Slow morning, wasted ~1h 30min as I had to watch my brothers while parents were away, could have worked while watching them though.

Spent a few hours browsing the rationalist blogosphere, a few of the most interesting things I read

• On saving one's world

  An "extreme" key doesn't necessarily open an "extreme" lock. A dire-sounding key doesn't necessarily open a dire-feeling lock. A fearful or angry key doesn't necessarily open a lock that makes you want to express fear or anger.

• Tortoise skills (written by EY's wife!) very helpful advice for getting better at rationality, her other posts are good too.

  Specifically interesting when she talked about "Wizard skills" like Bayesian reasoning. To learn Bayesian reasoning:

  1. Practice "Philosophical" probability a lot, get to the point where I feel every cognitive argument in terms of probability-flows
  2. Have generally great world-knowledge for forming priors (e.g. knowing statistics by heart)
  3. ???
  4. Achieve The probability trance and become enlightened.

• The Most Useful Mnemonic Technique Mnemonics consists of translating System 2 knowledge into System 1 language.

• How Studying Mnemonics Changed the Way I Learn another great mnemonics post, and a great model to shoot for in my own mnemonic quest.

• CONSTANT VIGILANCE! Epiphany: Lucid dreaming and Rationality are both about holding on to consciousness

  Habit: Constantly ask myself "What would X do?" where X some master rationalist (e.g. Jeffreyssai, Harry, The Comet King)

• The 5-second Level Similar to framing exercises, thou shalt use concrete examples!

  To learn the skill "Resolving cognitive events to the 5-second level" I'm going to take a rationalist skill and decompose it to the 5-second-level. (edit: tried, kinda failed. Will try again later, I need to master this if I want to teach, or be good at this stuff myself)

• What universal human experiences are you missing? Avoid the typical mind fallacy! People's minds are wildly different

I'm going to start dedicating 2h/day to improving at the art of rationality. Minimum 1h practice (first) then 1h reading. (Also practice consciousness throughout the day, which is the most important part)

The most likely failure mode (to improving my rationality): Reading more than I practice, not practicing enough.

Spent the rest of the day pretty unproductively. Wasted ~2h chatting on Discord (elongate scandal, lmao). Spent some time working on my discord-twitter project

• Added more data from the API (but without making more requests)
• Added embeds support (mostly, need to work on this)
• Improved UI a bit (e.g. limited image size)

So unproductive! I need to focus! It's hard working on a discord app without being tempted to join in on some conversations. Perhaps rot13 in dev mode would help, or just not opening discord.

Tomorrow I'm going to restart my habit of not going on discord till 6pm/dinner. I had it going for a while, but somehow I quit (I've started disabling my discord block habitually, I'll have to make it harder to disable...)