Guide to rationalist interior decorating — LessWrong

Have you seen a Berkeley Rationalist house and thought "wow the lighting here is nice and it's so comfy" and vaguely wished your house had nice light…

x Guide to rationalist interior decorating — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2023 Lighting Aesthetics Practical Frontpage 346 Guide to rationalist interior decorating by mingyuan 19th Jun 2023 14 min read 53 346 Recently someone asked me to write a guide to rationalist interior decorating, since there’s a set of products and best practices (originating with CFAR and Lightcone) that have gotten wide adoption. I’m perhaps not the very most qualified person to write this post, but I’ve been into interior decorating since before the Lightcone team got into it, and I basically know what they do, plus t

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