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Self Improvement

TagLast edit: 7 Sep 2023 17:50 UTC by RobertM

Personal Growth, etc

Related Pages: Growth Stories

Strate­gies for Per­sonal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
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Mnestics

Jarred Filmer23 Oct 2022 0:30 UTC
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Want­ing to Suc­ceed on Every Met­ric Presented

Logan Riggs12 Apr 2021 20:43 UTC
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[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

jacobjacob22 Oct 2020 4:49 UTC
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A sim­ple guide to life

jasoncrawford3 Apr 2022 18:09 UTC
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(jasoncrawford.org)

I hired 5 peo­ple to sit be­hind me and make me pro­duc­tive for a month

Simon Berens5 Feb 2023 1:19 UTC
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(www.simonberens.com)

The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC
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My cur­rent think­ing on money and low carb diets

Adam Zerner29 Oct 2021 6:50 UTC
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Numer­acy ne­glect—A per­sonal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC
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You don’t get to have cool flaws

Neil 28 Jul 2023 5:37 UTC
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AISC Pro­ject: Bench­marks for Stable Reflectivity

jacquesthibs13 Nov 2023 14:51 UTC
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Prac­ti­cal Guidelines for Me­mory Reconsolidation

Matt Goldenberg13 Nov 2019 19:54 UTC
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[Question] What met­rics should I track when ex­per­i­ment­ing with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC
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Syn­thetic Restrictions

nano_brasca22 Dec 2023 18:50 UTC
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Sapi­ence, un­der­stand­ing, and “AGI”

Seth Herd24 Nov 2023 15:13 UTC
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Do a cost-benefit anal­y­sis of your tech­nol­ogy usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
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My Su­per­power: OODA Loops

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Apr 2022 1:51 UTC
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The Fu­ture of Struc­tured Self Improvement

Evenflair4 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

Micro Habits that Im­prove One’s Day

silentbob1 Jul 2023 10:53 UTC
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Two Growth Curves

AnnaSalamon2 Oct 2015 0:59 UTC
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Sun­set at Noon

Raemon21 Nov 2017 2:05 UTC
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Crit­i­cism Schedul­ing and Privacy

Lulie29 Sep 2018 13:50 UTC
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Feel­ings are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Feb 2023 2:38 UTC
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[Question] What are the de­cid­ing fac­tors of hu­man cog­ni­tive en­durance?

koratkar11 Feb 2024 21:56 UTC
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What Piles Up Must Pile Down

silentbob9 Apr 2023 18:37 UTC
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The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: A new frame­work for struc­tured self-improvement

Evenflair4 Mar 2023 19:19 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

Notes on Temperance

David Gross9 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC
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Why self-im­prove­ment?

Adam Zerner16 Mar 2023 2:49 UTC
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De­stroy­ing Inse­cu­rity and Boost­ing Con­fi­dence Through Your In­ter­ests and Values

Olitness1 Aug 2021 14:34 UTC
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(olitness.wordpress.com)

Stop press­ing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
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(www.neelnanda.io)

OpenPrin­ci­ples Boot­camp (Free) -- Reflect & Act on your Ra­tion­al­ity Prin­ci­ples.

ti_guo8 Sep 2022 3:06 UTC
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Small Habits Shape Iden­tity: How I be­came some­one who exercises

adamShimi26 Nov 2020 14:55 UTC
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AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve

petersalib16 May 2023 20:53 UTC
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Self-Con­trol Se­crets of the Pu­ri­tan Masters

David Hugh-Jones26 Sep 2022 9:04 UTC
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(wyclif.substack.com)

The Five Main Mus­cles for a Full Range of Nat­u­ral Move­ment, Dy­namic Align­ment & Balance.

leggi1 Sep 2019 3:22 UTC
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Level­ing IRL—level 1

cousin_it9 Aug 2011 17:12 UTC
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Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Prologue

Logan Riggs9 May 2018 21:16 UTC
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Help Me Re­fac­tor My­self I am Lost

Pausecafe8 Nov 2018 20:18 UTC
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HELP: Do I have a chance at be­com­ing in­tel­li­gent?

johnbgone26 Oct 2010 21:41 UTC
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Shell, Shield, Staff

SquirrelInHell25 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Time to Exit the Sandbox

SquirrelInHell24 Oct 2017 17:13 UTC
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 25: Re­cur­sive Self-Im­prove­ment

Mark Xu29 Apr 2020 18:22 UTC
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Go­ing Crazy and Get­ting Bet­ter Again

Evenstar2 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing Fate­book: the fastest way to make and track predictions

11 Jul 2023 15:28 UTC
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(fatebook.io)

Com­plex Signs Bad

Evenstar3 Jul 2023 13:09 UTC
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An anec­dote about names

Manfred30 Oct 2012 3:40 UTC
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Towards an Al­gorithm for (Hu­man) Self-Modification

moridinamael29 Mar 2011 23:40 UTC
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[Question] How can I get help be­com­ing a bet­ter ra­tio­nal­ist?

