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Comment by handoflixue

4 days ago

https://www.lesswrong.com/highlights this is the ostensible "Core Highlights", curated by major members of the community, and I believe Eliezer would endorse it.

If you don't get anything out of reading the list itself, then you're probably not going to get anything out of the rest of the community either.

If you poke around and find a few neat ideas there, you'll probably find a few other neat ideas.

For some people, though, this is "wait, holy shit, you can just DO that? And it WORKS?", in which case probably read all of this but then also go find a few other sources to counter-balance it.

(In particular, probably 90% of the useful insights already exist elsewhere in philosophy, and often more rigorously discussed - LessWrong will teach you the skeleton, the general sense of "what rationality can do", but you need to go elsewhere if you want to actually build up the muscles)