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4 years ago
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We received the following email, so figured I'd pass it along here. You can say you heard about it from Sam Bhagwat at Blueseed. Could be
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Post-college: changing nature of friend interactions
5 years ago
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As a working professional a couple of years out college, I’ve been noticing how interactions with my friends has changed since the beginning
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Evaporative cooling of group beliefs: current example
6 years ago
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Background info: a splinter group, which broke off from the LDS ("Mormon") church ~100 years ago, refusing to give up polygamy, has been in
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Political impasse as result of different odds ratios
6 years ago
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Related to: Politics is the Mind-Killer Both sides seem to have a stake in the current budget supercommittee failing. Why? The NYTimes r
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Planning fallacy in the NYTimes
6 years ago
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Includes the Kahneman anecdote. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/brooks-the-planning-fallacy.html?hp This is a repeated theme b
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Counting upvotes/downvotes
6 years ago
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I've recently posted several articles in my "Building Rationalist Communities" series. Some, like "Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don
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Selecting optimal group projects and roles
6 years ago
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Related to: Designing Rationalist Projects, Committees and Leadership As I mentioned in the above posts, Latter-day Saints communities org
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Raise the Age Demographic
6 years ago
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Related to: Building rationalist communities, Lessons from Latter-day Saints, Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don't Implement Themselv
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Searching for: Patri's post on abandoning violent revolution
6 years ago
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I'm writing my next post and am trying to quote a post Patri Friedman, username patrissimo, wrote a while ago about how he gave up dreams of
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Community roles: committees and leadership
6 years ago
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Related to: Building rationalist communities, Lessons from Latter-day Saints, Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don't Implement Themselv
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