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I wrote new articles related to Less Wrong:
Tutoring
I’ve continued tutoring Max regularly. The main, recurring topics remain text analysis and grammar. Max lessons playlist.
We also spent three sessions talking about motivation, scheduling, tiredness, procrastination, playing video games instead of working, etc. I know many people have those kinds of problems, and the advice could help anyone not just Max. Watch those videos: one, two, three.
You can hire me to help you learn, too.
POOGI
At the end of his Satellite Program in 1999, Eli Goldratt started an email forum. In his final, 14th letter, Goldratt wrote:
I want to check my basic assumption, the assumption that you are actually reading these letters [a friend of mine inserted toward the end of his Ph.D. dissertation a sentence stating that anyone who reached this page can claim from him a bottle of first class brandy. No one claimed it, not even his examiners]. So, please send me an e-mail saying “I read.” Email to Poogifourm@aol.com
That’s a nice anecdote about how bad PhD programs are. And I’d like to do the same test. Reply and let me know you read this. There are 750 newsletter subscribers but I don’t know how many are listening. Please also let me know how frequently you read links. Thanks.
Links
Decoupling norms (high vs. low couplers or contextualizers) is a worthwhile concept. It helps explain the conflicts between rationalist type people and others. It also explains part of why people do poorly on standardized tests, IQ tests, conjunction fallacy tests, etc.
Right-Wing Populism is a still-relevant 1992 article by Murray Rothbard.
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