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As people who care about rationality and winning, it's pretty important to care about training. Repeated practice is how humans acquire skil

[Reposted from my personal blog.] Mindspace is wide and deep. “People are different” is a truism, but even knowing this, it’s still easy t

[Originally posted to my personal blog, reposted here with edits.] Introduction You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe,” Harry Pott

The Context  I was having a conversation with Ruby a while back–the gist of it was that I was upset because of a nightmare I’d had the nig

Discussion article for the meetup : Upper Canada LW Megameetup: Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo, London WHEN: 18 July 2014 07:00:00P

Introduction A few months ago, my friend said the following thing to me: “After seeing Divergent, I finally understand virtue ethics. The

The sixth talk in the Ottawa Applied Rationality series will take place on Tuesday, May 20th at 7:00 pm, at the Canal Royal Oak in Ottawa, C

Very brief summary of main themes 1)    “Follow your passion” is terrible advice for most people. Don’t try to find your “true calling” beca

(OR) How I'm now on the fence about whether to sign up for cryonics I'm not currently signed up for cryonics. In my social circle, that ma

Introduction The LW/CFAR community has a fair amount of interest in meditation. This isn't surprising; many of the people who practiced an