This post was personally meaningful to me, and I’ll try to cover that in my review while still analyzing it in the context of lesswrong articles.
I don’t have much to add about the ‘history of rationality’ or the description of interactions of specific people.
Most of my value from this post wasn’t directly from the content, but how the content connected to things outside of rationality and lesswrong. So, basically, i loved the citations.
Lesswrong is very dense in self-links and self-citations, and to a lesser degree does still have a good number of links to other websites.
However it has a dearth of connections to things that aren’t blog posts—books, essays from before the internet, etc. Especially older writings.
I found this posts citation section to be a treasure trove of things I might not have found otherwise.
I have picked up and skimmed/started at least a dozen of the books on the list.
I still come back to this list sometimes when I’m looking for older books to read.
This post was personally meaningful to me, and I’ll try to cover that in my review while still analyzing it in the context of lesswrong articles.
I don’t have much to add about the ‘history of rationality’ or the description of interactions of specific people.
Most of my value from this post wasn’t directly from the content, but how the content connected to things outside of rationality and lesswrong. So, basically, i loved the citations.
Lesswrong is very dense in self-links and self-citations, and to a lesser degree does still have a good number of links to other websites.
However it has a dearth of connections to things that aren’t blog posts—books, essays from before the internet, etc. Especially older writings.
I found this posts citation section to be a treasure trove of things I might not have found otherwise.
I have picked up and skimmed/started at least a dozen of the books on the list.
I still come back to this list sometimes when I’m looking for older books to read.
I really want more things like this on lesswrong.