Study Notes: Nov 30-Dec 31, 2015

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What I've been watching and reading in this time: 

• Post, "Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently", by Lukeprog
• Post, "Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)", by Anna Salamon and Duncan Sabien
• Article, "How to Be an Anticapitalist Today", by Erik Olin Wright
• Post, "The Confucian heuristic", by Harold Lee
• Post, "Some Practical Writing Advice From Douglas Coupland", by Douglas Coupland
• Post, "Ten brutally brutal writing commandments", by Phil Jourdan
• Article, "10 Ways to Launch Strong Scenes", by Jordan E. Rosenfeld

Other notes: 

• Regarding "Saber Smiths"
• Notes on Antarctic research stations

Homework for the future:

• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Read Fenrir's Shrine. 
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 
• Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.

Notes to: Yvain's "Priming" Sequence

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A four-part "sequence" or series on "priming" by Yvain (AKA Scott Alexander).

1. Never Leave Your Room
2. Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline
3. The Implicit Association Test
4. Fight Biases, or Route Around Them?

Study Notes: Sep 20-Oct 24, 2015: "Beware Systemic Change"

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What I've been watching and reading in this time: 

• Post, "Beware Systemic Change", by Scott Alexander
• Article, "The dimming of the light", by Sudhi Hazareesingh
• Post, "Contra Caplan on Mental Illness", by Scott Alexander
• Article, "Murder she wrought", Melanie McGrath
• Post, "Baltimore, Leaderless; The Mafia Could Run Things", by Bob Parkinson

Homework for the future:

• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Finish the reading for "Notes to: Anarchy: Never Been Tried?"
• Finish the reading for "Notes to 16 Articles on Writing"
• Read Fenrir's Shrine. 
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 
• Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.

Study Notes: Sep 13-19, 2015: "Effective altruism and mistakes of globalization"

This is commentary. And this is really good. 

What I've been watching and reading in this time: 

• Post, "Effective Altruism and mistakes of globalization", by Topher Hallquist
• Article, "You Ain't Seen Sustainable Dining Until You've Eaten Here", by Rebecca Flint Marx
• Article, "Origins", by Jacob Mikanowski
• Post, "DBT Sequence: Radical Acceptance", by Ozy
• Post, "Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers", by Scott Alexander
• Article, "A happy state", by Benjamin Radcliff
• Post, "Artistic greatness, according to my brain: a first pass", by Luke Muehlhauser

Homework for the future:

• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Finish the reading for "Notes to: Anarchy: Never Been Tried?"
• Finish the reading for "Notes to 16 Articles on Writing"
• Read Fenrir's Shrine. 
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 
• Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.

Study Notes: Aug 30-Sep 12, 2015: "Perfect genetic knowledge"

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What I've been watching and reading in this time: 

• Article, "The V.C.s of B.C.", by Adam Davidson
• Article, "Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought", by Liz Kruesi
• Article, "Cover of darkness", by Jamie Bartlett
• Article, "Perfect genetic knowledge", by Dawn Field
• Article, "The Limits of Language", by David Auerbach
• Post, "DBT Analysis: Chain Analysis", by Ozy
• Post, "Specific vs. General Foragers & Farmers", by Robin Hanson
• Post, "Identities Are Not Arguments", by Ozy
• Article, "Clothes and daggers", by Rafia Zakaria
• Article, "Think Like A Tree: A New Kind of Eco-Friendly Concrete Inspired By Coral", Shara Tonn
• Article, "How to Write Convincing Death Scenes", by Bianca Nogrady
• Article, "Book Review: Manufacturing Consent", by Scott Alexander

Homework for the future:

• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Finish the reading for "Notes to: Anarchy: Never Been Tried?"
• Finish the reading for "Notes to 16 Articles on Writing"
• Read Fenrir's Shrine. 
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 
• Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.

Study Notes: Aug 9-29, 2015: "Homes for the homeless"

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What I've been watching and reading in this time: 

• Article, "Decoded octopus genome reveals secrets to complex intelligence", by Katherine Harmon Courage
• Article, "Canon of taste", by Jill Neimark
• Article, "The hacker hacked", by Brett Scott
• Post, "Mysticism and Pattern-Matching", by Scott Alexander
• Article, "Homes for the homeless", by Susie Cagle
• Post, "Effective Altruism, spending habits, and Burning Man", by Topher Hallquist

Other notes: 

• Notes to: 4 articles on writing scientific papers

Homework for the future:

• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Finish the reading for "Notes to: Anarchy: Never Been Tried?"
• Finish the reading for "Notes to 16 Articles on Writing"
• Read Fenrir's Shrine. 
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 
• Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.

Study Notes: Feb 22-Mar 7, 2015: "How Deaf People Think" &c

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What I've been watching and reading this week: 

• Post, "Horror, the Grotesque, and the Macabre: A Christian Appraisal" by SDG
• Article, "How Deaf People Think" by Daven Hiskey
• Article, "Multilinguals Have Multiple Personalities" by Alice Robb
• Article, "Raising Backyard Chickens for Dummies" by Jason Price
• Post, "Multiple Systems FAQ" (& other pp) by Living Plural (Blog)
• Post, "Hermione Granger Versus the Methods of Rationality" by Sam Keeper
• Post, "Hunger Metagames" by Sam Keeper