/lit/ - Literature

>>20585073
Read Wittgenstein instead.

I hate the AIntichrist

By Big Yud? No.

But I've read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

>>20585073
no. rationalists are worried about how an AI might use information to manipulate us without anyone realizing, right? i'm convinced that's what's happening in the bay area: an evil AI is stringing words together to convince programmers to cut their dicks off and is calling it "rationalism".

I read Rationality (and HPMOR) back when I still thought that science and rational thought are the only worthwhile ways to understand the world. Back then I liked it. I hadn't really read any philosophy at that point and it introduced me to a lot of philosophical ideas and thinking so in that sense it was important for me. Haven't gone back to it since so I can't say what I'd think of it now.

I started reading it once but I got the impression it was largely just repackaged Kahneman so I stopped

>>20585073
Yud's okay, but way too scattershot. I'd prefer someone more concise and better organized with presenting their insights.

>>20585073
I read them when I was 17.
>the good
He does talk about cognitive biases and logical fallacies, which are useful to know, but you can read those from better books like Thinking Fast and Slow
>the bad
He's wrong about physics, biology, sociology, philosophy, and everything else.

>>20585798
See also this crap

It's very odd, I find Scott Alexander to consistently be very insightful, but Yud just seems like an idiot. And yet Scott reveres him. Can't wrap my head around it.

>>20585103
No