I will post some of the collection I’ve acquired. I have ideas for more. And would be interested in seeing more.
If there’s enough interest, and with the permission of the authors, I would like to make a book of Rationalist fables / parables (but with a more generic name). Maybe it could be adapted for children. Thoughts?
Let me know if you’re interested in helping me with this project, including but not limited to: finding stories, selecting stories, adapting them, reaching out to authors, writing more stories, writing their morales (?), making a book cover, (self?) publishing it, marketing it, choosing a title, donating money to contract external help, etc.
My own Parable of the Clock, which I guess is short enough to just copy here:
so now it’s always six? XD nice!
The Goddess of Everything Else
It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue
The Bayesian Tyrant
Disguised Queries
Blegg Mode
The Demiurge’s Older Brother
Not all equally fable-like, but you didn’t really provide a definition!
Not sure if it should count for someone to submit their own work, but just in case: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Aut78T9pv4pPhdcKe/a-parable-in-the-style-of-invisible-cities
The Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom
Archimedes’s Chronophone
The Whispering Earring
Universal Love & Transcendental Joy
Invisible Dragon in the Garage
Ozymandias
Blue vs. Green sky
that survivorship bias story about the plane
that one rice doubling on a chessboard story
fictionalized AI box scenarios
retellings of failed Petrov Day
the general concept of repeating variations on a simple quest or cautionary tale a tediously large number of times, such that the odds of unlikely outcomes come out properly represented.
see also Glowfic
maybe this could be transformed into a fable: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-06-02
Nug and Yeb by Exploring Egregors
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis by Scott Alexander
I had the same fable idea before that post ^_^
in Why Cryonics Makes Sense by Tim Urban
“‘Living Well Is the Best Revenge’”
“The Parable of the Scorpion and the Fox”
“Traffic Koan”
the oral tradition on a popular strategy board game
A Fable of Science and Politics by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Parable of Predict-O-Matic by abramdemski (I haven’t read it yet)
The Rocket Alignment Problem
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies by Scott Alexander
The Parable of the Sphex (from CFAR’s handbook)
by Michael Fossel (http://www.michaelfossel.com/blog/)
related: Seeing with Fresh Eyes
Failed Utopia #4-2
Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
(I haven’t read yet, but there’s a parable, and it’s highly upvoted)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4tke3ibK9zfnvh9sE/the-bayesian-tyrant
The Three Little Pigs (and The Fourth, Who Is Never Mentioned) by Richard Kennaway
maybe The Egg
Parable of the Multiplier Hole
(Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-last-man-on-earth-2015&episode=s04e05)
Video: https://estream.to/embed-4soa0uz1piwm.html
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/mati-roy/the-story-of-the-chinese-farmer
Other: https://ask.slashdot.org/story/04/03/31/1420252/the-worst-development-job-youve-ever-had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0OARBqBp0
The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
A Mathematical Fable by Jollybard
Transhumanist Fables by Scott Alexander