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LessWrong Curated Podcast

Aug 26, 2022

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oyKzz7bvcZMEPaDs6/survey-advice

Things I believe about making surveys, after making some surveys:

  1. If you write a question that seems clear, there’s an unbelievably high chance that any given reader will misunderstand it. (Possibly this applies to things that aren’t survey...


Aug 23, 2022

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J3wemDGtsy5gzD3xa/toni-kurz-and-the-insanity-of-climbing-mountains

Content warning: death

I've been on a YouTube binge lately. My current favorite genre is disaster stories about mountain climbing. The death statistics for some of these mountains, especially ones in the Himalayas...


Aug 22, 2022

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gs3vp3ukPbpaEie5L/deliberate-grieving-1

This post is hopefully useful on its own, but begins a series ultimately about grieving over a world that might (or, might not) be doomed

It starts with some pieces from a previous  coordination frontier sequence post, but goes into...



Jul 30, 2022

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DdDt5NXkfuxAnAvGJ/changing-the-world-through-slack-and-hobbies

 

Introduction

In EA orthodoxy, if you're really serious about EA, the three alternatives that people most often seem to talk about are

(1) “direct work” in a job that furthers a very important cause;

(2) “earning to...