Chris Lakin

Helping ASI-pilled people do more. Click to read Locally Optimal, by Chris Lakin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Social anxiety isn't about being liked

2025283 points218 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

There’s this popular idea that socially anxious folks are dying to be liked.

Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read

2024133 points86 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

This father has been using spaced repetition (Anki) to teach his children how to read several years earlier than average. Michael Nielsen and Gwern tweeted about the interesting case of a reddit user, u/caffeine314 (henceforth dubbed “CoffeePie”), who has been using spaced repetition with his daughter from a very…