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title: Before Abraham observed, I know.
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date: 2012-05-13
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techne: :done
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episteme: :log
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Worked on the first version of my self-experimentation protocols and tools. Basically, I'm going all professional, and I'm developing *precise* (as in, numerical answer and specific algorithm, not "that feels about right") methods to do self-experiments. Mostly because I'm extremely ashamed and disgusted that I don't have those *already*[^elimination].
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[^elimination]: Through the elimination of hypotheses do we earn our enlightenment.
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I'm writing all of this up, of course, and I'll publish drafts as soon as possible. This is literally top priority for me. The only reason I don't have a draft out already is because I want to do one complete run so I see that I'm not missing anything, to demonstrate to myself that I'm not doing any handwaving. Then I'll iterate to victory.
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The idea is to do meta-empiricism: test empiricism, see if it works. Once I have some meta-data, some actual "look what awesome results that brought me", beyond "that's like that thing Eliezer was talking about", I'll actually advocate people do that, and shame[^shame] those who don't. If it doesn't, I'll drop the "rationalist" bit from my identity <del>and become a bitter troll</del>.
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[^shame]: A moment of imprecision spawns a lifetime of confusion.
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(Also, [the Librarian][w40k librarian] is a true rationalist. Learn from him, and beware the alien, the mutant, the heretic.)
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