JulianMorrison

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=791 > Morsella has gone back to basics. Forget art, symphonies, science. Forget the step-by-step learning of complex tasks. Those may be some of the things we use consciousness for now but that doesn’t mean that’s what it evolved for, any more than the cones in our eyes evolved to...

From the New Yorker: > It was as if there were a kind of conspiracy in the basketball world about the way the game ought to be played, and Ranadivé thought that that conspiracy had the effect of widening the gap between good teams and weak teams. Good teams, after...

The main danger for LW is that it could become rationalist-porn for daydreamers. I suggest a pattern of counterattack: 1. Find a nonrational aspect of your nature that is hindering you right now. 2. Determine privately to fix it. 3. Set a short deadline. Do the necessary work. 4. Write...

I've often had half-finished LW post ideas and crossed them off for a number of reasons, mostly they were too rough or undeveloped and I didn't feel expert enough. Other people might worry their post would be judged harshly, or feel overwhelmed, or worried about topicality, or they just want...