Hello! tkocian is my name. Philosophy is my game. I am a former fudagelical minister who had a massive de-conversion ten years ago after balancing the house of cards that is faith for 6 years. I am 34. I am drawn to reasonable discourse because I want to be shown where I am wrong. I am on the side of the truth and follow the logic and evidence wherever it leads me. I have no dogmas and cross all paths in my pursuit of reality. I found lesswrong at the behest of a good friend, who, after I raved to him about the podcast Conversations From the Pale Blue Dot, said I should check this site out. I come here expecting to be stretched fully. Just pocking around the site and articles made me realize that I should be careful. I might just disappear into this site for a good long while. Thanks for having me.
Here is the CPBD guy’s top fifteen list for Yudkowsky’s posts, of which (now these have been recommended by two people) I recommend thisthis and this.
It may be that other writers than Yudkowsky write most in consonance with how you think, in which case you might want to look at Yvain’s posts, of which this, this and this are some of my favorites.
Fixed. It was two links. I had to add a word...the link sentence is no longer the finest specimen of prose! The whole sentence grew clumsily through this process, with me writing it with just a few links and words, then finding a link and inserting a word.
Hello! tkocian is my name. Philosophy is my game. I am a former fudagelical minister who had a massive de-conversion ten years ago after balancing the house of cards that is faith for 6 years. I am 34. I am drawn to reasonable discourse because I want to be shown where I am wrong. I am on the side of the truth and follow the logic and evidence wherever it leads me. I have no dogmas and cross all paths in my pursuit of reality. I found lesswrong at the behest of a good friend, who, after I raved to him about the podcast Conversations From the Pale Blue Dot, said I should check this site out. I come here expecting to be stretched fully. Just pocking around the site and articles made me realize that I should be careful. I might just disappear into this site for a good long while. Thanks for having me.
Welcome to lesswrong! At the risk of other optimizing, I have decided to attack you with a tab explosion.
Here is the CPBD guy’s top fifteen list for Yudkowsky’s posts, of which (now these have been recommended by two people) I recommend this this and this.
It may be that other writers than Yudkowsky write most in consonance with how you think, in which case you might want to look at Yvain’s posts, of which this, this and this are some of my favorites.
It may be best to start by reading the material easiest to digest, which may be in story format—similarly, dialogues are often relatively very easily accessible.
Here are some links to some posts I think would make a good introduction.
Thanks, that should keep me busy for a bit.
Link for “very” is broken.
Fixed. It was two links. I had to add a word...the link sentence is no longer the finest specimen of prose! The whole sentence grew clumsily through this process, with me writing it with just a few links and words, then finding a link and inserting a word.