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- Study Reveals HSV-1’s Impact on Neuron Metabolism | Technology Networks1 savers
- Young Adult Meditation Retreats & Events — DHARMA GATES1 savers
- Overview ‹ Cyborg Psychology — MIT Media Lab1 savers
- Easy One-Pot Lentil Curry - Sarah's Vegan Kitchen1 savers
- Tom Mewett1 savers
- Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage - LessWrong2 savers
- Small Wire by Anne Sexton - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry1 savers
- How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-Peery1 savers
- Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Tried2 savers
- DYNOMIGHT INTERNET WEBSITE3 savers
- 12 Months of Introspection - Trailheads1 savers
- alice maz (@alicemaz): "I was in english lit for a few years in college and in retrospect it was basically pointless. I'm divided on how much is that I was emotionally stunted for most of my life vs how much is purely a factor of age but the more books I revisit now the better I see I understood almost…"1 savers
- How can we rejuvenate the social fabric?1 savers
- principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi41 savers
- why you shouldn't write that substack essay - by Jaskirat1 savers
- The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.01 savers
- Offset your diet's impact on animals - FarmKind1 savers
- You are not too "irrational" to know your preferences. — EA Forum1 savers
- QC (@QiaochuYuan): "there is such a thing as being addicted to suffering, and social dynamics that implicitly promote becoming addicted to suffering in order to signal moral or political seriousness or elicit guilt or sympathy or whatever else. this is as bad for you as it intuitively sounds" | nitter1 savers
- QC (@QiaochuYuan): "thread of threads about bay area rationality and the bay area rationalists / lesswrongers / the AI doomers:" | nitter1 savers
- What Openness To Experience Means - by Ozy Brennan2 savers
- Miniver Cheevy: Scott Alexander Siskind & Slate Star Codex2 savers
- Genderslop and Astroturf - Anna Mattinger2 savers
- Person Do Thing3 savers
- Bonnibel's Graphic Collection1 savers
- the doll archive (wip)1 savers
- White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants1 savers
- fefifo.fm — independent music discovery1 savers
- If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you1 savers
- Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.1 savers
- A call for biosecurity fieldbuilding — EA Forum1 savers
- On Some Differences Between Insight Meditation and Zen – The Existential Buddhist1 savers
- Devaney Books1 savers
- the min-max mystery - by visakan veerasamy1 savers
- byungchul-han-the-disappearance-of-rituals-a-topology-of-the-present.pdf | Are.na1 savers
- Urban Sketchers Seattle: It’s a Hot Rat Summer at Cal Anderson Park1 savers
- ‘Liking’ vs ‘wanting’. A neuroscientific view on classroom motivation – The Hobbolog1 savers
- crashing out about the latest Hasan Piker NYT article1 savers
- I Wish People Were More Public8 savers
- The Western Inscription: A Gift from China to the World - Open Horizons1 savers
- How to invent a disease - by Natalie Cargill1 savers
- How to fundraise one million million dollars, part 11 savers
- Days are enormous - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland2 savers
- questions i am thinking about — pranshul's cafe1 savers
- how to make a neocities from scratch❗ || explain-y tutorial ting - YouTube1 savers
- Yogo Magpie1 savers
- shnu world1 savers
- welcome~! welcome~!1 savers
- coop's desk1 savers
- I would have shit in that alley, too — LessWrong2 savers
- The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do3 savers
- The Envoy of Mr. Cogito | The Poetry Foundation2 savers
- Stop Climbing!4 savers
- I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop2 savers
- It's Obviously the Phones - by Magdalene J. Taylor2 savers
- Book Report: Life in Code3 savers
- Do 100 Things2 savers
- The Big Artist Opportunities List - Google Drive2 savers
- Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland90 savers
- Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson69 savers
- Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born65 savers
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process64 savers
- i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huang61 savers
- Milan Cvitkovic52 savers
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail49 savers
- Do Thing, Do One Thing49 savers
- Cities and Ambition42 savers
- Relationships are coevolutionary loops - by Henrik Karlsson39 savers
- Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda38 savers
- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs34 savers
- Half-assing it with everything you've got33 savers
- Learn In Public30 savers
- Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible - Alexey Guzey29 savers
- 101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago28 savers
- 50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions24 savers
- The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.23 savers
- How To Make (almost) Anything23 savers
- Notes on Effective Altruism22 savers
- Curius21 savers
- World-building IRL - by Joss - box.20 savers
- 50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'19 savers
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity18 savers
- Mini Blog Post 19: On systems - Living a life of zero willpower — Neel Nanda16 savers
- Motherfucking Website16 savers
- Are you serious? - by visakan veerasamy16 savers
- The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject — LessWrong15 savers
- Dostoevsky as lover - by Henrik Karlsson14 savers
- Guessing the Teacher's Password12 savers
- Becoming perceptive - by Henrik Karlsson12 savers
- Give your friends a chance to abandon you - by Kasra12 savers
- Century-Scale Storage11 savers
- Examples of barbell strategies11 savers
- Digital hygiene | karpathy11 savers
- Strategies for Learning - by Andy Masley11 savers
- Reflections on organizing a rabbit-hole-athon retreat11 savers
