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Like Superman, but from a more rational Lex Luthor’s perspective. This was pretty good! It’s free to read online, listen to as a podcast or download an EPUB version (which is what I did). I read this after being recommended it on the [[Bit of a Tangent]]?? podcast, specifically episode 22 and the story is about Lex Luthor trying to grapple with Superman, who he considers an existential risk. Backlinks [[Book Notes]]N Metadata date: 2022-01-08 15:52 finished: true rating: 7 tags: - '@?

. Thoughts? Some of this reads like a “get rich quick” book page 126 Notes What is Optionality?? Optionality = the right, but not the obligation to take action. Optionality lets you explore freely, you have agency. From this definition, it seems pretty similar to the idea of slack which is defined by Zvi Mowshowitz as “the absence of binding constraints on behaviour”. Optionality lets you explore freely. Good options have an asymmetry between the cost and the potential benefit.

This a list of my projects, i.e. things I’ve spent time working on in the past. They’re loosely sorted by how exciting I think they are. For the most part, all of the code is available on my GitHub and my GitLab. On projects that you can try out right now in the browser, you can either click the link in the text or just click on the image. aqa++ go-albatross sergeant eulers 3d-noughts-and-crosses cal8 life gofu** go-lmc stacked timetable Works in Progress human-synthesizer map epq Older Projects punk function-mirror genetic-tea store-destruct genocides zombies corporate-jargon-generator midi-to-sonic-pi bad-video-calculator CodePen Quite Boring jump jbook spotify-song-cleaner aqa++

These are a few blog posts that I hope people might find interesting. A lot of them are a work in progress, or don’t exist at all. For brief explanations of things I’ve worked on in the past, see [[Projects]]B . Blog posts with a “⚠️” are either a work in progress, and posts with a “✍️” haven’t even been started yet. 2022 Jan: [[A Dangerous Way of Taking Derivatives]]B Feb: [[Can you ever draw in 3D noughts and crosses?

This is a list of all the miscellaneous content on the site: [[Favourite Media]]B Last updated: 2021-11-29 Backlinks [[How to get around]]M Metadata date: 2021-11-30 07:54 tags: - '@?public' - '@?safe-to-post-online' - '@?misc' title: Miscellaneous

These are miscellaneous notes I’ve made on things like textbooks, blog posts and mathematics. For book notes, see [[Book Notes]]N. Textbooks [[AI: A Modern Approach]]N Articles/Essays [[Article - Augmenting Long-term Memory]]N [[Article - Gwern LSD Microdosing RCT]]N [[100 Tips for a Better Life]]N [[Replacing Guilt]]N [[Meditations on Moloch]]N [[How can we develop transformative tools for thought?]]N [[Game Theory As A Dark Art]]N Mathematics For specific questions, I make notes in:

These are notes on books I’ve read, along with a rating and some extra random thoughts about them. Each one starts with a really stupid caveman explanation of the book, which I thought was funny a while ago but hurt to read a bit now. Notes on other things like textbooks, extra maths and articles can be found in [[Misc Notes]]N. Some of the notes contain flashcards, which are denoted by headings ending with two question marks, ?

These are my notes for studying Maths, Further Maths, Computing and Physics at A-level. These notes weren’t written with anyone else in mind, so if they do not make a whole lot of sense or seem strange you might be lacking the context that I had at the time of writing them. There’s also a lot of spelling mistakes (see the Further Maths ‘matricies’ topic for example). For a list of all the notes for each subject, see:

Man has existential crisis about who he is and what the mind is. Notes My notes aren’t great for the first two sections, as I hadn’t started highlighting. I. A Sense of Self Borges and I Borges and I, by Jorge Luis Borges Autobiographical essay about the conflict between the self and the persona. People think about themselves differently to how they act. Which is the true “you”, the one out there in the world or the one in your thoughts?

See also: [[My Experience with the Online Imperial Admissions Process]]B . I’m writing this post because before my interview I had a lot of questions about what it was going to be like, but couldn’t really find much information from people who had already had one. For some context, I made my UCAS application on October 11th 2021 to the following universities: Oxford, Mathematics and Computer Science Imperial, Mathematics and Computer Science UCL, Mathematics and Computer Science Southampton, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence Bristol, Mathematics and Computer Science And received a Imperial offer for A*A*AA with Grade 2 STEP requirements.

Man’s experience rises from a physical basis, but man has no good explanation of why and how it arises. Why should man get rich inner life? I read this but didn’t highlight any of it, so most of my notes come from Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth on LessWrong. Notes Measuring consciousness We now have technology that lets us point sensors at people’s heads and tell whether they are conscious even if they have full locked-in syndrome.

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.