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From Replacing Guilt, “Half-assing it with everything you’ve got”: The slacker in you rebels against pointless tasks, and the tryer in you wants perfection. So satisfy both: aim for the minimum necessary target, and move there as efficiently as possible. This post in the [[Replacing Guilt]]N series is about the difference between the “quality line” and the “preference curve”. Backlinks [[Replacing Guilt]]N Metadata date: 2022-02-09 15:05 tags: - '@?notes' - '@?

From Replacing Guilt, “Recklessness”: Recklessness is in the ability to say “screw the odds, I’m going to push forward on this path as hard as I can until a better path appears.” If the odds are low, a better path is more likely to appear sooner rather than later — but the reckless let that be a fact about the paths, and they don’t further allow low odds to prevent them from pushing forward on the best path they can currently see, as fast as possible.

From Replacing Guilt, “Failing with Abandon”: … @?todo Metadata date: 2021-10-05 16:37 tags: - '@?notes' - '@?rationality' - '@?public' - '@?safe-to-post-online' title: Failing with Abandon

From Replacing Guilt, “Have no excuses”: Resolve to refuse to excuse your own failures in the even that you do fail, even if it was understandable. Don’t try to excuse bad luck; think of it more like it was a bet worth taking ( [[The Scout Mindset]]N). The difference is it means you own the choice. Admitting failure is and feeling pressure on yourself is “precisely the impetus to learn and adapt”. “Stop generating reasons why you never could have won, and play to win”.

From Replacing Guilt, “The value of a life”: If you have money and want to save lives, you had better put a price on life. Lives should be treated as priceless, but it’s instrumentally rational to assign a value to a life in order to effectively do the most good. The gap between the value and the price is a measure of the difference between the universe that is, and the universe that should be.

Replacing Guilt is a series of essays by Nate Soares about replacing guilt-based motivation with “intrinsic motivation” – a drive to do good in the world. I listened to the podcast version of it, which was produced by Gianluca Truda who makes the [[Bit of a Tangent]]?? podcast. I neglected to take notes the first time around which was a mistake but it was still very useful to listen to. Bold titles are episodes or posts that I especially enjoyed.

the action of attempting to explain or justify behaviour or an attitude with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate. Backlinks [[Misc Notes]]N Metadata date: 2021-02-10 21:07 tags: - '@?rationality' - '@?notes' - '@?public' title: Rationalization

I can’t explain this well enough to put it into flashcards but thought it was cool: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experiment-of-all-time.html https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk Backlinks [[Misc Notes]]N Metadata date: 2020-11-29 16:12 tags: - '@?rationality' - '@?public' - '@?safe-to-post-online' title: Roko's Basilisk