maia

Epistemic status: emotional appeal. Hi. My name is Maia, I’m a volunteer with PauseAI DC. And before I joined, I used to think, well, the extinction of the human race isn’t that bad. I mean, I thought it was bad, but it was hard for me to really feel it,...

People have been celebrating Secular Solstice for over a decade now, in our small community. Many different programs and versions have been collected at Secular Solstice Resources (and elsewhere). The amount of material can be overwhelming. Many Solstice programs are based around original material being written or updated, speeches that...

I have been teaching my oldest son to read with Anki and techniques recommended here on LessWrong as well as in Larry Sanger's post, and it's going great! I thought I'd pay it forward a bit by talking about the techniques I've been using. Anki and songs for letter names...

Posting this here in advance of Petrov Day. This is intended to be an archive of rationalist ritual material. We already have Secular Solstice Resources for such material related to Winter Solstice; this compendium is for Summer Solstice, Petrov Day, and everything else. If you have anything to add, please...

UPDATE 2026: Since last year, I've moved to updating the haggadah collection at the Aspiring Rationalist Ritual Compendium instead. Please see THIS PAGE under the "Passover" section; in the new version there should be PDFs instead of Google Docs for each haggadah. Passover is coming, which means some of us...

1. Meta Note: This post has been languishing in a Google doc for many months as I've procrastinated on cleaning it up to be more coherent and polished. So... I'm posting it as is, with very little cleanup, in the hopes that it's valuable in the current state. I'm sure...

Posting this because I recently had a conversation that went like this: Friend: Hey, you used to live in SF. Is there any rationalist stuff actually happening in San Francisco? There don't seem to be many events, or even that many aspiring rationalists living here. What's up with that? [Paraphrased....