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Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)

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I started posting on Less Wrong in 2011, learned about effective altruism, and four years later landed in the Bay Area. I was an ICU nurse in my past life, did several years of EA direct work in operations roles, and in 2022 spent a year writing for Vox Future Perfect.

You can find my fiction here: https://​​archiveofourown.org/​​users/​​Swimmer963

My un­der­stand­ing of An­thropic strategy

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 15 Feb 2023 1:56 UTC
166 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

What DALL-E 2 can and can­not do

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 1 May 2022 23:51 UTC
353 points
303 comments9 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Check­list Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 17 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC
122 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Should doc­tors be neu­tral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC
31 points
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Cur­ing in­san­ity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 2:28 UTC
159 points
8 comments4 min readLW link1 review

What is op­er­a­tions?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 26 Sep 2019 14:16 UTC
110 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Swim­mer963′s Shortform

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Aug 2019 14:48 UTC
17 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Re­claiming Ed­die Willers

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 13 Jul 2019 15:32 UTC
70 points
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Micro feed­back loops and learning

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 26 May 2019 0:50 UTC
50 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of growth mind­set or prac­tice in fiction

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 28 Sep 2015 21:47 UTC
25 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 8 Jan 2015 23:21 UTC
232 points
209 comments5 min readLW link

A dis­cus­sion of heroic responsibility

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 29 Oct 2014 4:22 UTC
83 points
216 comments7 min readLW link

“And that’s okay”: ac­cept­ing and own­ing reality

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 27 Jul 2014 19:13 UTC
39 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Meetup : Up­per Canada LW Megameetup: Ot­tawa, Toronto, Mon­treal, Water­loo, London

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 28 Jun 2014 22:48 UTC
4 points
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On Ter­mi­nal Goals and Virtue Ethics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Jun 2014 4:00 UTC
107 points
207 comments4 min readLW link

Ot­tawa meetup: Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Series, Value of Information

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 5 May 2014 15:48 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: So Good They Can’t Ig­nore You, by Cal Newport

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 23 Apr 2014 3:27 UTC
43 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 12 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC
43 points
252 comments5 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion: a self-experiment

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 30 Dec 2013 0:56 UTC
86 points
30 comments8 min readLW link

Does Goal Set­ting Work?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 16 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC
56 points
22 comments11 min readLW link