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I did some Inkhaven-y copycatting again.. It was, once again, not fun. Then again, most worthwhile things aren't. They're only worth it afterwards. When getting started I said: > I'll also try to treat this less as a commitment, and more as a hobby; once I stop feeling like this...

Spoilers for: Learning To Be Me. It's only 20 pages and worth reading. I'll explain some of the main points briefly for those who inevitably ignore this advice, but some of the juiciest details will remain uncovered here. After writing about my experiences with AI-assisted agency, user recursing suggested Learning...

> Please do not talk about this. I was asked to keep this private. And I'm hearing about this because? I seem like a trustworthy guy? I wouldn't want my secrets shared, even to trustworthy people. I try my best to hold a policy that if you volunteer me some...

Sometimes there's a solution that's otherwise superior, but people do not like it for "irrational" reasons. This second-order effect makes the solution worse in practice. This concept is mostly a parallel to Yudkowsky's Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately. For instance, it makes no sense to have a "no man left...

I recently read Chapman's texts on Robert Kegan's levels of moral development and meaning-making, namely: Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence and the more psychedelic What is stage five (like)?. Scott Alexander also has some interesting thoughts on the first one. Wikipedia has a nice table showing how Kegan compares...

Here in Helsinki, the public transport doesn't have access gates. Bus drivers check your ticket when you step in, but on trains, trams, and subway, you just step in [1] . The enforcement is done by inspectors who randomly board vehicles and check tickets. If you do not have one,...

In a recent rationalist unconference multiple people recommended me Carolyn Elliott's Existential Kink, one of them even postulating that it would be useful for me specifically. So I was really surprised to open up a rather generic self-help book, with the author gloating about her success, and generally just advertising...