I made a game that teaches beginner calibration. Have you ever wanted your brother/girlfriend/aunt/dog to make more calibrated probabilistic claims? Now you can send them Calibrate! (Or you can play it yourself.) Play now (desktop only) Semi-big catch: Calibrate was mostly made for computer science students, so non-computer science students...
I can't count how many times I've heard variations on "I used Anki too for a while, but I got out of the habit." No one ever sticks with Anki. In my opinion, this is because no one knows how to use it correctly. In this guide, I will lay...
This is a distillation of In defence of epistemic modesty, a 2017 essay by Gregory Lewis. I hope to make the essay’s key points accessible in a quick and easy way so more people engage with them. I thank Gregory Lewis for helpful comments on an earlier version of this...
Note: This post is super-quickly written and mostly for reference. Note 2: This is not my phrase, I first heard it from Sydney von Arx. But I'm not sure if her use of the phrase is the same as mine. What I mean by the phrase “getting intimate with reality”...
This post is super-quickly written and mostly for reference. Setup: * precondition: agreeing with the idea. (here synonymous with holding a belief in the idea) * beliefs are intertwined. When you update one belief, you often have to update other beliefs to maintain consistency. * E.g. if you update to...