CGP Grey: The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

Sam Clarke

CGP Grey: The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

Sam Clarke

1 min readNov 11, 2021

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Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️

Engaging and moving EA content:

Letter from Utopia
Replacing Guilt series, especially Not Yet Gods
The Precipice
Against neutrality about creating happy lives. Save this for a rainy day. It's the most life affirming piece ever.

Aleksi Maunu

CGP Grey is great! I'm also a fan of exurb1a's channel, they have many videos with EA-adjacent themes. This one sticks out to me as moving EA content: https://youtu.be/n__42UNIhvU

Siebe

I find exurb1a a bit too nihilistic.. the creator has also been accused of highly abusive behavior, so I feel iffy about the channel. (Sorry, no time to search the link for you)

Sam Smith 🔸

I hadn't come across this fable before, but found it really interesting. I thought it nicely introduced several of EA's common topics about choosing how to do the most good and convincing others about issues worthy of prioritizing. Thanks for sharing!

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