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Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:02:52 2022 No.21283713 [Reply] [Original]

What should I read to learn about rationalism and effective altruism?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:12:34 2022 No.21283732 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:19:22 2022 No.21283745 >>21283713 So he finally found a way to lose weight without dieting?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:22:23 2022 No.21283750 >>21283713 Altruism doesn't exist. All actions are ultimately selfish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:24:51 2022 No.21283754 >>21283713 Slate Star Codex and Dem ballots.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:26:18 2022 No.21283756
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Brian Tomasik's Essays on Reducing Suffering are worth reading. He talks a lot about wild animal suffering and suffering that could exist in the far future.

https://reducing-suffering.org/

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:28:21 2022 No.21283762 File: 10 KB, 315x499, kolak i am you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21283750 >implying the "self" is even a coherent concept in the first place

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:29:56 2022 No.21283764 >>21283762 Of course it's coherent, its content is just disputed. "I am you" on the other hand is a contradiction in terms and is literally incoherent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:30:49 2022 No.21283766 File: 527 KB, 960x720, Mario's grave.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://vitrifyher.wordpress.com/ https://vitrifyhim.blogspot.com/

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:31:49 2022 No.21283768 >>21283713 HOLY CRINGE BATMAN The basilisk is watching

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:33:00 2022 No.21283775
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>>21283764
But how can you be so sure that the "you" a second from now is the same "you" that existed a second ago?

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:34:01 2022 No.21283780 File: 212 KB, 1600x1067, avoiding the worst baumann.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21283713 https://s-risks.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering_risks

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:36:16 2022 No.21283786 >>21283762 If the self isn't a coherent concept, then neither is altruism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 06:49:14 2022 No.21283812 File: 25 KB, 600x338, open individualism.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21283786 >having this little understanding of Open Individualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_individualism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomlwxRAtZo

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 07:21:25 2022 No.21283865 >>21283812 >I help others because they are me Surely you understand how selfish that is?

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 07:40:52 2022 No.21283899

>>21283713
"Rationality: From AI to Zombies" is a collection of Yudkowsky's original Lesswrong posts (aka the sequences, Rationalist scripture).

Overcoming Bias is also good.
Slate Star Codex is also good.

It was legitimately the highest median IQ community in the sizeable early 10s. Their best insights can be dry, but if you're over three SD you likely won't get filtered.

Source: I lived in a rationalist sharehouse with a handful of geniuses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 07:50:44 2022 No.21283915 >>21283899 You were in a polycule.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 08:51:00 2022 No.21284018 >>21283750 except it does. why do you insist on inhibiting communication and the understood meaning of words in place of anti-intellectual tantrums?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 12:40:29 2022 No.21284463 >>21283899 What was the polycule life like?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 12:41:30 2022 No.21284465 >>21283713 If sarah silverman was a man, this is what she would look like

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 13:38:50 2022 No.21284606

>>21283899
Yudkowsky has the worst writing style I have ever encountered. It certainly doesn't help that he uses overly-complicated semi-scientific jargon he made up, all of which is represented much more concisely in pre-existing philosophical concepts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:24:47 2022 No.21284701 >>21283899 >I lived in a rationalist sharehouse EW

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:30:42 2022 No.21284721 >>21284701 Imagine the smell

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:44:03 2022 No.21284756 >>21283899 Was he >>21283766 well known Lesswrong community?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:45:58 2022 No.21284765 LW has unfortunately gone to shit. Very few useful articles these days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 15:23:18 2022 No.21284868 >>21283750 Freshman take

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 15:32:29 2022 No.21284897 >>21283713 On the blog of some crypto scammer. All this stuff is just silicon valley nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 15:49:17 2022 No.21284934 Elon Musk twitter feed

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 15:52:37 2022 No.21284944 >>21283713 [Spolier]no[/spoiler]

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