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Beeminder's an evidence-based willpower augmention tool that collects quantifiable data about your life, then helps you organize it into commitment mechanisms so you can keep resolutions. They've also got a blog about what they're doing here
The COVID-19 Forecasting Project at the University of Oxford is making advanced pandemic simulations of 150+ countries available to the public, and also offer pro-bono forecasting services to decision-makers.
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Norwegian founders with an international team on a mission to offer the equivalent of a Norwegian social safety net globally available as a membership. Currently offering travel medical insurance for nomads, and global health insurance for remote teams.
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Yearly Archives: 2014
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”
From the Department of Being Very Complete In Listing Possible Explanations: It turns out that witchcraft beliefs arise in surprisingly similar forms in many parts of the world, which suggests either that there really are witches or (more likely) that … Continue reading
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
I am going to do something very dangerous today, something that makes me acutely aware of my own mortality. I am going to disagree with Robin Hanson. In my defense, he wrote an entire blog post called Don’t Be ‘Rationalist’. … Continue reading
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you were and weren’t allowed to do, and by golly you listened. Your Culture told you to work … Continue reading
Don’t Be An Asch-Hole
Contrary to the direction the comments took, my Asch story the other day wasn’t intended to make any special commentary on families. That was just the first issue I thought of that wasn’t already so politicized that the story would … Continue reading
Open Thread
Let’s try this and see what happens. Rules are anyone can post any discussion topic in the comments and other commenters join in. I’ll also use this as a generic housekeeping thread for my own requests, of which right now … Continue reading
Asches to Asches
[Content note: fictional story contains gaslighting-type elements. May induce Cartesian skepticism] You wake up in one of those pod things like in The Matrix. There’s a woman standing in front of you, wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard. “Hi,” … Continue reading
Southeast Michigan Meetup 6/8
There will be a Michigan rationalist/LW/SSC meetup at my house, halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor, on Sunday, June 8th at 2 PM. You can find my address and directions here Topic will be “Yes, It’s Another Michigan Meetup” Ozy … Continue reading
Links for June 2014
Adorable ten year old Indian child sends a $20 bill to India’s central bank to “help the economy”. Here’s the letter they sent back. This is something I imagine Ozy having done as a ten year old. Did you know … Continue reading