Self Improvement

TagLast edit: 31 May 2024 15:24 UTC by Emrik

Personal Growth, etc

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Strategies for Personal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC

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Mnestics

Jarred Filmer23 Oct 2022 0:30 UTC

120 points

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[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of solving a problem in your life

jacobjacob22 Oct 2020 4:49 UTC

34 points

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Wanting to Succeed on Every Metric Presented

Logan Riggs12 Apr 2021 20:43 UTC

72 points

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

Simon Berens5 Feb 2023 1:19 UTC

248 points

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(www.simonberens.com)

You don’t get to have cool flaws

Neil 28 Jul 2023 5:37 UTC

55 points

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The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC

136 points

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Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails

Shoshannah Tekofsky28 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC

233 points

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(shoshanigans.substack.com)

A simple guide to life

jasoncrawford3 Apr 2022 18:09 UTC

24 points

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(jasoncrawford.org)

Synthetic Restrictions

nano_brasca22 Dec 2023 18:50 UTC

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Concrete benefits of making predictions

Jonny Spicer and Sage Future

17 Oct 2024 14:23 UTC

32 points

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(fatebook.io)

Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters

David Hugh-Jones26 Sep 2022 9:04 UTC

67 points

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(wyclif.substack.com)

AISC Project: Benchmarks for Stable Reflectivity

jacquesthibs13 Nov 2023 14:51 UTC

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Numeracy neglect—A personal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC

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Two Growth Curves

AnnaSalamon2 Oct 2015 0:59 UTC

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Criticism Scheduling and Privacy

Lulie29 Sep 2018 13:50 UTC

41 points

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Resolving von Neumann-Morgenstern Inconsistent Preferences

niplav22 Oct 2024 11:45 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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Sapience, understanding, and “AGI”

Seth Herd24 Nov 2023 15:13 UTC

15 points

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My current thinking on money and low carb diets

Adam Zerner29 Oct 2021 6:50 UTC

11 points

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[Question] Feedback request: what am I missing?

Nathan Helm-Burger2 Nov 2024 17:38 UTC

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[Question] What are things you’re allowed to do as a startup?

Elizabeth20 Jun 2024 0:01 UTC

30 points

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The Future of Structured Self Improvement

Evenflair4 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC

27 points

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(guildoftherose.org)

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

leggi1 Sep 2019 3:22 UTC

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Practical Guidelines for Memory Reconsolidation

Matt Goldenberg13 Nov 2019 19:54 UTC

34 points

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Small Habits Shape Identity: How I became someone who exercises

adamShimi26 Nov 2020 14:55 UTC

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Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC

198 points

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Feelings are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Feb 2023 2:38 UTC

18 points

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My Superpower: OODA Loops

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Apr 2022 1:51 UTC

20 points

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The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: A new framework for structured self-improvement

Evenflair4 Mar 2023 19:19 UTC

32 points

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(guildoftherose.org)

Micro Habits that Improve One’s Day

silentbob1 Jul 2023 10:53 UTC

62 points

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Why self-improvement?

Adam Zerner16 Mar 2023 2:49 UTC

12 points

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Destroying Insecurity and Boosting Confidence Through Your Interests and Values

Olitness1 Aug 2021 14:34 UTC

21 points

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(olitness.wordpress.com)

Sunset at Noon

Raemon21 Nov 2017 2:05 UTC

216 points

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What Piles Up Must Pile Down

silentbob9 Apr 2023 18:37 UTC

35 points

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Stop Making Sense

JenniferRM23 Dec 2024 5:16 UTC

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AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve

petersalib16 May 2023 20:53 UTC

20 points

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[Question] What metrics should I track when experimenting with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC

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Notes on Temperance

David Gross9 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC

15 points

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Stop pressing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC

45 points

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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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A Clearer Thinking tool that teaches you to use Internal Family Systems concepts

spencerg28 Apr 2023 13:42 UTC

31 points

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(programs.clearerthinking.org)

On Escaping The Status Quo

Ismail12 Nov 2023 18:40 UTC

1 point

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More metal less ore

Logan Kieller14 Nov 2023 16:59 UTC

6 points

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(logankieller.substack.com)

Programming an IFS for alternate uses

SilverFlame29 Apr 2023 0:25 UTC

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Agentic Growth

Logan Kieller28 Nov 2023 15:45 UTC

1 point

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(logankieller.substack.com)

Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC

51 points

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“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

189 points

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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

49 points

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(meteuphoric.com)

Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjash19 Jan 2018 23:50 UTC

27 points

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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Announcing the Confido app: bringing forecasting to everyone

regnarg25 May 2023 8:18 UTC

6 points

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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!

