Hi everyone! I found lesswrong at the end of 2022, as a result of ChatGPT’s release. What struck me fairly quickly about lesswrong was how much it resonated with me. Much of the ways of thinking discussed on lesswrong were things I was already doing, but without knowing the name for it. For example, I thought of the strength of my beliefs in terms of probabilities, long before I had ever heard the word “bayesian”.
Since discovering lesswrong, I have been mostly just vaguely browsing it, with some periods of more intense study. But I’m aware that I haven’t been improving my world model at the rate I would like. I have been spending far too much time reading things that I basically already know, or that only give me a small bit of extra information. Therefore, I recently decided to pivot to optimising for the accuracy of my map of the territory. Some of the areas I want to gain a better understanding of are perhaps some of the more ”weird” things discussed on lesswrong, such as quantum immortality or the simulation hypothesis.
Hi everyone!
I found lesswrong at the end of 2022, as a result of ChatGPT’s release. What struck me fairly quickly about lesswrong was how much it resonated with me. Much of the ways of thinking discussed on lesswrong were things I was already doing, but without knowing the name for it. For example, I thought of the strength of my beliefs in terms of probabilities, long before I had ever heard the word “bayesian”.
Since discovering lesswrong, I have been mostly just vaguely browsing it, with some periods of more intense study. But I’m aware that I haven’t been improving my world model at the rate I would like. I have been spending far too much time reading things that I basically already know, or that only give me a small bit of extra information. Therefore, I recently decided to pivot to optimising for the accuracy of my map of the territory. Some of the areas I want to gain a better understanding of are perhaps some of the more ”weird” things discussed on lesswrong, such as quantum immortality or the simulation hypothesis.
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