by gogishvilli on Lessons from the Center for Applied Rationality · 2020-05-05T19:49:51.640Z · LW · GW

The link points to the Forecasting Workshop