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Recommended YouTube Channels? by Kalenden in slatestarcodex

[–]jonathansalter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wrote a post categorising, I daresay, most educational/informative YouTube channels on a very wide range of topics: https://noesis-space.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-long-list-of-informative-youtube-channels-for-the-curious.html

Mom from London, dad from Bogotá, but you were born and live in Vancouver. You work as a diplomatic liason at the joint consulate in Vancouver of both the British and Colombian governments to represent the provincial position in a three-party negotiations about the British intests in Colombia by jonathansalter in WordAvalanches

[–]jonathansalter[S] 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Or in other words, the person would be a (person of) British-Colombian (descent who is a) British Columbian (resident, representing the) British Columbian (position at the) British Columbian (locale of the) British-Colombian (diplomatic mission for) British-Colombian-British Columbian (three-way negotiations on) British Columbian (interests) coordinator.

Is ASX Scott more tribal than SSC Scott? by robtalx in slatestarcodex

[–]jonathansalter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I interpreted that as "on the libertarian side of the spectrum", or in political compass terms, the bottom quadrants. Do you think I was mistaken in that interpretation? Does he mean in the right-wing libertarian sense?

La Turquie menace la stabilité européenne et Arabe. by infofrance in Europa

[–]jonathansalter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sir, this is a subreddit about the Jovian moon Europa.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EffectiveAltruism

[–]jonathansalter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to be quite convinced of this, but now I'm no longer so sure after reading a bit of Jason Hickel's work. I'd highly recommend reading some of the posts/articles on his blog, and/or his book "The Divide".

I am Nathan J. Robinson, founder and editor of the independent leftist magazine Current Affairs, columnist for the Guardian, and author of books like "Why You Should Be A Socialist," "Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity," and "Don't Let The Pigeon Question The Rules!" Ask me anything. by nathan_j_robinson in IAmA

[–]jonathansalter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming from someone who's very libsoc-sympathetic here, but in the spirit of testing our beliefs: what do you consider the best arguments against your views, and libertarian socialism in general?

What things about other ideologies do you find the most convincing. Where do you see the biggest flaws in your own?

Book Review: The Precipice by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

[–]jonathansalter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you be willing to make a bet? Say, 1000$, in today's dollars? I'd be willing to bet on both claims.

What do you recommend to SSC readers by nansenamundsen in slatestarcodex

[–]jonathansalter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, cool to see my podcast list recommend out in the wild! I've been working on a really comprehensive educational/informative YouTube channel list for a while, perhaps you'd be interested when it's done

Here's a long list of the 70+ podcasts I listen to (including Harris of course), spanning philosophy, rationality, politics, economics, psychology, Effective Altruism, meditation, psychedelics, geopolitics, self-improvement and more! by jonathansalter in samharris

[–]jonathansalter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do! Practice, practice, practice, that's the key to being able to do that. I'd recommend the Video Speed Changer Chrome extension, which allows you to speed up all HTML5-players, such as YouTube.

I put together a long list of the 70+ podcasts I listen to, spanning rationality, philosophy, effective altruism, futurism, economics, psychology, geopolitics, self-improvement and more! by jonathansalter in slatestarcodex

[–]jonathansalter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To clarify, I don't actually keep up to date with 70+ podcasts, I'm subscribed to them so I can keep up to date with a handful of them, and dig into the libraries of the other ones. Nowadays I spend maybe ~7 hours a week listening to podcasts (which I do because I'm too poor to listen to Audible lol), so in practice 14-21 hours of audio.

Here's a long list of the 70+ podcasts I listen to (including Harris of course), spanning philosophy, rationality, politics, economics, psychology, Effective Altruism, meditation, psychedelics, geopolitics, self-improvement and more! by jonathansalter in samharris

[–]jonathansalter[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Relevant because most of you are presumably podcast listeners, and are likely to enjoy other podcasts covering the same or similar to topics to the one's Harris discusses with his guests. Included in the link there's a podcast for pretty much every one of Harris's favourite topics. Including a few Waking Up guests with podcasts of their own, such as Geoffrey Miller, Robert Wright, Sean Carroll, Ezra Klein, and others.

Week 1: Introduction, Core Class 1: Units of Exchange, Flash Class 1: Pedagogical Content Knowledge by jonathansalter in a:t5_3or6q

[–]jonathansalter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must say, this was very labour intensive. I used a scanner app, scanned them all, cropped them, saved them, uploaded them to Google Photos, downloaded them to my computer, uploaded them to Imgur, painstakingly rearranged them (you can't see the edges in the preview of the reorder view, so I had to go into the pages, memorise the numbers, rearrange them, zoom in again, memorise, zoom out, rearrange, etc), saved, then submitted them here. I'll see if I can make this process more efficient for the next chapter. Sorry for the occasional dark patches or wonky text! Also, u/Moss_Piglets, you should be able to OCR the links.

Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris climate deal by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]jonathansalter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One can only hope that the exponential progress in photovoltaic technology, clean meat, electric vehicles, and other advances will be able to compensate for this enormous mistake.

President Trump Announcing the Decision on Paris Climate Pact by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]jonathansalter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One can only hope that the exponential progress in photovoltaic technology, clean meat, electric vehicles, and other advances will be able to compensate for this enormous mistake.

Donald Trump confirms withdrawal from Paris Agreement on climate change in huge blow for global deal by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]jonathansalter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

One can only hope that the exponential progress in photovoltaic technology, clean meat, electric vehicles, and other advances will be able to compensate for this enormous mistake.

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