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--- title: Ideas visibility: public --- # Ideas - [Idea List Ideas](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yTt90syRz0HmQ4gXlhReIv659LBfc4NmeVExP4_OsxY/edit?usp=sharing&sa=D&ust=1596495076407000&usg=AOvVaw1x-PKAwn07QjQ0Fn484Oud) <!-- gdoc-inlined --> --- 1. My Needs 2. Common / General Needs 3. List of Emotions 1. Emotions I commonly or rarely feel 2. Emotions I’m good / bad at acting 3. Emotions I feel with the most intensity 4. My deep truths 5. Everything I’ve self-sabotaged 6. Friendship Stories (Add to Good Questions) 7. Lies that I believe 8. Regrets 9. The space of possibilities in lifestyle design 10. Definitions of causality 11. All of the ways in which people reveal their culture 12. Every major scientific breakthrough 13. The different types of AGI, and their relative safety (ex., evolutionary, RL agents w/ model based prediction, inductive bias search, scaled up supervised / unsupervised learning w/ task discovery, comprehensive AI services, discovery of laws underlying information processesing, computable / approximate AIXI, language informed RL, etc.) 14. Idea list for every discussion category (contrarian truths, crucial considerations (I need my own name for this), plans that lead to success) 15. Future Social Movements 16. Major DL breakthroughs / paradigm shifts, and their source reasons. 17. Questions that generate great source material for systematizing creativity 18. How to make ideas or concepts generative (ex., the Thiel question is a great category but a terrible generator of ideas in that category) 1. Do this for the Thiel question. 19. Ideas that are way ahead of their time 20. Create a list of the most impactful inventions and learn their history. The great conquests of science. (ex., Norman Borlaug - Green revolution, saving billions from starvation.) 21. People I care about (in order, or via numbers in spreadsheet) 1. Can ask whether they love me back 2. Can spend more time with / on people I care a lot about 22. Strongest counterarguments to the learning paradigm (god is this hard) 23. AI Safety problems worth formalizing 24. Primary generators of meaning 25. That which clearly exists and is outside the realm of science (i.e. defies falsification) 26. That which is unmodelable (with current methods) 27. Subfields of mathematics yet to be created 28. Consciousness Decomposition 29. Mechanisms of Worship (awe, submission, glory, etc.) 30. Decompose Complexity 31. Kinds of Connection 32. Decompose Intelligence 33. Types of distance metric 34. Ways in which ‘search’ frame is degenerate / fails to accomplish its goals 35. Maximizing relationships for depth 36. Maximizing relationship longevity 37. Discovering Value Alignment (ex., value elicitation, language patterns) 38. Deepening Value Alignment 39. Anti-Trends (Technologies that need to be trending but aren't) 40. Efficient Social Search Algorithms 41. High Value Communities (Thielosphere (Thiel Fellows, Leverage, Founder’s Fund, Paypal Mafia), Rationalists, Y Combinator, EA, Harvard / Stanford / MIT / Yale / Princeton, Intellectual Dark Web?, Recurse Center, Brain / Deepmind / FAIR / MSRAI / OpenAI), Longnow, 42. Ways to not get trapped in thought loops 43. Ways to disagree without being disagreeable 44. ML / AI Failure Modes 1. Resource Doc exists, search for it 45. Words to create 46. How to actually develop and maintain habits but actually 47. How to actually only focus on a few things at a time but actually 48. Metaconcepts 49. Things I should have done a long time ago 50. Great ideas I’m currently not executing on 51. Ideas for making useful but not generative prompts more generative 1. Ex., questions that could have generated the responses that you get from the less generative model 52. Real Meta-Modeling 53. How to induce mania 54. Things that trigger me (ex., ‘career’) 55. Ways to destroy the Ivy League 56. Ways to destroy the oligarchy 57. Decompose abstraction 58. Generators of great questions 59. Major worldview breaking ideas 60. Field Finding 1. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1020717496301772802 61. Questions worth asking Brain 62. Mistakes not to make 63. Mistakes I habitually make (split failures from causes of failures) 64. Agency Language Patterns 65. Transcendence language patterns 66. Things I could say to [person] that would end our relationship 67. Getting out of obsession 68. Make a list of mind blowers. 69. Mental moves checklist. 70. Meta cornerstones of religion other than transcendence towards truth 71. Modes of Being 72. Words of Power 73. Holes / weaknesses in existing value systems 74. Create new values systems 75. Create new values 76. Transcend evolution (create new, better mechanisms) 77. Transcend capitalism 78. Abstract and generalize from ‘life’, create new ordered systems of which life is but one example 79. List of people who believe in me 80. Understanding femininity 81. Rediscovering the lightness of being 82. Bucket List 83. Modes of being (coherent bodies of mental habits) 84. Designing optimal worlds 85. Types of life changer 86. Power decomposition 87. Suppressed desires of my unconscious 88. Sources of value - scarcity, mimetic desire, compression, sacrifice, usefulness 89. What Brain could do with 10 million / 100 million 90. Things that are true that I don’t want to be true 91. Language Patterns worth Installing 92. Ways to create openness / trust / vulnerability 93. Ways to think from first principles 94. Truths that I can’t handle 95. How do we find shared structure between problems so that answers that generalize can be mapped to the appropriate problems? 