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Aka, coming up with a better term for applying LW-style rationality techniques to 'rational self-interest'. Aka, in parallel with the curre

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For years, I've taken being a classic nerd, geek, and hacker as a point of pride - eg, consciously trying to judge people by the code they p

Yesterday, I set a personal deadline: If I haven't started writing more "S.I." by Canada Day, then I'm going to start writing up the fast-fi

The universe is running down - there are only so many sources of negentropy that can be used for the work of life and intelligence. But ther

"Cryonics has a 95% chance of failure, by my estimation; it would be downright /embarrassing/ to die on the day before real immortality is d

There are a great many ideas which don't have enough carefully-measured evidence to be sufficiently confirmed as scientific fact and accepte

"I estimate 5% odds of X happening" can mean at least two things: * I have about 1-in-20 confidence that all future timelines from this po

I haven't been able to find the source of the idea, but I've recently been reminded of: Lotteries are a way to funnel some money from man

What plans could a prospective cryonicist try out, beyond simply signing up, that could increase the odds of eventually having a pleasant re