EternallyBlissful4 Jun 2023 12:30 UTC

4 points

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Leveling IRL

cousin_it5 Aug 2011 21:35 UTC

45 points

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Leveling IRL—level 1

cousin_it9 Aug 2011 17:12 UTC

28 points

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Saving the world in 80 days: Prologue

Logan Riggs9 May 2018 21:16 UTC

12 points

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Help Me Refactor Myself I am Lost

Pausecafe8 Nov 2018 20:18 UTC

12 points

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HELP: Do I have a chance at becoming intelligent?

johnbgone26 Oct 2010 21:41 UTC

37 points

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Shell, Shield, Staff

SquirrelInHell25 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC

11 points

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Time to Exit the Sandbox

SquirrelInHell24 Oct 2017 17:13 UTC

0 points

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Training Regime Day 25: Recursive Self-Improvement

Mark Xu29 Apr 2020 18:22 UTC

15 points

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Going Crazy and Getting Better Again

Evenstar2 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC

139 points

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Introducing Fatebook: the fastest way to make and track predictions

Adam B and Sage Future

11 Jul 2023 15:28 UTC

130 points

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(fatebook.io)

Complex Signs Bad

Evenstar3 Jul 2023 13:09 UTC

5 points

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An anecdote about names

Manfred30 Oct 2012 3:40 UTC

39 points

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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

31 points

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“Which chains-of-thought was that faster than?”

Emrik22 May 2024 8:21 UTC

34 points

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I am Sailor Vulcan!

Sailor Vulcan24 Aug 2018 17:47 UTC

23 points

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Some rules for life (v.0,0)

Neil 17 Aug 2023 0:43 UTC

40 points

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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

6 points

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

If You Were Brilliant When You Were Ten...

AspiringKnitter27 Dec 2011 2:33 UTC

32 points

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Link: “Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change”

cousin_it17 Jan 2011 17:46 UTC

32 points

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Let’s talk about Impostor syndrome in AI safety

Igor Ivanov22 Sep 2023 13:51 UTC

29 points

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Growth mindset for better sex

agentydragon28 Apr 2020 8:49 UTC

7 points

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The 5 Pillars of Happiness

Gabi QUENE4 Oct 2023 17:50 UTC

−24 points

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The Dangers of Partial Knowledge of the Way: Failing in School

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Jul 2009 15:16 UTC

14 points

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Can self-help be bad for you?

Tom_Talbot7 Jul 2009 20:40 UTC

4 points

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Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself

John_Maxwell20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC

72 points

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On Reflection

Neel Nanda14 Dec 2020 16:14 UTC

27 points

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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

18 points

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[Question] How do you build resilient personal systems?

Raj Thimmiah25 Jan 2021 9:56 UTC

5 points

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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

22 points

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How You Can Gain Self Control Without “Self-Control”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC

109 points

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Why “put down your phone and go outside” is Bad Advice.

madilynHex20 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC

12 points

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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

42 points

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Reinforcing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC

50 points

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Voicing Voice

Willa28 Jun 2021 4:29 UTC

6 points

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How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC

48 points

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Media Diet: Cultivating Voice, Deliberate Action, and Alive Time

Willa17 Jul 2021 5:56 UTC

5 points

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What makes us happy and depressed?

Marius Hobbhahn3 Oct 2021 6:25 UTC

16 points

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Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel10 Oct 2021 5:19 UTC

19 points

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Experimenting with Android Digital Wellbeing

Yair Halberstadt21 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC

8 points

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30-ish focusing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC

22 points

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This Year I Tried To Teach Myself Math. How Did It Go?

Borasko31 Dec 2021 17:55 UTC

66 points

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Doing “good”

pchvykov13 Jan 2022 19:52 UTC

9 points

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Consume fiction wisely

RomanS21 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC

−9 points

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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC

275 points

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[Question] What are some low-cognitive -workload tasks that can help improve the world?

Yitz1 Mar 2022 17:47 UTC

29 points

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Practical everyday human strategizing

akaTrickster27 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC

6 points

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Introducing Effective Self-Help

Ben Williamson12 Apr 2022 15:01 UTC

18 points

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Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2009 6:46 UTC

84 points

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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

22 points

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A summary of every Replacing Guilt post

Akash30 Jun 2022 0:46 UTC

32 points

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Consider Multiclassing

JustisMills7 Jul 2022 14:54 UTC

17 points

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A summary of every “Highlights from the Sequences” post

Akash15 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC

97 points

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[About Me] Cinera’s Home Page

DragonGod7 Feb 2023 12:56 UTC

30 points

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So, I Want to Be a “Thinkfluencer”

DragonGod20 Aug 2022 18:39 UTC

4 points

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Time is not the bottleneck (on making progress thinking about difficult things)

kman12 Sep 2022 20:45 UTC

27 points

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There are no rules

unoptimal23 Sep 2022 20:47 UTC

38 points

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC

7 points

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Paper: Large Language Models Can Self-improve [Linkpost]

Evan R. Murphy2 Oct 2022 1:29 UTC

52 points

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(openreview.net)

Space

Jarred Filmer17 Oct 2022 6:34 UTC

47 points

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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

5 points

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Conversations on Alcohol Consumption

Annapurna1 Nov 2022 5:09 UTC

20 points

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Response

Jarred Filmer6 Nov 2022 1:03 UTC

28 points

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[Question] Are alignment researchers devoting enough time to improving their research capacity?

