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We recently released an interview with independent scholar John Wentworth:
It mostly centers around two themes: "abstraction" (forming concepts) and "agency" (dealing with goal-directed systems).
Check it out!
I'm looking for a really short introduction to light therapy and a rig I can put in my basement-office. Over the years I've noticed my productivity just falls off a goddamn cliff after sundown during the winter months, and I'd like to try to do something about it.
After the requisite searching I see a dozen or so references across lesswrong, and was wondering if someone could just tell me how the story ends and where I can shop for bulbs.
For the most part I was thinking about just making things brighter, but I'm open to trying red-light therapy too if people have had success with that.
I like Ben Kuhn's solution in this comment: https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/#comment-1595033477
A few 7-way splitters and a whole lot of 100 watt equivalent LEDs.