The Sequences Highlights on YouTube
post by dkirmani · 2023-02-15T19:36:33.934Z · LW · GW · 2 commentsThis is a link post for https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq--zwCCN3mU9ECQSufrDn7zzTeCGg4k
Contents
Thinking Better on Purpose The Lens That Sees Its Flaws What Do We Mean By "Rationality"? Humans are not automatically strategic Use the Try Harder, Luke Your Strength as a Rationalist The Meditation on Curiosity The Importance of Saying "Oops" The Martial Art of Rationality Twelve Virtues of Rationality Pitfalls of Human Cognition The Bottom Line Rationalization You Can Face Reality Is That Your True Rejection? Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points Belief as Attire Cached Thoughts The Fallacy of Gray Lonely Dissent Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People Politics is the Mind-Killer The Laws Governing Belief Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) What is Evidence? Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence How Much Evidence Does It Take? Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence Conservation of Expected Evidence Argument Screens Off Authority An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization Science Isn't Enough When Science Can't Help Faster Than Science Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality No Safe Defense, Not Even Science Connecting Words to Reality Taboo Your Words Dissolving the Question Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease Hug the Query Say Not "Complexity" Mind Projection Fallacy How An Algorithm Feels From Inside Expecting Short Inferential Distances Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You Why We Fight Something to Protect The Gift We Give To Tomorrow On Caring Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) A Sense That More Is Possible Appendix None 2 comments
This post consists of the Sequences Highlights [? · GW] compiled to a zoomer-readable format [LW · GW], i.e., video. If you'd prefer to watch these videos on YouTube proper rather than on this post, use this YouTube playlist.
These videos may or may not suit your mind well; as far as I can tell, there's substantial individual variance with respect to how much mental friction they take to parse. I'd guess that you're more likely to extract value from these videos if:
- You find audiobooks/podcasts tolerable
- You were born after 1997
- You have a low executive function budget due to ADHD, depression, or just being Extremely Online™
Thinking Better on Purpose
The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
Humans are not automatically strategic
Use the Try Harder, Luke
Your Strength as a Rationalist
The Meditation on Curiosity
The Importance of Saying "Oops"
The Martial Art of Rationality
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
Pitfalls of Human Cognition
The Bottom Line
Rationalization
You Can Face Reality
Is That Your True Rejection?
Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
Belief as Attire
Cached Thoughts
The Fallacy of Gray
Lonely Dissent
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Politics is the Mind-Killer
The Laws Governing Belief
Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
What is Evidence?
Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Argument Screens Off Authority
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking
Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
Science Isn't Enough
When Science Can't Help
Faster Than Science
Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality
No Safe Defense, Not Even Science
Connecting Words to Reality
Taboo Your Words
Dissolving the Question
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Hug the Query
Say Not "Complexity"
Mind Projection Fallacy
How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
Why We Fight
Something to Protect
The Gift We Give To Tomorrow
On Caring
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
A Sense That More Is Possible
Appendix
- I do expect many (most?) people to get a superior understanding of the Sequences Highlights by reading them directly, instead of watching these videos. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good, though, as I also expect these videos to have much higher user-retention rates than the raw Highlights.
- If you've already read the content, these videos could act as a low-effort means to refresh the relevant thought-patterns, making them more mentally available.
- Kudos to trevor [LW · GW] for suggesting both the background video and the idea of converting the Highlights.
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comment by RomanHauksson (r) · 2023-02-15T21:48:29.459Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This is exactly the kind of strange, experimental, large-action-space kind of idea that I've only so far seen in effective altruist / rationalist circles. I love it.