Does postrat Twitter have a reading list?

A lot of my philosophical consulting clients seem to be coming from there and I'd like to learn more.

— Lisa McNulty (@LisaIRMcNulty) May 17, 2021

A good list, though apparently ‘postrat’ (post-rationalist) twitter is over (that figures, I was just enjoying it):

there were actually two official reading lists, from back when postrat twitter did exist (it does not exist anymore)https://t.co/9wexYrsULahttps://t.co/Ks7xtSZnbO

— computer boy (@ctbeiser) May 17, 2021

there were actually two official reading lists, from back when postrat twitter did exist (it does not exist anymore) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDcxw9v9A16EAFJU86lYkc3WH-Z5iugFt0dTog41e8Y/mobilebasic… https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KxvU7nQ8PuNHNPeTDRz72HhIKcN8CsIRhbPDtsYe7-4/mobilebasic

Those links:

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Sam Rosen

Ambijectivity

Haley Thurston

Neuroaesthetics

Lawful Creativity

Objectivity and Art

Objects of Fandom

Evaluative Patterns

Qualia Research Institute

What Is Metamodernism?

Qualitative Reasoning Group

Culture Is Not About Esthetics

Things you are supposed to like

The Slaughterhouse of Literature

The Melancholy of Subculture Society

A general evolutionary theory of fiction

Why Post-Millennial Movies Are So Bad

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Film Crit Hulk’s four groups of media-consumers

The GIGABORE: A decade of cultural blandness

A taxonomy of social-performance theories of taste

4 Things People Mistakenly Think Are Automatically Hilarious

Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste / excerpt

Slow Food: The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism

Harmonic Society: 8 Models of Art for a Scientific Paradigm of Aesthetic Qualia

Sarah Perry: Beauty Is Fit, A Bad Carver, Body Pleasure, Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences

Tyler Cowen: Stories, In Praise of Commercial Culture, Is a Novel a Model?, How American Food Got Bad, Creative Destruction / interview, Once We Listened to the Beatles. Now We Eat Beetles.

Compression: Compression Progress, Compressiveness, Musical beauty and information compression

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A bunch of UST-adjacent essays (and one novel) that are good

Request: if edited down, we don’t do so in the same document / by deleting entries here; it’d be good to have the full list available

Peter Watts

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Atwood.pdf

Nick Szabo

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/synch.html

David Chapman/Meaningness

https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge

https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths

https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/lovecraft-harman-nihilism

https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult

Kevin Simler

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more-players/ 

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/

Venkatesh Rao

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/12/16/sapir-whorf-lakoff-metaphor-and-thought/ (recommend as an opening piece)

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/07/28/fat-thinking-and-economies-of-variety/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/04/24/product-driven-versus-customer-driven/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/17/we-are-all-architects-now/ (recommended as a closing piece)

Sarah Perry

http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.de/2012/11/fungibility-and-loss-of-demandingness.html

https://carcinisation.com/2014/08/11/beauty-is-fit/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/04/gardens-need-walls-on-boundaries-ritual-and-beauty/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/03/cartographic-compression/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/03/an-ecology-of-beauty-and-strong-drink/

Haley Thurston

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/11/12/the-awe-delusion/

Gabriel Duquette

https://lipoblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/chords-and-maps-3/

Gwern

https://www.gwern.net/The Melancholy of Subculture Society

https://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics

Tiago Forte

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/01/28/productivity-for-precious-snowflakes/

Scott Alexander

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Alex Boland

http://simulacrumbs.com/2013/09/shouts-whispers-and-the-myth-of-willpower-a-recursive-guide-to-efficacy/

George Koleszarik

http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-monster.html

Hotel Concierge

http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/116790700524/we-need-to-sing-about-mental-health

Sarah Constantin

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

Peter Thiel

http://www.hoover.org/research/optimistic-thought-experiment 

http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes 

Nassim Taleb

View at Medium.com

Neal Stephenson

http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/opinion/18stephenson.html 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/02/space_stasis.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/opinion/turn-on-tune-in-veg-out.html 

Paul Graham

http://paulgraham.com/re.html

http://paulgraham.com/say.html 

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html 

Raymond Brannen

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/inference-with-the-vampire/

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/you-cant-save-the-world-without-civilization/

Harold Lee

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-obedient-rebel/

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-confucian-heuristic/ 

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-dark-side-of-the-weak-galt-hypothesis/ 

Warg Franklin

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/postrationalism/ 

Michael Huemer

http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf

Ben Thompson

https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/

simplic10

https://carcinisation.com/2015/04/06/trifles/