“The Best of Don’t Worry About the Vase” by Zvi

Hello everyone! This is going to be a bit of a housekeeping post and a welcome to new subscribers.

Note that this is not the primary version of my writing, which can be found on Substack, but it is a full copy of all posts found there.

My writing can be intimidating. There is a lot of it, and it's often dense. As always, choose only the parts relevant to your interests, do not be afraid to make cuts. I attempt to make every post accessible as an entry point, but I also want to build up a superstructure over time. This seemed like a good time to recap some of the very best of my old writing and talk about what I’m up to.

Over many years, this blog has morphed from focusing on rationality to COVID to AI.

But not only those [...]

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Outline:

(01:28) Rationality

(03:03) The Evergreen Posts

(07:13) AI

(09:48) General Rationality and Principles of Life and Thinking

(11:26) World Modeling

(13:20) Oh, Yeah, That Happened

(13:52) Gaming Fun

(14:48) Fertility, School and Childhood

(15:50) Covid

(17:26) The Simulacra Levels Sequence

(18:47) The Moral Mazes Sequence

(20:44) The Choices Sequence

(21:59) Game Theory, Gambling and Prediction Markets

(22:55) Bonus Content: A Newly Salient Question for 2023

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First published:
December 13th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dHYxnSgMDeveovLuv/the-best-of-don-t-worry-about-the-vase

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