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Articles by Jay Molstad
Book Review: Working With Contracts — LessWrong
Contracts is one of those areas that I always figured I ought to study, at least enough to pick up the basics, but never seemed either interesting or important enough to reach the front of my queue.
Negative Feedback and Simulacra — LessWrong
So my impression of this is that the problems you describe (particularly examples 1, 2 and 3) are the things I dislike about rationalism as an approach to life. In my experience it prioritises being right over getting things done. I'm not saying it isn't a good cause, I'm just saying it isn't always helpful - empathy is usually a far better way of dealing with people.
Simulacra and Subjectivity — LessWrong
In Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra, following Baudrillard, Jessica Taylor and I laid out a model of simulacrum levels with something of a fall-from grace feel to the story: First, words were used to maintain shared accounting. We described reality intersubjectively in order to build shared maps, the better to navigate our environment.
Quotes from Moral Mazes
Reading and actually paying attention to Moral Mazes is hard. Writing carefully about it is even harder. I effectively spent several months forcing my way through the book, because it seemed important to do that. I then spent a month trying to write about the book, but that’s going super slow as well.
The Case Against Education — LessWrong
Previously: Something Was Wrong, Book Review: The Elephant in the Brain Previously (Compass Rose): The Order of the Soul Epistemic Status: No, seriously. Also literally. They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within I’m coming now I’m coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin — Leonard Cohen, First We Take Manhattan This was originally going to be my review of Bryan Caplan’s excellent new book, The Case Against Education.
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