| Instead, I will recommend https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ Along with HN, it is the only other place I can find altruistic and intellectual discussion. Blind has some intellectual people but a dearth of morals ($ and status obsession). HN even can be a bit too cynical and sneer-like sometimes. Scott is one of the smartest people I've encountered and has a very good way with words. I find myself laughing out loud sometimes with the special way he phrases things. I related to how curious he is about many different topics and you can tell he deeply means well. He constantly brings up things I've had hunches about but puts it so eloquently. I think saying "some of their circles would drive people out if they expressed disbelief in quasireligious concepts such as superhuman a.i., cryonics" is inaccurate. I've seen plenty of debated skepticism. Ffs there's a guy making 20 low quality comments about Marxism every other thread. Interested? Start with https://slatestarcodex.com/about/ On preferred pronouns: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma... On Tragedy of the Commons / coordination problems: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ On government: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic... On finding uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-... |