anon_fole said in #3978 3w ago:
I'm particularly interested in political essays that have flown under the radar over the last decade due to censorship.
I'm particularly int
Which essay or blog post most shaped your worldview?
anon_tese said in #3981 3w ago:
Sam Kriss' "Why Bernie Lost and How You Can Too" (https://samkriss.com/2020/04/30/why-bernie-lost-and-how-you-can-too/)
Sam Kriss' "Why Bern
anon_xyhu said in #3987 3w ago:
Definitely hasn't flown under the radar, but "Politics and the English Language" is my favorite piece Orwell ever wrote, and I don't say that lightly. Required reading.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
Definitely hasn't fl
anon_sefa said in #3995 3w ago:
I like to relax with a roaring fire, an old fashioned, and the leatherbound collected works of Lex Friedman. Recently I've grown a liking for the writings of Brian Atlas. He is more commonly known among the hoi polloi for the „Whatever“ podcast, but the anecdotes and aphorisms he has „dropped“ there have recently been expanded into a witty--one might even say smashing--anthology.
I like to relax with
anon_sefa said in #3996 3w ago:
I believe you can find the former on the Arktos Press website, under the title "Protocols of the Elders of MIT."
I believe you can fi
anon_ceca said in #4123 2w ago:
Scott Alexander Siskind's "I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup" has not flown under the radar, but that's the one.
Scott Alexander Sisk
anon_foco said in #4134 2w ago:
Its a bit lengthy bit i think TAME by Levin really transformed a lot of things that were on the edge of my understanding into something like a worldview. To illustrate: accelerationism is something you glean from memes and schizoid ramblings and you can sort of believe it without really understanding it. Observing the different characters from evolutionary history and the different roles they play in making up a human body and mind really drives a lot of the typically hand-wavey stuff home. The logarithmic growth in complexity over the last couple of billion is right here inside us. Understanding that puts a whole other spin on 'feeling Gnon in your balls'.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8988303/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8988303/
Its a bit lengthy bi
https://www.reddit.c
anon_hyda said in #4154 2w ago:
Did anyone hear read the old Joseph Fouche blogs (c. 2005-2012)? Formative influence on me.
One of his essays that reached escape velocity: https://web.archive.org/web/20090902064940/https://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/tragedy-of-the-geopolitical-nerd/
But his blog was really good as an entire system.
One of his essays that reached escape velocity: https://web.archive.org/web/20090902064940/https://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/tragedy-of-the-geopolitical-nerd/
But his blog was really good as an entire system.
referenced by: >>4155
Did anyone hear read
anon_woku said in #4155 2w ago:
>>4154
Essay representative of American counterculture that celebrates the low-life over the aspirant.
It is true that your essays have to be dumbed down into a few points, so Kennan was too ambitious in hoping people would read and understand his lengthy characterization.
Governance is much more blocky and chunky than it is fine-grained, and the only way to restore the latter in daily life seems to be a population having the necessary characteristics and a willingness to use it themselves.
Essay representative of American counterculture that celebrates the low-life over the aspirant.
It is true that your essays have to be dumbed down into a few points, so Kennan was too ambitious in hoping people would read and understand his lengthy characterization.
Governance is much more blocky and chunky than it is fine-grained, and the only way to restore the latter in daily life seems to be a population having the necessary characteristics and a willingness to use it themselves.
Essay representative
transit said in #4157 2w ago:
Prolly was approaching to gnosticism through legit catholic scholars such as Ramon Llull or Meister Eckhart.
Prolly was approachi
anon_vere said in #4242 3d ago:
At different points in life, these made a lasting impact on me, but I rarely see them mentioned:
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition - it ultimately convinced me of the LW-rationalism-empiricism synthesis, arguably only after reading a lot of the Yudkowsky essays. I mention this one specifically because it gave me an Aha!-moment, that I later would articulate as "Knowledge is a process", but at the time felt more like "wow you really can quantify everything".
(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QkX2bAkwG2EpGvNug/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-and-engines-of-cognition)
It’s Bayes All The Way Up - convinced me of the conditional probability abstraction of cognition. I mention this one because this insight is among the most useful, if not the single most useful, tool to understand other people. Highly influential for a young man with life-long difficulties in relating to others and a desire to learn formal rules for all the implicit social norms.
(https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/)
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition - it ultimately convinced me of the LW-rationalism-empiricism synthesis, arguably only after reading a lot of the Yudkowsky essays. I mention this one specifically because it gave me an Aha!-moment, that I later would articulate as "Knowledge is a process", but at the time felt more like "wow you really can quantify everything".
(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QkX2bAkwG2EpGvNug/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-and-engines-of-cognition)
It’s Bayes All The Way Up - convinced me of the conditional probability abstraction of cognition. I mention this one because this insight is among the most useful, if not the single most useful, tool to understand other people. Highly influential for a young man with life-long difficulties in relating to others and a desire to learn formal rules for all the implicit social norms.
(https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/)
At different points