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If you want a book on the rationalists that's not a smear dictated by a person who is banned from their Wikipedia page for massive npov violations, I hear Chive
by FeepingCreature 1y ago
If you want a book on the rationalists that's not a smear dictated by a person who is banned from their Wikipedia page for massive npov violations, I hear Chivers' The AI Does Not Hate You and Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy are good.
(Disclaimer: Chivers kinda likes us, so if you like one book you'll probably dislike the other.)
- at_a_remove 1y agoIt might be fair play, however. If I correctly recall, LessWrong had, for a while, a prominent wiki admin who had been punted from Wikipedia for his frothing npov.
- Viliam1234 1y agoI am not aware of Less Wrong having a Wikipedia admin. Are you perhaps thinking about David Gerard, admin of RationalWiki and Wikipedia, who once got in trouble for his decade-long internet crusade against Scott Alexander? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1061#David_Gerard_and_Scott_Siskind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...