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- 18:24, 2 August 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+101) . . N Tips for reviving a spaced repetition practice (Created page with " ==See also== * Continually make new cards Category:Spaced repetition Category:Command")
- 18:22, 2 August 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+1,358) . . N Continually make new cards (Created page with "In Anki, having a fresh stream of new cards seems important for keeping up the daily habit. I went through a period where I barely reviewed my cards at all, and the review...")
- 08:53, 14 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+75) . . N Spaced inbox review should not be completionist (Issa moved page Spaced inbox review should not be completionist to Spaced inbox review should not be completionist or obligatory) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 08:49, 14 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+508) . . N Spaced inbox review should not be completionist or obligatory (Created page with "Seeing the number of cards that are due in Anki feels opressive... like, "i have all these cards due and that means i'm not even meeting the 90% retention rate!!!" or somethin...")
- 23:25, 3 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+1,050) . . N Spaced repetition response as chat message or chat reaction (Created page with "From [https://github.com/riceissa/spaced-inbox/blob/9ff26b5cf51b6fed52877233ae41384262609355/schema.sql#L46-L56 here]: <pre>The responses are intended to mimic the kinds of r...")
- 23:06, 3 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+877) . . N Finding the right primitives for spaced repetition responses (Created page with "incremental reading in SM doesn't distinguish between "i don't want to read this because i'm just not in a mathy mood right now" and "i don't want to read this because i'v...")
- 19:20, 20 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+254) . . N Late 2021 MIRI conversations (Created page with "https://www.lesswrong.com/s/n945eovrA3oDueqtq {| class="wikitable" ! Title !! Summary !! Things that were interesting to me !! Further reading |- | |} ==See also== ==What l...")
- 22:25, 12 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+144) . . N How similar are human brains to chimpanzee brains? (Created page with ""because our brains are so similar to those of chimps" https://www.lesswrong.com/s/n945eovrA3oDueqtq/p/gf9hhmSvpZfyfS34B Category:AI safety") (current)
- 18:16, 1 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+6,187) . . N Application of functional updateless timeless decision theory to everyday life (Created page with "While the application of functional/updateless/timeless decision theory to decision-...")
- 20:55, 18 March 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+172) . . N Doomer argument against AI safety (Created page with "Example: https://www.facebook.com/ozzie.gooen/posts/10166018642385363 ==See also== ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Category:AI safety") (current)
- 14:42, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+244) . . N Minimal AGI (Created page with " the term "minimal aligned AGI" was used in https://intelligence.org/2017/12/01/miris-2017-fundraiser/ ==External links== ==References== <references/> ==What links here=...") (current)
- 14:29, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+468) . . N Pivotal act (Created page with "A '''pivotal act''' is (putting down my guess here) something that allows a single entity (?) to take over the world? form a singleton? prevent others from taking over the...")
- 11:13, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+611) . . N Aligning smart AI using slightly less smart AI (Created page with "A strategy that some (who focus on machine learning safety) have cited for their relative optimism on the difficulty of AI alignment: we humans wouldn't need to direct...")
- 10:59, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Difficulty of AI alignment (Created page with " Category:AI safety")
- 12:18, 7 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+371) . . N Comparison of pedagogical scenes (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Name !! Medium !! Focus on explanation vs creating/doing? !! Focus on analyzing explanations? |- | Generic pedagogy || |- | Tools for though...")
- 11:22, 6 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . N Category:Therapy and meditation (Created page with "i think of therapy and meditation as being pretty similar, so pages about that. i've also heard "metatherapy" as a term for this. i wish there was a better term to use here.") (current)
- 11:10, 6 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+492) . . N Instruction manuals vs giving the answers (Created page with "something i've noticed that's odd about https://meditationbook.page/ is that it's written as an instruction manual (like "follow these steps") rather than giving the answers (...")
- 04:01, 9 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+607) . . N Braid (Created page with "With Braid, you learn actual things. And you can tell this because you can immediately re-solve puzzles you've solved before. Contrast this with Stephen's Sausage Roll or...")
- 23:41, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+210) . . N Philosophical difficulty (Created page with "I find that people besides Wei Dai seem to just sort of ignore this problem ==See also== * Human safety problem ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLP...")
