I remember reading back in 2014 (IIRC) Yudkowsky's explanation of the Bayes theorem. It was genuinely good. Some sort of first principles introduction.
HPMOR was entertaining as well. Death as the last enemy to be destroyed placed his priorities where his mouth is.
For a brief time back then I used to visit Lesswrong and many comments including Yudkowsky's were plain stupid (which was not hard to reason at all) but coming from folks who valued themselves as first principles thinkers was an oxymoron.
But his timeless equations (IIRC), Bayes theorem explanation and HPMOR were all remarkable and I will always appreciate those works.
Revisiting after 10 years, it was nice reading through all those virtues again. Thank you for sharing the link.
After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time.
But the content is solid as a general path to correctness and truth. In hindsight, a lot of those virtues were not just good, but correct. The nameless void at the end is the most potent of them all.
elendilm · · focus · HN ↗
HPMOR was entertaining as well. Death as the last enemy to be destroyed placed his priorities where his mouth is.
For a brief time back then I used to visit Lesswrong and many comments including Yudkowsky's were plain stupid (which was not hard to reason at all) but coming from folks who valued themselves as first principles thinkers was an oxymoron.
But his timeless equations (IIRC), Bayes theorem explanation and HPMOR were all remarkable and I will always appreciate those works.
yummybrainz · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues" rel="nofollow">https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues
elendilm · · focus · HN ↗
After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time.
But the content is solid as a general path to correctness and truth. In hindsight, a lot of those virtues were not just good, but correct. The nameless void at the end is the most potent of them all.