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May 16, 2017

Being Kyried

Content Warning: death, violence, manipulation, Umineko spoilers.

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni is a story about a series of mysterious deaths which occur during the Ushiromiya family conference. In the seventh episode, we are given a brief view of a world in which the deaths were…

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Apr 26, 2017

Blame vs Constructive Criticism

lmn comments on Chaos and Consequentialism:

Of course, if looked at the kind of responsibility that is compatible with blame, you’d notice it’s a lot more in line with the common sense notion of the term.

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Apr 19, 2017

Chaos and Consequentialism

There is an interaction between a culture’s common-sense understanding of a subject and science. For example, although folk psychology is partly a biologically-given human ability to reason about the mental state of others, the way people reason about the mental states of others…

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Apr 12, 2017

Thoughts on Automoderation

I was intrigued by the recent discussion about a group discussion method called automoderation, introduced at Ferocious Truth and commented on by Agenty Duck and Don’t Worry About the Vase. (This post will not make much sense if you haven’t at least read the Ferocious Truth post.)…

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Dec 14, 2016

Stress Response, Growth Mindset, and Nonviolent Communication

Some of what I’ve been reading lately:

59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman.
The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal.
The Upside of Stress by Kelly…

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Nov 23, 2016

The Accuracy / Usefulness distinction

Distinctions are useful. They probably would top my mindlist of meta-cognitive tools. The first such distinction I can recall is that between Map and Territory. The first explanation I can personally remember is Neil Gaiman’s, in American Gods;

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Oct 24, 2016

Betting on Beliefs

[Epistemic status — speculative.]

It’s long been a trope of Bayesian rationalism that if you disagree with a friend, you should bet. This is a good community norm: if you bet, you’re more likely to remember that you were wrong; you’re forced to quantify the degree of…

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Oct 21, 2016

What Does Long-Term Thinking Feel Like from the Inside?

Epistemic status: at high risk of single-study syndrome.

In my post on growth mindset, I mentioned time preference. This got me thinking about what kind of thought causes high time preference (meaning…

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Oct 17, 2016

3. Subroutines and Rube Goldberg

Suppose you want to accomplish a task. You could write a short program in Python. Or you could start a new Minecraft world, build a redstone computer, and program it to perform the task.

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Oct 10, 2016

Scott Alexander doesn’t like growth mindset… yet.

I recently read Scott Alexander’s posts about growth mindset (one, two, three, four). He starts out admitting that he’s biased against it, and I agree — reading his criticism made me take growth mindset more seriously, because his criticism was…

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