My brain continues to internalize rationality strategies. One thing I’ve noticed is that any time I hear that the average blah is n, my brain immediately says, <who fucking cares, find me the histogram>.
That’s good, but does anyone have tips for finding the histogram/chart/etc in everyday Internet life? I know “find the article on Pubmed” is good, but often, the data-meat is hidden behind a paywall.
I am surprised how regularly I run into researchers or techies who still don’t know about SH/LG. Day before yesterday I mentioned I was uploading some books for Libgen to a humanities-esque techie you have likely have heard of (ie. exactly the sort of person you’d think would be downloading books from LG all the live long day), and he was like “what’s Libgen?”
My brain continues to internalize rationality strategies. One thing I’ve noticed is that any time I hear that the average blah is n, my brain immediately says, <who fucking cares, find me the histogram>.
That’s good, but does anyone have tips for finding the histogram/chart/etc in everyday Internet life? I know “find the article on Pubmed” is good, but often, the data-meat is hidden behind a paywall.
Sci-hub lets you get around paywalls for pretty much all academic articles.
this is your second great response to a question on my shortform!
I was going to respond, but concluded that surely you already know about Sci-hub.
I am surprised how regularly I run into researchers or techies who still don’t know about SH/LG. Day before yesterday I mentioned I was uploading some books for Libgen to a humanities-esque techie you have likely have heard of (ie. exactly the sort of person you’d think would be downloading books from LG all the live long day), and he was like “what’s Libgen?”