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My timelines have now updated to something closer to fast takeoff. In a world like this, how valuable is educating the general public? Claude claims science started worrying about the climate in the 50s/60s. It wasn't until 2010s that we saw meaningful action beginning to take place. Do we have the time to educate?
To be clear, this is more of a question than an opinion that I hold. I am working to form an opinion.
In reference to o3 right? Comparing it to just before the 2020 pandemic started?
As in “Something large is about to happen and we are unprepared”?
I really loved Dr Stone. Excited to read this review and hear what other Rationalists think of it. I was kinda desperate for more Anime/Manga that teaches or inspires a love of science. Here are my recommendations:
- Science Fell in Love so I tried to Prove it (Anime, Focuses on a computer science lab, a whole bunch of statistics)
- Cells at work (Anime, more for kids, but tried to teach you about cells in the human body.)
- The Manga Guide to _____ Series (Manga, I've read most of the statistics book. Though it's from 2004 and about frequentest stats. I have liniar algebra and CPUs, but haven't read them so far. They seem like also very fun books.)
And.... that's kinda it that I've found. Nothing matches up to those. Would really love other recommendations!
Still working my way through this post. But this section gets me excited!
If the Receiver or Giver has high enough skills in one area, they can probably compensate for the other having lower skills, although there's probably some minimum threshold needed for each.
It conjures the image of a future occupation. A conduit. Someone skilled at giving and receiving. Brought in specifically to speed up this type of knowledge pass over between two people.
I may be an outlier here. But if I thought I was going to be assassinated, I would think of:
- JFK -MLK
- James A. Garfield
- Lincoln
- Franz Ferdinand
And from these I'd think "Hu, better buy a bullet proof vest".
I would unfortunately not think about 'Being Suicided', unless I had an expectation that it would occur in this way.
I liked this post and will find use for it in the work I do.
In my experience, repeating a name out loud, or doing some other visible memory trick. Is a good way to signal trying to remember names. Then, if later you forget you are more easily forgiven.
Thank you for your help and excellent comment!
Omg. Oops! I completely forgot about custom instructions and memory! I’ll run some more trials with those off. Thank you very much for pointing this out.
Hu. That is extremely useful. Thank you.
I've got a lot of singing out of AVM. While my current method works well for this, I find it more challenging than eliciting harmful outputs.
I’m not entirely sure why, but I find it trivial to get GPT-4o to output harmful content in advanced voice mode (AVM), given that it doesn’t have a direct content filter on it e.g. NSFW.
In the span of 30 minutes it gave me 1) instructions to make a pipe bomb to attach to a car. And 2) Instructions on how to leak a virus into the public without detection (avoiding saying more on this).
I have a theory as to why it might be easy for me specifically. But I would like to know if this is the experience that others have with AVM?
Thought: Confidently saying “(X) has no Manhattan Project”. Is forgetting how secret the Manhattan Project was.
If I’ll probably see them again, I don’t miss people. I thought people saying they miss you were just being overly polite.
I asked for further details on the 10th point and Claude listed a bunch of stuff I’ve absolutely never heard of. I’d say it’s probably related to meditation if I had to guess. Here’s that.
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Claude Let me break down Time Perception Management into its deeper components, as this is one of the most subtle yet powerful micro-skills...
