Category Archives: models of thinking
Working with multiple problems at once
I have a friend who works in a charity which deals with people who are on the streets. She was telling me about the struggles they face and the difficulties they are working with. It seems like every person out … Continue reading
What does that look like in practice?
Core knowledge: List of common human goals Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 1a: The application of the secretary problem to real life dating Part 1b: adding and removing complexity from models Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a.1: A strategy against … Continue reading
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Core knowledge: List of common human goals Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 1a: The application of the secretary problem to real life dating Part 1b: adding and removing complexity from models Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a.1: A strategy against … Continue reading
An inquiry into memory of humans
In trying to understand how my memory for people works, I am trying to investigate in what order my people semantic network is arranged. For each exercise that follows you will need to think of a different person to avoid … Continue reading
Deriving techniques on the fly
Last year Lachlan Cannon came back from a CFAR reunion and commented that instead of just having the CFAR skills we need the derivative skills. The skills that say, “I need a technique for this problem” and let you derive … Continue reading
Cultivate the desire to X
This post is duplicated from the original. Original post: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/ndl/cultivate_the_desire_to_x/ Recently I have found myself encouraging people to cultivate the desire to X. Examples that you might want to cultivate interest in include: Diet Organise ones self Plan for the future … Continue reading
Preference over preference
With edits in blue. This post duplicates the original. Original post: Preference over preference Each individual person has a preference. Some preferences are strong, others are weak. For many preferences it’s more complicated than that; they aren’t static, and we change … Continue reading
Black box knowledge
This post is a duplicate of the original. Original post: Black box knowledge When we want to censor an image we put a black box over it. Over the area we want to censor. In a similar sense we can … Continue reading
Noble excuses
I was talking to a lady in her 60s who was losing weight, and exercising. She said to me; “All my life, my husband was an iron man. I felt terribly embarrassed, like everyone in the room was looking at … Continue reading
On excuses and validity
We learn’t yesterday about what is a problem? I want to talk about one specific aspect of the barrier. The part of the barrier that is inside your head. The one that makes excuses. The barrier inside my own head. … Continue reading
