I’m focused on learning about the different causes of death and how to get rid of them: Viva Immortality!
I used to do IT, but am pivoting to found an organization dedicated to achieving human immortality.
I’m from Houston, Texas and still virtually organize the Houston Rationalists group even though I’ve since moved to Norfolk, Virginia. (if you’re in the area [Norfolk], contact me and I’ll organize a meetup here)
Right now I’m job hunting and am aiming to relocate to Seattle, Washington.
I volunteer at the EA Hub and listen to the 80,000 hours podcast, but otherwise haven’t spent nearly as much time in the EA world compared to the LessWrong / ACX world. I’m looking forward to changing that and deep diving the ideas here and having good discussions / conversations.
EDIT: I redid the post in markdown, thank you Aaron for activating that :) (I tried to activate the markdown editor but that didn’t seem to work, so I removed markdown formatting for this post, which is why all the links are messy)
Hello, Willa! I’ve activated the Markdown Editor for you — not sure why it wasn’t working. (I’m the lead moderator/admin here.)
There’s a lot of stuff on the Forum. Perhaps the best way to start out is to browse the top posts of all time and read whatever looks interesting. I don’t love all the posts on that list, but they’re a reasonable sample of the topics that get a lot of interest here.
The natural book recommendation would be Toby Ord’s The Precipice if you haven’t read it yet; I’ve liked the bits I’ve read, and reviews from outside of EA have been solid.
LessWrong also does monthly open threads, I recommend checking those out, here’s July’s, and keep an eye out for August’s open thread soon.
I endorse the recommendations posted by habryka in July’s Open Thread for getting started and increasing familiarity with LessWrong. Community, Concepts, and Library
I recommend making comments on posts that you find interesting, helping answer or contribute to discussion of open questions, and/or writing posts about things you’re interested in; I personally do a lot of shortformwriting because that lets me explore thoughts, journal, get used to writing publicly, and more. Doing any or multiple such things will increase your engagement there and you may have fun too :)
Hey y’all :)
I’m focused on learning about the different causes of death and how to get rid of them: Viva Immortality!
I used to do IT, but am pivoting to found an organization dedicated to achieving human immortality.
I’m from Houston, Texas and still virtually organize the Houston Rationalists group even though I’ve since moved to Norfolk, Virginia. (if you’re in the area [Norfolk], contact me and I’ll organize a meetup here)
Right now I’m job hunting and am aiming to relocate to Seattle, Washington.
I volunteer at the EA Hub and listen to the 80,000 hours podcast, but otherwise haven’t spent nearly as much time in the EA world compared to the LessWrong / ACX world. I’m looking forward to changing that and deep diving the ideas here and having good discussions / conversations.
I’ve read Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics and the 80,000 Hours’ Book. Any recommendations on what I should check out next, especially here on the forum?
I also write over at LessWrong
Cheers,
Willa
EDIT: I redid the post in markdown, thank you Aaron for activating that :)
(I tried to activate the markdown editor but that didn’t seem to work, so I removed markdown formatting for this post, which is why all the links are messy)Hello, Willa! I’ve activated the Markdown Editor for you — not sure why it wasn’t working. (I’m the lead moderator/admin here.)
There’s a lot of stuff on the Forum. Perhaps the best way to start out is to browse the top posts of all time and read whatever looks interesting. I don’t love all the posts on that list, but they’re a reasonable sample of the topics that get a lot of interest here.
The natural book recommendation would be Toby Ord’s The Precipice if you haven’t read it yet; I’ve liked the bits I’ve read, and reviews from outside of EA have been solid.
Thank you! I edited my post so it looks nicer now :)
I appreciate the recommendations, I’ll check out the top posts / sequences on the forum plus Toby Ord’s The Precipice.
I’ve never interacted with the Less Wrong community :D Any tips on ways to be engaged there?
Hey!
LessWrong also does monthly open threads, I recommend checking those out, here’s July’s, and keep an eye out for August’s open thread soon.
I endorse the recommendations posted by habryka in July’s Open Thread for getting started and increasing familiarity with LessWrong. Community, Concepts, and Library
I recommend making comments on posts that you find interesting, helping answer or contribute to discussion of open questions, and/or writing posts about things you’re interested in; I personally do a lot of shortform writing because that lets me explore thoughts, journal, get used to writing publicly, and more. Doing any or multiple such things will increase your engagement there and you may have fun too :)