What questions will I find most challenging to answer?
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Will resolve to comments in proportion to how much I found them novel and gave me directions I had not considered before.

What's currently on my mind (These are just broad pointers, they're more here to give a glimpse about the kind of things I think about. Feel free to find something orthogonal to those axes, that's probably where the most value lie 😄 ):

  • Does rationalist teaching really help? Are there memetic means with high impacts compared to other like medication and drugs/

  • Is fiction an interesting tool? Or is it fundamentally flawed as one? I used to think it was a crucial one that we could build a science around, but it seems less clear to me

  • Is cooperationism applicable in real life? Is it fundamentally difficult, like alignment is?

  • What are the axes that describes the clusters in perspectives? Is it the case that disagreement around, eg. AI doom can be explained by something more fundamental to individuals?

  • What are states of mind I cannot currently access? Are there means by which I can acess them?

  • Relatedly, how can I diversify my memetic ecosystem? Should I? Is there a point where the memetic ecosystem would collapse on itself?

  • Why do people feel that pain and qualia are intrinsically important? Why is preferentialism so counter-intuitive to people I talk about it with?

  • How does free energy and bayesian brain fit with bipolarity and ADHD? Is it a different axes?

  • Why are incentives so difficult to place? Why is it the case that simply adding more liquidity to a manifold market or a bounty does not increase attention and interest?

  • Why do people feel personality and individuality is so deeply entranched? Is the belief that some features of us we cannot change simply a descriptive one, or is it there to protect a deeper value?

  • How does tribalism work? What are we missing in the rationalist community in terms of rituals and groupism mechanisms?

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