The most important thing to know about aversion (avoidance / fear / ...) as an emotional response is that it's, at best, exponentially less…
Modified: April 20, 2024.
More Is Different (kit.edu) On proof and progress in mathematics (Thurston, 1994) On Being the Right Size (Haldane, 1928))
Modified: March 02, 2022.
Statements from Forer's experiment : You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of…
Modified: July 31, 2023.
Credit to NameRedacted for this refrain https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1324978566455468035/retweets/with_comments It's a powerful take…
Modified: April 13, 2024.
'[ no free lunch theorem ]' arguments are misleading because they consider the space of all possible functions. In fact, we usually care…
Modified: December 14, 2022.
"What I cannot create, I do not understand". Related to: [ computational complexity ]: provers vs verifiers. [ P != NP ] [ production vs…
Modified: April 27, 2020.
I need to genuinely care about other people and want the best for them, both in general, and for specific people in my life. Why? Obviously…
Modified: April 01, 2022.
What would true wireheading feel like? People have this impression that it'd be thin, exhausting, artificial, ultimately isolating and not…
Modified: March 24, 2023.
From a review by [ Oliver Burkeman ] of Jordan Peterson's "Beyond Order" ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/02/beyond-order-by…
Modified: February 22, 2022.
Something that SuccessfulFriend said today: It's rare that someone totally independent comes up with a really good idea. The best ideas come…
Modified: February 25, 2022.