Minding our way to the heavens
I'm keeping a blog now! But I'm sure you've already noticed. Perhaps you're brimming with questions: "What sort of blog is this? What will you write about? Who even »
On saving the world
[Note: backported from LessWrong] This is the final post in my productivity sequence. The first post described what I achieved. The next three posts describe how. This post describes why, »
Dark Arts of Rationality
[Note: backported from LessWrong] Note: the author now disclaims this post, and asserts that his past self was insufficiently skilled in the art of rationality to "take the good »
Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping
[Note: backported from LessWrong] This is the third post in a series discussing my recent bout of productivity. Within, I discuss two techniques I use to avoid akrasia and one »
Habitual Productivity
[Note: backported from LessWrong] I was able to maintain high productivity for extended periods of time and achieve some difficult goals. In this and the following posts I will discuss »
The mechanics of my recent productivity
[Note: backported from LessWrong] A decade ago, I decided to save the world. I was fourteen, and the world certainly wasn't going to save itself. I fumbled around for nine »
On learning difficult things
[Note: backported from LessWrong] I have been autodidacting quite a bit lately. You may have seen my reviews of books on the MIRI course list. I've been going for about »