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Tocks | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; Beeminder Sleep as Android. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. If you’re reading the Beeminder blog there’s a 95% chance you know about the Pomodoro Technique. The idea is to decide a task, do focused work on it for 25 minutes, and then get up and take a 5-minute break. Rinse and repeat. Apparently it was invented in the 1980s but Danny. A variant around 2004 with 45-minute chunks of work and 15-minute breaks. [2]. We call one of these 45-minute pomodoros a. 1 Do hourly tocks. Danny wrote a script. Has me...
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Cause prioritization - Cause Prioritization Wiki
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Login / Get an account. What is cause prioritization? Cause prioritization itself as a cause. Some basic questions like can causes be compared? How do we compare causes? What is cause prioritization? Cause prioritization looks at broad causes (e.g. migration, global warming, global health, life extension) in order to compare them, instead of examining individual charities within each cause (as has been traditional). As GiveWell says. Also, as 80,000 Hours notes. But they don’t recommend themselves for pr...
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I don’t clean because the house is never dirty | Meteuphoric
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Ignorance of non-existent preferences. Perfect procrastination →. I don’t clean because the house is never dirty. September 13, 2010. I often think about this. When someone thinks I should do more housework:. When women see how little housework men do, they interpret it as “shirking” …Men, in turn, feel unfairly maligned…Who is right? 8230;Usually, men. Because the typical man doesn’t care very much about cleanliness. When the bachelor gets married, he almost certainly starts doing. Click to share on Sky...
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A Blog Worthy of Swine. I am your strawman hedonistic utilitarian. There’s nothing I love more than the taste of a freshly bitten bullet. Ravenclaw with a dash of Slytherin thrown in. Been following the Rationalist community since 2013. Cisgendered male, born in 1991, currently living in the Midwest. Casual blogging happens over at my Tumblr. If you’re curious about anything shoot me an ask over there. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Follow Blog via Email.
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Anthropic principles | Meteuphoric
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Here are a couple of contending general principles for anthropic reasoning. The question they are trying to answer is how to update credences in situations where your own existence might be evidence. This is particularly an issue where different hypotheses posit different numbers of observers. This summary is incomplete. Self Sampling Assumption (SSA). SSA says you are more likely to be in worlds where a greater proportion of people are like you. From Nick Bostrom’s Anthropic Bias:. Been created is infor...
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Mistakes I’ve made part 3: Poor sacrificial accounting | Meteuphoric
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Mistakes I’ve made, part 2: Father Christmas. Misunderstandings of not understanding →. Mistakes I’ve made part 3: Poor sacrificial accounting. May 18, 2015. This is all very wrong. Why? Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window).
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Why are track records unpopular? | Meteuphoric
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Mistakes I’ve made, part 1: greedy altruism →. Why are track records unpopular? April 9, 2015. That people dislike track records across a range of contexts, and poses a puzzle: why? Naively, track records seem pretty helpful for deciding who to trust and hire. Yet Robin points to a lack of track records or interest in track records for doctors, lawyers, pundits, teachers and academics. He has also answered. Here are some theories I can think of:. The tracked don’t like it. People aren’t quantitative.
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Meta-error: I like therefore I am | Meteuphoric
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Interview with Cool Earth. How to trade money and time →. Meta-error: I like therefore I am. March 16, 2014. I like Scott’s post. In the spirit of understanding past errors, here is a list of errors which I think spring from a common meta-error. Some are mentioned in Scott’s post, some were mine, some are others’ (especially those who are a combination of smart and naive I think), a few are hypothetical:. Because I explicitly feel that racism is bad, I am presumably not racist. I don’t believe Y, a...
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Opinions | Meteuphoric
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8216;Do what your heart tells you ‘ means. 8216;stop making up excuses and do what my heart tells you’. ‘Clearly’ means. 8216;so unclearly I don’t want to explain it’. ‘We’ means. Different things to those with different political leanings, which helps them disagree. ‘I believe X’ means something more complicated. Than ‘I have enough evidence for X that X is likely to be true’. Aphorisms tend to be cynical because only knowledge you don’t want to believe is short and easily verifiable. I’m still cu...
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