#Rationalists

El Sandifer, Rationality Expert to the Stars

ElSandifer

I’m quoted in this, which does about as good a job overviewing the topic as a New York Times profile can be expected to.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html Major oversights in it as I

Marrrk J. Valek

MarkValek

We had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even

Beejoli Shah

beejoli

Apologize in advance that I'm doing a thread on what is bugging me about @a16z and its recent positioning in the “tech vs. media” debate (a false, and dumb, equivalency

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

amhitchens

In the midst of the discussions around France, freedom of thought/speech/religion and the murders there it is useful to look at Bangladesh. Sounds odd I know but stay with me

Malcolm Yarnell

myarnell

As a scholar who has researched and written quite a bit about the Anabaptists, can we set a few things straight?1. Baptists are not Anabaptists. Their history is theirs; ours

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ShreshthaDharma

Is Delhi cursed! Many rationalists believe that Delhi as a capital has lot of negative energy around it. Any empire hasn't flourished with Delhi as capital, nor it has been

QC

QiaochuYuan

maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together once upon a time i brainstormed ideas about how to organize a commune with all my dope

Studio Glibly

NoTotally

I know this seems too basic to even mention, but when it comes to culture and systems of governance you need a clearly defined morality much more than you need

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The 2010s was an intellectual era, but not an era of intellectuals: rationalists, SSC, LW, NRx, etc produced popular teaching, but no great, lasting texts. Lots of (Thomas) Huxleys, no

AQ

Evollaqi

I suspect Ash'arism might be more compatible with pluralism than, say, Mu'tazilism, Catholicism, and many strains of secular liberalism – and might explain why historically Muslim societies were often more

QC

QiaochuYuan

in retrospect maybe a memetic advantage i don't talk or think much about having is that i was AGI-pilled for long enough that i know what having a totalizing narrative

dr. professor kashiwagi, esq.

kwamurai

Everyone's familiar with the Prisoner's Dilemma. You and a friend are arrested. If both stay silent, you'll get short sentences. If one of you confesses, that person can reduce their

Krish Sriram

anavrittim

"நாமார்க்கும் குடியல்லோம்; நமனை அஞ்சோம்"ஆன்மிகத்தின் ஒரு உயரிய கருத்தை தனித்தமிழ் இய

AstralNaught

FlightAstral

A thread on demonology: The soul is a semi-permeable membrane like a cell wall. It is primed to allow certain things in in certain amounts and keep other out unless

Dennis Hackethal

dchackethal

The other day, it “clicked” for me: I think I understand better now what schools are really for.A thread of conjectures It is generally believed that schools exist to

Eli Tyre

EpistemicHope

Culturally, I am clearly part of the "Yudkowsky cluster". And as near as I can tell, Bayes is actually the true foundation of epistemology.But my personal PRACTICE is much closer

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