I would like to see sequences of top level postings providing semi-technical tutorials on topics of interest to rationalists.
As one example of a topic: Moral Philosophy
EY has commented that his MetaEthics sequence is one of his least successful. Can anyone else do better? The 'official' ethical position here seems to be a kind of utilitarianism, but we ought (for some values of 'ought') to also know something about competing approaches to ethics, including deontological ethics, virtue ethics, and naturalistic ethics (Nozick, Gauthier, and Binmore, for example).
I know almost nothing about virtue ethics, for example, but it is intriguing because it seems to provide the most natural solution to the Parfit's hitchhiker problem and other decision problems where 'good reputation' is involved.
EY has commented that his MetaEthics sequence is one of his least successful. Can anyone else do better?
I started a post and fizzled about 2/3rds of the way through. I may approach it again with a fresh mind, and another topic I'm thinking about touches on it by the fringes, and so may be a good introduction.
Are there any areas of study that you feel are underrepresented here, and would be interesting and useful to lesswrongers?
I feel some topics are getting old (Omega, drama about moderation policy, a newcomer telling us our lack of admiration for his ideas is proof of groupthink, Friendly AI, Cryonics, Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality, lamenting how we're a bunch of self-centered nerds, etc. ...), and with a bit of luck, we might have some lurkers that are knowledgeable about interesting areas, and didn't think they could contribute.
Please stick to one topic per comment, so that highly-upvoted topics stand out more clearly.