Book: Economix (How Our Economy Works, and Doesn‘t Work)
Description: An introduction to how economic theories have evolved and shaped cultural thinking in the context of history. A comic book!
Positives: extremely easy to understand, actually enjoyable, clearly states the limits of theory, organized in a way that meant I was able to anchor the new information to background history that I was somewhat familiar with already, author clearly points out limitations in his viewpoint, covers some modern economics
Negatives: US centric, much less useful for someone who wants more than a launching point
(I would note that there is another economics comic book with a similar title that is, imho, much worse)
One thing I lack is perspective, and the linked resources are offering just that!
Great context that I wasn’t aware of! Changed language to reflect a level of uncertainty, since I’ve yet to form my own solid timeline. Also because likely has an actual meaning as a word that I didn’t consider.
It isn’t obvious what contributing to The Good Future from a non-standard background looks like.
Especially on a short timeline.
I am a first time poster with a background in the arts. I became aware of AI safety as a cause area relatively recently, and despite it possibly being the 11th hour, I want to contribute. I would consider myself a baby rationalist - there is years worth of content to digest still. This feels like relevant information to this post because I expect the results of my Babble session and reflection to be very different than (what I perceive to be) the average less wrong poster.
Why even try?
Because humans are worth it, and... (read 1436 more words →)
It has been asked before, but I will ask again because I prefer clear answers: is Death With Dignity MIRI’s policy?
What I’m seeing from my outside perspective is a MIRI authority figure stating that this is the policy.