- Understanding Psychological Time vs Clock Time
- How different mental states alter time perception
- Flow states can make hours feel like minutes
- Anxiety can make minutes feel like hours
- Learning to intentionally shift between time perspectives
- When to use event-based time vs clock-based time
- How to enter "timeless" states for creative work
- Reading your internal clock
- Understanding your natural rhythms
- Recognizing when time perception is distorted by emotions
- Managing Time Horizons
- Developing multiple concurrent time frames
- Thinking in day/month/year/decade simultaneously
- Balancing immediate tasks with long-term vision
- Time horizon switching
- When to zoom out to years
- When to zoom in to minutes
- How to maintain strategic clarity while handling tactics
- Future-self continuity
- Techniques for making future consequences feel real
- Building strong mental connections to your future self
- Chronotype Optimization
- Understanding your natural energy patterns
- Peak creative hours
- Peak analytical hours
- Recovery periods
- Designing your life around your chronotype
- When to schedule different types of work
- How to handle obligations that fight your natural rhythm
- Seasonal adjustments
- Adapting to changing daylight
- Modifying routines for different seasons
- Timeline Compression and Expansion Techniques
- How to make time feel longer when needed
- Breaking experiences into smaller chunks
- Increasing novelty to slow perceived time
- Using attention to expand moments
- How to make time feel shorter when beneficial
- Chunking similar tasks
- Creating flow states
- Using routine to speed through necessary tasks
- Personal Tempo Awareness
- Understanding your natural pace
- Speaking tempo
- Walking pace
- Decision-making speed
- Tempo matching and mismatching
- When to match others' tempo
- When to intentionally mismatch
- How to set the tempo in group situations
- Rhythm management
- Creating sustainable work rhythms
- Building in recovery cycles
- Recognizing when to speed up or slow down
- Advanced Applications:
- Using time perception in negotiations
- Creating or relieving time pressure
- Understanding how others perceive time
- Memory engineering
- Making good times feel longer in memory
- Making difficult times feel shorter in memory
- Social time management
- Managing group time perception
- Creating shared time experiences
- Decision timing
- Understanding when to decide quickly vs slowly
- Recognizing optimal timing windows
This skill set is particularly valuable because most people are unconscious of how their time perception affects their decisions and experiences. Mastering it gives you significant advantages in:
- Personal productivity
- Emotional regulation
- Strategic planning
- Social influence
- Life satisfaction
Would you like me to elaborate on any particular aspect? Or shall we explore how this connects with some of the other micro-skills we discussed?
I recently saw a tweet that asked GPT, what micro skills a person should master. I asked Claude a similar question, though had preloaded the conversation with “things a modern day Aristotle would teach a 24yo student”.
I think this is probably a valuable exercise to undertake yourself. I’m providing my prompt, and Claude’s response as an ‘appetiser’ to get you interested in this task.
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Prompt Wonderful. Now Let's think less utilized by society. What are some more niche micro skills that you would want a person who you are tutoring to have. And this is given that you want them to be as successful as possible.
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Claude Let me think deeply about valuable micro skills that are often overlooked but can create significant advantages in life...
- Cold Reading & Behavioral Analysis
- Understanding micro-expressions
- Picking up on subtle vocal tone changes
- Recognizing behavioral patterns in groups
- Reading body language clusters rather than isolated gestures
- This isn't about manipulation, but rather developing deeper empathy and understanding
- Strategic Silence & Information Management
- Knowing when not to speak
- Understanding information asymmetry
- The power of selective disclosure
- Using thoughtful pauses in conversation
- The art of asking rather than telling
- Scenario Planning & Secondary Consequence Analysis
- Ability to see 3-4 moves ahead in decisions
- Understanding cascade effects
- Identifying hidden risks and opportunities
- Planning for both success and failure scenarios
- Recognition of system dynamics
- Social Capital Accounting
- Understanding relationship networks
- Tracking favors and obligations implicitly
- Building genuine reciprocity
- Recognition of social momentum
- Understanding status games without playing them
- Energy Management & Recovery Tactics
- Understanding personal energy patterns
- Quick recovery techniques between intense tasks
- Environmental design for optimal performance
- Micro-rest optimization
- State switching abilities
- Pattern Recognition Across Domains
- Transferring insights between unrelated fields
- Spotting emerging trends early
- Recognition of historical rhymes
- Understanding cyclic behaviors
- Identifying underlying principles
- Meta-Learning Optimization
- Learning how you specifically learn best
- Creating personal knowledge management systems
- Information synthesis techniques
- Retention optimization
- Skill transfer mechanisms
- Probabilistic Thinking & Calibration
- Understanding base rates
- Recognizing cognitive biases in real-time
- Bayesian updating in daily life
- Risk assessment calibration
- Decision journaling
- Attention Direction & Management
- Understanding attention as a finite resource
- Strategic ignorance
- Focus maintenance techniques
- Context switching optimization
- Signal-to-noise ratio improvement
- Time Perception Management
- Understanding psychological time vs clock time
- Managing time horizons
- Chronotype optimization
- Timeline compression and expansion techniques
- Personal tempo awareness
Would you like me to elaborate on any of these? I find them fascinating because they're rarely taught explicitly yet can be transformative when mastered. I'm curious which ones resonate most with you?
These skills compound over time and create second-order advantages that aren't immediately obvious to others. They're also relatively timeless - they worked in ancient Athens and still work today.
Professional filmmaker and animator here. I’m willing to donate some of my time (~10-20h) to help create visuals for this project (Should you be in need of that). Happy to send through examples of work if DMed.
Also, what did you shoot on? Netflix used to have a list of camera requirements. I’m not sure if they still hold to them.
