How to make decisions https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-25-10:39.html … All decision making processes need to be obviously better than tossing a coin, and many of our idealised models of decision making aren't.
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The fastest way to learn something is to do something https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-26-16:07.html … How to avoid overplanning when trying to solve a problem.
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Supersaturation of knowledge https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-27-17:48.html … When you read a metric tonne of books per week, weird things start happening in your brain.
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Culture is deeply contingent https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-28-06:33.html … Why people step left vs right, how culture evolves, why most of it is arbitrary, what to do about that.
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Have you noticed how strong the social norms preventing you from being good at things are? https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-29-10:30.html …
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There are no deterministic voting systems. https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-01-08:04.html … It's not a question of whether to use a nondeterministic or deterministic voting system, but of how to manage the nondeterminism intrinsic in voting.
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Legibility is a property of a relationship with a system, not of the system itself. https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-02-09:31.html …
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Your emotions are valid but probably wrong https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-03-09:07.html … Emotional reactions are learned responses, and you learned a lot of them as a kid, but your life as an adult is totally unlike your life as a kid so reactions learned then are no longer at all adaptive.
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Skirting the edge of disaster https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-04-11:18.html … Everything around you is constantly almost-but-not-quite broken because that's the only point of equilibrium for a complex system.
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Interlude: I'm using https://github.com/DRMacIver/notebook/issues/5 … to keep track of upcoming ideas for notebook posts so I don't forget them. Feel free to comment on it with any questions / requests / etc
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