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I'm trying to find the primary source for this, but I remember one person (who may have been a physicist) left Germany (or another country) on a train. That same train the next day was stopped and thousands of Jews were arrested. He is alleged to have said something to...

Epistemic status: Anecdote. tl;dr: I had multiple opportunities to notice my confusion, but failed every time until I actually thought about it. Ended up testing positive for COVID, despite expectations. Background I started preparing for the pandemic in January 2020. At the time, I was living alone. In January, my...

A lot of LW posts are about making habits and routines, whether it's TAPs, making to-do lists or checklists automatic, overcoming akrasia, becoming more productive, or more. As for me, I have ADHD and ASD. I don't think I've ever been able to form automatic habits or routines, including ones...

This post is lifted (with edits) from my comment on a thread on Reddit that talked about a blood test that detected amyloid plaque, a potential precursor to Alzheimers. A top-level commenter felt that the fact that the test couldn't tell for certain whether someone had Alzheimers meant that it...

(The following are our suggestions for what kind of information is best to include in the welcome post of your group, feel free to replace them with whatever you think is best) What kind of events does your group usually run? What does it usually do? How frequently does your...

Epistemic status: Not an expert. Pretty confident I have it right. Incorporated feedback from commenters, and asking for more. List of edits at the end. What the Moderna vaccine does is it contains a piece of code (RNA) which asks your body to create a protein that is very similar...

Hello! This is my first ever LessWrong post! The following is extracted from a conversation I had with DaystarEld on Facebook, and I have his permission to share it on LessWrong. tl;dr: Personal skills you can be confident about can be broken down into three types: * Absolute skill: Are...