LessWrong 2.0

Aug 24, 2017

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by Eliezer_Yudkowsky

..Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.

—John Keats, Lamia

Joy in the Merely Real

Followup to: Explaining vs. Explaining Away ...Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There

Joy in Discovery

Followup to: Joy in the Merely Real "Newton was the greatest genius who ever lived, and the most fortunate; for we cannot find more than

Bind Yourself to Reality

Followup to: Joy in the Merely Real So perhaps you're reading all this, and asking: "Yes, but what does this have to do with reductionis

If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help

Followup to: Explaining vs. Explaining Away, Joy in the Merely Real Most witches don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist,

Mundane Magic

Followup to: Joy in the Merely Real, Joy in Discovery, If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help As you may recall from some months earlier,

The Beauty of Settled Science

Facts do not need to be unexplainable, to be beautiful; truths do not become less worth learning, if someone else knows them; beliefs do not

Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

So you're thinking, "April 1st... isn't that already supposed to be April Fool's Day?" Yes—and that will provide the ideal cover for celeb

Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute?

Followup to: Bind Yourself to Reality For many years before the Wright Brothers, people dreamed of flying with magic potions. There was

Scarcity

What follows is taken primarily from Robert Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. I own three copies of this book, one for my

The Sacred Mundane

Followup to: Is Humanism a Religion-Substitute? So I was reading (around the first half of) Adam Frank's The Constant Fire, in preparatio

To Spread Science, Keep It Secret

Followup to: Joy in Discovery, Bind Yourself to Reality, Scientific Evidence, Scarcity Sometimes I wonder if the Pythagoreans had the rig

Initiation Ceremony

The torches that lit the narrow stairwell burned intensely and in the wrong color, flame like melting gold or shattered suns. 192... 193

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