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Rationalia

👋 Hello and welcome to your personal guide to [[LessWrong]], [[The Effective Altruism Forum]], and [[The AI Alignment Forum]]

This repository is a starting point to take notes on the concepts, terms, jargon, and principles you'll find in [[LessWrong]], [[The Effective Altruism Forum]]. It was built with Obsidian in mind (as a starter template for a new vault or for your existing vault).

Motivation

LessWrong and its compatriots have accumulated a lot of posts over the years. This can be daunting for newcomers. Sure you can grind through [[Rationality A-Z|The Sequences]], but it's going to take a lot more work to actually keep the information in long-term memory.

In particular, the aim of this repository is:

  • To get you up to speed with [[Concepts (LW)|LessWrong's "concepts"]] and [[Jargon]] and with [[Topics (EA)|EA's "topics"]].1
  • To walk you through [[Library (LW)|LessWrong's]], [[The AI Alignment Forum|AF]] and [[Library (EA)|EA's]] "standard" libraries.

Structure

This vault consists of note-taking templates[^1] that correspond to published posts. These templates are usually pretty bare (you're the one taking the notes).

What you can expect to find is:

  • Metadata (tags, external links, authors, etc.)
  • Internal (bidirectional) links
  • A definition(s) and flashcard template(s) (occasionally)

How to Start

  • [[LessWrong]]
  • [[The Effective Altruism Forum]]
  • [[The AI Alignment Forum]]

Footnotes

  1. Each concept note has one or more flashcard templates that you can use to autogenerate Anki flashcards. We recommend rewording the provided definition into your own words. ↩