Meditations on Moloch (2014)
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Meditations on Moloch (2014)
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#2This is one of the best essays I've ever read.
I was surprised to find it was never discussed on HN (plenty of submissions, no traction). So go read it HNers.
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#3please read wanna know your thoughts HN
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#4This is one of the best essays I've ever read. I was surprised to find it was never discussed on HN (plenty of submissions, no traction). So go read it HNers.
Seconded. This essay made me re-think what our problems are and what kind of dynamics those problems exhibit.
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#5I can't stand slatestarcodex or lesswrong. They're not INTP but try really hard to be.
And MBPI--because it's based on field observations in the 1910's--is the least politically correct typology.
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#6“I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try to kill God.”
This essay is excellent - gets a little bogged down in rubbing your nose in enough examples, but has enough depth of concept to compensate.
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#7This is one of the best essays I've ever read. I was surprised to find it was never discussed on HN (plenty of submissions, no traction). So go read it HNers.
Seconded. This essay made me re-think what our problems are and what kind of dynamics those problems exhibit.
I feel the same way about the Inadequate Equilibria book https://equilibriabook.com/toc/ (free-to-read). In many ways, it's a different look into the very same problems, with more depth and less egregore/meme engineering.
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#8A very good essay, also a deeply depressing one if you do not get to the end and consider his solution viable.
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#9I think the fish farm parable fails when one considers few number of farms and more realistic conditions https://greyenlightenment.com/fish-farm-economies/
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#10This was a mostly entertaining read, if a bit all over the place. I do have one point to offer -- I noticed this article quotes liberally from Bostrom, Nick, but misses another thinker who has relevant ideas about avoiding what this author refers to as "multipolar traps" -- Ostrom, Elinor. I recommend those who are interested in resources for the fight against Moloch to look into her book Governing the Commons, as she devised a set of principles for managing common-pool resources to avoid these types of traps, at least in specific concrete scenarios.