SpectrumDT

[Question] If I imag­ine that I am im­mune to ad­ver­tis­ing, what am I prob­a­bly miss­ing?

What is “Mean­ing­ness”

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of myths that en­cap­su­lates gen­uine, non­triv­ial wis­dom?

What is David Chap­man talk­ing about when he talks about “mean­ing” in his book “Mean­ing­ness”?

[Question] Those of you with lots of med­i­ta­tion ex­pe­rience: How did it in­fluence your un­der­stand­ing of philos­o­phy of mind and top­ics such as qualia?

[Question] Sup­pos­ing that the “Dead In­ter­net The­ory” is true or largely true, how can we act on that in­for­ma­tion?

[Question] Does the “an­cient wis­dom” ar­gu­ment have any val­idity? If a par­tic­u­lar teach­ing or tra­di­tion is old, to what ex­tent does this make it more trust­wor­thy?

[Question] What are the effec­tive util­i­tar­ian pros and cons of hav­ing chil­dren (in rich coun­tries)?

[Question] How great is the util­ity of “sav­ing” en­dan­gered lan­guages?

[Question] Has any­one here writ­ten about re­li­gious fic­tion­al­ism?

[Question] Are most peo­ple deeply con­fused about “love”, or am I miss­ing a hu­man uni­ver­sal?

[Question] Things can be difficult in 3 ways: Pain­ful, time-con­sum­ing, or un­con­trol­lable. Is this rea­son­able to say?

[Question] How to deal with the sense of de­mo­ti­va­tion that comes from think­ing about de­ter­minism?

[Question] Has any­one here in­ves­ti­gated the oc­cult com­mu­nity? It is cu­ri­ous to me that many ma­gi­ci­ans con­sider them­selves em­piri­cists.

[Question] What are some good Less­wrong-re­lated ac­counts or hash­tags on Mastodon that I should fol­low?