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by the_greyd 7y ago
Thinking should be a time boxed activity, with time proportional to the priority of the thing at hand. As a classic overthinker I've realized my overthinking is a weird amalgamation of perfectionism and procrastination. That took me a
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by the_greyd 8y ago
This is super interesting. Something I've started doing on a smaller level. I've already made good progress on managing my emotional state (thus productivity) and want to improve the habit. When do you schedule to write or log? Sp
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Such a crummy headline. In all honesty, Google has been an extremely competent organization. Don't hate them just because they are at the top. "Rich get richer, poor get poorer" rings true for a reason, they had the first mov
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Thinking about the value of my time as (atleast) $50/hr. On average if I waste 20 hours per week, I lose $50000 per year. Which stops me from wasting it, and being mindful about it.
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by the_greyd 8y ago
From Why Haven't We Met Any Aliens http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/why_we_havent_met_an... "I suggest a different, even darker solution to the Paradox. Basically, I think the aliens don’t blow th
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by the_greyd 8y ago
That progress was set in motion by decisions we took years ago. I think all of us understand at some level, that we are failing to keep making good decisions. Books like "Better angels of our nature" and "factfulness" tr
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by the_greyd 8y ago
"Imagine if America created an evidence-based centrist party in the 1940s that listened to the scientists how much more advanced things would be. Mandatory frontal lobotomies for hysterical women who show sapphic tendencies. Free cigar
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Let me rephrase that: it would be a world where we would become extinct quickly. I am convinced that extreme rationality has evolutionary disadvantages. So the emphasis on rationality only makes sense in a modern society when you can in som
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by the_greyd 8y ago
After reading a bit of evolutionary psychology, I realized to my astonishment that humans have evolved to survive, and not to be perfectly rational. Rational so much so its useful. I'm actually convinced that extreme rationality has ev
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by the_greyd 8y ago
I say that's a good thing. It's a good thing that beliefs have inertia, and it makes sense. Think of the years of patterns of thinking and neural connections that have formed in your brain. Are you expected to read something and c
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Chapter 1 – Smarter Than Us, the Rise of Machine Intelligence(smarterthan.us)
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Top post on HN year 2030: DeepMind's AlphaAI has graduated with B.S in AI, and has gained consciousness.
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by the_greyd 8y ago
I would recommend the documentary [The Century of the Self]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 ) about advertising as propoganda, in which Edwards Bernays plays a central role.
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by the_greyd 8y ago
I'll post IMO the most interesting slide of the talk. --- The Assumptions of Technological Manifest Destiny: 1) Technology is VALUE-NEUTRAL, and will therefore automatically lead to good outcomes for everyone. 2) Thus, new kinds of tec
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Perfect use case for http://datproject.org/ . It has git versioning on top of bittorrent, so if something gets updated in the dataset you only download the diff (unlike torrent).
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Giving my 2 cents here: Mahabharat was the first epic which I fell in love with. It is fair to draw parallels with the Trojan War in terms of scale & sheer amount of narrative. It's ultimately about a war, there are gods & demi
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by the_greyd 8y ago
Allow me to change your view. What irks me are sentences like these > The great investor and teacher Benjamin Graham.. > Smart people like Charlie Munger.. > Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the finest thinkers in the
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by the_greyd 8y ago
> Most rational people.. one of the finest thinkers in the world.. Is this advice coming from a professor/scientist/philosopher? No, they are the investors who make the most money. In a neo-liberal society, the richest people g
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by the_greyd 8y ago
You haven't answered the fundamental question: How are they going to make money? The internet can be decentralized, and everything can be FOSS, but how is that going to make money for companies? If it isn't making money why will a
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by the_greyd 8y ago
I would identify as how the author describes, someone who's slightly nervous at the sight of a black male walking towards him at night. I try to suppress this feeling, and try to act normal, at which point I'm really overthinking.
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by the_greyd 9y ago
Very Interesting read. I'm someone who has been reading some self-help literature for the past year. Topics include Mindfulness, Buddhism, Stoicism, Social skills, Positive psychology, Habit forming, Assertiveness. I'm in my early
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by the_greyd 9y ago
I am reading the book along with the course. "Mind for Numbers" is superset of the course, so see if you like the course and then maybe buy the book. So far I am pretty happy with the material and presentation. Armed with all this
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by the_greyd 9y ago
These concepts are discussed in detail in the Coursera course "Learning How to Learn" and the accompanying book "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley. Spaced Repetition, Pomodoro, Chunking, Interleaving are things I&#x2
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by the_greyd 9y ago
That's William Zinsser, who wrote the book "On Writing". I've been recently reading it, and its great, full of useful advice.
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by the_greyd 9y ago
Here's another good one about self driving cars and the right to modify its code - "Car Wars" by Cory Doctorow : http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars
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by the_greyd 9y ago
95% of tech? I agree that we already have monopolies, but I vehemently disagree on net neutrality being one of the causes. In a system without net neutrality, the already established companies or monopolies would gain even more power than t
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by the_greyd 9y ago
I would say I have experienced a similar feeling in a recent effort to reduce my fingerprint, deleting files on my computer/google drive that I don't use (which can be easily found over the internet). It just feels good, destroyin
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by the_greyd 10y ago
Why do you say that? What do you think would be a better solution for decentralized content distribution?
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by the_greyd 10y ago
Heh This is pretty cool.
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by the_greyd 10y ago
Which is not the point? On Medium you get things like Recommendation, better discoverability. Which would help it get to people who don't read HN.

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