Regex comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 June 2013 06:12AM

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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: 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.