TeaTieAndHat13 Jul 2023 13:41 UTC
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Let Your Work­ers Gather Food

D_Malik24 Oct 2011 19:51 UTC
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I am Sailor Vul­can!

Sailor Vulcan24 Aug 2018 17:47 UTC
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Some rules for life (v.0,0)

Neil 17 Aug 2023 0:43 UTC
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(neilwarren.substack.com)

[Question] Are vet­er­ans more self-dis­ci­plined than non-vet­er­ans?

Matthew Barnett23 Mar 2020 5:16 UTC
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The Lit­tle Dragon is Dead

SquirrelInHell6 Nov 2017 21:20 UTC
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

If You Were Brilli­ant When You Were Ten...

AspiringKnitter27 Dec 2011 2:33 UTC
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Link: “Top 10 Mis­takes in Be­hav­ior Change”

cousin_it17 Jan 2011 17:46 UTC
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Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

Igor Ivanov22 Sep 2023 13:51 UTC
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Growth mind­set for bet­ter sex

agentydragon28 Apr 2020 8:49 UTC
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The 5 Pillars of Happiness

Gabi QUENE4 Oct 2023 17:50 UTC
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The Dangers of Par­tial Knowl­edge of the Way: Failing in School

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Jul 2009 15:16 UTC
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Can self-help be bad for you?

Tom_Talbot7 Jul 2009 20:40 UTC
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Ap­ply­ing Be­hav­ioral Psy­chol­ogy on Myself

John_Maxwell20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC
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On Reflection

Neel Nanda14 Dec 2020 16:14 UTC
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(www.neelnanda.io)

Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo.

silentbob17 Oct 2023 11:36 UTC
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[Question] Would you join the So­ciety of the Free & Easy?

David Gross10 Jul 2019 1:15 UTC
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[Question] How do you build re­silient per­sonal sys­tems?

Raj Thimmiah25 Jan 2021 9:56 UTC
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On the na­ture of anxiety

mr_fahrenheit22 Feb 2021 23:56 UTC
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The In­ner Work­ings of Resourcefulness

Nora_Ammann25 Feb 2021 9:15 UTC
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How You Can Gain Self Con­trol Without “Self-Con­trol”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC
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Why “put down your phone and go out­side” is Bad Ad­vice.

madilynHex20 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
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So­cial Calibration

SimulatedCrow20 May 2021 23:22 UTC
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Chang­ing my life in 2021, halfway through

Borasko10 Jun 2021 1:36 UTC
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Re­in­forc­ing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC
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Voic­ing Voice

Willa28 Jun 2021 4:29 UTC
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How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC
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Me­dia Diet: Cul­ti­vat­ing Voice, De­liber­ate Ac­tion, and Alive Time

Willa17 Jul 2021 5:56 UTC
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What makes us happy and de­pressed?

Marius Hobbhahn3 Oct 2021 6:25 UTC
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Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel10 Oct 2021 5:19 UTC
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Ex­per­i­ment­ing with An­droid Digi­tal Wellbeing

Yair Halberstadt21 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC
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30-ish fo­cus­ing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC
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This Year I Tried To Teach My­self Math. How Did It Go?

Borasko31 Dec 2021 17:55 UTC
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Do­ing “good”

pchvykov13 Jan 2022 19:52 UTC
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Con­sume fic­tion wisely

RomanS21 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC
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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
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[Question] What are some low-cog­ni­tive -work­load tasks that can help im­prove the world?

Yitz1 Mar 2022 17:47 UTC
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Prac­ti­cal ev­ery­day hu­man strategizing

akaTrickster27 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Self-Help

Ben Williamson12 Apr 2022 15:01 UTC
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Willpower Hax #487: Ex­e­cute by Default

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2009 6:46 UTC
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What Diet Books Don’t Teach: A book re­view and a re­quest for more reading

Lone Pine28 Jun 2022 12:27 UTC
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A sum­mary of ev­ery Re­plac­ing Guilt post

Akash30 Jun 2022 0:46 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Con­sider Multiclassing

JustisMills7 Jul 2022 14:54 UTC
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A sum­mary of ev­ery “High­lights from the Se­quences” post

Akash15 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC
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[About Me] Cin­era’s Home Page

DragonGod7 Feb 2023 12:56 UTC
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So, I Want to Be a “Think­fluencer”

DragonGod20 Aug 2022 18:39 UTC
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Time is not the bot­tle­neck (on mak­ing progress think­ing about difficult things)

kman12 Sep 2022 20:45 UTC
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There are no rules

unoptimal23 Sep 2022 20:47 UTC
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Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC
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Paper: Large Lan­guage Models Can Self-im­prove [Linkpost]

Evan R. Murphy2 Oct 2022 1:29 UTC
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(openreview.net)

Space

Jarred Filmer17 Oct 2022 6:34 UTC
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[Question] How to be­come more ar­tic­u­late?

just_browsing26 Oct 2022 14:43 UTC
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Be more effec­tive by learn­ing im­por­tant prac­ti­cal knowl­edge us­ing flashcards

Stenemo12 Oct 2022 18:05 UTC
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Con­ver­sa­tions on Al­co­hol Consumption

Annapurna1 Nov 2022 5:09 UTC
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Response

Jarred Filmer6 Nov 2022 1:03 UTC
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[Question] Are al­ign­ment re­searchers de­vot­ing enough time to im­prov­ing their re­search ca­pac­ity?

