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Emile comments on Open thread, August 19-25, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Emile 20 August 2013 01:06:47PM 15 points [-]
  • Self-improvement, optimal living, life hacks
  • Philosophy
  • Futurism (Cryonics, the singularity
  • Friendly AI and SIAI, I mean, MIRI
  • Maths, Decision Theory, Game theory
  • Meetups
  • General-interest discussion (biased towards the interests of atheist nerds)
  • Meta
Comment author: Dorikka 20 August 2013 07:32:46PM 3 points [-]

For unspecified levels of meta. :P

Comment author: somervta 21 August 2013 02:05:40AM 2 points [-]

I would remove meetups, as that isn't really LW content as such.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 24 August 2013 05:20:20PM 0 points [-]

It would be good to have it in a separate category, though, so you could disappear it from the front page.

Comment author: palladias 25 August 2013 06:36:32PM 1 point [-]

I'd subdivide Lifehacks into:

  • debiasing lifehacks - practical ways to subvert/avoid cognitive biases (CoZE exercises, Monday-Tuesday game, etc)
  • non-epistemological lifehacks - domain specific clever ideas (frameworks for chore negotiation, investment strategies, etc)
Comment author: Viliam_Bur 31 August 2013 12:11:53PM *  1 point [-]

epistemical lifehacks;
general instrumental lifehacks (e.g. how to overcome procrastination);
specific instrumental lifehacks (domain-specific)