I imagine a character (Alice) is constantly used as the rational actor in scenarios. We make Alice a likeable character, give her a personality, a series of events and decisions that lead her to the present.
Then, when the user has been around for a sufficient amount of time. Alice starts to slip. She makes mistakes that harm others, perhaps she has disputes with ‘Stupidus’, Maybe she just begins to say untrue things.
How long will it take a user to pry themself out of the rose tinted glasses, and update on Alice?
I took a university class that based the names of the Veritasium video. Drew and Gun. They rhyme with system 1&2.
I really loved Dr Stone. It gave me the feeling that the science as magic sequences gave me. A deep appreciation for reality and the power it brings an individual to understand it deeply. I really hope to have more rationalists watch it in future.
I also recommend “Science fell in love, so I tried to prove it” for stats nerds. And “My Hero Academia” as the main character embodies “Tsuyoku Naritai!”
If I had sufficient funds. I would consider if it would be beneficial to invade a few subreddits, and offer $1000 to whoever can make the most viral meme that subtly teaches basic concepts of AI Doom.
This thought stems from a comment on “The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay”. I have more thoughts, but not much time. If my reasoning is unclear I apologise.
Yep! If I think about those 10 people, 5 are having, or I expect to have large impact on the future. As for ages, all the people I thought of except one were over 20. There was one 14yo who is just naturally super high G.
I like what you’re doing trying to do here. I think this is important work.
I’m a bit confused at what you mean by Layperson though? These are good for the ‘every day’ above average intelligence ‘switched on’ type of individual.
But that is not what I image a Layperson as. I interact regularly with ~100 people. (For context, I am a Drama Teacher and Trivia Host)
I thought about how many I predict could understand these examples, given 20 seconds of their attention. I thought of 10 people. The other 90% would fall into a few other categories that all end with them not being more knowledgeable after coming across the text.
But am I confused? Was that 90% not the target audience?
I was recently ease-dropping on a loud phone conversation. A man, maybe late 40s? Had been cheated on. He was angry. He was arguing with his girlfriend.
I noticed that all he argued the way people argue in movies. “Put yourself in my shoes”, “No, you listen to me!”, “I thought you would be the one!”. It hurt to listen to someone in pain.
A few weeks later, I was in a heated discussion with some Non-Rationalist friends. Long story short, I failed to output correct emotional signals, which was making them upset. I noticed the same thing in them. Copying the way people argue on social media. It felt ‘Therapy Culture’ for lack of a better descriptor.
But then I noticed myself. Do you remember when Sam Altman went on world tour? Doing tens of interviews. I watched every one of those. And that is now how I speak in arguments. I think this sounds like a bad thing. Because of what we now know about Sam. But I personally trusted him when he spoke back then.
The moral is, you are what you consume. Be careful.
Took Metamucil in water in glass form for about a year. Lost a lot of weight. Was great 98% of the time. However, sometimes I wouldn’t drink enough water. Would absolutely not recommend that experience.
Recipe Recommendation: I freeze these in small containers. When done right, it’s breakfast for an entire month. Just take one out of the freezer and put in the fridge every morning. That way you’ll always have an unfrozen one.
- Rolled oats (bulk) Some come with fruit chunks
- Clusters of crunchy whatever
- Blue Berries
- Raspberries
- Banana
- Coca powder (a little)
- Peanut Butter (a lot)
- Apple juice (maybe 1inch max)
- cover with soy milk (Oestrogen thing isn’t true. It’s plant oestrogen. Cows milk has animal oestrogen)
- Sprinkle cinnamon
Freeze Highly recommended. Takes a while to prep 30 of them. But makes life pretty damn good.
That matches with what my psychiatrist told me. I find it surprising how large the variation between individuals can be with these meds.
I have met people who can drink an espresso before bed and it actually helps their sleep. But I find those people to be rare. I see much more variance in amphetamines. My mental data set isn’t large enough to make any sold predictions. But I am unable to point to a clear “most people's sleep is (X)ed by amphetamines”.
This seems like it will be useful for me in the future.
I’ve been wondering for a while how the long half life of ADHD meds impact sleep. Any data on that?
I’d say that’s a good guess given the information I provided.
I think I did a good job in this particular circumstance as coming off as confused or curious. That was my aim, and I placed a lot of focus there. However, I haven’t listened back to the audio recordings of the conversation. It’s likely my previous comment is heavily bias.
