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Intelligent Use of LLMs
I would like to start a thread to share the methods we employ to use LLMs in a way that enhances our abilities, rather than just lazily outsources tasks to them. The heuristic for the techniques I am looking for would be if after employing the technique, a... posted 23h ago with 1 reply 4 4

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Mostly I use LLMs (claude) for fairly constrained code-drafting, in which it implicitly looks up all the specifics of how to call this or that and threads the pieces together. It's basically like stackoverflow for your particular problem. This only works f... 7h ago 2 2

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Should You Hide Your Power Level?
It's common in radical chan-derived internet circles to speak of "hiding your power level", meaning not letting the normies know just how much anime you watch, or just how nuanced your opinions of Hitler are. Its a sort of necessity to keep the tradition a... posted 7mo ago with 21 replies 21 21

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This is great. Thanks. 1w ago 5 5

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Leibnizian Supercoordination
Continuing off of a few prior threads: ... posted 2mo ago with 25 replies 6 6

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Thank you anon 2mo ago 1 1

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No to conventional education
I was thinking , connecting to how it would be better to educate a young prince, on how to get a better and more rounded education than conventional. More and more people every year are getting non-conventional education, many are homeschooled, others just... posted 2mo ago with 3 replies 5 5

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First, I agree with most of what you say, though I want to make a case for classical languages like Greek or Latin as the natural means to learn the first three. ... 2mo ago 5 5

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Education trough University or not
I think more and more people have realised in recent years that you don't need a university degree to be well-rounded and highly educated there is (of course) big resistance. What would be the steps to make this more societally acceptable? Not only would t... posted 2mo ago with 2 replies 4 4

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You would have to be able to incentivize convergence on the truth, without making it profitable to do so. In other words, truth has to be the underlying fundamental motive and principle of coordination, rather than money or opinions. In that way money woul... 2mo ago 5 5

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Bad influences on my intellectual side
I have been having a hard time performing well in an underwhelming environment. Mostly because of people but also general vibes. I feel it is much harder to thrive in such an environment. I sometimes feel subconsciously justified in not pushing as hard as ... posted 2mo ago with 5 replies 7 7

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Another thing to consider doing is setting yourself an intellectual challenge to grow in a way you want to and work towards it. This is similar to #2585 but I'd encourage that you actively try to create something as well. When you read a great work, you sh... 2mo ago 5 5

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Looking Beyond the Veil. Ben LT's Substack. On the esoteric mysticism involved in true science. (www.benlandautaylor.com) posted 4mo ago with 3 replies 10 10

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A state that rewards and protects the farmers (like myself) is going to do better than a state that protects the thieves who claim they did the farming themselves. ... 3mo ago 4 4

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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature). ... posted 8mo ago with 6 replies 5 5

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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture. ... 8mo ago 3 3

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Classical Education with Confucian Characteristics
I started writing a response to >>1967 but it reached the point where it deserves a new thread, possibly for discussion on further reading groups, ordering, importance, etc. ... posted 11mo ago with 15 replies 13 13

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Well, I guess perhaps it's what peking the northern capital represents more than anything. I don't mean to hate the bureaucrats, or even necessarily the bureaucracy itself, but I would like more people to imagine futures that will get the far east out of "... 9mo ago 3 3

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What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions. ... posted 10mo ago with 1 reply 3 3

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I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself: ... 10mo ago 3 3

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Tragedy and Hope reading group canceled due to lack of interest
The first reading had some good discussion and I was very satisfied with it. The second reading had only one post that wasn’t from me. The third reading had none. ... posted 12mo ago with 5 replies 5 5

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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion I
Our reading this time was chapter I, Western Civilization in its World Setting; chapter 2, Western Civilization to 1914; and chapter 3, The Russian Empire to 1917. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters. ... posted 12mo ago with 6 replies 7 7

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first thoughts
In any text, there's something that's left unsaid. And sometimes that unspoken thing isn't even known by the people supposedly behind it. Romance is a lot like this. You don't say everything, and you almost can't say everything. No matter what you say or d... posted 13mo ago with 3 replies 4 4

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Justin Murphy wrote a little book called "Based Deleuze" that I found helpful in arranging Deleuze's thought in a way that I could better relate to my interests. ... 13mo ago 2 2

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Eight Books To Read (Samo Burja's recommendations for independent study of society) (medium.com) posted 14mo ago with no replies 3 3

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