Vlad Sitalo

Why voice notes? On a functional level it's the fastest & the most convenient input method when you're not in front of the proper keyboard. Which even for me constitutes a big chunk of my life 🙃. Taking a voice note allows me to quickly close an open loop of...

The out of context top-level display of comments when I navigate to them always bothered me, but up until recently I haven't realized there is a way to go to the actual comment via a simple URL change. From https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>/?commentId=<commentid> To https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>#<commentid> Here is a quick gpt4 generated userscript that...

> This is a linkpost - I recommend reading it at the original URL for a better reading UX I have a somewhat elaborate process for reading things that I find on the web. I've been inspired to share it because after many a long iteration it finally feels adequate!...

Hi everyone :). I like Anki, find it quite useful and use it daily. There is one thing that constantly annoyed me about it, though - the state of shared decks and of infrastructure around them. There is a lot of topics that are of common interest for a large...

There were some concerns here (http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distraction_why_less/) regarding value of LessWrong community from the perspective of instrumental rationality. In the discussion on the relevant topic I've seen the story about how community can help http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/2l73 from this perspective. And I think It's a great thing that local community can help people...

Hi, I was considering possibility of undergoing some kind of genetic testing for a while now. But I hesitated because I have a quite limited financial resources available right now. Eventually I've figured that in the future I'd do it anyway, so why don't just do it right away. Especially...