I try to distill the most impactful knowledge over a long time.
I am interested in almost anything but organically gravitate towards topics like cognitive biases, psychology, view quakes, well-being, epistemology, mental models, collective coordination and decision-making, rationality and effective altruism. I don’t normal write. But I care about being simple and precise. Read more in about.
<aside> 💡 See my blog on Substack. I post essays and updates from this website.
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<aside> 💡 Here are some short-form ideas or things that are more experimental. I post some of them also on Twitter and Facebook. See older one here.
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– Why is it so-hard to read and consider alternate explanations? – Why is it so-hellish-hard to read and consider alternate explanations when the source is someone I respect? – Why is it so-hellish-hellish-hard to read and consider alternate explanations when the source is someone I respect and is respected by people I respect?
May 3, 2023
Bet: David Sinclair is gonna receive a Nobel price someday Probably no (~20%)
March 11, 2023
Imagine a possibility of an alien creature with no scope-neglect. We are living in the world where we comprehend things through singular entities. One is understood – but comparing, relating, imagining two things is harder, three even harder, five difficult, ten very very difficult. Difference between things like 1k, 10k, 100k are almost impossible for us to grasp