Dentosal

It's Inkhaven time. Again, I didn't apply. Probably I should have, but the future is hard to predict. Or not, but I forgot to try. I had some work things I wanted to get done before switching focus, and I got them done yesterday. Coincidentally, of course. And seasonal-depression-fogginess when...

Yudkowsky writes about Guessing the Teacher's Password as an abstract educational concept. At a young age, perhaps ten years old, I had guessed one commonly used meta-password: In the Finnish school system it's typical for multiple choice answers to include options that are somewhat similar, and often the actual answer...

A hundred years ago some musicians were enraged by recording technology. Soon no-one would be paid to play live music! And recorded music is soulless anyway, who would want to listen to that? It turns out, approximately everyone. As the saying goes, quantity has a quality of its own. When...

It's done. I made it to the end. A Finnish proverb fits the situation perfectly: > Paska reissu mutta tulipahan tehtyä Which translates to something like "A crappy journey but in any case it's over now". I forced myself to do this. It was not fun. I rarely enjoyed writing....

I wish I had a thought recorder for this. It's much easier to think while walking, not interrupted by note-taking. Woo was discussed last night. It's hard to say what it means, exactly. The defining example is meditation, and anything related to it. I think the extreme case is psychedelic...

What determines how much things cost? The textbook answer is, supply and demand. But that's just the Teacher's Password. An actually useful model could be used to answer some questions like "How much should I ask for this product?" or "Am I getting ripped off?". Cost and utility We typically...

The yesterday's post gathered a relatively large number of comments. Nice! And downvotes! Engagement!! Sadly it was not a ragebait, only my honest-yet-unsure take on a complex and hard-to-understand topic. One of the comments, by Vladimir Nesov, did change how I was modelling the whole thing: > How is suffering...