This is a map of my interests. l have sketched it both for you and me. Quotes are from Ideas that keep coming back Wow ideas page
- Main focus
- Cognitive biases
- Secondary focus
- Clearer thinking
- Consequences believing @Elephant in the Brain
- Collective coordination and decision-making
- Understanding human mind
- Other interests
- Synthesis of knowledge
- Well-being
- Understanding creativity
- View quakes
- What really matters? Finding meaning and defining values
- Distilling priorities
- Other brains
- Learning better
- Optmization
- Spirituality with high epistemic
Main focus
Cognitive biases
Secondary focus
Clearer thinking
- Mental Models (Clearer thinking section)
- Replication Crisis
- Perceiving truth
- Epistemology
Consequences believing Elephant in the Brain
In primatology, when we talk about primates, almost everything is viewed through a perspective of a hierarchy in the group. In social sciences, when we talk about humans, hierarchy is rarely ever mentioned🏅🏅🏅 ~ Frans de Wall
Collective coordination and decision-making
- Examples: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team? How change happens. From unleashing to nudging to social cascades.
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team?
- Pol.is
Understanding human mind
- Psychology
- Evolution
- Evolutionary psychology
- Human mind with Simple shifts & view quakes
Other interests
Synthesis of knowledge
Well-being
- How to figure out culture that would be really sad to loose?
- How to create Happier lives?
- Examples: Reflected Best Self Exercise Happiness Lab Mental Brakes to Avoid Mental Breaks Kelly McGonigal
- Gratefulness
- Health
- The power of habit
- Therapy Mental Models (Well-being section)
- Beauty
- Flirt with abandon
- Meditation
- How to connect with motivation?
- Embodiment
- Dance
- Ido Portal / Movement culture
- Green tea
Life's work is like building castles from the sand or painting pictures on the water – Naval RavikantMore‣
You don’t have a brain with a body, you have a body with a brain – Ido Portal
Understanding creativity
- Writing
- Mental models create
- 100 Day project
- 100 Days project
- Examples: Artists become famous through friends, not quality of their work
View quakes
- Simple shifts & view quakes
- Existential risks for humanity
- Understanding structure of View-quakes?
- How to distinguish real view quake from too much openness
- Examples: Fine tuning paradox World Population Peak, Deep Time, Timeline of historic invention, Double Slit Experiment , Time, Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality Lifespan – Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" Radical imagination What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong Radical imagination The moral roots of liberals and conservatives Value of life years – QALY and DALY
- Art (finding tools for discerning to truth)
- Examples: Radical imagination
- Mental models art
- Questions
- Brave
- Evolution
- Examples: Evolution of Beauty
- Genetics
Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant – Eliezer Yudkowsky
You’re like the Catholics who are trying to get into heaven by being good enough
What really matters? Finding meaning and defining values
- Examples: There's more to freedom than i expected
- Love
- Shedding non-important to getting closer to truth, sense of life
Locate an animal, mimic its expression and movement for two minutes. If there are no other lives around, observe an object and be it for two minutes. Do it regularly – Apichatpong Weerasethakul via Hans Urlich Obrist
Distilling priorities
- Effective altruism
- Animals
- X-risks
Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant – Eliezer Yudkowsky
Other brains
- Examples: Dyslexic Advantage
- Animals
Learning better
Optmization
- Cool tools
- Mental Models (Efficiency section)
- Design
- Cool tools
Spirituality with high epistemic
- How come psychedelics assisted therapy is universally therapeutical?
- Spirituality