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LessWrong looks like something I'll enjoy reading. Do you have any favorite or recommended articles -- not necessarily related to op? Keep up the good work.

by tolos 14y ago

oz 14y ago
Thanks. It's often recommended to start at the Sequences (most of which I haven't read yet): http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfiction) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfi... Here's a good one on the ways in which LessWrong can improve: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distraction_why_less/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distrac... But my 2 favorites are the ones I mentioned: A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnontime_fallacy/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnonti... Humans are not automatically strategic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str... Particularly the latter. Digesting those 2 are probably responsible for most of the self-improvement gains I've made. I realized that mostly, we operate on autopilot. Now autopilot is great - when you're the one who programmed it. LessWrong is about programming your autopilot so you chart and stay on the correct course as a matter of course. Also, it would be remiss of me not to mention OvercomingBias ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/ http://www.overcomingbias.com/ ).IIRC, LessWrong is something of a spinoff from OB
- mquander 14y ago
  My favorite (not most enlightening but just my favorite) article to date is Yvain's Eight Short Studies on Excuses: http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/
Strilanc 14y ago
There's quite a lot of philosophical content on less wrong. I liked "Zombies! Zombies?", which is essentially a strong argument against the likelihood of p-zombies. http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ > I'd say that if you postulate a mysterious, separate, additional, inherently mental property of consciousness, above and beyond positions and velocities, then, at that point, you have already stuck your neck out as far as it can go. To postulate this stuff of consciousness, and then further postulate that it doesn't do anything—for the love of cute kittens, why?

LessWrong looks like something I'll enjoy reading. Do you have any favorite or recommended articles -- not necessarily related to op? Keep up the good work.

by tolos 14y ago

LessWrong looks like something I'll enjoy reading. Do you have any favorite or recommended articles -- not necessarily related to op? Keep up the good work.

oz 14y ago

Thanks. It's often recommended to start at the Sequences (most of which I haven't read yet): http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfiction) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfi... Here's a good one on the ways in which LessWrong can improve: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distraction_why_less/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distrac... But my 2 favorites are the ones I mentioned: A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnontime_fallacy/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnonti... Humans are not automatically strategic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str... Particularly the latter. Digesting those 2 are probably responsible for most of the self-improvement gains I've made. I realized that mostly, we operate on autopilot. Now autopilot is great - when you're the one who programmed it. LessWrong is about programming your autopilot so you chart and stay on the correct course as a matter of course. Also, it would be remiss of me not to mention OvercomingBias ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/ http://www.overcomingbias.com/ ).IIRC, LessWrong is something of a spinoff from OB

mquander 14y ago
My favorite (not most enlightening but just my favorite) article to date is Yvain's Eight Short Studies on Excuses: http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/

Strilanc 14y ago

There's quite a lot of philosophical content on less wrong. I liked "Zombies! Zombies?", which is essentially a strong argument against the likelihood of p-zombies. http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ > I'd say that if you postulate a mysterious, separate, additional, inherently mental property of consciousness, above and beyond positions and velocities, then, at that point, you have already stuck your neck out as far as it can go. To postulate this stuff of consciousness, and then further postulate that it doesn't do anything—for the love of cute kittens, why?