Over the past week I read Ray Kurzweil's new book "The Singularity Is Nearer". This is my review.
First off, if you've read The Singularity Is Near, which was published 19 years ago in 2005, you should be aware that the sequel book is a lot less technical. The Singularity Is Near contained a couple dozen graphs explaining the exponential improvement in computers in computer engineering terminology. This was good at getting the point across but made some of the details of the book difficult to understand if you didn't know this terminology well. The Singularity Is Nearer is much lighter on this, which is probably because less of that is needed nowadays... (read 958 more words →)
I'm an openly trans person in the Rationalist community and I want to go on record here saying:
Writing a 21,000 word essay about how you've been suppressing your gender dysphoria since you were a kid and posting it on LessWrong is not a healthy way of addressing your gender dysphoria.
And btw in one of the blog posts Zach links in this post, they call their transgender impulses as "the beautiful feeling at the center of my life."
This essay has a lot of self-hate in it which is self-destructive and although I respect your Freedom of Speech and Bodily Autonomy I think it would be unwise for anyone to emulate Zach.
Jeez... this was, somehow relatable.
I wonder if autistics in general tend to experience this.
I've always thought saying that babies are atheists is like saying rocks are atheists.
This triad was missed:
"Muslims are terrorists!" / "Islam is a religion of peace." / "Religion is problematic in general but Islam is the worst and I can back that claim up with statistics I read on Sam Harris' blog."