/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

I went down the rabbithole that is http://roadsandkingdoms.com/ during breakfast. Followed a Gwern link to an article about dog cafes, and the dog thieves who get killed trying to supply them.

And yes, it did. YOU SMORE HATER.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/qntm-s-author-page was pretty good, by the same guy who wrote Ra and Fine Structure.

worm

gr9 body horror

>>6199

gee, that's novel, I'm sure no-one here has ever heard of Worm before

>>6200

key word: "interesting," not "novel"

>>6201

you're right, I apologize

The Arithmancer: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10070079/1/

Harry Potter fanfic with Hermione as a math prodigy, where fanon arithmancy lets you use math to construct spells. Largely follows the canon plot threads, but her solutions are rational and math-based.

Death And Life Of Great American Cities

It's definitely an amateur sociology sort of thing, but it's fun in the same way as, I don't know, a pop econ book would've been when I was younger? She really cares about cities, even if she's not always correct about her policy prescriptions and stuff in hindsight.

I'm enjoying The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch, which I highly recommend.

I started the Iliad a couple of days ago, Lombardo's translation.

>>6206

I think an unfriendly AI has taken over the attachment thumbnail.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson and Aghora: At the Left Hand of God

Fascinating stuff if you have a morbid curiosity for this kind of things.

it's not really interesting, the guy is crazy and mostly wrong imo, but i wonder if anybody in the rationalist community has seen

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/

R Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series. There's nothing else like it. Though it's often boring and makes you want to skip to the good parts (ie, the parts somehow related to the Dunyain or the Consult).

I still don't recommend reading it because it's a long fiction series and getting into one of those is probably not the best use of your time. But if you weren't gonna put that time to good use anyway…

>>6211

That name sounds familiar. Does he comment on the Uehiro Practical Ethics blog?

>>6214

I would agree in general, however in this case it is taken to such extremes that it becomes a guilty pleasure for me. I also appreciate the hypnosis stuff mixed with literature.

Definitely should give it a chance if you have interest in weird shit.

http://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff.pdf

Obviously not everyone's cup of tea.

>>6215

>tfw not immortal so can't afford to spend your time digging into stuff like this

Yes.