In Replacing Guilt, Nate Soares articulates a framework for seeing the world as it is and taking effective action — without putting half your work into beating yourself up.
Say you’re a college student, and you have a paper due. The quality of the paper will depend upon the amount of effort you put in. We can imagine a scale where points further to the right represent higher letter grades.
The slackers fail to deploy their full strength because they realize that the quality ...
2020-07-29 20:33:31 +0000 UTC
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"I believe that it is right and proper for me, as a human being, to have an interest in the future, and what human civilization becomes in the future. One of those interests is the human pursuit of truth, which has strengthened slowly over the generations (for there was not always science). I wish to strengthen that pursuit further, in generation. That is a wish of mine, for the Future. For we are all of us players upon that vast gam...
2018-12-15 22:02:55 +0000 UTC
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If you live in an urban area, you probably don’t need to walk very far to find a martial arts dojo.
Why aren’t there dojos that teach rationality?
Very recently—in just the last few decades—the human species has acquired a great deal of new knowledge about human rationality. Experimental investigations of empirical human psychology; and theoretical probability theory to interpret what our experiments tell us; an...
2018-12-15 06:14:59 +0000 UTC
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When should you think that you may be able to do something
Whether you’re trying to outperform in science, or in business, or just in finding good deals shopping on eBay, it’s important that you have a sober understanding of your relative competencies.
The story only ends there, however, if you’re fortunate enough to live in an civilization.
Eliezer Yudkowsky’s is a sharp and lively guid...
2017-10-30 14:18:03 +0000 UTC
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