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# Ideas

- [Idea List Ideas](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yTt90syRz0HmQ4gXlhReIv659LBfc4NmeVExP4_OsxY/edit?usp=sharing&sa=D&ust=1596495076407000&usg=AOvVaw1x-PKAwn07QjQ0Fn484Oud)

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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

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yTt90syRz0HmQ4gXlhReIv659LBfc4NmeVExP4_OsxY/edit?usp=sharing&sa=D&ust=1596495076407000&usg=AOvVaw1x-PKAwn07QjQ0Fn484Oud)*