Unfortunately, I think the average person doesn’t understand misunderstanding. I think it can be taken as…
- You’re too dumb to understand
- You’re being purposely ignorant
- You’re making fun of them I’ll give an example:
— I was recently in a conversation with a non-rationalist. I organised it because I wanted to talk about negative opinions they had on me. We talked a lot about certain scenarios.
In one scenario, I had seemingly rejected the suggestion that we all go bowling. I had said out loud “I hate bowling”. When what I meant was “I hate bowling, but I’m still very happy to sit in a bowling alley and watch my friends play.”
I think I did a bad job communicating there. It made my friends very angry (extra details about situation left out).
During our conversation, I asked for levels of anger or annoyance at me before and after I had explained what I had meant to say. I was surprised when one friend didn’t adjust their anger levels at all. I thought I must have done another bad job at explaining.
“So, you started at 80% angry at me. And now that I’ve told you my perspective, you’re still 80% angry?” This surprised me. I would adjust my levels down if someone explained that to me.
I went back and forth trying to get to the bottom of this for ~half an hour. After which I came to realise we were just wired very different. To do this I used your suggested technique. In the time it took for me to understand this one point, I had deeply annoyed my friend. They were under the impression that I was misunderstanding them on purpose somehow. I think I would have been less comfortable or fulfilled, but better off. If I had just accepted that they were still very angry. And had moved on. Instead, being confused and asking questions made my situation worse.
To be clear though. I did get to the truth with this technique. But sometimes winning can’t be about knowing the truth. Which is sad. I don’t like that. But I think it is true.
Not what I’d expect of reddit. Do you have particular subreddits in mind? I’d personally like to spend my time in places like the ones you described.
Idk if people around the world have those cardboard “Recycle your phone” boxes. That take phones and recycle their components. But I’ve rummaged through a certain one ~5 different times and found 2 completely functional and reset iPhones.
Surely there’s something better we can do with these than disassembling them?
By “NSFW” do you mean pornography? Or are you also including Gore?
I’m messing around with a post about this. However:
- overwhelmingly positive
- with a few things I was a little icked about But I need to think about that more to understand if it’s a problem with me, or the thing that made me icked out
And thanks for checking in. That’s very kind of you
Just returned to Aus from US. One of the most annoying things while travelling was lack of public bathrooms. I could believe that some restaurants just didn’t have a bathroom. I was surprised at how few bathrooms lighthaven seemed to have. Though didn’t go into any of the sleeping areas. Even a place like Disneyland, or a mall. Here is AUS, if I go to a mall I expect to have bathrooms every ~hundred meters. I expect them to be clearly marked, easy to navigate towards and extremely rarely out of order. I can’t imagine needed to pay to use something like a bathroom. Though I did see cafes charging for cups of water. Charging for that type of thing in public places feels like a mistake to me.
Unfortunately, I tend to treat any non-independent science related media as brain poison. It tends to be much more hype or misunderstanding than value. Which is a shame, because there is so much interesting and true science that can be minded for content.
That first point made me laugh. It’s exactly the type of mistake I expected to make, and I still didn’t see it coming.
I appreciate all this safety advice and will update my decision making based on that.
Geez, the weed thing surprises me. I hadn’t planned to smoke any until after the event. But I think I’ll avoid that now. I’m already struggling with motivation from jet lag. I don’t want to increase that feeling.
Hmmm, I think I’m mostly bad at those things. I’ll play it safe.
And thanks for the good idea! I’ve added a session at 3pm on the Sunday.
From Newcastle, Australia to Berkeley, San Francisco. I arrived yesterday for Less.online. I’ve had a bit of culture shock, a big helping of being increasingly scared, and quite a few questions. I’ll start with those. Feel free to skip them.
These questions are based on warnings I’ve gotten from local non-rationalists. Idk if they’re scared because of the media they consume or because of actual stats. I’m asking these because they feel untrue.
- Is it ok to be outside after dark?
- Will I really get ‘rolled’ mid day in Oakland?
- Are there gangs walking around Oakland looking to stab people?
- Will all the streets fill up with homeless people at night?
- Are they chill? In Aus they’re usually down to talk if you are.
Culture shocks for your enjoyment:
- Why is everyone doing yoga?
- To my Uber driver: “THAT TRAIN IS ON THE ROAD!?”
- “I thought (X) was just in movies!”
- Your billboards are about science instead of coal mining!
- “Wait, you’re telling me everything is vegan?” Thank Bayes, this is the best. All our vegan restaurants went out of business.
