Here I’ll walk through the steps of interacting with the test YFBeta NFT staking contract, which you can find here: https://yflambda.finance/. 1) Switching to Ropsten To begin, you’ll need MetaMask, and you’ll need to point it to use the Ropsten test network instead of mainnet. (Don’t forget to switch back after you’re done!) 2) Getting test ether on Ropsten Next…

[A way of looking at rationality as a set of transitioning worldviews that operate under different assumptions. The short summary of progression looks like techniques → habits → introspection → feelings → multiple ontologies. …

Today we’re going to be talking about a useful dichotomy that I think gets overlooked quite often. It’s the distinction between Recognizing and Generating. The words by themselves don’t explain too much, so here are some examples: Say you’re writing an essay. You start off with a bullet point outline…

After reading through all of this rationality stuff, you might be feeling very excited to go out and try some of this stuff out. You might think about imposing this rationality stuff upon many areas of your life. And for that, I have a major cautionary warning. Rationality can be…

[Attractor Theory is a hybrid model that tries to reconcile the effects of internal and external factors on motivation. It suggests that an important additional consideration in decision-making is how the action affects your ability to take future actions.] The Model: Attractor Theory is basically a qualitative model, a way to think…

This Interlude once again goes over two additional ideas that are separate from the well-researched stuff: There Is No Akrasia and Recovering from Failure. I actually think they’re cooler than the stuff in Interlude 1, and I hope you enjoy them as well. There Is No Akrasia: [This essay is about how the term…

Here, we’ll cover two additional concepts: Acting into Uncertainty and Fading Novelty. They’re both pretty cool, and I think they help give additional support for the mindset I’m trying to point at with these essays. Acting into Uncertainty: [Acting into Uncertainty is about how getting started in environments with incomplete information. …

[This section goes over the planning fallacy, our cognitive bias of making overconfident predictions in our time estimates. It starts with an overview of the field and moves into some models of how human planning works. …

[This section goes over four things that are important to keep in mind before we start the other stuff — caring about the obvious, looking for practical things, practicing well, and realistic expectations.] In Defense of the Obvious: [As advertised.] A lot of the things I’m going to go over in this book are sometimes…