When I go to write a post for this blog I spend a lot of time doing research to| www.thelastrationalist.com
“Rational!Harry has already taken the Unbreakable Vow. Rational!Voldemort, especially if he doesn't have his horcrux, and knowing that there's no negotiated way to escape the confrontation, will set up a deadman switch that destroys the world in the event of his own death, and tell Rational!Harry so in Parseltongue. I won't call it checkmate, but Rational!Harry cannot do things past this point that run the *risk* of destroying the world, which is a pretty severe condition. He has to be cert...| www.thelastrationalist.com
One of the things that makes The Sequences frustrating is how Eliezer Yudkowsky's | www.thelastrationalist.com
But the shock was fleeting, I knew the Law: No gods, no magic, and ancient heroes are milestones to tick off in your rearview mirror.| www.thelastrationalist.com
Special thanks to Ratheka Stormbjorne and Shiloh Miyazaki for doing some of the research for this essay. All opinions expressed are my own however.| www.thelastrationalist.com
A few years ago I wrote a comment on LessWrong about| www.thelastrationalist.com
Note: Because I had the sudden epiphany that I haven't consulted the neuroscience literature | www.thelastrationalist.com
A couple years ago I had a discussion with one of my readers about what it looks like to take existential risks| www.thelastrationalist.com
Literary warrant, a concept introduced by Wyndam Hulme in 1911, has the status of a principle. A subprinciple of the principle of representation, it enjoins that the vocabulary of a subject language be empirically derived from the literature it is intended to describe. This means that a literature must be determined. For Hulme, the language in question was the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), and the literature that served as warrant were the books housed in the Library of Congress. ...| www.thelastrationalist.com
There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.| www.thelastrationalist.com
Ten years ago Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a post about cryonics| www.thelastrationalist.com
Introduction| www.thelastrationalist.com
It's been more than a decade since Eliezer Yudkowsky started writing The Sequences. Lots of stuff has happened since then| www.thelastrationalist.com
The dark magicians at Facebook have cast a hex on the rationalist community.| www.thelastrationalist.com
Authors Note: I said in my previous post that the next would be about systems to build common knowledge. That post is running very much behind schedule, so I'll be publishing others in the meantime.| www.thelastrationalist.com