I’m glad this kind of content exists on LessWrong: writing that doesn’t shy away from an explicit focus on personal virtue, in a “how algorithms feel from the inside” kind of way. I used to devour anything I could find written by C.S. Lewis as a still-religious teenager, because I felt a certain quality of thought and feeling emanating from each page. I felt the sincerity of effort orienting towards truth, beauty, and goodness.
Unfortunately, much of his worldview turned out to be importantly wrong, but his writings are hardly alone in that compared to other genuine historical truth seekers. I hope that like this post, my future thinking can manage to orient in that direction which Lewis was among the first to bring before my attention.
I’m glad this kind of content exists on LessWrong: writing that doesn’t shy away from an explicit focus on personal virtue, in a “how algorithms feel from the inside” kind of way. I used to devour anything I could find written by C.S. Lewis as a still-religious teenager, because I felt a certain quality of thought and feeling emanating from each page. I felt the sincerity of effort orienting towards truth, beauty, and goodness.
Unfortunately, much of his worldview turned out to be importantly wrong, but his writings are hardly alone in that compared to other genuine historical truth seekers. I hope that like this post, my future thinking can manage to orient in that direction which Lewis was among the first to bring before my attention.