[SEQ RERUN] Why I’m Blooking

Today’s post, Why I’m Blooking was originally published on 15 September 2007. A summary:

Now that Eliezer had posted over 100 blog posts, he created this post to lay out why exactly he was writing this series of posts. Understanding what he was trying to do can assist in understanding what became the sequences.


Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).

This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we’ll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased), and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

Sequence reruns are a community-driven effort. You can participate by re-reading the sequence post, discussing it here, posting the next day’s sequence reruns post, or summarizing forthcoming articles on the wiki. Go here for more details, or to have meta discussions about the Rerunning the Sequences series.