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Seeing into the True Nature: reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific studies
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Seeing into the True Nature. Reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific studies. Originally posted November 21, 2016. I see a lot of people claiming that jobs are good for people, because jobs give life more meaning. They point to studies "showing" that people are happier when employed than unemployed, even when "controlling" for just giving people money. Needless to say I haven't read any of these, because I am not in the habit of filling my brain with motivated bullshit. Now first of all, really?
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Seeing into the True Nature: Mindlists
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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally published July 12, 2016. Lists are really, really appealing for some reason, perhaps because they are so simple and orderly and thus memorable. Peter McIntyre wrote an article (listicle, is the pejorative) called 52 Concepts to Add to Your Cognitive Toolkit. No such listicle could ever be complete, and to my reckoning the most important omissions are:. Use vs. mention distinction. Belief vs. alief. Signal to noise ratio. The tails come apart. The 'vocabulary' metap...
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Seeing into the True Nature: My Weirdest Ethical Belief
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Seeing into the True Nature. My Weirdest Ethical Belief. Originally published June 25, 2016. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Metamoxie. see also here. The thought to which all thoughts eventually retur. Reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific s. Conflation vs. Erroneous Splitting. My Weirdest Ethical Belief. Three Old School Epistemic Essays. A hundred petty preferences. ten thousand unimport. Missing Vocabulary I: sweeping under the rug. Why do you even think that. Its Not a Telephone Game.
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Seeing into the True Nature: The Monster
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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally published December 16, 2014. It has many names: akrasia. An insufficiency of spoons. Being a non-player character, chaotic inversion. Absence of purposefulness, too busy to think about life. The inner Bruce, the need to lose. Unstructured procrastination, the infungibility of scarce time. Revealed preferences, executive dysfunction. Tropisms toward negative life outcomes, Matryoshka principal-agent problems. The Catch-22 foundry, intelligence level 0. My 12th grade...
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Seeing into the True Nature: the thought to which all thoughts eventually return, as if it were the bottom of the cognitive bowl
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Seeing into the True Nature. The thought to which all thoughts eventually return, as if it were the bottom of the cognitive bowl. See also: The Monster. How is so weak and imperfect a creature as individual man, isolated and wretched, shorn from community, ejected from egregore and unable to assimilate, supposed to make the world a better place? December 18, 2016 at 7:52 PM. Acceptance before change is possible is a theme that pops up again and again in my travels through psychotherapy, phenomenology, an...
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Seeing into the True Nature: Umeshism
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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally posted October 23, 2016. You should probably read Scott Aaronson's post Umeshisms. Before reading this post. Concentrate on the higher-order bits. Back in the day, this sentence took me a long time to understand, and nobody would explain it when I asked, so this is what it means:. Look at the following number: 1. 2,345,67 8. As an aside, you might consider something like? 12345678, in order to think a little more scope-sensitively. Answer at end of post. Where peop...
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Seeing into the True Nature: Superstitions as Evolved Objects
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Seeing into the True Nature. Superstitions as Evolved Objects. It's common to mock superstitions to display one's Skeptic. Cred, but it's a mistake, because they are Chesterton fences. It's bad luck to walk under a ladder. No, okay, it's not "bad luck", but ladders are dangerous. Seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror. Not really sure about this one but who wants broken mirrors? Mirrors are probably pretty hard to make. My hope with this article is that it produces a Baader-Meinhof effect. Subscri...
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Seeing into the True Nature: Conflation vs. Erroneous Splitting
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Seeing into the True Nature. Conflation vs. Erroneous Splitting. Originally published July 11, 2016. Consider these four situations:. Conflating two things. Conflation is the mistake of thinking that two or more things are the same thing. Incorrectly splitting one thing into two things. This is the mistake of thinking that one thing is two or more things. Correctly identifying that two things are the same thing. Correctly distinguishing two things that used to be thought of as one thing. I co-wrote, I've...
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Seeing into the True Nature: Scavenging
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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally published April 3, 2016. I've been homeless and unemployed for a long time. So I started scavenging out of necessity. But I would keep doing it even if I had were employed and dignified, to save money and prevent waste. It's smart and cool, like all forms of frugality. When you're a veg*n. My original idea for this post also included some guidelines for what discarded foods are good and what are bad, with the obligatory "your health is your responsibility, not mine...
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Seeing into the True Nature: January 2017
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Seeing into the True Nature. Superstitions as Evolved Objects. It's common to mock superstitions to display one's Skeptic. Cred, but it's a mistake, because they are Chesterton fences. It's bad luck to walk under a ladder. No, okay, it's not "bad luck", but ladders are dangerous. Seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror. Not really sure about this one but who wants broken mirrors? Mirrors are probably pretty hard to make. My hope with this article is that it produces a Baader-Meinhof effect. Metamox...
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