Cobalt

• Cobalt 6 Aug 2021 12:33 UTC

  8 points

  on: What are some good pieces on civ­i­liza­tional de­cay /​ civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse /​ weak­en­ing of so­cietal fabric?

  “The Collapse of Complex Societies” by Joseph Tainter (1988) is a good place to start for a historical perspective. To put in relation with the Club de Rome report “Limits to Growth” (1974).

• Cobalt 29 Apr 2021 22:04 UTC

  5 points

  on: Where do LessWrong ra­tio­nal­ists de­bate?

  There is the Astral Codex Ten Discord server (Scott is not involved) where some debates happen.

• Cobalt 3 Feb 2021 15:47 UTC

  3 points

  on: Late-talk­ing kids and “Ein­stein syn­drome”

  In the literature you reviewed, was there mention of late-talking as a result of trauma in early childhood/​infancy occurring before speech development? If so, would you be willing to share the references? (Very late talker here, no word or babbling before the age of 4.)