Kevin Simler

@KevinSimler

Looking for folks with homemade worldviews. Let's think together. Book:

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2011

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  1. Jan 23

    Haha, I always forget to apply this kind of skepticism. Is there a good name/handle for this problem? Kind of an extended Lizardman thing?

  2. Jan 22

    Take with a grain of salt, but this might be a cultural idiosyncrasy that goes pretty deeply far back

  3. Jan 12
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    I would also like a crisp way to think about this! The best I have is some intuition gleaned from this old post by Eliezer (), suggesting that different selection pressures might be measurable in units of bits/generation or bits/year or something like that

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  6. 28 Dec 2019

    Some of my favorites from other users:

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  10. 28 Dec 2019

    Just discovered these "Calvin & Hobbes IRL" photoshops by (from 2012!) and can't get over them. It's like my childhood got remastered in HD....

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  11. 28 Dec 2019

    I experience the numinous pretty reliably with a certain genre of video, i.e., images of the natural world set to music, ideally with a narration of what I'd describe as science-poetry. Here's a great example I came across recently:

  12. 24 Dec 2019
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    From a later post in the series

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  14. 19 Dec 2019

    Hell yeah Hobart Twitter 🙌

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  16. 23 Nov 2019
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    Scott Aaronson says this kind of flip-flopping is a feature of all good-faith discussions!

  17. 22 Nov 2019

    I think I first learned about it from the “Masks and Trance” chapter of Impro

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  19. 15 Oct 2019

    I used to work with Bridgewater and have always loved their culture of direct feedback. Once you get past the ego pain, it's amazing fuel for personal growth. Here tries to "jailbreak" that culture and bring it to her life outside of BW

  20. 13 Sep 2019

    "At the edges of scientific knowledge, the ability to measure a hypothetical phenomenon is often in question as much as the phenomenon itself." — Richard McElreath, "Statistical Rethinking." HT:

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