Compiling my writings for Lesswrong and others.

I’ve just inserted about 50 new links to my list of writings, most of which from Lesswrong, here. For convenience, I’m copying it below.

I write a lot about a variety of topics in English and until 2013 also did in Portuguese, Notice Google Chrome automatically translates texts if you need. This will someday be a compilation of all my writings, divided by Borgean topics. There are also writings I wish I had written:

The ones I really, really want you to read before you read the rest:

000 The Starting Gun
001 A sense that more is possible
002 Russell’s one page autobiography (Português)
003 De onde viemos?
004 10 Razões pelas quais estou indo embora
005 Six Harsh Truths that will make you a better person
006 This blog’s first post: Stop Learning, Start Doing
007 Altruistic Awesomeness, Your Challenge! (O Fantástico Altruista)
Nearly all of these above are intensely motivational in character. If you are truly allergic to motivational writings, read only 003, 004, 005 and 006.

Those that may help you save the world:

100 Troubles with Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV)
101 In praise of tribes that pretend to try: counter”-Critique of Effective Altruism. (critique of this)
102 On media and Effective Altruism. (Interacting with media distortion)
104 Amending the Orthogonality Thesis. (Suggests an amendment to this paper)
105 Share your goals (only) with who shares your goals.

Those that are very long and full of ideas:

010 Simulando Dennett (254 pages teaching you to think as Daniel Dennett does about biology, philosophy and AI, in portuguese)
011 On What Selves Are See also Short-term selves versus rationality.
100 Troubles with CEV (a genteral discussion of problems with Coherent Extrapolated Volition, our main strategic plan to save the world up to the time of writing.)
012 Calibrating against undetectable utilons and goal changing events (how to actually reach your goals even if you change or they are in the far future)
013 Para onde vamos?

Those short:

Those about how to live life to the fullest:

Those related to evolution:

045 Using evolution for sex and marriage. (How to use our natural mating systems and mechanisms to find partners in the time horizon of your desires.)

Those about minds:

030 How not to be a naïve computationalist. (The shortest way of delving in, learning from, and getting out of the field of Philosophy of Mind and Language.)
031 The cultural cost of Placebo. (In Oxford’s practical ethics blog)
032 I’ve warned you, but I shoouldn’t have. (Ethics, SSRI’s, Information Hazards)
033 Ciúme.
034 Two cognitive cases.

Those which are on Lesswrong but I think should have been read more:

Those defying authority and important notions of the Status Quo:

060 Catching up with the present from the developing world. (An autobiographical account of growing up far from where innovation takes place, and people know what is going on)
061 On not getting a job as an option.
062 You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.
063 Patrimônio e felicidade, a hipótese do mergulho.
064 Anarco Individualismo e Transhumanismo social.

Those I currently dislike or find silly:

Those humorous:

Those I want someone else to finish or rehash:

090 Let’s make a rational immortalist sequence
091 Absent Transhumanism and tranformative technologies, which Utopia is left?
092 Making the chaff invisible, and getting the wheat. (looking for alternatives to drinking from the fire hose of the web, and getting only content we actually want to see)
093 O segundo maior erro econômico que você vai cometer na vida.

Those in portuguese:

010 Simulando Dennett
120 Ditados populares corrigidos.
004 10 Razões pelas quais estou indo embora (do Brasil)
007 O Fantástico Altruista
003 De onde viemos?
013 Para onde vamos?
063 Patrimônio e felicidade, a hipótese do mergulho. (como usar seu patrimônio no tempo)
121 Casas em São Paulo, preço x felicidade.
122 Desprovando o princípio do hábito de Hume.
123 E se fosse possível tornar-se gay. (veja também Observações sobre ocomportamento sexual das pessoas)
124 Guiões do bom pensador.
125 Adorno, Snickers e etologia, a informavoridade como motor do homem contemporâneo.
126 Uma análise do conceito de racionalidade à luz de Putnam.
127 Os principais obstáculos ao conhecimento racional.
128 Sujeito e poderes da palavra falada e escrita: Uma ficção gravitando Derrida, Dennett e Pinker.
129 O mundo é grande! (tipos de multiverso)

Those not above:

150 Is the blood thicker near the tropics? Trade offs of living in the cold
151 Is there a way to stop liking sugar? (spoiler, no, there isn’t)
152 The unforbidden beauty of Islamic aesthetics.
153 Utopia, the hidden design. Part 1
154 Utopia, the hidden design. Part 2
155 Ética, herança, propriedade, há alternativa?
156 Teachings of Mount Qassioun (reflections at the top of Damascus’ only mountain)