Recurring option at the main donation link?

+1 it took a while as a child before I came to understand that reading a book and watching a movie were meaningfully different for some people.

pretty small, hard to quantify but I'd guess under 20% and perhaps under 10.

A lot of stuff turns out to hinge on effort. One of the reasons that strength programs work better than generic exercise routines is that with higher reps it's easy to 'tire yourself out' at a level that doesn't actually drive that much adaptation. Think of those fitness classes with weights. Decent cardio, but they don't gain much strength.

Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier isn't really rational but is rat-adjacent and funny about it. Available to watch on youtube though the video quality isn't fantastic.

what technologies like bbq are we missing?

It's also my litmus test for community, if a group can't succeed at casual BBQs at all or has them but they have to be a big production I am more wary.

Many people have no context in their life where they can get feedback on socially undesirable ideas from thoughtful people so that they can potentially update them. E.g. you hear socially undesirable thing online that you suspect has some truth to it, you can't have any reasonable discussion about which aspects might be true, which might be false, and even amongst the more true parts how to navigate having that belief or what would be a wholesome framework to use to work with it, bc no feedback.

I'll give an egregious example. At one time, iodizing salt in developing countries was opposed by some NGOs on the grounds that the argument that it raised IQ was some sort of fake racist thing. A person in that environment might have wanted to be able to discuss things in a safer space than whatever environment produced that insanity.

Thanks for writing this, I indeed felt that the arguments were significantly easier to follow than previous efforts.

My personal experience was that superintelligence made it harder to think clearly about AI by making lots of distinctions and few claims.

Thank you!

Ironically, I do not know who to attribute to the notion that 'all problems are credit assignation problems.'