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Comment author: Clarity 17 September 2016 05:04:43AM 2 points [-]
  1. Gain vocabulary from empirical economics and psychology
  2. Mentally translate the sequence as you read it as it relates to actual economic and psychological evidence
  3. Discard that which is unfounded
  4. That which remains is understood not memorised
Comment author: Viliam 20 September 2016 01:32:45PM 0 points [-]

Restating stuff in different words is a good rationalist exercise, and "words used in empirical economics and psychology" is probably a better choice than most others.

Not sure how the language of empirical economics and psychology would help with the quantum physics, or even Bayesian equations, though.

Comment author: Clarity 21 September 2016 09:55:01PM 0 points [-]
  • The 'quantum physics' stuff in the sequences (multiworld theory) is part of the unfounded bucket
  • The bayesian equations are statistics, overlapping with both economics and psychology, but I specifically stated empirical because there is an unusual notion that bayesian statistics strictly dominates other statistical approaches in the sequences (unfounded too).
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