OK, I’m seeing some quick approval. I’ve been looking back through LW for posts and wiki articles that would be interesting/provocative for new readers, and don’t require the entirety of the sequences. Here’s my list right now:
* Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
* The True Prisoner's Dilemma
* How to Convince Me that 2 + 2 = 3
* The Least Convenient Possible World
* The Apologist and the Revolutionary
* Your Intuitions are Not Magic
* The Third Alternative
* Lawful Uncertainty
* The Domain of Your Utility Function
* The Allais Paradox (with two followups)
* We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
* The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
And from the wiki:
* Near/Far thinking
* Shut Up and Multiply
* Evolutionary Psychology
* Cryonics
* Religion
What should I add? What, if anything, should I subtract?
Due to heavy personal history bias: That Alien Message.
I would take out anything that involves weird stuff regarding dead people, but that might be better A/B tested or surveyed. My own expectation is that hitting readers with the crazy topics right away is bad and a turn-off while it is better to give out useful and interesting things in the beginning that are relatable right away.
[Edit: important missing word added]
Ah. As you can see on the page itself, I decided to leave out the wiki links (for basically the same reasons you mentioned.) I’ll add That Alien Message.
OK, I’m seeing some quick approval. I’ve been looking back through LW for posts and wiki articles that would be interesting/provocative for new readers, and don’t require the entirety of the sequences. Here’s my list right now:
And from the wiki:
What should I add? What, if anything, should I subtract?
Due to heavy personal history bias: That Alien Message.
I would take out anything that involves weird stuff regarding dead people, but that might be better A/B tested or surveyed. My own expectation is that hitting readers with the crazy topics right away is bad and a turn-off while it is better to give out useful and interesting things in the beginning that are relatable right away. [Edit: important missing word added]
Huh?
Corrected. I meant cryonics, and some of the applications of ‘shut up and multiply’.
Ah. As you can see on the page itself, I decided to leave out the wiki links (for basically the same reasons you mentioned.) I’ll add That Alien Message.