You should absolutely read some philosophy (outside LW), but different bits depending on what you want to do. My generic recommendation would be Parfit’s Reasons and Persons. And the most famous papers by Quine and Dennett.
Don’t be afraid of papers. Most famous academics since the transformation of post-WW2 academia are famous because they wrote good papers that people liked to read. Heck, most academic papers in any field aren’t that bad once you build up a tolerance. If you’re not affiliated with a university, figure out how to read whatever papers you want anyhow.
One omission from the syllabus might be algorithmic information theory. Li and Vitanyi is a very good textbook—I can measure how good it is in units of how embarrassed I feel at the things I said before I read it.
You should absolutely read some philosophy (outside LW), but different bits depending on what you want to do. My generic recommendation would be Parfit’s Reasons and Persons. And the most famous papers by Quine and Dennett.
Don’t be afraid of papers. Most famous academics since the transformation of post-WW2 academia are famous because they wrote good papers that people liked to read. Heck, most academic papers in any field aren’t that bad once you build up a tolerance. If you’re not affiliated with a university, figure out how to read whatever papers you want anyhow.
One omission from the syllabus might be algorithmic information theory. Li and Vitanyi is a very good textbook—I can measure how good it is in units of how embarrassed I feel at the things I said before I read it.
Oh yeah, I did read Li and Vitanyi pretty early on. I completely forgot about that.