Yep, I generally try to read everything on LW that seems interesting in chronological order, and now I am almost one month behind.
A good resource to get familiar with the basics of LW approach to life, universe, and everything is https://www.readthesequences.com/
Are you familiar with Astral Codex Ten (also called ACX)? The people there are also mostly smart, the rules of discussion in Open Threads are more relaxed... which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depends.
Anecdotally, I know people who can read a book and watch a movie at the same time, and they claim to be multitasking perfectly.
But if you ask them later about the plot of the movie, they are pretty confused. Or they don't notice that the original movie has already ended and another one has started.
if one believes that they see the world much more accurately than (almost) anyone else, and yet they do not use this supposedly superior knowledge to make their own life better, they are actually not smart
That assumes that every piece of knowledge is actionable, and that acting upon it is the best use of your time.
One situation where resolution matters is when the subtitles are hardcoded as a part of the image. At 720p they are nicely legible, at lower resolutions they are not.
Sometimes, optimism and realism are the same.
Ha, take that, planning fallacy!
Unfortunately, I feel like the format coerced me into to salami-slicing my longer posts into short posts that could fill multiple days.
Ah, similar here: three posts from what normally would be one (1, 2, 3), and I feel dirty. However, should I? It is not obvious -- maybe each of those articles would be quite okay in itself, it's just that I started imagining it as one article, and that set my expectations too high (maybe unrealistically high).
I think there is a risk that as you get better at blogging, your expectations increase, until at one moment you are unable to meet your own expectations (e.g. because you get too lucky recently), and then you feel like a failure.
Ben has proposed a solution called “Weekhaven”— to have people write one long 3500-word effortpost every week. I could not endorse this more.
I like it, but maybe even better: allow both options. A short post is worth one point, a long post multiple points -- could even be sublinear, like 500 words = 1 point, 1200 words = 2 points, 2000 words = 3 points...
Not sure how much this generalizes. E.g. attractive girls who get whistles and catcalls when they walk in a city probably don't feel invisible. Or if you are bullied at school, your bullies may comment on everything you do.
So, some people are invisible, some are too visible... what are the rules? (My first guess would be that you are invisible to nice strangers; but a hostile stranger will notice and evaluate you as a potential victim.)
Could this be a cultural wisdom that caffeine makes you more productive for your company, while most other drugs make you less productive? (Less productive may include working harder but with lower quality, or something that seems okay in short term, but ends up with a disaster in long term...)
1 is word salad.
2 just repeats it twice that the information about person is somewhere in the universe and if we could reverse entropy, we could recreate the person. but gives no suggestion how to reverse entropy. therefore, worthless.
3 was deleted or the link is wrong
4 is crackpottery ("merely a theory hastily constructed in just 5 days") putting the burden of proof on the reader ("Please prove that there is a fatal flaw in my logical sequence.")
5 is word salad / crackpottery, and probably submitted prematurely
6 is a repeat of 4
7 is crackpottery, but OMG it has citations
8, 9, 10 -- are beyond my ability to judge quickly... perhaps worthy of human review, but I understand that if we get dozen articles like this every day, it is not a good use of time of the people who actually understand this stuff.
11 is a random LLM-written essay, worthless
12 is word salad.
Conclusion: everything except for 8, 9, 10 can be deleted without regret. With 8, 9, 10, I wish there was a way to filter them, without wasting time of the moderators or highly experienced users. Preferably a place outside of LW.