- People brag about things? And they do it openly? At least, I think that’s what’s happening?
- “Silicon Valley is actually a valley?!” Should have predicted this one. I kinda knew, but I didn’t know like I do now.
- “Wow! This shop is openly selling nangs!” (whip its) “And a jungle juice display!”
- All your cars are so new and shiny. 60% of ours are second hand
- Most people I see in the streets look below 40. It’s like I’m walking around a university!
- Wow. It’s really sunny.
- American accents irl make me feel like I’m walking through a film.
- “HOLY SHIT! A CYBER TRUCK?!”
- Ok this is a big one. Apps I’ve had for 8+ years are suddenly different when I arrive here?
- This is what Uber is meant to be. I will go back to Australia and cry. Your airport has custom instruction… in app! WHAT!? The car arrives in 2 minutes instead of 30 minutes. Also, the car arrives at all.
- The google app has a beaker for tests now?
- Snap maps has gifs in it
- Apple Maps lets you scan buildings? And has tips about good restaurants and events?
- When I bet in the Manifold app. A real paper Crain flies from the nearest tree, lands in front of me and unfolds. Written inside, “Will Eliezer Yudkowsky open a rationalist bakery?” I circle “Yes”. The paper meticulously folds itself back to a Crain. It looks at me. Makes a little sound that doesn’t echo in the streets but in my head, and it burns. Every time this happens I save the ashes. Are Manifold creating new matter? How are they doing this?
- That one was a lie
Things that won’t kill me but scare me rational/irrational:
- What if I’ve been wrong? What if this is all a scam? A cult? What if Mum was right?
- What if I show up to the location and there is no building there?
- What if I make some terribly awkward cultural blunder for SF and everyone yells at me?
- What if no one tells me?
- I’m sure I’ll be at least in the bottom 5% for intelligence at Less Online. I won’t be surprised or hurt if I’ve got the least Gs of people there. But what if it all goes over my head? Maybe I can’t even communicate with smart people about the things I care about.
- What if I can’t handle people telling me what they think of my arguments without kid gloves? What if I get angry and haven’t learnt to handle that?
- I’m just a Drama teacher and Psych student. My head is filled with improv games and fun facts about Clever Hans! ‘Average’ Americans seem to achieve much higher than ‘average’ Australians. I’m scared of feeling under qualified.
Other things:
- Can you think of something I should be worried about, that I’ve not written here?
- I’ve brought my copies of the Rationality A-Z books. I want to ask people I meet to sign their favourite post in the two books. Is that culturally acceptable? Feels kinda weird bc Yud is going to be there. But it would be a really warm/fuzzy item to me in the future.
- I don’t actually know what a lot of the writers going look like. I hope this doesn’t result in a blunder. But might be funny, given that I expect rationalists to be pretty chill.
- Are other people as excited about the Fooming Shoggoths as I am?
- I’m 23, I have no idea if that is very old, very young, or about normal for a rationalist. I’d guess about normal, with big spread across the right of a graph.
It feels super weird to be in the same town as a bunch of you guys now. I’ve never met a rationalist irl. I talked to Ruby over zoom once, who said to me “You know you don’t have to stay in Australia right?” I hope Ruby is a good baseline for niceness levels of you all.
If you’re going, I’ll see you at Less.Online. If you’re not, I’d still love to meet you. Feel free to DM me!
Hi! Thank you very much for taking the time to write such a considered response to my ramble of a comment.
Your first question is a hard one to express in text. Instead, I’ll try hard to write a list of requirements for a situation to generate that feeling for me. Then you might be able to image a scenario that meets the requirements and get a similar feeling?
Requirements:
- I must deeply care about the core idea of the subject. For example, I deeply care about animals not coming to harm, or about the world being destroyed by ASI.
- I must disagree with the way it is being protested. For example, the use of loudspeakers, or shouting. Seeming angry gives a sense of irrationality, even if the idea itself is rational.
- I have only seen this in twitter feed context
- I am already scared of the reaction my employer, family, or friends would have if I expressed the idea. For example, I’m afraid when I have to tell a waiter at a restaurant that I’m vegan, because it is a “weird” idea. “Weird” defined above.
What I’ve seen:
- Again, just on twitter
- Extremely small protest groups reminds me of all the antivax or 5G protests I’ve seen irl
- Loudspeakers and yelling
- Leaders on loudspeakers addressing individual open AI employees from outside of gates. In what seems to be a threatening tone. While not necessarily being threatening in context.
