[cross-posted at Less Wrong] One day a coworker said to me, “Luke! You’re, like, the happiest person I know! How come you’re so happy all the time?” It was probably a rhetorical question, but I had a very long answer to give. See, I was unhappy for most of my life,1 and even considered suicide

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Emergent Math has a blog post talking about how he and his daughter found an opportunity for physics on a snow day. They collected snow in a large cup and marked both their predictions of how much water there would be when it melted. I won’t spoil the ending, you’ll have to go to his

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We’re looking for an additional full-time logistics manager to work with us in the Bay Area. Of course, at a rationality education startup, logistics can sometimes look a little weird. Sure, we have the normal concerns (food, snacks, and chairs all prepped for our beta test classes?) but sometimes we have requirements that are a

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A storm came up from the southwest this morning, and it’s been raining on and off all day. After a glum trudge across London, you reach the house from which your client’s brother disappeared and skulk about, looking for an unobtrusive opportunity to enter. Turns out there’s a window left open on the south side

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Starting this week, CFAR is expanding the scope of our newsletter and this blog. Previously, we used the newsletter primarily to let you know about upcoming workshops and fundraising drives. Now, we plan to send out an email once every two weeks to share interesting news about rationality and habits you can try, to give

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