Is there an index of everything I ought to read to be ‘up-to-date’ in the rationalist community? I keep finding new stuff: new ancient LW posts, new bloggers, etc. There’s also this on the Wiki, which is useful (but is curiously not what you find when you click on ‘all pages’ on the wiki; that instead gets a page with 3 articles on it?). But I think that list is probably more than I want—a lot of it is filler/fluff (though I plan to at least skim everything, if I don’t burn out).
I just want to be able to make sure, if I try to post something I think is new on here, that it hasn’t been talked to death about already.
No, there’s no index. The rationalist community is a disapora of people in which everyone keeps producing its own content. It’s basically impossible to read everything and be on-par with everyone. I suggest you select a couple of forum (the obvious choices are LW and SSC) and read a bunch of things from there (again, “AI to Zombie” strikes me as the obvious choice).
Is there an index of everything I ought to read to be ‘up-to-date’ in the rationalist community? I keep finding new stuff: new ancient LW posts, new bloggers, etc. There’s also this on the Wiki, which is useful (but is curiously not what you find when you click on ‘all pages’ on the wiki; that instead gets a page with 3 articles on it?). But I think that list is probably more than I want—a lot of it is filler/fluff (though I plan to at least skim everything, if I don’t burn out).
I just want to be able to make sure, if I try to post something I think is new on here, that it hasn’t been talked to death about already.
I think you’re better off raising your topics in open threads, and see whether people tell you a topic’s already been covered.
No, there’s no index. The rationalist community is a disapora of people in which everyone keeps producing its own content. It’s basically impossible to read everything and be on-par with everyone.
I suggest you select a couple of forum (the obvious choices are LW and SSC) and read a bunch of things from there (again, “AI to Zombie” strikes me as the obvious choice).