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WrongPlanet10

There is a typo: "idenfitier" instead of "identifier"

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Open & Welcome Thread – October 2020
WrongPlanet*80

Thank you very much for your motivation and advice!

I will follow your suggestions and read about those two you mentioned.

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Babble challenge: 50 ways of solving a problem in your life
WrongPlanet30

I have read two books which cover the memory palace. One of them was written by Dominic O'Brien and I am pretty sure it was 'How to Develop a Perfect Memory'. It covers awesome memory techniques.

Than the other one:

https://www.amazon.de/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/039916524X/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=a+mind+for+numbers&qid=1603819322&sr=8-1

It was written by Barbara Oakley. It does not goes far into memory palaces I believe (I read them years ago), but it changed the way I think about ... (read more)

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Babble challenge: 50 ways of solving a problem in your life
Answer by WrongPlanet100

I want to spend time with more meaningful things, therefore: 

50 ways to simplify life/save time (some of these things solve the problem indirectly. For example going out of my comfort zone and making communicating routine results having it easier in future social situations etc.):

  1. Delete unnecessary accounts
  2. Use password manager
  3. Delete unnecessary apps/programs
  4. Unsubscribe from newsletters, instead read in-depth literature on things I want to learn
  5. Delete screenshots of e-book pages (after I noted the relevant part down)
  6. Do stuff from the doing later list n
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1amplemaple
2 and 4 are both things I implemented with great results. Do you have a good link about mind palaces?
Babble challenge: 50 ways of hiding Einstein's pen for fifty years
WrongPlanet30

Thank you very much jacobjacob.

It was lots of fun and I am excited about the other babble challenges!

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Babble challenge: 50 ways of hiding Einstein's pen for fifty years
Answer by WrongPlanet90

So, my first "actual" comment:

  1. Implant the pen into my body.
  2. Hide it in an umbrella, but also integrate a weapon (Mycroft Holmes Style) to have good non-pen reason to carry it allround all the time.
  3. Every few months change one's identity and the hiding spot.
  4. Struggle to keep it hidden till Einstein is of age to think about a good solution. Ask him inderectly.
  5. Charm the pen with partial transfiguration since it is known for being not possible. Therefore it cannot be the pen.
  6. Make it look like something else: stick, wand etc.
  7. Weren't there somebody who could swallo
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3Bird Concept
Welcome to LessWrong and great job completing your first babble challenge! #8 and #47 are hilarious. 
Open & Welcome Thread – October 2020
WrongPlanet*340

Hello there! :)

For about a month I have been reading lots on LessWrong and correlating websites/blogs. Now I finally want to become active and maybe in the future if it ever comes down to that contribute in some way... But first I will introduce myself:

I am 17 years old, currently I want to dedicate my future for AI stuff and also for making the world a better place. I found LessWrong by accident and was so delighted to find out that there is such a huge community about rationality, effective altruism, and other things. The way the people treat each other ... (read more)

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5scarcegreengrass
Welcome! Discovering the rationalsphere is very exciting, isn't it? I admire your passion for self improvement. I don't know if I have advice that isn't obvious. Read whoever has unfamiliar ideas. I learned a lot from reading Robin Hanson and Paul Christiano. As needed, journal or otherwise speak to yourself. Be wary of the false impression that your efforts have become ruined. Sometimes i encounter a disrespectful person or a shocking philosophical argument that makes me feel like giving up on a wide swathe of my life. I doubt giving up is appropriate in these disheartening circumstances. Seek to develop friendships with people you can have great conversations with. Speak to rationalists like you would speak to yourself, and speak tactfully to everyone else. That's the advice i would give to a version of myself in your situation. Have fun!
Litany Of Gendlin
WrongPlanet00

Talk:Litany of Gendlin

Source

Does anyone know where in Gendlin's writings this can be found? In particular, I'm wondering if it was a poem (or "litany") originally, or if it's just been formatted that way. 

--Zeke 20:03, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Page 140 of the 2nd edition of Focusing. It was not a poem originally.

--Vaniver 17:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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Least Convenient Possible World
WrongPlanet00

Talk:Least convenient possible world

This article would probably be improved by an example of how to apply the technique. I would have added one, but I didn't want to just copy and paste from Yvain's post, and I couldn't immediately think of a simple demonstration of the idea that wouldn't distract with irrelevant aspects (i.e., technical debates and political issues probably make poor examples). --A soulless automaton 00:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

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Costs Of Rationality
WrongPlanet00

Talk:Costs of Rationality

The tone of this page seems overly dramatic: "Be sure that you really want to know the truth before you commit to finding it; otherwise, you may flinch from it."

What is worse:

flinching from the truth initially but eventually embracing it.
Flinching form the truth and never embracing it.
Never finding the truth so there was never something to flinch from.

What purpose does this quote serve other then:

Scare people way.
be a self aggrandizing statement.

-- Davorak

The purpose is in honest communication of consequences of finding o
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