This post exemplifies the rationalist virtues of curiosity and scholarship. This year’s review is not meant to judge whether posts should be published in a book, but I do wonder how a LW project to create a workbook or rationality curriculum (including problem sets) would look like. I imagine posts like this one would feature prominently in either case.
So I do think such posts deserve recognition, though in what form I am less sure.
On an entirely unrelated note, it makes me sad that the Internet is afflicted with link rot and impermanence, and that LW isn’t immune to it. The author used the service Quantopian in February 2020, and by November it had shut down. Another link didn’t work (“where are the wells”), but that was due to some domain weirdness. And the CIA had entirely changed its link to the World Factbook, without setting up link forwarding from the old URL.
This post exemplifies the rationalist virtues of curiosity and scholarship. This year’s review is not meant to judge whether posts should be published in a book, but I do wonder how a LW project to create a workbook or rationality curriculum (including problem sets) would look like. I imagine posts like this one would feature prominently in either case.
So I do think such posts deserve recognition, though in what form I am less sure.
On an entirely unrelated note, it makes me sad that the Internet is afflicted with link rot and impermanence, and that LW isn’t immune to it. The author used the service Quantopian in February 2020, and by November it had shut down. Another link didn’t work (“where are the wells”), but that was due to some domain weirdness. And the CIA had entirely changed its link to the World Factbook, without setting up link forwarding from the old URL.