Ideas

Idea List Ideas

1. My Needs 2. Common / General Needs 3. List of Emotions

Emotions I commonly or rarely feel
Emotions I’m good / bad at acting
Emotions I feel with the most intensity
My deep truths
Everything I’ve self-sabotaged
Friendship Stories (Add to Good Questions)
Lies that I believe
Regrets
The space of possibilities in lifestyle design
Definitions of causality
All of the ways in which people reveal their culture
Every major scientific breakthrough
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.)
Idea list for every discussion category (contrarian truths, crucial considerations (I need my own name for this), plans that lead to success)
Future Social Movements
Major DL breakthroughs / paradigm shifts, and their source reasons.
Questions that generate great source material for systematizing creativity
How to make ideas or concepts generative (ex., the Thiel question is a great category but a terrible generator of ideas in that category)
Do this for the Thiel question.
Ideas that are way ahead of their time
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.)
People I care about (in order, or via numbers in spreadsheet)
Can ask whether they love me back
Can spend more time with / on people I care a lot about
Strongest counterarguments to the learning paradigm (god is this hard)
AI Safety problems worth formalizing
Primary generators of meaning
That which clearly exists and is outside the realm of science (i.e. defies falsification)
That which is unmodelable (with current methods)
Subfields of mathematics yet to be created
Consciousness Decomposition
Mechanisms of Worship (awe, submission, glory, etc.)
Decompose Complexity
Kinds of Connection
Decompose Intelligence
Types of distance metric
Ways in which ‘search’ frame is degenerate / fails to accomplish its goals
Maximizing relationships for depth
Maximizing relationship longevity
Discovering Value Alignment (ex., value elicitation, language patterns)
Deepening Value Alignment
Anti-Trends (Technologies that need to be trending but aren't)
Efficient Social Search Algorithms
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,
Ways to not get trapped in thought loops
Ways to disagree without being disagreeable
ML / AI Failure Modes
Resource Doc exists, search for it
Words to create
How to actually develop and maintain habits but actually
How to actually only focus on a few things at a time but actually
Metaconcepts
Things I should have done a long time ago
Great ideas I’m currently not executing on
Ideas for making useful but not generative prompts more generative
Ex., questions that could have generated the responses that you get from the less generative model
Real Meta-Modeling
How to induce mania
Things that trigger me (ex., ‘career’)
Ways to destroy the Ivy League
Ways to destroy the oligarchy
Decompose abstraction
Generators of great questions
Major worldview breaking ideas
Field Finding
https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1020717496301772802
Questions worth asking Brain
Mistakes not to make
Mistakes I habitually make (split failures from causes of failures)
Agency Language Patterns
Transcendence language patterns
Things I could say to [person] that would end our relationship
Getting out of obsession
Make a list of mind blowers.
Mental moves checklist.
Meta cornerstones of religion other than transcendence towards truth
Modes of Being
Words of Power
Holes / weaknesses in existing value systems
Create new values systems
Create new values
Transcend evolution (create new, better mechanisms)
Transcend capitalism
Abstract and generalize from ‘life’, create new ordered systems of which life is but one example
List of people who believe in me
Understanding femininity
Rediscovering the lightness of being
Bucket List
Modes of being (coherent bodies of mental habits)
Designing optimal worlds
Types of life changer
Power decomposition
Suppressed desires of my unconscious
Sources of value - scarcity, mimetic desire, compression, sacrifice, usefulness
What Brain could do with 10 million / 100 million
Things that are true that I don’t want to be true
Language Patterns worth Installing
Ways to create openness / trust / vulnerability
Ways to think from first principles
Truths that I can’t handle
How do we find shared structure between problems so that answers that generalize can be mapped to the appropriate problems?
“Why?” Language Patterns (a la x is the answer, what is the question)
Questions whose answers will tweak my goals
Validation Seeking Language Patterns
Enumerate the types of structure found in word embeddings
Sacred Beliefs
Changes in sacred beliefs (start with gay marriage)
Scaling life changing
Important immunization
Categories of blind spots / weaknesses / failure modes
How to have conversations on the frontier
Common Limiting Beliefs
Language patterns / How to Inspire
Love
Comfort & Intimacy
Dominance
Flirting
Serenity
Humor
Wisdom
Transcendence
Curiosity
Fascination
Connection
Indignation
Validation
Humor
Embarrassment
Fear
Types of vulnerability
Types of insecurity
Categories of model people build and the advantages and weaknesses to each
The principles of structure (structure of structure, say simplicity vs. complexity, directionality)
There are many truths that can not or fail to propagate that are lying around to be collected
How do your values differ from the people around you?
What do you care about that other people think is unimportant?
What does the society care deeply about that you think is unimportant?
Downsides to being anti-tribal
Downsides to being against identity
Distinct and shared properties of abstraction as hierarchical compression vs. abstraction is is-a relationships / necessarily virtual and conceptual
Bad reasons I want x
Examples of every problem in safety / control
Ways to Induce Action Bias in a Community
Ways to embed beauty in my life / sources of beauty
Desirable traits of a deep learning library
Conflicting Inner Voices
Contrarian ideas in machine learning
Interesting ideas in machine learning
Things that I would do if I didn’t need social proof
Things that I would do if it weren’t for reputational cost (say, if I was anonymous)
Worthy Goal Factoring topics.
Reputation building tools and techniques.
Discover Limiting Beliefs
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.
List mistakes that you’ve made in the past. Per mistake, list the beliefs and aliefs that lead to the mistake.
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.
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.
Take canonical success personality traits. Ask yourself if you’re the living manifestation of them. When not, ask why.
Look at heroes’ accomplishments, scanning for any you don’t think you’d be capable of.
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.
Ask friends what your limiting beliefs are, or what domains you’re underperforming your potential in
Look at the situations where you’ve been angry. Check out the beliefs that led to that anger.
1. Also, guilt / shame and disgust.
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.
What part of the world makes the least sense? And why are you unwilling to engage with it?
Algorithm - Use idea lists to solve problems in my life right now. Practical, possibly low level problems. This is mental training.
Data solutions. Pick a company and figure out 10 ways to increase revenue with data science and analytics.
Hikari. Ways to understand her, get inside her, go deeper with her.
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)
Influence. Ways to make my blog popular, ways to write that captivate the reader more, improvements that I can make in my writing.
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.
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.
Stories to tell about an idea. Take one idea and generate 10 stories, 10 examples. Beautiful practice for communicating!
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.
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.
Worthy Courage Challenges
Experiences in my life for which playing LaCrimosa as background music makes sense
For each bias, have a checklist of solutions

Source: Original Google Doc