| Post & message count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| curi's Microblogging (32) |
2020/10/20 |
curi |
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That's 2234 words/day average. The majority of the freewrites related to Critical Fallibilism (CF) planning and goals. My average over 262 days is 2100 words/day.
I partly want to do more, par |
| Max Microblogging (72) |
2020/10/20 |
Max |
Some thoughts on good/bad error msgs. I think they're important. I found a surprise overlap with *helping the best ppl or helping the masses* |
| Deplatforming and Fraud (275) |
2020/10/19 |
Anonymous |
Project Veritas on Google playing god |
| Politics Discussion (218) |
2020/10/19 |
Anonymous |
Wayne Allensworth, "[The End of Politics](https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/the-end-of-politics/)", *Chronicles*, May 2019 (requires free membership to read the entire thing, but I mainly recommend the first four paragraphs, which are quoted below):
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| Physics Discussion (40) |
2020/10/19 |
curi |
#18355 Thanks. I watched a few of his other videos and will try subscription to his video notifications. I commented some on a different vid at http://curi.us/2379-curis-microblogging#18357 |
| Open Discussion 2 (2019) (452) |
2020/10/18 |
jordancurve |
#18342 I updated [my program for the basketball puzzle](https://play.golang.org/p/063PyVjUFLJ) to let you change P(hit), the probability that a player hits their shot. Formerly, P(hit) was fixed at 1/2. (P(hit) is still assumed to be equal for all pla |
| Fallible Ideas Learning Plan (11) |
2020/10/17 |
Anne B |
Here’s an example:
http://justinmallone.com/2020/10/some-thoughts-on-my-experience-taking-leonard-peikoffs-grammar-course/
> I am paying more attention, on an automated basis, to various issues like parallelism, subject-verb agreement, and the |
| Alan Discussion (36) |
2020/10/15 |
Alan |
#18314 The book provides an explanation of how the British justice system is supposed to work, how it actually works and some history. There are some strange features of the British justice system in the book that I left out of the review but nothing |
| What To Read (91) |
2020/10/15 |
curi |
I enjoyed reading 3 Arthur C. Clarke books. They are unrelated despite being collected into one book:
> The Space Trilogy: "Islands in the Sky", "Earthlight", "The Sands of Mars"
Islands in the Sky comes first and was my least favorite. It's fin |
| Apple Discussion (11) |
2020/10/13 |
curi |
[iPhone 12 event video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0g-1hnQPA)
I think I'm getting a 12 mini.
iphone pro has a 3rd camera lens and lidar. seems targeted at photographers or people who want the extra large size. |
| Alisa Discussion (168) |
2020/10/12 |
Alisa |
#18268 I wrote:
> I think goals, whether high-level or not, are directly related to the reasons you would give when asked why you did something. For example, if you reply that you did something "because it's fair", that implies that being fair is o |
| Using Commas (8) |
2020/10/12 |
Anonymous |
I was getting stuck trying to formulate the (alleged) issue clearly. To get unstuck, I tried relistening to some relevant Peikoff audio to get unstuck. I think this was helpful. Here's a bit I transcribed from Lecture 6. Peikoff:
> So the norm is c |
| internetrules Microblogging (9) |
2020/10/12 |
internetrules |
>> ctrl + tab cycles windows
> ctrl+tab or alt+tab?
i meant alt+tab |
| Discussion Points of View and Mutual Benefit (2) |
2020/10/09 |
curi |
#18262 Thank you. You're welcome. Good luck. |
| Analyzing How Culture Manipulates You by Pulling Your Puppet Strings (78) |
2020/10/07 |
Anonymous |
#18249 You should have quoted the new version, which you knew might change again, and also which you talked about without providing the link or any easy way to find the link so that people could understand your comment.
https://blog.ulysses.app/aut |
| Are Government Coronavirus Policies Awful Attacks on Freedom? (11) |
2020/10/05 |
Andy Dufresne |
#18237 I agree what you say would probably happen. My answer would be:
- You currently pay for other people's health care due to stuff like free climbing and getting drunk, and (if you're not a free climber or heavy drinker) get no benefit.
- Lettin |
| Eliyahu Goldratt Discussion (30) |
2020/10/05 |
GISTE |
EG recommends book by Scheinkopf _Thinking for a Change: Putting the TOC Thinking Processes to Use_ |
| Learning Updates Thread (20) |
2020/10/04 |
Max |
My LR for 2020 week 40: https://xertrov.github.io/fi/posts/2020-10-04-learning-report-2020-week-40/
I reflect a bit about curi and my conversation in curi.us/2380. I have some updates on speedrunning SSOL (WR dropping, new route maybe). I started u |
| Ending Aging (44) |
2020/10/01 |
curi |
Someone reviewed Life Extension Advocacy Foundation for LW/EA:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cCK2F4MqnBPfqczQu/the-case-for-life-extension-advocacy-foundation |
| Speed Reading Is a Core Life Skill (22) |
2020/09/30 |
curi |
The Libby app on iOS does audiobook checkouts from libraries. It has a good UI and goes up to 3x speed. I'd expect there to be a similar Android app.
3x is a bit of a low max for me b/c I think some audio books are read at 150wpm or lower but overa |
| Open Discussion: Economics (219) |
2020/09/27 |
Anonymous |
https://mises.org/wire/august-money-supply-growth-hit-record-high-fifth-month-row
What sort of investment actions should Americans take in response to USD inflation? How bad is it? What might happen on what timescale? |
| Stop Using Google Search (12) |
2020/09/26 |
Anonymous |
Steve Sailer, [Dueling Search Engines: Was Kamala Harris an Anchor Baby? Not If You Ask Google!]
(https://vdare.com/posts/dueling-search-engines-was-kamala-harris-an-anchor-baby-not-if-you-ask-google), (VDARE, 2020-09-12) |
| Blatant Lying Example (17) |
2020/09/24 |
Anonymous |
#18124 The effort needed to maintain lies is (in many cases) predictable to a significant extent, just like most other things we can predict decently but imperfectly. |
| Social Reality and Real Reality (10) |
2020/09/24 |
curi |
Here's someone from Less Wrong independently converging on some similar ideas:
[Causal Reality vs Social Reality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xqAnKW46FqzPLnGmH/causal-reality-vs-social-reality)
That post is missing the second-handedness, sta |
| Less Wrong Banned Me (14) |
2020/09/24 |
curi |
~Less Wrong leadership thinks they're super good at having rational conversations, dealing with intellectual conflict, dealing with disagreements, mediating debates, facilitating learning, etc. Why, then, did they not even attempt such things with me? |