- 23:38, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+184) . . N Weird recursion (Created page with ""mistrust of weird recursions" (see Eliezer's comment on Paul agenda FAQ) ==See also== ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Category:AI...") (current)
- 23:37, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+242) . . N Number of relevant actors around the time of creation of AGI (Created page with "* How many groups will plausibly be "in the running" to be the first to reach AGI? * This number has implications for ease of coordination. ==See also== ==What links here==...") (current)
- 20:05, 5 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+395) . . N Tricky examples in basic probability (Created page with "* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dkrfGqJrGRx2HsLpe/rafael-harth-s-shortform?commentId=tjkEbsuGjZK22a84W * Monty Hall problem * https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/wiki/User:I...") (current)
- 00:18, 25 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+63) . . N Deliberate practice for math (Issa moved page Deliberate practice for math to Deliberate practice for learning proof-based math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 19:59, 24 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+370) . . N Deliberate practice for learning proof-based math (Created page with "What would a deliberate practice for math look like? Specifically, while self-studying undergraduate-level and graduate-level proof-based math. ==Some difficulties with apply...")
- 17:24, 15 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+846) . . N Can the behavior of approval-direction be undefined or random? (Created page with "In approval-direction, what if the behavior turns out to be undefined/random? This could happen if the human can be convinced to give high approval to basically ''every''...") (current)
- 22:40, 14 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+329) . . N Credit card research 2021 (Created page with "In October 2021 I did some research on getting a credit card for the first time. ==Reasons I hadn't bothered getting a credit card until now== ==Reasons I decided to get a c...")
- 20:00, 29 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+266) . . N Tao Analysis Flashcards (Created page with "* Website: https://riceissa.github.io/tao-analysis-flashcards/ * Announcement blog post: https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/announcing-tao-analysis-flashcards/ ==Wh...") (current)
- 05:58, 27 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+229) . . N List of interesting search engines (Created page with "* https://searchmysite.net/ -- search engine for personal/independent sites * https://wiby.me/ -- search engine for JavaScript-free/1990s-looking sites * https://search.margin...")
- 07:57, 24 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+892) . . N Fractally misfit (Created page with "Some people ("socially well-adjusted people") fit into the default/mainstream society and are popular/charismatic/well-liked to some degree. Of the remaining people ("the misf...")
- 00:24, 20 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+936) . . N You don't need to eat your own dogfood in explanation science (Created page with "Sometimes people like to criticize a piece ''about pedagogy'' (i.e. not a pedagogical piece itself) by saying it's difficult to understand, or that it doesn't follow its own r...") (current)
- 21:25, 15 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+458) . . N Fake motivation (Created page with "Something that really bugs me about math exposition is when people attempt to give a motivation and believe they've succeeded when in fact the audience isn't really motivated....")
- 21:19, 15 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . N Definitions last (Created page with "There's [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Examples_first examples first] and [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Define_then_discuss define then discuss], but another principl...")
- 20:22, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N Bury cards to speed up review (Issa moved page Bury cards to speed up review to Bury effortful cards to speed up review) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:19, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+358) . . N Single-model generality (Created page with "In machine learning, '''single-model generality''' is the kind of generality where literally the same model (i.e. weights in a neural network, or whatever) can be used to solv...") (current)
- 20:18, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+500) . . N Single-architecture generality (Created page with "In machine learning, '''single-architecture generality''' (is there a standard term for this?) is the kind of generality where the same basic architecture can be trained separ...") (current)
- 23:36, 10 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,016) . . N Discovery fiction (Created page with "'''Discovery fiction''' is a style of pedagogy in which one presents a fictitious story about how someone could have invented an idea. <blockquote>However, there is another w...")
- 21:07, 30 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+54) . . N Category:Philosophy (Created page with "Pages about philosophy that don't fit under AI safety.") (current)
- 21:06, 30 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Desiderata for cognitive reductions (Issa moved page Desiderata for cognitive reductions to Desiderata for dissolving the question) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:41, 28 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Secret sauce (Redirected page to Secret sauce for intelligence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:16, 24 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+271) . . N What counts as good motivation? (Created page with "* It helps solve some interesting problem * there is some kind of inherent beauty or something fascinating about the thing * it explains some great mystery that you have ==Se...")
- 20:15, 24 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . N Page template (Created page with "==See also== ==External links== ==References== <references/> ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} [[Category:]]")
- 01:47, 23 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,541) . . N Big cards can be good for mathematical discovery (Created page with "I had an awful card about Wang coding from studying computability theory a few years ago (I was just learning how to use Anki for math back then). No surprise then that I kept...")
- 04:19, 16 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,294) . . N Exhaustive quizzing allows impatient learners to skip the reading (Created page with "A strong enough exhaustive quizzing system (e.g. Anki-like prompts that exhaustively cover the material) allows learning to be flip-flopped so that you try to answer questions...")
