Nora Bateson's full interview from Leviathan| beiner.substack.com
It is ever easier to make wishes into reality, therefore we should be careful what we wish for...| www.latent.space
“Human values (‘Elua’) mean hedonism and free love and namby-pamby happiness, and I’m not on board with that.” (example) Are you a human? If so, congratulations. Your …| Slate Star Codex
Summary and commentary on "Why We're Polarized" by Ezra Klein| www.astralcodexten.com
Moloch's pursuit of intelligence for its own sake| samsara.substack.com
a listicle that shows Moloch is all around us, even in listicles| nonzerosum.games
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes| maggieappleton.com
This post tells a few different stories in which humanity dies out as a result of AI technology, but where no single source of human or automated age…| www.lesswrong.com
I. Recently spotted on Tumblr:“This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I see stuff about ppl not wanting to reblog ferguson things and awareness around the world because they do not want negat…| Slate Star Codex
Understanding the dynamics of collective self-sabotage| nonzerosum.games
So, Elon Musk said this last week: "AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year."This may be Musk's boldest tweet yet, and it has received surprisingly little fanfare. If it’s true, then we are about to see an almost unfathomable shift in human society. Therefore, we should make decisions in our lives and society very, very differently. So what should we make of it?| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
The Third Attractor, The Third Horizon, and the Third Reality| jonathanrowson.substack.com
People have asked me for advice on writing nonfiction online, so here are some tips: 1. Divide things into small chunks Nobody likes walls of text. By this point most people know that you should ha…| Slate Star Codex
Entities which extract profits from software commons like Linux and Ethereum have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them.| trent.mirror.xyz
I. Zero To One might be the first best-selling business book based on a Tumblr. Stanford student Blake Masters took Peter Thiel’s class on startups. He posted his notes on Tumblr after each l…| Slate Star Codex
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a letter I wrote to their editor in response to Kevin Rudd’s exposition on Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” campaign:| The Scholar's Stage
[Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that’s not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas. Note that Robin has offered to debate me about some of this a…| Slate Star Codex
The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche, Bernard Yack (Princeton University Press, 1986). This is a book by Bernard Yack. Who is Bernard Yack? Yack is fun, because for a mild-mannered liberal Canadian political theorist he’s dropped some dank truth-bombs over the years. For example, check out his short and punchy 2001 journal article “| www.thepsmiths.com
[Trigger warning for deliberately provoking horror about graduates’ real-world post-college prospects] [Epistemic status: intended as persuasive speech, may somewhat overstate case] Ladies an…| Slate Star Codex
Tom Morgan talks to us about his spiritual emergency, how ketamine helped him recover, and what western culture needs for ecstatic integration| www.ecstaticintegration.org
I. Someone recently linked me to Bryan Caplan’s post A Hardy Weed: How Traditionalists Underestimate Western Civ. He argues that “western civilization”‘s supposed defenders …| Slate Star Codex
In which we break the spell, and look towards the future| johancb.substack.com
From decentralized governance to composable, arbitrarily programmable governance.| saffron.mirror.xyz
[Trigger warning: Some discussion of rape in Part III. This will make much more sense if you’ve previously read I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup] I. One day I woke up and they had …| Slate Star Codex
I. Some old news I only just heard about: PETA is offering to pay the water bills for needy Detroit families if (and only if) those families agree to stop eating meat. Predictably, the move caused …| Slate Star Codex
I. Imagine a distant planet full of eyeless animals. Evolving eyes is hard: they need to evolve Eye Part 1, then Eye Part 2, then Eye Part 3, in that order. Each of these requires a separate series…| Slate Star Codex
I. H.G. Wells’ 1914 sci-fi book The World Set Free did a pretty good job predicting nuclear weapons:They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands…before the l…| Slate Star Codex
a taxonomy for problems + human-complete problems + why they'll always be around| bewrong.substack.com
I. Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later.…| Slate Star Codex
Texts on this and that.| Erich Grunewald's Blog