- Two kinds of introspection - by Henrik Karlsson11 savers
- fall 23 syllabussy | arielle lok10 savers
- Structured Procrastination10 savers
- How we collected 10,000 hours of neuro-language data in our basement - Conduit10 savers
- The Creative Independent10 savers
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At its best, Hampshire produces people who can walk into a room of specialists and talk comfortably with all of them. So don’t talk about Hampshire’s lack of departments, and don’t call Hampshire interdisciplinary. Instead, say Hampshire trains generalists. Say:
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryMashing two fields together makes something interdisciplinary, but it doesn’t make it good.
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryBut honestly, my time as an advisor was mostly spent trying to convince students to take fewer classes, so they wouldn’t burn themselves out.
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryHampshire’s lack of majors encourages this kind of development. You can say “no majors”, but you can also say, “you’re on your own kid, you figure it out”. Those who are able to figure it out get a very good education indeed, in figuring it out. It’s harsh, it’s a little sink-or-swim, but it gets results. And you have a faculty advisor so you have someone to go to when you’re at risk of drowning.
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryThe good news is that narrative evaluations are hugely undersold.
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryHampshire you’re treated as a scholar and given advanced classes right away
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryI think the message that Hampshire is the scrappy weird one is a lie. My experience has only ever been that Hampshire gave me a better education than anything else I have seen.
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryHampshire ranks in the top 40 nationally for PhD attainment, an average of 8.68 of every 100 alumni go on to earn a doctoral degree Two-thirds of graduates earn an advanced degree within ten years of commencement. One in five Hampshire science students who complete their thesis are invited to present at a peer-reviewed conference. Five percent of Hampshire science students are lead authors on published, peer-reviewed journal articles as undergraduates. A quarter of Hampshire alumni start their own business or organization, placing Hampshire #6 on Forbes’ 2015 list of most entrepreneurial colle…
How to Market Hampshire College - by Ethan Ludwin-PeeryAppendix: One Hundred Seventy-Five Million US American Dollars
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedAn existing institution
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedPetitioning NECHE for a teach-out-and-continue arrangement rather than a full new-institution review would make a lot more sense.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedwhy write the bylaws before I know who my business partners will be
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedHaving faculty be in charge of faculty hiring decisions seems like it caused a lot of harm last time. When faculty have total choice over their membership, the school eventually comes to serve the needs of the faculty over the needs of the students, which leads to collapse. I wouldn’t give students total control of faculty hiring decisions, but you would need a more open process.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedMaybe these ideas made sense in some context, but if so you would have to read pretty hard between the lines, because the college’s justifications for such decisions don’t hold up to scrutiny.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedFaculty who could leave usually did,
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedhe school could not hold on to a single game design professor.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedI could tell you how we should offer a 5-year BA/MA program — other colleges already offer these, and everyone at Hampshire already does a senior thesis, so why not make the senior thesis two years long and have the tuition go to Hampshire instead of some lesser MA program? But I won’t bore you with the details now.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedWe had student EMTs, and when I was sent to the hospital after my freak blacksmithing accident (blacksmithing is normally very safe), a student EMT was first on the scene.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedMy vision for Hampshire would be extremely online, with a special focus on learning how to share and market your work.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedIf you hate credentialism, this is the model for you
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedEvery year there are a few hundred 18-year-olds who are ready to do graduate-level work in their field,
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedI taught Hampshire College Butchers the Psychology Classics, where we replicated several classic psychology studies with only two weeks of time allotted to complete each, and somehow succeeded. These replications were real contributions to the psychology literature, and some of them even had larger sample sizes than the originals.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triederiously, Hampshire alumni are often surprised when they take their first Ph.D. seminar, because it’s identical to the classes they were taking at Hampshire, only slower and easier.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedbecause of its insanely high grad school placement rate (an average 8.4 out of every 100 Hampshire alums earn research doctorates, placing Hampshire in the top 1.4% of colleges nationwide),
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Tried“to know is not enough”.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedAny system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.”
