This is a map of my interests. l have sketched it both for you and me. Quotes are from Ideas that keep coming back
- 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
- Cognitive Biases
- Bias correction
- Examples: Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
- Expert trap
Secondary focus
Clearer thinking
- (Clearer thinking section)Mental Models
- 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 ExerciseHappiness LabMental Brakes to Avoid Mental BreaksKelly McGonigal
- Gratefulness
- Health
- The power of habit
- Therapy
(Well-being section)Mental Models
- Beauty
- Flirt with abandon
- Meditation
- How to connect with motivation?
- Embodiment
- Dance
- / Movement cultureIdo Portal
- Green tea
Life's work is like building castles from the sand or painting pictures on the water –Naval RavikantMore‣Your life most likely be influential only on some limited local scope. Many people cannot even remember the name of their great-grandparents. Why do we intuit our influence having a different influence”
“I’ve also come to believe in the complete and utter insignificance of the self, and I think that helps a lot. For example, if you thought you were the most important thing in the universe, then you would have to bend the entire universe to your will ...
However, if you view yourself as a bacteria or an amoeba or if you view all of your works as writing on water or building castles in the sand, then you have no expectation from how life should actually be. Life is just the way it is. Then you accept that and you have no cause to be happy or unhappy. Those things almost don’t apply.
What you’re left with in that neutral state is not neutrality ... This is the existence that little children live. If you look at little children, on balance, they’re generally pretty happy because they are really immersed into the environment and the moment without any thought of how it should be given their personal preferences and desires. ... One can be very happy as long as one isn’t too caught up in their own heads.”
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,TimeTrapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of RationalityLifespan – Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To"Radical imaginationWhat you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrongRadical imaginationThe moral roots of liberals and conservativesValue 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 –viaApichatpong WeerasethakulHans 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
- (Efficiency section)Mental Models
- Design
- Cool tools
Spirituality with high epistemic
- How come psychedelics assisted therapy is universally therapeutical?
- Spirituality