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So, you procrastinate. A lot. And it's a really big problem in your life, and so you really want to, y'know, stop procrastinating. But for s

I came up with an idea today: I think it would be useful to have a list of everything that a typical person ought to do. After all, there is

Every so often, someone on Less Wrong uses a word wrong. What does it mean to use a word wrong? Can't we use language however we want, as

So, I've been thinking. We ought to have a system for rationality. What do I mean? Well, consider a real-time strategy game like Starcraft

I have a lot to say on this topic, but I haven't written an article about it, for two reasons... come to think of it, more like for one reas

So, it's well-known (or, at least, oft-thought) that you can't just work 16 hours a day; if you want to get stuff done, you need to rest fro

I've been on Less Wrong since its inception, around March 2009. I've read a lot and contributed a lot, and so now I'm more familiar with our

Not all of us live near big cities. I know of only one Less Wronger in the Grand Rapids, MI area apart from myself, and the nearest existing

In Sherlock Holmes fiction, we see that Holmes is capable of making correct inferences using insufficient information and long, tenuous chai

You see, I've seen the word "rationalism" used to mean all five of these things at different times: - The belief that we should come to kn