LINDY LINKS THREAD — posts I find myself still thinking about at least a year after reading them
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4. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010/
@vgr) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ … Legibility is a surprisingly interesting and important concept. E.g., insiders often deliberately pursue *illegibility* to make it harder for outsiders to control them. I think about this all the time.Show this thread
5. Politics is the mind-killer (2007/@ESYudkowsky) https://lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-is-the-mind-killer …
This post makes a simple but powerful point: that politics, while important for other reasons, is corrosive of epistemic health. Be mindful of how much attention you pay to this domain.
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6. How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017/
@lukeprog) http://lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-revolution/ … To answer the question posed in the title: It was THE BIGGEST DEAL, at least in terms of improvements to human welfare. This is now my go-to/definitive post on the impact of the IR.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I mull politics much like I do fiction, while taking to heart
@ESYudkowsky's warning against the Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence.https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logical-fallacy-of-generalization-from-fictional …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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