LessWrong sequences really changed the way I think (after first reading posts like Epistemologies of Reckless Endangerment on Luke Muehlhauser’s Common Sense Atheism). If I think back to the conversations I had as a teenager in school and the general frameworks I still use today, the posts that were most influential on me were (starting with most important):
Circular Altruism (now under the name ‘Feeling Moral’)
And then later reading HPMOR was a Big Deal, for really feeling what it would be like to act throughout my life, in accordance with these models. Those things I think were the biggest reading experiences for me (and they were some of the most influential things on my decisions and how I live my life). Everything in EA felt very natural to me after that.
LessWrong sequences really changed the way I think (after first reading posts like Epistemologies of Reckless Endangerment on Luke Muehlhauser’s Common Sense Atheism). If I think back to the conversations I had as a teenager in school and the general frameworks I still use today, the posts that were most influential on me were (starting with most important):
Circular Altruism (now under the name ‘Feeling Moral’)
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism”
Scope Insensitivity
Money: The Unity of Caring
And then later reading HPMOR was a Big Deal, for really feeling what it would be like to act throughout my life, in accordance with these models. Those things I think were the biggest reading experiences for me (and they were some of the most influential things on my decisions and how I live my life). Everything in EA felt very natural to me after that.