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I would never have guessed that thirdform would be such a decision theory junkie! I love this for him

CONTENTS On structure 2 On structure: a visual introduction 2 On papyrus 3 Joyce 4 The Tower 4 On scripts 5 On a One-God Universe 6 On lightning 7 On romance 8 The Cycle 9 On species of cycle 10 Icarus 11 Crashing early crashing often 11 The Sea 11 The...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toER4EPvhjv1IgUn3nA0h9rU65otEBwb0BFeu8HgE1o/edit?usp=sharing Here is a full piece which expands on the very dense draft Luke linked above

I think this is a good amount of information for now. I'll let it stew and if there's interest I will continue the story.

I'm sorry I disappointed you Craner. I was trying to be clear, and I don't know what Dissensus users do or don't know already.

There are other strands and influences, histories of early commentators and volunteers who shaped the intellectual and social direction of the site, but those are the big ones. A few years before Yudkowsky started LessWrong, in 2000 (age 21) Yudkowsky founded the Singularity Institute, now...

The other important strand is a blog called Overcoming Bias. Nowadays it seems to have migrated to Substack, but it's been around at least two decades, for most of its life a standard HTML/RSS blog. The main two writers on Overcoming Bias were Robin Hanson (George Mason University economist) and...

Where does LessWrong come from? That's the place to start. The last decade we have been in the post-LessWrong era. The board shut down in the early 2010s and yes, while it came back and rebooted and has been a meaningful cultural force since the late 2010s, it's just not the same. The diaspora...

Dilbert, Shaka, Leo are all in NYC and we haven't had a meetup.

He's a classic from the Slate Star Codex comment section c. 2010. Just keeps beating his drum. Surprisingly effective.

Did it?? I have a bad one and a bottle myself

I think about anxiety sometimes as memetic parasite. You learn a way of interpreting your body and of reacting to the world. "Learning to see" is itself an ambiguous phrase between projecting and perception.

Tenants of the house, Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

Memory is power. Be nice to Gus or history will spurn you. That's the lesson to be taken away.

You laugh now, but not when I reveal an equivalent dossier to LessWrong

I will be in California in August (y)

That was really funny you have to admit

I have been quietly assembling an oral history of rationalism, so I will have things to contribute when my schedule is quieter.

I provided very good answers to Craners' questions, now that we're in the business of establishing a record.

Can you please upload these to Archive dot org and post links TYSM