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[Author's note: LLMs were used to generate and sort examples into their requisite categories, as well as find and summarize relevant papers, and extensive assistance with editing] Context: Alfred Adler (1870–1937) split from Freud by asserting that human psychology is teleological (goal-oriented) rather than causal (drive-based). He argued that neuroses...

[Author's note: LLMs were used to generate and sort many individual examples into their requisite categories, as well as find and summarize relevant papers, and extensive assistance with editing] The earliest recording of a selection effect is likely the story of Diagoras regarding the "Votive Tablets." When shown paintings of...

Previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RydETq379eoWqBFvj/updates-and-reflections-on-optimal-exercise-after-nearly-a https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bZ2w99pEAeAbKnKqo/optimal-exercise I figured it would be useful to summarize how I train when I go for time efficiency these days, based on my understanding of the relevant meta-analyses on exercise selection and parameters. The primary time savers are supersets and lowered rest times. A routine like this is...

Epistemic status: very shallow google scholar dive. Intended mostly as trailheads for people to follow up on on their own. previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h6kChrecznGD4ikqv/increasing-iq-is-trivial I don't know to what degree this will wind up being a constraint. But given that many of the things that help in this domain have independent lines...

Kaj_Sotala I just started thinking about what I would write to someone who disagreed with me on the claim "Rationalists would be better off if they were more spiritual/religious", and for this I'd need to define what I mean by "spiritual". Here are some things that I would classify under...

Of particular interest here is section 4.1 on subjective accounts of probability and section 8.4 which explicitly addresses Knightian uncertainty and its challenges for Bayesian accounts. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

Edit/update: this is receiving more upvotes and I think it is worth explicitly pointing out that while housing is up 60% over this time frame, the Sp500 is up 90+%, so this is not intended as a full on refutation of all the points made in the original post. A...