96. “Why?” Language Patterns (a la x is the answer, what is the question) 97. Questions whose answers will tweak my goals 98. Validation Seeking Language Patterns 99. Enumerate the types of structure found in word embeddings 100. Sacred Beliefs 1. Changes in sacred beliefs (start with gay marriage) 101. Scaling life changing 102. Important immunization 103. Categories of blind spots / weaknesses / failure modes 104. How to have conversations on the frontier 105. Common Limiting Beliefs 106. Language patterns / How to Inspire 1. Love 2. Comfort & Intimacy 3. Dominance 4. Flirting 5. Serenity 6. Humor 7. Wisdom 8. Transcendence 9. Curiosity 10. Fascination 11. Connection 12. Indignation 13. Validation 14. Humor 15. Embarrassment 16. Fear 107. Types of vulnerability 108. Types of insecurity 109. Categories of model people build and the advantages and weaknesses to each 110. The principles of structure (structure of structure, say simplicity vs. complexity, directionality) 111. There are many truths that can not or fail to propagate that are lying around to be collected 112. How do your values differ from the people around you? 113. What do you care about that other people think is unimportant? 114. What does the society care deeply about that you think is unimportant? 115. Downsides to being anti-tribal 116. Downsides to being against identity 117. Distinct and shared properties of abstraction as hierarchical compression vs. abstraction is is-a relationships / necessarily virtual and conceptual 118. Bad reasons I want x 119. Examples of every problem in safety / control 120. Ways to Induce Action Bias in a Community 121. Ways to embed beauty in my life / sources of beauty 122. Desirable traits of a deep learning library 123. Conflicting Inner Voices 124. Contrarian ideas in machine learning 125. Interesting ideas in machine learning 126. Things that I would do if I didn’t need social proof 127. Things that I would do if it weren’t for reputational cost (say, if I was anonymous) 128. Worthy Goal Factoring topics. 129. Reputation building tools and techniques. 130. Discover Limiting Beliefs 1. Tell yourself that every aspect of your life is great, one by one, noting when you feel dissonance. Ex, relationships, work, friendships, intellectual growth, health, etc. 2. List mistakes that you’ve made in the past. Per mistake, list the beliefs and aliefs that lead to the mistake. 3. Go down the fears in the fear framework. For each domain where a fear resonates, write down beliefs about the domain that make the fear possible. 4. Generate valuable things that you haven’t done before. Ask yourself why you haven’t done them. If they pass a cost / benefit test, any reason not to do them is likely a limiting belief. 5. Take canonical success personality traits. Ask yourself if you’re the living manifestation of them. When not, ask why. 6. Look at heroes’ accomplishments, scanning for any you don’t think you’d be capable of. 7. Find a list of valuable skills - social skills like influence, intimacy and vulnerability creation, etc. and think through why the skill level is where it is. 8. Ask friends what your limiting beliefs are, or what domains you’re underperforming your potential in 9. Look at the situations where you’ve been angry. Check out the beliefs that led to that anger. 1. Also, guilt / shame and disgust. 10. Comfort zone expansion / prompts - note places where you’d like to push your comfort zone. Ask what limiting beliefs have held your comfort zone back. 11. What part of the world makes the least sense? And why are you unwilling to engage with it? 131. Algorithm - Use idea lists to solve problems in my life right now. Practical, possibly low level problems. This is mental training. 132. Data solutions. Pick a company and figure out 10 ways to increase revenue with data science and analytics. 133. Hikari. Ways to understand her, get inside her, go deeper with her. 134. Alliances. Projects to work on, ways to communicate, ways to make each other stronger. How to achieve vulnerability so that we can actually solve problems. (Exposure therapy) 135. Influence. Ways to make my blog popular, ways to write that captivate the reader more, improvements that I can make in my writing. 136. Generating influence in AI - Converting every resource that I’ve found into something that’s accessible and understood by the community. Educating the world through me. 137. Projects that I can do in Econ and Computation - Crowdsourcing, prediction markets, etc. I can do an idea list for each and then talk to Parkes about it, maybe. 138. Stories to tell about an idea. Take one idea and generate 10 stories, 10 examples. Beautiful practice for communicating! 139. Food. Things that I can eat that will reduce the amount of resources (attention, time, money) that I spend on it. Also all the other object level requires, like sleep and exercise. Exercise has been well optimized. 140. Social Empire. It shouldn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing. I should own that and build an empire where I am. Opportunity costs are high, but that means doing it efficiently, not not doing it at all. 141. Worthy Courage Challenges 142. Experiences in my life for which playing LaCrimosa as background music makes sense 143. For each bias, have a checklist of solutions --- *Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yTt90syRz0HmQ4gXlhReIv659LBfc4NmeVExP4_OsxY/edit?usp=sharing&sa=D&ust=1596495076407000&usg=AOvVaw1x-PKAwn07QjQ0Fn484Oud)*