- 00:55, 16 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+232) . . N What makes a word explanation good? (Created page with "* Establishes the prerequisites/background the reader needs, and then builds on that background * Anticipates common misinterpretations/misconceptions and counters them ==See...")
- 03:53, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+289) . . N Explanation science (Created page with "'''Explanation science''' is a phrase that keeps entering my verbal loop. I think there is a science of writing great explanations. ==See also== * We still don't know how...")
- 02:26, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+792) . . N We still don't know how to systematically write great word explanations (Created page with "Word explanations are already great, but they are extremely rare and seem to require a very skilled explainer, and may only be possible for some topics. How can we (as a c...")
- 00:16, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Extrapolation argument for AI timelines (Redirected page to Fractional progress argument for AI timelines) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:15, 28 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N Permutation trick (Redirected page to Add all permutations of a card to prevent pattern-matching) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 19:10, 21 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+639) . . N Word explanations are already great (Created page with "I was recently reading https://math.stackexchange.com/a/498790/35525 and it reminded me that explanations using only words (no pictures, no video, no interactivity, no animati...")
- 23:33, 18 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+121) . . N Robin Hanson (Created page with "''Robin Hanson''' is an economist who has also written a lot about the future including AI stuff. Category:AI safety")
- 23:33, 18 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Hanson (Redirected page to Robin Hanson) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:24, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Discontinuity from HLMI (Redirected page to Explosive aftermath) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:24, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Discontinuity from AGI (Redirected page to Explosive aftermath) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:23, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . N Discontinuity to HLMI (Redirected page to Sudden emergence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:23, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . N Discontinuity to AGI (Redirected page to Sudden emergence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:22, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,081) . . N Explosive aftermath (Created page with "In AI takeoff, '''explosive aftermath''' (also sometimes called things like '''discontinuity ''from'' AGI''') is the hypothesis that once the first highly capable AI syste...") (current)
- 06:31, 13 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+344) . . N Are due counts harmful? (Created page with "One of the difficulties of using spaced repetition is that it can feel like an obligation to keep reviewing things each day. Du...") (current)
- 23:49, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+64) . . N My beginner incremental reading questions (Created page with " ==See also== * SuperMemo shortcuts Category:SuperMemo")
- 23:48, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+105) . . N SuperMemo (Created page with "* SuperMemo shortcuts * My beginner incremental reading questions Category:Spaced repetition") (current)
- 23:40, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,026) . . N SuperMemo shortcuts (Created page with "Here are some shortcuts for SuperMemo. Most of them were introduced to me by Raj on our first tutorial call. * alt-x -- extract the highlighted text * q -- takes you into...")
- 19:33, 11 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+402) . . N Add easy problems as cards with large graduating interval (Created page with "For super easy math problems like most of janich's linear algebra multiple choice questions, there could be a separate deck with graduating interval of 1-2 years or so...") (current)
- 19:10, 11 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+305) . . N Cognitive biases that are opposites of each other (Created page with " critch's bystander effect vs unilateralist's curse is another example of opposite biases. cognitive biases: but then there are ones like dunning-kruger, which give _differe...")
- 19:58, 10 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Anki (Created page with "* https://issarice.com/anki Category:Spaced repetition")
- 21:59, 6 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N Potpourri hypothesis (Redirected page to Potpourri hypothesis for math education) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:59, 6 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,192) . . N Potpourri hypothesis for math education (Created page with "The '''potpourri hypothesis for math education''' states that when thinking about an ideal math education, there will be various interventions that each add value, instead of...") (current)
- 08:37, 29 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+745) . . N If you want to succeed in the video games industry (Created page with "'''"If you want to succeed in the video games industry..."''' is a catchphrase often said by Jonathan Blow. The phrase is often followed by something ridiculous or extreme...") (current)
- 19:11, 23 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+412) . . N Textbook test for AI theory (Created page with "textbook test/paper test: so my question for robin hanson is, once you have a complete theory of AI, how many pages of text does it take to describe that theory in sufficient...")
- 19:33, 19 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+675) . . N Setting up Windows (Created page with "stuff... * Emacs: need to use weird trick so that opening from task bar doesn't leave the blank console open; magit doesn't work so I gave up and am using git bash * neovim:...")
- 20:37, 14 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N Creative forgetting (Created page with "forgetting something is not always bad. by forgetting, you allow yourself to look at the same thing with "fresh eyes". stuff to add to this page: * some stuff from the Sup...")
- 20:12, 13 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Thinking Physics for math (Redirected page to Thinking Mathematics) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:10, 13 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+613) . . N Thinking Mathematics (Created page with "is there a Thinking Economics? basically a Thinking Physics for econ. actually, is there a Thinking Mathematics? (maybe AOPS books are it?) it feels like math would w...")