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedfaculty were able to teach whatever they wanted
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedBetter Teaching Is Available
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedIn contrast, Hampshire students make knives. Sometimes professionally, like Emiliano Carrillo, who you may have seen on season 3 of Forged in Fire. They can fix a power hammer, they can lay a bead, they can cut a lime. (Specialization is for insects.) They can even sell hot dogs out of the window of their first-floor dorm room. The senior thesis that every Hampshire student has to complete to graduate demands that you do something real, even if it sucks. Not write about something real. Do it.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedIt doesn’t make sense when you don’t have grades. Submit something mid, who cares. Your eval will say, this student’s writing was mid.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Tried“Yes they are really like that,” I said. “They are all like that.”
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedSo he transferred to Hampshire, where no one would keep him from working as fast as he wanted.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedHampshire has had a high transfer rate, especially in the last decade,
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedSTEM research opportunities has never gotten enough credit
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedIt is one of the few colleges on earth that still has a fully equipped machine shop that any undergraduate can walk in and use.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedStudents who thrive at Hampshire are a specific type who find conventional academic structures frustrating because conventional coursework moves too slowly.
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedyou can often get a good grade simply by avoiding attention
Real Hampshire College Has Never Been TriedIt is a little annoying that there aren’t any signs on the toilet doors, so it would be tempting to put up a sign. But you have to think about the second-order consequences, and if you do that, you realize that toilet signs work against the aims of this community.
How can we rejuvenate the social fabric?Working with people you really respect, and are secretly worried are much better than you and will figure out how dumb you are, is the best.
principles - Nabeel S. QureshiDoing things is energizing, wasting time is depressing. You don’t need that much ‘rest’.
principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0Find out how to fight animal cruelty, without changing your life 👉
Offset your diet's impact on animals - FarmKindYour preferences do not need to be legible to be valid, and you should never feel like you need to justify or defend them to others. Models and predictions, certainly! Actions even more so, if they affect other people! But again, things you want are just extensions of positive and negative valence qualia. "I like vanilla ice cream" and "I dislike chocolate ice cream" are not a matter of rationality or irrationality, and neither are any other preferences you have.
You are not too "irrational" to know your preferences. — EA ForumNo, he cannot tune out the garbage.
Miniver Cheevy: Scott Alexander Siskind & Slate Star CodexI signed up to do a writing residency. I did not sign up for this shit. This is real work and it ain’t my job—shit, maybe it should be.
Genderslop and Astroturf - Anna Mattinger“This community desperately needs something like HR, and doesn’t seem to have anything approaching it.”
Genderslop and Astroturf - Anna MattingerI regretted what I’d packed. Clothes that would’ve been a nothingburger to wear at home—that no one would consider “skimpy”, draw inferences from, or take me less seriously for—took on a new valence here. At Lighthaven, everything I wore felt like a politicized choice to either capitulate, or default to defiance: fuck it, I’m gonna wear this anyway. I relearned self-consciousness: tens of thousands of people have seen me naked.
Genderslop and Astroturf - Anna Mattinger“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management. It is a complete political control apparatus layered over every stage of the federal science funding lifecycle,”
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants“We warned of this exact form of government overreach in science a year ago,” says Colette Delawalla, founder of the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science. “It replaces expertise with political appointees, globally decouples the U.S. and completely guts our scientific ecosystem.”
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grantsThese proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants