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[Question] Those of you with lots of med­i­ta­tion ex­pe­rience: How did it in­fluence your un­der­stand­ing of philos­o­phy of mind and top­ics such as qualia?

SpectrumDTJan 28, 2025, 2:29 PM
14 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Sup­pos­ing that the “Dead In­ter­net The­ory” is true or largely true, how can we act on that in­for­ma­tion?

SpectrumDTJan 27, 2025, 4:47 PM
7 points
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[Question] Does the “an­cient wis­dom” ar­gu­ment have any val­idity? If a par­tic­u­lar teach­ing or tra­di­tion is old, to what ex­tent does this make it more trust­wor­thy?

SpectrumDTNov 4, 2024, 3:20 PM
18 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the effec­tive util­i­tar­ian pros and cons of hav­ing chil­dren (in rich coun­tries)?

SpectrumDTSep 2, 2024, 10:01 AM
2 points
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[Question] How great is the util­ity of “sav­ing” en­dan­gered lan­guages?

SpectrumDTAug 20, 2024, 1:14 PM
18 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one here writ­ten about re­li­gious fic­tion­al­ism?

SpectrumDTJun 4, 2024, 12:10 PM
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are most peo­ple deeply con­fused about “love”, or am I miss­ing a hu­man uni­ver­sal?

SpectrumDTMay 23, 2024, 1:22 PM
13 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Things can be difficult in 3 ways: Pain­ful, time-con­sum­ing, or un­con­trol­lable. Is this rea­son­able to say?

SpectrumDTApr 11, 2024, 12:50 PM
2 points
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[Question] How to deal with the sense of de­mo­ti­va­tion that comes from think­ing about de­ter­minism?

SpectrumDTFeb 7, 2024, 10:53 AM
13 points
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[Question] Has any­one here in­ves­ti­gated the oc­cult com­mu­nity? It is cu­ri­ous to me that many ma­gi­ci­ans con­sider them­selves em­piri­cists.

SpectrumDTDec 13, 2023, 11:09 AM
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good Less­wrong-re­lated ac­counts or hash­tags on Mastodon that I should fol­low?

SpectrumDTDec 5, 2022, 9:42 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link