Carson Jones4 Nov 2022 0:58 UTC
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I tried to learn as much Deep Learn­ing math as I could in 24 hours

Phosphorous8 Jan 2023 21:07 UTC
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Notes on writing

RP10 Jan 2023 4:01 UTC
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What fills a vac­uum?

Logan Kieller22 Jan 2023 19:25 UTC
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The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: the Prag­ma­tist Archetype

Evenflair11 Feb 2023 15:48 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

Sleep Qual­ity: Strate­gies that work for me

Lukas Trötzmüller15 Feb 2023 0:17 UTC
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[Question] Per­sonal pre­dic­tions for de­ci­sions: seek­ing insights

Dalmert15 Feb 2023 6:45 UTC
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The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: the Med­i­ta­tive Archetype

Evenflair18 Feb 2023 15:23 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: the Em­piri­cist Archetype

Evenflair25 Feb 2023 17:05 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC
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Gold, Silver, Red: A color scheme for un­der­stand­ing people

Michael Soareverix13 Mar 2023 1:06 UTC
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Im­pos­tor syn­drome: how to cure it with spread­sheets and med­i­ta­tion

KatWoods9 Feb 2023 21:04 UTC
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[Question] How do you simu­late a suc­cess­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tion of a de­sired bound­ary?

PB1 Mar 2024 2:56 UTC
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Fore­cast your 2024 with Fatebook

Sage Future5 Jan 2024 14:07 UTC
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(fatebook.io)

[Question] Con­crete ex­am­ples of do­ing agen­tic things?

g-w112 Jan 2024 15:59 UTC
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How to Pro­mote More Pro­duc­tive Dialogue Out­side of LessWrong

sweenesm15 Jan 2024 14:16 UTC
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Flex­i­bil­ity and the Singularity

Jonathan Moregård18 Jan 2024 15:29 UTC
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(honestliving.substack.com)

Selfish AI Inevitable

Davey Morse6 Feb 2024 4:29 UTC
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Thank you for trig­ger­ing me

Cissy12 Feb 2024 20:09 UTC
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(www.moremyself.xyz)

A method for em­piri­cal back-test­ing of AI’s abil­ity to self-improve

Michael Tontchev21 Mar 2023 20:24 UTC
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[Question] Re­sources to see how peo­ple think/​ap­proach math­e­mat­ics and prob­lem-solving

zef27 Mar 2023 19:12 UTC
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If Align­ment is Hard, then so is Self-Improvement

PavleMiha7 Apr 2023 0:08 UTC
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Parametrize Pri­or­ity Evaluations

SilverFlame8 Apr 2023 0:39 UTC
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Effi­cient Learn­ing: Memorization

Alvin Ånestrand16 Apr 2023 17:58 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Im­ple­ment­ing a Trans­former from scratch in PyTorch—a write-up on my experience

Mislav Jurić25 Apr 2023 20:51 UTC
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A Clearer Think­ing tool that teaches you to use In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems concepts

spencerg28 Apr 2023 13:42 UTC
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(programs.clearerthinking.org)

On Es­cap­ing The Sta­tus Quo

Ismail12 Nov 2023 18:40 UTC
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More metal less ore

Logan Kieller14 Nov 2023 16:59 UTC
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(logankieller.substack.com)

Pro­gram­ming an IFS for al­ter­nate uses

SilverFlame29 Apr 2023 0:25 UTC
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In­su­late your ideas

Logan Kieller24 Nov 2023 14:08 UTC
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(logankieller.substack.com)

Agen­tic Growth

Logan Kieller28 Nov 2023 15:45 UTC
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(logankieller.substack.com)

Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC
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“Cheat to Win”: Eng­ineer­ing Pos­i­tive So­cial Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
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Fibromyal­gia, Pain & De­pres­sion. How much is due to phys­i­cal mis­al­ign­ment?

leggi29 Oct 2019 14:58 UTC
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Skill and leverage

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2019 21:10 UTC
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(meteuphoric.com)

Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjash19 Jan 2018 23:50 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

An­nounc­ing the Con­fido app: bring­ing fore­cast­ing to everyone

regnarg25 May 2023 8:18 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] What fea­tures would you like to see in a per­sonal for­cast­ing /​ pre­dic­tion track­ing app?

regnarg25 May 2023 8:18 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity/​self help re­sources

gothgirl42066618 Jul 2013 2:58 UTC
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I bet ev­ery­one 1000€ that I can make them dra­mat­i­cally hap­pier & cure their de­pres­sion in 3 months!

Anton Rodenhauser4 Jun 2023 12:30 UTC
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Level­ing IRL

cousin_it5 Aug 2011 21:35 UTC
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