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A review of cryonics/brain preservation in 2016
8 months ago
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Relevance to Less Wrong: Whether you think it is for better or worse, users on LW are about 50,000x more likely to be signed up for cryonics
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How computational approaches can contribute to brain preservation research
9 months ago
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This is a linkpost for http://www.brainpreservation.org/how-computational-researchers-can-contribute-to-brain-preservation-research/
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Stand-up comedy as a way to improve rationality skills
9 months ago
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Epistemic status: Believed, but hard to know how much to adjust for opportunity costs I'm wondering whether stand-up comedy would be a go
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Update on the Brain Preservation Foundation Prize
2 years ago
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Brain Preservation Foundation President Kenneth Hayworth just wrote a synopsis of the recent ongoings from the major two competitors for the
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Calories per dollar vs calories per glycemic load: some notes on my diet
2 years ago
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Recently I decided to try to better measure and improve my diet a little bit. These were some of the parameters that I was and am interested
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2015 New Years Resolution Thread
3 years ago
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The new year is a popular Schelling point to make changes to your activities, habits, and/or thought processes. This is often done via the N
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What are the most common and important trade-offs that decision makers face?
3 years ago
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This is one part shameless self-promotion and one (hopefully larger) part seeking advice and comments. I'm wondering: what do you guys think
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One way to manipulate your level of abstraction related to a task
4 years ago
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In construal level theory, ideas can be classified along a spectrum from concrete ("near" in Robin Hanson's terminology) to abstract ("far")
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[LINK] Hypothesis about the mechanism for storing long-term memory
4 years ago
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As proposed by Roger Tsien, open access here. The first paragraph offers a potentially biased but still useful overview of the state of the
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Which cognitive biases should we trust in?
5 years ago
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There have been (at least) a couple of attempts on LW to make Anki flashcards from Wikipedia's famous List of Cognitive Biases, here and her
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