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Imp

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Imp

@imperialauditor

"enthusiastic and thoughtful with a sea salt sprinkle of crazy" - @learning_sprite epistemic hit-and-runner

London, United Kingdom

imp-writes.blogspot.com

Joined July 2020

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@imperialauditor
Mar 25
i'll be at jesscamp! hope to see moots 😃
Jess
@frideswyth
Dec 18, 2025
Spread the word: JessCamp5 will be: Thursday 14th May - Monday 18th May 2026 At Udyana, outside Porto, PT
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Sep 23, 2023
what?!
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@imperialauditor
Nov 25, 2023
I actually find it quite icky that American colleges expect you to be “emotionally honest” in your admissions essays under normal circumstances, if you’re writing an extremely personal essay, it’s because you *want* to but here you have no choice
taco belle
@animalologist
Nov 25, 2023
Few things tick me off more than a student refusing to entertain my suggestion to be more emotionally honest or explicitly reflective in one of their college essays. I’m trying to tell u nicely that you sound hollow and that doesn’t ring right. But fine ignore me, Godspeed
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@imperialauditor
Sep 4, 2023
I still think about that hotel concierge essay all the time tumblr.com/hotelconcierge…
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@imperialauditor
Dec 21, 2021
the top 3 Canadian universities (UofT, McGill, UBC) together have more undergrads than all 8 Ivies + MIT + Stanford + Caltech + UChicago combined useful to think about in the context of bitter fights over zero sum US elite college admissions
Imp
@imperialauditor
Feb 6, 2024
it's common now to hear people say "I was feeling terrible/depressed and then I took a walk/ate for the first time in 12 hrs/slept and felt normal again" yet I've not seen anything like this in old books just me not noticing or a change? if so, why?
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@imperialauditor
Apr 28, 2024
if you think you know what a proof is try this puzzle from Timothy Gowers
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Jul 9, 2023
Replying to @mechanical_monk
> specs geeky > prices poor >don't understand disagreeable 😛
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Aug 8, 2022
i find really smart people scary there's a threshold at which, if you understand enough about the world and yourself... you can do anything... you aren't constrained by rules, because (like Neo in the Matrix) you can see that they aren't really there you become unpredictable
Imp
@imperialauditor
Jan 25, 2024
more knowledge work jobs should be done by two person teams one person to do the stuff and the other person to motivate them and smooth out all the frictions so they can do the stuff as easily as possible
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Nov 25, 2023
Replying to @imperialauditor
I do think the reflection I went through while writing these essays was good for me but it’s also kinda demeaning to be doing it for evaluation
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Jul 30, 2022
the sad part is that there is no opposite of impostor syndrome feeling competent doesn't really feel like anything it feels like "huh they're hitting the ball at me fairly slowly" or "why can't these people do basic things right?"
Imp
@imperialauditor
Feb 7, 2024
Replying to @imperialauditor
threading good replies x.com/beaker406/stat…
Beaker
@beaker406
Feb 7, 2024
Replying to @imperialauditor
Elijah, I Kings 19:4-8. Starts with, “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Has a nap and a snack, then is fine and goes about his business.
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Imp
@imperialauditor
Aug 22, 2023
still can't believe Daniel Kahneman said "disbelief is not an option" "You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true. " about fucking priming studies minus infinity bayes points. game over. go to jail. do not come back.
Science Banana
@literalbanana
Aug 22, 2023
I wrote a (for me) brief explanation of why I think the placebo effect, priming, nudge, ego depletion, social contagion, most "cognitive biases," and "behavioral" anything are fake carcinisation.com/2023/08/22/aga…
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