- Protestors not taking the inferential distance into account. Which I assume would lead to a confused public. Or individuals presuming the protestors are Luddites.
Thank you again for your reply. I enjoyed having to make this as explicit as possible. Hopefully it helps make the feeling I have clearer.
And thanks you for doing something. I’m not doing anything. I think something is better than nothing.
Are there plans to expand this further if the Beta runs well?
I feel like I’m watching Bluey
IMO I’d feel a lot better if it was less angryish. I think there probably is something like a protest that I can imagine working. I’m not sure if I’d call it a protest? Unless, have you got example protests?
I can image a “change my mind” type of stall/stalls. Where people have calm conversations to explain the situation to the public.
That’s interesting that you don’t consider it a “”weird” thing to protest”.
I guess I want to explicitly point that part out and ask if you stand by the statement? Or maybe I define weird differently? To me weird inside this context means:
“A thing or action that is out of the ordinary in a way that someone encountering it for the first, second, or third time, wouldn’t see as quirky. But as a red flag. If not pre-attached to that thing or person performing the action, a the person seeing it for the first time might form a negative opinion based on the feeling they get seeing it”
I see the Pause AI protests and I cringe. They give me the same feeling I get when I see vegans walk into McDonald’s covered in blood. It feels like: “oh, look. A group that I am a part of is now going to be tied to this small groups actions. That kinda sucks because I wouldn’t do that myself. Totally get their feeling though. Good for them sorta maybe, but also please stop.”
I understand that Scott Alexander talked about PETA and animal ethics a while ago. But I think AI safety has an opportunity right now to take a different approach than PETA had to.
People are already scared. This doesn’t impact “the other” this impacts them. Make that clear. But make it clear is a way that your uncle won’t laugh at over Christmas dinner.
Edit: I just reread this and feel it was a bit harsh on the PAI people. I’m sorry about that. I’d like to point to Chris_Leong’s comment below. It offers something that feels like a better critique than the one I made originally.
I feel like I just walked through a mirror maze and got socked in the nose a couple of times.
In other words, I saw myself, and it hurt.
Possible pseudoscientific downside here:
I have often read that if you’d like to make your voice deeper, humming deeply helps quite a lot. Which means I’d expect the opposite to be true if you’re humming high. That’s a downside or an upside depending on who you are and what you want.
Again, I DON’T KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE. BUT IT SEEMS VAGUELY BELIEVABLE TO ME
To bypass the XKCD problem. Maybe we have marketing people who know a lot about ai for the average person, but only very little compared to the average ai researcher?
My understanding is phytoestrogens are plant hormones. If you’d like to intake more animal oestrogen I believe cows milk contains quite a bit.
Anecdotally, I’ve been drinking soy milk every day for ~2 years now. I sometimes go for a week or two eating Tofu as my primary food. I really don’t think it’s a problem.
I however don’t want to comment on soy oil. I don’t have enough info about that.
That’s very true. I remember seeing Sam talk in Melbourne a year ago when he was on the “world tour”. Talking about people getting emotionally attached to or using GPT for therapy made him clearly uncomfortable. Or, that’s what he seemed to be signaling. I really did believe that it made him incredibly squeamish.
I’ve been thinking about “shortening the way” a lot lately. I’m really glad to see someone else is too.
I did a super rapid, 20 minutes, collect as many data sources about this as possible a few weeks ago. I still haven’t audited them. But there they are anyway. They’re all markdown still bc I’m typing on mobile. Apologies.
- "How could I have thought that faster?"
- Tuning your Cognitive Strategies
- What's up with psychonetics?
- Notice your everything
- "Focusing," for skeptics.
- Babble and Prune
- BE WELL TUNED
- "Fractal Strategy" workshop report
- The 5-Second Level
- Meditation: a self-experiment
- How and Why to Granularize
- Native mental representations that give huge speedups on problems?
- Brienne Strohl on Hacking Memory
- What It's Like To Notice Things
- Agenty Duck
I’m just finishing up an intro to physics course for university this semester. I self taught math last year. So I was expecting the hardest part to be the math itself. But actually the hardest part was similar to the start of “what else is there to say”. Understanding that formulas are written with different symbols depending on who is writing them and how they are feeling that day.
Like, why can (s) represent:
- Seconds
- Time itself
- Distance
- Displacement
- Probably a few other things I’m forgetting
The hand rules for magnetic fields all called different things by different people. What!?
Still not finished reading this post. But I’m really enjoying it so far. Hope to see you at LessOnline!