Let's not forget Less Wrong thinks Roko's Basilisk is a real problem, or at least thought so at one time.
Not sure how rational that is, heh...though it does show us where absurd ideas like the physicalist faith, uploading your mind, and multiverse as a way to escape the observer in QM get you.
That said you can learn a decent amount of rational thinking from Less Wrong, though from what I read he has less space given to his absurd ideas in his fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality so might be better to start there.
Personally I'd start with Nagel's The View From Nowhere and the Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
Quote:Roko, for his part, put the blame on LessWrong for spurring him to the idea of the Basilisk in the first place: “I wish very strongly that my mind had never come across the tools to inflict such large amounts of potential self-harm,” he wrote.
Not sure how rational that is, heh...though it does show us where absurd ideas like the physicalist faith, uploading your mind, and multiverse as a way to escape the observer in QM get you.
That said you can learn a decent amount of rational thinking from Less Wrong, though from what I read he has less space given to his absurd ideas in his fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality so might be better to start there.
Personally I'd start with Nagel's The View From Nowhere and the Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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