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Like many nerdy people, back when I was healthy, I was interested in subjects like math, programming, and philosophy. But 5 years ago I got sick with a viral illness and never recovered. For the last couple of years I've been spending most of my now-limited brainpower trying to figure...

What capnometry biofeedback is and why it seems important A capnometer is a device that measures levels of carbon dioxide in your blood in a non-invasive way (think of it sort of like a pulse oximeter for carbon dioxide, except that the most common type of capnometer uses a nasal...

(This post is not up to my usual standards but I was encouraged to publish it anyway to get feedback on the idea.) I have been ill for the past four years with a mysterious chronic illness. One of the things that I keep thinking would be nice to have...

In a previous post, I argued for treating exposition as a scientific field of inquiry as the best main strategy to use to get people to create more great exposition. However, I did not really explain what "exposition as science" means in detail. So in this post, I give more...

Some of the recent posts in the distillation & pedagogy tag here on LessWrong, such as "Call For Distillers" and the AI Safety Distillation Contest, have been bugging me, and this post is my attempt to introspect about why. Here are four strategies for achieving the goal of creating more...

A problem when trying to purchase some classes of products (like pillows, computer mice, and sleep masks) is that it is difficult to sample lots of them first-hand before making a purchase. This forces one to rely on product reviews or to settle for one's limited experience (such as just...

This paper is a revised and expanded version of my blog post Plausible cases for HRAD work, and locating the crux in the "realism about rationality" debate, now with David Manheim as co-author. Abstract: > Several different approaches exist for ensuring the safety of future Transformative Artificial Intelligence (TAI) or...