recommending Hands and Cities

posted on 2022-06-21

(2022-10-12 edit: handsandcities.com seems to be down, so i've replaced the links to posts with links to the same posts on lesswrong)

early this year, i found out about a blog called Hands and Cities.

it explores various topics, notably ethics and anthropics, in an exploratory style i find not dissimilar to my own, and generally easy to understand; and some of the ideas there are genuinely novel and fun to consider.

while you may have noticed that i've started heavily referencing it through links on this blog, in this post i'm explicitely recommending Hands and Cities. in addition, i'll list some of my favorite posts:

Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
Contact with reality
On the limits of idealized values
In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)
Can you control the past?
SIA > SSA, part 1: Learning from the fact that you exist along with parts 2, 3, and 4
On the Universal Distribution and Anthropics and the Universal Distribution
On infinite ethics, but see also this comment
some of On expected utility, part 1: Skyscrapers and madmen and part 2: Why it can be OK to predictably lose

posted on 2022-06-21