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The future is determined by physics. Those who learn from the reality to believe in such g's, t's and d's where they exist, work in their improvements and manipulations to improve our existence are rationals. Reductionism is therefore true, which allo... Read More
There are few things as satisfying as stacking your favorite books in a shelf and having them fix your mood every time you see them. Eliezer yudkowsky is a brilliant rationalist that will help you ground in reality and give you the tools to more accur... Read More
This ebook is massive, unbelievably huge, and provided me with weeks of engaged reading. It repeats itself at points but is nonetheless worth the long read.
The author's style is not dry, formal, or stiff. It's better than i've made it sound; in fact better than the original (imho, as they say) the style is also more engaging and fun to read than if he was drily presenting facts.
Fictional interludes. This book confronts these challenging ideas. The author is at his best in shooting down what he deems as wrong ideas.
Cons
I woud only suggest this to readers deeply interested in studying rationality that can deal with rambling writing.
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Adapted from web content this book helps the reader follow all of the lesswrong 34series34 material without missing important chunks
Techniques to approach nearly every problem you will encounter in life and in science and to useful in resolving questions that... Read More
The inclusion of public periodic updating in scientific and artistic methodology is shown to be mandatory and any scientist or ... Read More
The description below completely my own is a result of the book and not representative of the authors views in any form or shape
Price
There is a great deal to say about this
I stumbled across the name yudkowsky in a readers review of another book altogether and checking it out found it would cost abo... Read More
Id always considered myself a rational person so when i found out about this book that was cheaply priced
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But i slowly came around realized that my life was continuing just as usual and that knowing the truth didnt destroy anything a... Read More
Competitiveness
Its better than ive made it sound in fact better than the original imho as they say
Instead for some reason it was decided that the online format is so superior to the physical one that we arent even given the option
I was already familiar with a lot of this material from lesswrong
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Whenever you parry hit spring strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword you must cut the enemy in the same movement
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If you think only of hitting springing striking or touching the enemy you will not be able actually to cut him
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More than anything you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him
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Actually learning about aspects of reality requires giving up expectingdemanding the universe to be the way you think it should be
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You just are a bundle of biases
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