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...
Aug 8, 2022
TL;DR: To even consciously consider an alignment research direction, you should have evidence to locate it as a...
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...