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Content warning: meta-political, with hopefully low mind-killer factor. Epistemic status: proposal for brain-storming. - Representative

Summary: a large chunk of the history of Western philosophy is about finding out by what kinds of less conscious algorithms does the human m

Summary Look at how you or other people walk. Then going a bit meta. Disclaimer This post is probably not high quality enough to deserve

My hidden secret goal is to understand the sentiments behind social justice better, however  I will refrain from asking questions that direc

Not a full article. Discussion-starter. Half-digested ideas for working them out collaboratively, if you are interested. Will edit article w

Summary: it is a prerequisite that you think you are entitled to your own beliefs, your beliefs matter, you think your actions follow your o

Ideally participants in this discussion would have read his relevant essays (collected in the Rationalism in Politics book) but as an introd

1. Ignoring goals, tabooing / identifying with methods - the opposite of Beeminder, even the opposite of SMART Suppose I want to lose weig

Summary: title + LW seems to be already coming from a culture like that, I just want to make it conscious. Also, it is true for individuals

This thread is for:   - Perfectly natural and functional ideas that came from a spiritual, religious, occultist, parapsychologist etc. s