Ever since Eliezer, Yvain, and myself stopped posting regularly, LW’s front page has mostly been populated by meta posts. (The Discussion section is still abuzz with interesting content, though, including original research.)
Luckily, many LWers are posting potentially front-page-worthy content to their own blogs.
Below are some recent-ish highlights outside Less Wrong, for your reading enjoyment. I’ve added an * to my personal favorites.
Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson, Rob Wiblin, Katja Grace, Carl Shulman)
Great rationality posts by LWers not posted to LW
Ever since Eliezer, Yvain, and myself stopped posting regularly, LW’s front page has mostly been populated by meta posts. (The Discussion section is still abuzz with interesting content, though, including original research.)
Luckily, many LWers are posting potentially front-page-worthy content to their own blogs.
Below are some recent-ish highlights outside Less Wrong, for your reading enjoyment. I’ve added an * to my personal favorites.
Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson, Rob Wiblin, Katja Grace, Carl Shulman)
Hanson, Beware Far Values
Wiblin, Is US Gun Control an Important Issue?
Wiblin, Morality As Though It Really Mattered
Grace, Can a Tiny Bit of Noise Destroy Communication?
Shulman, Nuclear winter and human extinction: Q&A with Luke Oman
Wiblin, Does complexity bias biotechnology towards doing damage?
Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns *
The Great Stagnation
Epistemic Learned Helplessness *
The Biodeterminist’s Guide to Parenting
What Caring Is
The Real America of 2022
Why Most Online Medical Information Sucks
Spreading happiness to the stars seems little harder than just spreading
Rawls’ original position, potential people, and Pascal’s Mugging
Philosophers vs economists on discounting
Utilitarianism, contractualism, and self-sacrifice
Are pain and pleasure equally energy-efficient? *
Pressing Ethical Questions
Replaceability *
How Useful is Progress?
15 Benefits of the Growth Mindset
Anthropic Principle Primer
Entropy and Unconvincing Models