What This Section Is About
The Sequences, first by Yudkowski, later added to by LessWrong users, has formed a canon of the modern rationality movement. This movement, well known for its stances on AI safety, has done more than any other group to cause the development of AI: When writing about his fears about AI, Yudkowsky was so convincing that people finally thought, "wow, AI is actually possible!", leading to the paradoxial result of AI actually being developed faster than it otherwise would have been.
I am interested in The Sequences partially because of the outstanding effect that the movement has had on technology and modern culture overall, but also partially because I am a fundamental defender of human irrationality: That is, I don't want to be part of a culture that is based on a false sense of rationality. It is better to embrace the ways in which we are not rational than to pretend that we are. And, only by understanding the way that people are often irrational, we become able to shape our society and laws to be understanding of that irrationality.
Is it possible for me to understand what the sequences are trying to convey? Can someone like be become more rational? Is it possible for me to become a defender of rationality?
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To be honest, I don't actually know much about the sequences, other than that they were started by Yudkowski, and that the entire rationality moment coalessed around them. And, since that beginning, they have been added to and grown into quite a beast.
There's no true "canonical" order to them, as far as I can tell, but I will be following them in the order presented in the LessWrong library:
Personally, I think that the library, after you realize how long it is, and how each link is composed of sometimes dozens of articles, is pretty intimidating.