Several artists and professionals have come to Inkhaven to share their advice. They keep talking about form—even if you have a raw feeling or interest, you must channel it through one of the forms of art or journalism to make it into something people can appreciate.

I'm curious to understand why they care so much; and because it seems interesting, I'd like to explore form. As a first step, I have written down some of the types of blogpost that are written on LessWrong.

1. Concept Handles

Concept-handles are the most common way that the discourse is attempted to be moved forwards, through helping us notice phenomena and orient to them.

The thing about a Concept-Handle-Post is that, as long as the post gives you a good hook for the idea, the rest of the post can be pretty crazy. It can take a niche position as though it's common place, it can have fiction in it, it can be crazily long and people forget 90% of it, it can be just a few paragraphs.

Some Examples

In rationality is can be about individual rationality ("Reason as Memetic Immune Disorder", "Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes") or group [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) 1. Concept Handles

(02:13) 2. One-Shot Fiction

(02:45) 3. Grand theory (with lots of research)

(03:30) 4. Book Reviews

(03:59) 5. Introductions / Primers

(04:19) 6. Frameworks

(04:53) 7. Post about the Rationalists

(05:15) 8. Disagreeing with Eliezer Yudkowsky

(06:10) 9. AI Futurism

(06:29) 10. Curiosities

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.