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Summary of Replacing Guilt
A Notebook LM summary of Nate Soares’s book, which advocates for replacing guilt with more effective tools such as intrinsic drive, cold resolve, or hot…
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Dawn Drescher
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SquigglyPy: Alpha Version of Squiggle for Python
SquigglyPy uses sampling to allow you to do math with arbitrary probability distributions in two dimensions.
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Dawn Drescher
Researchers Answering Questions 2020
I used a recent Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) of Rethink Priorities to ask a few researchers a series of questions about research in general.
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Dawn Drescher
How Might Better Collective Decision-Making Backfire?
I’ve asked the titular question in the EA Forum. I also posted some answers of my own from the get go, but other people added more, and I, too, posted…
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Dawn Drescher
Donations 2020
I’ve put approximately $7,000 into the $500,000 donor lottery and donated some odds and ends to the Center on Long-Term Risk
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Dawn Drescher
Harnessing Cognitive Dissonance
My feeling of motivation seems to stem, in some cases, from cognitive dissonance. I consider how I may intentionally generate cognitive dissonance for…
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Dawn Drescher
Direct Suffering Caused by Various Animal Foods
I converted Brian Tomasik’s How Much Direct Suffering Is Caused by Various Animal Foods? to Guesstimate. We now have ranges, distributions, and the…
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Dawn Drescher
Levels of Moral Cooperation
What level of cooperation with other activists or general agenty people is optimal?
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Dawn Drescher
Covid-19 Costs
A Guesstimate to convert microcovids to dollars
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Dawn Drescher
Useful Things
Some programs, platforms, apps, extensions, services, lifehacks, etc. that I’ve found useful
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Dawn Drescher
Summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality
Arif Ahmed’s Evidence, Decision, and Causality (2014) is a dense, mathematical book-length argument against causalism and for the merits of evidential…
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Dawn Drescher
Thoughts: The Transparent Newcomb’s Problem
Writing my summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality, I got interested in how EDT might be able to succeed by precommitting, and how different…
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