201 – The Educated Mind + More with Brandon Hendrickson (part 2)

We talk more with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. Also discussions of rationality, post-rationalism, and more.

The winning book review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify))

Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools of Learning

Science Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in love with the world

Paid Bonus content – Chat on Back Pain and Age

OTHER LINKS



Lost Tools – Your Solar System Is Wrong

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

What Lies Dreaming

The Real Fanfic is the friends we made along the way

0:00:23 – The Educated Mind

2:20:00 – Less Wrong Posts

2:36:07 – Thank the Patron

2:37:40 – Guild of the Rose Update



We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.

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Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)







Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast



LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Entropy, and Short Codes

Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace

Next Sequence Posts:

Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words

Leave a Line of Retreat