Junk Heap Homotopy

Note: I’m experimenting with a new format where I vomit an essay into a voice memo and have Sonnet 4.5 minimally convert it into prose, only removing tics and fillers and flagging acronyms/links/footnotes it didn’t get so I can manually add them.

See discussion on LessWrong.There seems to be a stupid, embarrassingly simple solution to the following seemingly unrelated problems:

NOTE: this is about Daniel Gross’ interview on World of DaaS which can be found here: LINKWhat do we mean when we say that a person is energetic?

— a sequence introducing mathematical thinking to VerbalsThesis: (verbally loaded) mathematics is just philosophy, but where everything is precisely what we mean

Let’s start with some sage advice.A lot of curmudgeonly commenters on HN treat viable side-projects as a lottery.

Epistemic status: lots of introspection and typical-minding; caveat lector.I.

NOTE: This was originally a Reddit essay.

This sequence is Eliezer's second attempt at The Great Canon of Modern Rationality.

Note: I'm currently publishing pieces from my vault.

Note: I'm currently publishing pieces from my vault.

Everyone who writes for a living will eventually write about themselves.

I.I have a wiki.

On the 9th of May 2015...my stomach was grumbling.

In which I lay down foundationsProbability is interesting to me for two reasons:

In which I try to avoid Hell as much as I canI've heard a LOT of things, good and bad, about React Native (or RN for short) so I have decided to do a bit of prodding.

The Ghost of Testing PastThe SAPA project is a personality assessment tool.

Epistemic status: philosophical spitballing with a bit of mathI.