Possible typos.
"And the difference might not that amount to that much." Extra "that"
"Think through each step of what you’ll be doing, and try to avoid relying on your brains associations with whole events." Should be "brain's associations"
"So, how successful, do you predict, you’ll be able to influence your predictions?" I'm having trouble parsing this sentence.
I agree that "unclear and often highly subjective" are downsides to categories of content that warrant trigger warnings, but this exchange (below) would pretty clearly warrant a trigger warning for eating disorders if it was on a site that used trigger warnings.
Are there effective methods of ceasing to enjoy some activity, or of refraining from enjoyable things?
For food items you can create distaste by mixing the food item with something that makes you throw up.
Is there a better search term than "self-modification," or a better place to look other than LW, for self-modification ideas/experiments, of the "when system 1 and system 2 are in conflict, listen to system 2" type? Any comments like "This particular thing worked for me and here's a link to it" are welcome.
I'm in the middle of a rationality crisis. I wish I had somebody to talk to, but I'm not close enough to any rationalists to ask for a personal chat when I keep thinking, "They have more important things to do!" and none of my close friends are rationalists.
The link to an "Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning" is broken. The new URL is here: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
I took the survey.