I was recently reviewing Calculus III. I had forgotten it since high school, and, to be honest, never really understood it at the time; though I blame the curriculum. This is a guide to learning the key ideas in a couple of hours. Please excuse my strong language, I wrote...
The beautiful fruit of LESSWRONG is corrupted. When you bite into it, a foul syrup, a horrid oil, pours black, suppurating, onto the tongue, and down the throat of the incautious. The idea of being "less wrong" is ingenious, but only insofar as it is humble. What is humbleness? It...
Non-athletic thinkers are myopic. I see at least three very important reasons any rationalist must value exercise. As someone who has trained extremely hard in distance running, sports in general and athletic conditioning in particular create an intuitive understanding of the fallaciousness of Cartesian Dualism and the accuracy of materialism...