The most important LW idea for me was the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions sequence. Someone can read it from start to end and come out a different person. Basically it teaches you how to get rid of “floating” beliefs that are underconstrained by data. My summary doesn’t do it justice—Eliezer did an incredible job with that sequence, there’s tons of metaphors and examples to make it stick. I reread it every couple years as a kind of spring cleaning.
I am very interested in any input on improving the structure and order of the sequences, though I also think it’s a super hard problem and the correct solutions might require significant amounts of innovation and care.
The most important LW idea for me was the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions sequence. Someone can read it from start to end and come out a different person. Basically it teaches you how to get rid of “floating” beliefs that are underconstrained by data. My summary doesn’t do it justice—Eliezer did an incredible job with that sequence, there’s tons of metaphors and examples to make it stick. I reread it every couple years as a kind of spring cleaning.
This sequence was also quite profound to me. Maybe we should do a poll on the most powerful Sequence and reorganize them in that order.
I am very interested in any input on improving the structure and order of the sequences, though I also think it’s a super hard problem and the correct solutions might require significant amounts of innovation and care.