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Excerpts from my digital garden. There's no explicit structure to this graph of writings. It's a hedge maze with wild vines overgrowing parts of the path, essays and ideas scattered throughout the topiary.
Academic urban legends
An essay on the prevalance of rumors and urban legends in academic writing. Categories [[Academic Articles]] Author Ole Bjørn Rekdal Sour...
Andy Matuschak
Avoid defaulting to the ignorance prior
In a situation where I'm assessing an uncertain thing, I'm often tempted to default to the uniform ignorance prior - assigning an equal probability to all potential outcomes. This is almost...
Consensus Statement on Morality
Article A joint statement from several moral philosophers in 2010 on what they believed to be the basic tenants of morality. Morality is a natural and cultural phenomenon The building blocks...
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As of 2019 it had 220 employees and a budget of $3.427 billion. [[The 2019 executive budget allocated 118.1 billion for Federal R&D ::rmn]]
Decision Support Systems
Automated or semi-automated systems for assisting users in making or executing decisions. Overlaps with [[Tools for Thought]]
DeepGreen
Humans are leaky virtual machines
I posit the way we understand other people is by simulating versions of them on our hardware. It's like how a computer can run many copies of other software as virtual machines If I'm in a...
Lifting off the digital plateau with military decision support systems
Categories #Paper Source https://archive.vn/wip/efNwb An overview of the history, design, and eventual failure of DARPA's futuristic command and control sy...
Mindsets are the context for thoughts
I have been journaling consistently for two years now. One of the benefits of this log of thoughts is seeing the trends and patterns in my thinking. In particular I've begun to notice that cert...
Negotiating as if your life depended on it
Author:: Chris Voss Notes It's interesting to see how much overlap there is between Circling and hostage negotiation. The right to say no, the right to veto, is crucial. People will figh...
Never make an unending commitment with no potential outs
I try to be a genre-savvy type of guy, and I avoid making errors that would cause me to sigh at shitty writing if I saw a protagonist doing it in a book. So things like summoning something which I ...
Pattern languages
Categories #Concepts Sources Joshua Kerievsky, Maggie Apppleton Related to [[Digital Garden]] [[strategies]] Pattern Languages convey exp...
Pixel art
Research as a stochastic decision process
Categories #Article Author Jacob Steinhardt Source https://archive.vn/27Rvs Notes In a project where there are independent s...
Satisfaction and progress in open Ended work
Categories #Article Author [[Andy Matuschak]] Source Satisfaction and Progress in Open-Ended Work Notes Execution mode and open-ended wor...
The best general advice on earth
Categories #Article Source Notes Excerpts from an 1890's book on psychology. Emphasizes the importance of making your nervous system - your automat...
The bitter lesson
Author:: Rich Sutton Source:: https://archive.vn/sD0RM The biggest lesson from [[AI]] research is that general methods that leverage computation are the most effective by a large margin. This i...
The fda's perpetual process machine
Categories #Article Author Paul Romer Source The FDA's Perpetual Process Machine Related to [[FDA]] [[Bad Institutions]] ...
The kek wars
Author John Michael Greer Sources (1)(2)(3)(4) Very interesting! Probably bullshit, but thought provoking with some important kernels of truth. I wonder what t...
Timeful texts
An inspiring vision of redesigning books for deeper engagement. Categories #Article Author [[Andy Matuschak]] Source Timeful Texts ...
Tools for Thought
Use the first person instead of the second person
Use the first person instead of the second Recently, while Circling, a friend expressed a conviction that it would be better for me to own my thoughts and feelings by using language that expresses...
User interface: a personal view
Author [[Alan Kay]] Source http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface,%20a%20Personal%20View.pdf I read McLuhan's Understanding Media and und...
heuristic
mindset
productivity