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Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups.

And the advice is great! It is unobjectionably great.

It's one in the morning. I just ran the east coast rationalist megamee... more

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There's a stock market bubble currently in progress. The key question is: which stocks are unsustainably high?

There are a few ways that the current AI boom could turn out to be a mistake (as in AI stocks dropping much below... more

Recent work by Anthropic showed that Claude models, primarily Opus 4 and Opus 4.1, are able to introspect--detecting when external concepts have been injected into their activations. But not all of us have Opus at home! By looking at the logits, we s... more

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There is a standard pattern in philosophical conversations. People stumble upon their epistemological limitations and then assume that God's existence somehow would’ve solved the problem.

For instance, suppose we are talking ... more

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“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: Why would that be the case?
Bats cannot communicate with each other with the precision or fidelity that humans can, which hampers their understanding of each other's consciousness.
“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: What is it like to be a BAT?
It's as mysterious for a bat to comprehend the consciousness of another bat as it is for humans to understand the consciousness of other humans.
“Creditworthiness should not be for sale” by habryka
Q: Okay, but shouldn't I be happy if I give money to a charity that can raise more than a dollar from other people if I give it a dollar?
It's a complex situation where sometimes funding public goods can lead to genuine societal benefits, but it may resemble a creditworthiness purchasing scheme initially.
“Postrationality: An Oral History” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
Q: What do you think about effective altruism criticisms?
Many effective altruists are utilitarians, and utilitarianism has baked-in flaws that don't account for human concerns sufficiently.
“Postrationality: An Oral History” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
Q: What has post rationality actually changed about how you make decisions and take action?
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