This sounds like a good idea, but I had a look at the website and it is unclear to me exactly how you plan to raise the sanity waterline.
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Outside view/counterfactual exercise. You have a cause, say global warming, which you think so important that even a small change to its odd of success trumps the direct moral impact of anything else you can do with your life. E.g. you believe that even an extra dollar of funding for alternative energy is more morally important than saving a human life (given that the person has a net 0 carbon footprint). However, you are open to the possibility that there is an even more important cause that trumps yours to a similar level. You also know that there have historically been people that thought their causes were as important as you think yours is and turned out to be horribly wrong, at least from your prospective e.x. the Bolsheviks. How much do you focus on directly contributing to your cause vs contributing to public goods, not defecting in prisoners dilemmas, and other conventional do gooding?
Is it currently better to donate to CfAR or MIRI?
Same, though in my case it is likely that that time was mostly funging against other internet timewasters not my worktime.
Many martial arts, as well as several performance arts and sports have well developed break fall techniques that can easily be added to a standard gym class curriculum. Some locations have tried doing so and so a large reduction in fall based injuries. Unfortunately, I don’t have those articles on hand, but here is a related one discussing the effectiveness of such techniques. If you are interested in learning them yourself they are pretty much the first thing you will learn in a standard Judo class.
Personal finance, both the investing end as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, and, more importantly, the (not) spending end.
Cooking. Most stuff on the CfAR curriculum. How to fall safely, its easy to learn and greatly reduces the danger of a fairly common type of injury.
I forgot to ask, does spelling count on the calibration questions? Because there are several were I was less confidient of my spelling than of having the basically right answer.
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I have found this to be the case. I still find the advice useful, but find myself thinking about how I’m going to retire early before remembering there was another reason I was saving that money.
I’m not sure, basically I hear a lot of vague references to it being good to have such a safe, but can’t figure out what if anything it is actually important for.
I just did a tried to do a Fermi calculation on the value of getting a fire-proof, theft resistant document safe, but can’t find a good number for the cost of identity theft. Does anyone have one on hand?
I’ve been doing an auditory variant of this drill for several weeks where my thoughts are being played on a radio.
May I suggest that you make sure all of your money is in accounts that don’t also have their names? You’d be disappointed by how many ~college age people get screwed by this.
Is there still a rewards credit card that autodonates to MIRI or CfAR? I’ve seen them mentioned, but can’t find any sign up links that are still live.
See Mr.Money Mustache’s 50 Jobs over $50,000 without a degree and SSC’s Floor Employment for a number of suggestions.
The timezone conversion links aren’t set up right. For most of them the first two characters lead to a different pare than the other characters.
An AI could spoof electronic communications, and fake/alter orders from various important humans.
I was able to get it installed, but get a message saying “Unfortunately, LifeTracking has stopped” whenever I try to go past the first page.
That seems to have worked.
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