Book by Julia Galef
The Scout Mindset
In The Scout Mindset, CFAR co-founder Julia Galef describes why and how to embrace a scout mindset, a stance of curiosity and openness to evidence, in contrast to soldier mindset, a combative approach that resists evidence. It covers topics such as how to notice bias, how to change your mind, and how to inspire others without deception.
Blog post by John Salvatier
Blog Posts by Anna Salamon
- Humans are not automatically strategic
- What should you change in response to an "emergency"? And AI risk
- “PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
- High-level actions don’t screen off intent
- Believing In
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Blog posts by Andrew Critch
- Red Penning, Version A
- Entitlement to believe” is lacking in Effective Altruism
- Use a giant notepad to think better
- Break your habits: be more empirical
- Embracing boredom as exploratory overhead cost
- Fun does not preclude burnout
- Older posts on LessWrong
Blog posts by Michael Smith
- The Hostile Telepaths Problem
- Slack matters more than any outcome
- The Intelligent Social Web
- Creating a truly formidable Art
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Academic and Popular Work by Preston Greene
- Success-First Decision Theories — A metanormative justification of decision theories like Functional Decision Theory that favor one-boxing in Newcomb's Problem.
- Act Consequentialism without Free Rides (w/ Ben Levinstein) — Shows how Functional Decision Theory resolves free-rider problems in act consequentialism.
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let's Not Find Out — New York Times article on the potential risk of scientific research into the Simulation Hypothesis.
- Social Bias, Not Time Bias — Argues that intergenerational tradeoffs are better explained by social discounting than by time discounting.
- We Will All Live Forever — Shows that leading views in cosmology and personal identity together imply that everyone lives forever.
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