- 18:16, 7 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+50) . . N Deck options for small cards (Created page with " Category:Spaced repetition Category:Anki")
- 01:38, 5 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+458) . . N Reference class forecasting on human achievements argument for AI timelines (Created page with "'''Reference class forecasting on human achievements''' uses various reference classes like "ambitious STEM technology" or "notable mathematical conjectures" to get an o...")
- 04:24, 31 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+645) . . N Equivalence classes of prompts (Created page with "In Anki each card has exactly one way it could appear in reviews. But instead of having a one-to-one relationship between cards-at-review-time and atomic-fact-to-be-learne...")
- 22:52, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Master How To Learn guy (Redirected page to Hnous927) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:51, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+97) . . N Hnous927 (Created page with "'''hnous927''' is the author of the website MasterHowToLearn. Category:Spaced repetition")
- 22:50, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Hnous (Redirected page to Hnous927) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:32, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Math vs video games (Redirected page to Video games comparison to math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:31, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Video games vs math (Redirected page to Video games comparison to math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 02:07, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+537) . . N Should booster cards be marked as new? (Created page with "In some unlocking mechanisms of booster cards, there is the option to either tell the learner that the car...")
- 17:50, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Narrow augmentation (Redirected page to Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:50, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Broad augmentation (Redirected page to Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:46, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+227) . . N Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation (Created page with "Here is one axis I've been paying attention to when thinking about the question of "how to do we make people better at thinking?": * '''narrow/vertical/specialized''': * '''b...")
- 17:19, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+573) . . N Existing implementations of card sharing have nontrivial overhead (Created page with "All existing implementations of card sharing are pretty inconvenient to use if you just want to make some cards and share them with a friend. For example if I want to use...")
- 05:10, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+421) . . N Cards created by oneself can be scheduled more aggressively (Created page with "A similar point was made by Andy Matuschak about Quantum Country cards: if you encounter a card as part of an article you're reading, you know/understand the facts wel...")
- 16:44, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+909) . . N Optimal unlocking mechanism for booster cards is unclear (Created page with "When creating booster cards, there are a few different mechanisms for unlocking the cards that one can imagine: * time-based unlocking: 3 months after you read the initia...")
- 02:42, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . N Category:Claim (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a claim.") (current)
- 02:41, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+107) . . N Category:Command (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a command. Often for tips I have, or an exhortation for myself or others.") (current)
- 02:41, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . N Category:Question (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a question.") (current)
- 20:05, 27 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,101) . . N Different mental representations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math (Created page with "If we want something like a Braid for math, one blocker is that the same mathematical object might have completely different ways of thinking about it (i.e. completely dif...")
- 00:24, 27 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+397) . . N Video games allow immediate exploration (Created page with "Video games typically have a one-to-one relationship between the objects that the game is about, and the objects on the screen. This makes exploration immediate, intuitive, an...")
- 23:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+158) . . N Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory (Created page with "'''Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory'''. ==See also== * Duolingo for math * Braid for math Category:Learning")
- 22:07, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+175) . . N Combinatorial explosion in math (Created page with "One of the key difficulties in math, compared to puzzle games, is the combinatorial explosion of ideas. ==See also== Category:Learning")
- 22:04, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+62) . . N Braid for math (Created page with " ==See also== * Duolingo for math Category:Learning")
- 21:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+74) . . N Live math video (Created page with "I wrote about this here: https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Live_math_video")
- 21:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+231) . . N Duolingo for math (Created page with "An idea I roll around in my head from time to time, not as an idea to be taken literally, but as a tool to generate new ideas, is trying to imagine what a '''Duolingo for...")
- 21:49, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+475) . . N Can spaced repetition interfere with internal sense of relevance? (Created page with "There's a Matt vs Japan video that says that Anki can mess up your internal sense of how frequent certain words are (especially if those words are very infrequent/rare...")
- 21:44, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+414) . . N Physical vs digital clutter (Created page with "A big difference between '''physical and digital clutter''' is that the latter doesn't take up space, so there is little cost to keeping stuff around. You aren't taking up spa...")
- 20:44, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+904) . . N Booster card (Created page with " I think that something like Quantum Country would benefit from having additional cards that you can collect by reading a separate page a month or so after you read the...")
- 16:17, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+647) . . N Large graduating interval as a way to prevent pattern-matching (Created page with "One problem with spaced repetition cards (especially cloze deletion cards) is that the brain just remembers the "shape" of a card without really internalizing the righ...")
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