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 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. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? 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