While I have been reading various sparse LessWrong articles from time to time, this page serves as the atlas, starting from nothing to everything, about About the philosophy of rationalism in the modern day. Specifically, it is quite bayesian and bayesian brainish, which is nice to me as someone who really enjoys a lot of that math, but it also means I don’t have to think about exploring less wrong so much as I can just go down the queue here.
More so, in recent months I have become quite obsessed with true introspection and objectivity and through various Essays like “The Staussian Moment” and someone in my life I have come to the conclusion that I know nothing, as one does. But I also have suddenly a deep obsession with with not only understanding my own behavior and actions, but those of others, and inferring the actions of people, or inferring their internal model through their prescribed actions. This reminds me a lot of POMDP. But also can just be thought of as the basic concept of empathy in practice.
I will try to keep track of my readings here with Note updates as links to daily notes for various articles I go through
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Rationality: A-Z (or “The Sequences”) is a series of blog posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky on human rationality and irrationality in cognitive science. It is an edited and reorganized version of posts published to Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias between 2006 and 2009. This collection serves as a long-form introduction to formative ideas behind Less Wrong, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the Center for Applied Rationality, and substantial parts of the effective altruist community. Each book also comes with an introduction by Rob Bensinger and a supplemental essay by Yudkowsky.