PhilosophicalSoul

Hi there. Quick question. I am using a few articles from LessWrong for a dissertation. Are there any mainstream articles/sources that reference LessWrong as being the catalyst/partial source for AI alignment, researchers, and other academic literature? I think it's snobbish, or, discriminatory to regard LessWrong as merely another online website....

Since I've seen no one talk about this, I'm coining the phrase 'Middle Child Phenomenon'. A law student who entered university four (4) years ago is faced with a curriculum that became completely outdated two (2) years in. Let's take a cohort of 1000 law students from 2020, and explain...

Imagine if the city of New York was inherited by newly sentient human beings a couple hundred years from now. These descendants of ours have no civil engineers or architects among them. They cannot even guess as to how these magnificent, glassy structures are made. Yet, every day they walk...

Under advisement from @Algon and @Seth Herd, I've included a TLDR: 1. The actual photographic memory technique starts at [Chapter V]. 2. Early 'photographic memory' and results [Chapter III: Cont'd > (2) Tachisto...]. 3. Is this trio of posts overwhelming and difficult to remember? I've reduced it to the most...

I see LessWrong is currently obsessed with AI Alignment. I spoke with some others on the unofficial LessWrong discord, and agreed that LessWrong is becoming more and more specialised, thus scaring off any newcomers who aren't interested in AI. That aside. I'm genuinely curious. Do any of the posts on...

As you may have guessed, these first two (2) posts give you the building blocks of mnemonics. The final post will polish some theories I've developed, refine the process in building personal mnemonic techniques, and finally: how to acquire a photographic memory. As was the case with my first post,...

Mastery of research, memory and logic is key to rebuilding a metaphorical Library of Alexandria. The first asks: how do we find knowledge? The second asks: how do we remember the knowledge we find? The third asks: how do we apply that knowledge accurately? I will be dealing with the...