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Where are All the Successful Rationalists? | Applied Divinity Studies

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It’s been 13 years since Yudkowsky published the sequences, and 11 years since he wrote “Rationality is Systematized Winning”. So where are all the winners? The people that jump to mind are Nick Bostr

2020-09-05 It’s been 13 years since Yudkowsky published the sequences, and 11 years since he wrote “ Rationality is Systematized Winning ”. So where are all the winners? The people that jump to mind are Nick Bostrom (Oxford Professor of Philosophy, author), Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld (run OpenPhil and GiveWell, directing ~300M in annual donations) and Will MacAskill (Oxford Professor of Philosophy, author). But somehow that feels like cheating. We know rationalism is a good meme, so it doesn’t seem fair to cite people whose accomplishments are largely built off of convincing someone

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