D_Malik comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

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Comment author: D_Malik 10 June 2013 08:37:23PM 2 points [-]

I have a list of ~500 concepts / "patterns in reality" that I think it would be useful to have "handles" to, by having words/phrases for them or just having them as mentally-cached concepts. (Once I started actively looking for such concepts I found quite a lot of them.) I'm planning to someday-soon sit down and actually make up words/phrases for each of these; I've made up words/phrases for 37 of them, and my notes-to-self are already peppered with them. Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to put them all here, but I probably will when my notes are more organized (like, when I've actually made up the words).

One example of such a concept: "imposing conditions that would have been evidence about optimal behavior in the EEA, with the intent of making oneself more prone to that behavior" - I call this "savannah-signalling" and it comes up in a lot of places.

Comment author: satt 10 June 2013 10:47:55PM 4 points [-]

I've made up words/phrases for 37 of them, and my notes-to-self are already peppered with them. Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to put them all here, but I probably will when my notes are more organized (like, when I've actually made up the words).

D'you think it'd be worth posting the 37 you've invented names for? My appetite's been whetted!

Comment author: Mimosa 14 June 2013 02:28:22AM 1 point [-]

I'd be curious to see some of these as well!

Comment author: Regex 20 March 2016 03:20:19AM 0 points [-]

Three years later- have you found the time? I'm really curious to know the rest of these.