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Predictable Identities on Ribbonfarm – Part 22 (The Entropic Brain)

I'm excited to announce Predictable Identities, a weekly blogchain I am writing for Ribbonfarm.

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Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

It's obvious to some people that Rationality can improve your life, and equally obvious to others that it won't - the latter group includes Daniel Kahneman and Scott Alexander. Who's right? And how would we know?

December 8, 2019December 9, 20191 Comment
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The Player Character

Video games are a massively popular story art form, but there is little good writing about them online. Well, here's some writing about video games and the stories they tell.

November 27, 2019November 27, 20195 Comments
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Making Markets

Making a market combines probability estimates with measures of confidence and risk. It's good practice in finance, and good practice for Bayesians.

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019finance, probability2 Comments
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Genesis

Resolving the world feels exactly the same as creating it.

November 11, 2019consciousness9 Comments
love, model agency, rationality

Polyamory is Rational(ist)

Are Rationalists just a polyamory community? And if not, what explains the connection between the two? I dig deep into the data, and reach some unexpected conclusions.

October 16, 2019October 21, 2019polyamory25 Comments
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Short Survey on Beliefs and Habits

Please fill out my short research survey on the beliefs and habits of my readers. The results, along with my hypotheses, will be published on Putanumonit. The survey is anonymous, multiple-choice, and should take 5 minutes to complete. If you have any comments about the survey, feel free to post them below. Thank you!   … Continue reading Short Survey on Beliefs and Habits

October 4, 20195 Comments
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Interview With Aella, Part II

Discussing trauma, epistemic rationality, free will, acid, and the void with Aella.

September 27, 20196 Comments
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Interview with Aella, Part I

Chatting with Aella about her background, Twitter, Jews, the homeless, LSD ranches, Inuit mythology, insecurity, and sex.

September 18, 2019September 27, 20196 Comments
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Predictable Identities – Midpoint Review

A summary with links of the first 16 posts in the Predictable Identities series.

September 12, 2019Leave a comment
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Impotential

Moving, focusing, and wondering how important is my potential.

September 2, 20192 Comments
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Unstriving

Dealing with the gap between the pursuit of greatness and the acceptance of mediocrity.

August 15, 2019August 15, 201914 Comments
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Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller – Audience Q&A

Audience Q&A with the first couple of Effective Altruist ev psych polyamory, Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller.

August 4, 2019August 3, 2019psychology, sexuality4 Comments
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Cephaloponderings

A guest post on the strange lives of octopuses.

July 26, 2019July 26, 20197 Comments
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Summer Programming Notice 2019

Where to find Putanumonish content this July.

July 20, 2019September 2, 20191 Comment
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Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller – Interview

Extremely wide ranging interview with the first couple of Effective Altruist ev psych polyamory, Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller.

July 8, 2019September 9, 20196 Comments
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PlayStation Odysseys

Three millennia apart, the greatest works of narrative art are dominated by the character of the antihero father. Why are Odysseuses so compelling?

June 25, 2019June 26, 2019narrative, philosophy, video games5 Comments
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Podcast – The Switch

My podcast debut on The Switch covers thinking, feeling, arguing, and watching soccer.

June 16, 2019June 17, 2019podcast1 Comment
money

Get Rich Real Slowly

An overview of low-risk ways to save up money (savings accounts, CDs, index funds...) and how much of a scam each one is.

June 3, 2019September 2, 2019personal finance7 Comments
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Lonelinesses

A mythical taxonomy of real loneliness.

May 21, 2019May 21, 20197 Comments
rationality

Thinking Fast and Hard

A cool superpower to have would be the ability to slow subjective time and get a lot of thinking done. In every superhero movie, no matter how fast the protagonists fly or how hard they punch, they always end up within one step of disaster because their planning skills are dogshit. The villain loses not … Continue reading Thinking Fast and Hard

May 7, 2019May 5, 20199 Comments

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