I love seeing cool visualizations (maps) of interesting intellectual fields. I’m also a big fan of making lists! Accordingly, I compiled a bunch of maps of fields that I thought were interesting. Please comment if you know of more such maps, and I’ll include them. Scott Alexander’s map of Effective...
As someone who is rather new to the aspiring rationalist community, I enjoyed this post by Scott Alexander. It makes me think that becoming more rational is actually feasible, something I have wondered about a lot.
Recently, I had a discussion with a close friend about morality and, let us say, fundamentals of epistemology. This person has no connection to the aspiring rationalist community. We started out talking about discussion norms. I had sent my friend Julia Galef's talk on scout mindset. In previous discussions, I...