SpectrumDT

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

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

[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?

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

[Question] How great is the util­ity of “sav­ing” en­dan­gered lan­guages?

[Question] Has any­one here writ­ten about re­li­gious fic­tion­al­ism?

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

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

[Question] How to deal with the sense of de­mo­ti­va­tion that comes from think­ing about de­ter­minism?

[Question] Has any­one here in­ves­ti­gated the oc­cult com­mu­nity? It is cu­ri­ous to me that many ma­gi­ci­ans con­sider them­selves em­piri­cists.

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