Now that I’m back from [Atlas Fellowship+SPARC+EAG+Future Forum], I have some post ideas to write up. A brief summary:
Agency and Authority, an actual in-depth, gears-level explanation of agency, parenting, the two kinds of respect, moral conflation with that respect, the fact that those in power are incentivized to make their underlings more legible and predictable to them, arbitrarily high punishments and outcome matrices, absolute control and concessions, incentives for those not in power and how those incentives turn you into less of an agent, and how the best solution is to create a “good person who follows orders” mask that hopefully never breaks or bleeds into the rest of your character, and then use that mask while you plot to get out of the situation.
I’ve gotten the same questions a couple times from different people, and want to just write up the responses as a post, so I don’t have to go back and rewrite them.
How did you get into rationality/EA/alignment?
Why did you hate high school so much?
What was [Atlas/SPARC/EAG/FF] like?
What’s it like being a minor in those communities?
So, what exactly do you do? Well, okay, what are you planning to do?
There was a lightning talk I gave at SPARC and Future Forum, which I ended up teaching as a full-on class at SPARC, called Memento, Memory, and Note-Taking. I want to develop that as a full post.
I also want to migrate all of my notes from Obsidian to Notion, and have some plans for what I want to include in my Notion; this will probably make it onto LW at some point.
I’ve also made some progress on what I call “putting myself back together” and this is, in retrospect, what I have spent the past month doing. I might publicly reflect on some of the personal growth and introspection I’ve done during that time.
I’d like to write “An Intro to Rationalist Culture” at some point, because it’s incredible to see the different social norms that rationalists have developed, the most important prerequisite being the ability to see and talk about social norms on the meta-level, and changing said norms as a result.
There’s also some other ideas that seem important to me:
Fleshing out what “hath culture” looks like
I need to figure out how to live in a world on fire; writing down how I cope with that now might help.
This isn’t even a definitive list of all the post ideas I have (the actual list is like 5x the size) but these are the ones I plan on writing soon.
I’ll be at Capla-Con this weekend, if anyone else here is going.
Upcoming Posts
Now that I’m back from [Atlas Fellowship+SPARC+EAG+Future Forum], I have some post ideas to write up. A brief summary:
Agency and Authority, an actual in-depth, gears-level explanation of agency, parenting, the two kinds of respect, moral conflation with that respect, the fact that those in power are incentivized to make their underlings more legible and predictable to them, arbitrarily high punishments and outcome matrices, absolute control and concessions, incentives for those not in power and how those incentives turn you into less of an agent, and how the best solution is to create a “good person who follows orders” mask that hopefully never breaks or bleeds into the rest of your character, and then use that mask while you plot to get out of the situation.
I’ve gotten the same questions a couple times from different people, and want to just write up the responses as a post, so I don’t have to go back and rewrite them.
How did you get into rationality/EA/alignment?
Why did you hate high school so much?
What was [Atlas/SPARC/EAG/FF] like?
What’s it like being a minor in those communities?
So, what exactly do you do? Well, okay, what are you planning to do?
There was a lightning talk I gave at SPARC and Future Forum, which I ended up teaching as a full-on class at SPARC, called Memento, Memory, and Note-Taking. I want to develop that as a full post.
I also want to migrate all of my notes from Obsidian to Notion, and have some plans for what I want to include in my Notion; this will probably make it onto LW at some point.
I’ve also made some progress on what I call “putting myself back together” and this is, in retrospect, what I have spent the past month doing. I might publicly reflect on some of the personal growth and introspection I’ve done during that time.
I’d like to write “An Intro to Rationalist Culture” at some point, because it’s incredible to see the different social norms that rationalists have developed, the most important prerequisite being the ability to see and talk about social norms on the meta-level, and changing said norms as a result.
There’s also some other ideas that seem important to me:
Fleshing out what “hath culture” looks like
I need to figure out how to live in a world on fire; writing down how I cope with that now might help.
This isn’t even a definitive list of all the post ideas I have (the actual list is like 5x the size) but these are the ones I plan on writing soon.
I’ll be at Capla-Con this weekend, if anyone else here is going.