Carson Jones4 Nov 2022 0:58 UTC

13 points

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Impostor syndrome: how to cure it with spreadsheets and meditation

KatWoods9 Feb 2023 21:04 UTC

30 points

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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

31 points

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Notes on writing

RP10 Jan 2023 4:01 UTC

35 points

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What fills a vacuum?

Logan Kieller22 Jan 2023 19:25 UTC

11 points

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The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: the Pragmatist Archetype

Evenflair11 Feb 2023 15:48 UTC

21 points

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(guildoftherose.org)

Sleep Quality: Strategies that work for me

Lukas Trötzmüller15 Feb 2023 0:17 UTC

16 points

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[Question] Personal predictions for decisions: seeking insights

Dalmert15 Feb 2023 6:45 UTC

4 points

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The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: the Meditative Archetype

Evenflair18 Feb 2023 15:23 UTC

14 points

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(guildoftherose.org)

The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: the Empiricist Archetype

Evenflair25 Feb 2023 17:05 UTC

15 points

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(guildoftherose.org)

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC

232 points

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Gold, Silver, Red: A color scheme for understanding people

Michael Soareverix13 Mar 2023 1:06 UTC

17 points

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Let Your Workers Gather Food

D_Malik24 Oct 2011 19:51 UTC

29 points

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Forecast your 2024 with Fatebook

Sage Future5 Jan 2024 14:07 UTC

19 points

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(fatebook.io)

[Question] Concrete examples of doing agentic things?

Jacob G-W12 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

8 points

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(honestliving.substack.com)

Selfish AI Inevitable

Davey Morse6 Feb 2024 4:29 UTC

1 point

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Thank you for triggering me

Cissy12 Feb 2024 20:09 UTC

5 points

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(www.moremyself.xyz)

DIY LessWrong Jewelry

Fluffnutt25 Aug 2024 21:33 UTC

33 points

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1 What If We Rebuild Motivation with the Fermi ESTIMATion?

P. João17 Dec 2024 7:46 UTC

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What is Confidence—in Game Theory and Life?

James Stephen Brown10 Dec 2024 23:06 UTC

3 points

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(nonzerosum.games)

Masculinity—A Case For Courage

James Stephen Brown4 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC

23 points

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(nonzerosum.games)

A Reflection on Richard Hamming’s “You and Your Research”: Striving for Greatness

aysajan4 Jun 2024 20:07 UTC

8 points

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(www.aysajaneziz.com)

A Positive Double Standard—Self-Help Principles Work For Individuals Not Populations

James Stephen Brown22 May 2024 21:37 UTC

8 points

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[Question] Has Anyone Here Consciously Changed Their Passions?

Spade9 Sep 2024 1:36 UTC

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Expected number of tries

adios22 Jun 2024 19:22 UTC

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0 Motivation Mapping through Information Theory

P. João16 Dec 2024 23:17 UTC

9 points

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On saying “Thank you” instead of “I’m Sorry”

Michael Cohn8 Jul 2024 3:13 UTC

133 points

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Thought Experiments Website

minmi_drover13 Jul 2024 4:47 UTC

10 points

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Introduction to Modern Dating: Strategic Dating Advice for beginners

Jesper Lindholm20 Jul 2024 15:45 UTC

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[Question] What books should one bring to a desert island?

Nick Stetler29 Aug 2024 17:20 UTC

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My Experience Using Gamification

Wyatt S26 Jul 2024 23:06 UTC

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subfunctional overlaps in attentional selection history implies momentum for decision-trajectories

Emrik22 Dec 2024 14:12 UTC

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[Question] Interest in Leetcode, but for Rationality?

Gregory 16 Oct 2024 17:54 UTC

74 points

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[Question] The ethical Ai, what’s next?

The Journey We Take eh27 Oct 2024 5:45 UTC

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Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

890 points

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Implications—How Conscious Significance Could Inform Our lives

James Stephen Brown26 Nov 2024 17:42 UTC

7 points

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Speedrunning Rationality: Day II

aproteinengine6 Jan 2025 3:59 UTC

6 points

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Myths about Nonduality and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim Golub15 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC

−3 points

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

Michael Tontchev21 Mar 2023 20:24 UTC

3 points

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[Question] Resources to see how people think/approach mathematics and problem-solving

zef27 Mar 2023 19:12 UTC

7 points

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If Alignment is Hard, then so is Self-Improvement

PavleMiha7 Apr 2023 0:08 UTC

21 points

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Parametrize Priority Evaluations

SilverFlame8 Apr 2023 0:39 UTC

2 points

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Efficient Learning: Memorization

Alvin Ånestrand16 Apr 2023 17:58 UTC

4 points

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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

20 points

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