I ran across this article: The Much Forgotten and Ignored Need to Have Workable Solutions, that might interest some, either for the Rationality or the Effective Altruism aspects. For a very rough summary: Academia (more specifically, the humanities) gives too much credit to describing problems (i.e. complaining) and not enough...
Discussion article for the meetup : Paris Meetup: Saturday, July 11 WHEN: 11 July 2015 02:00:00PM (+0200) WHERE: 51 Rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris, France The irregular-and-last-minute-schedule Paris Meetup! (as usual, we discuss it on the mailing list first, lesswrong-paris@googlegroups.com) So meet us in front of the Arts & Metiers...
Some moral questions I’ve seen discussed here: * A trolley is about to run over five people, and the only way to prevent that is to push a fat bystander in front of the trolley to stop it. Should I? * Is it better to allow 3^^^3 people to get...
Discussion article for the meetup : Paris Meetup WHEN: 14 February 2015 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Café des Arts et Métiers, 51 Rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris France A bit of last minute organization, we had talked about it on our mailing list but hadn't settled on a date. Better late...
Sometimes our minds suddenly "click" and we see a topic in a new light. Or sometimes we think we understand an idea, think it's stupid and ignore attempts to explain it ("yeah, I already know that"), until we suddenly realize that our understanding was wrong. This kind of insight is...
So I have a three-year old kid, and will usually read or tell him a bedtime story. That is a nice opportunity to introduce new concepts, but my capacity for improvisation is limited, especially towards the end of the day. So I'm asking the good people on LessWrong for ideas....
This is a detailed description of my reading and learning workflow. You may find ideas to adopt, or maybe you can tell me what I could be doing differently! Overview I've been using Spaced Repetition on and Off for the past few years, and have built a solid Anki habit...