What's the Basic Foundation Sequence?

The show notes include a smattering of links for people who want to learn more about the subject. The entry point I'd recommend for someone like that is the embedded agent sequence. If you want to read more about natural abstraction stuff, you can look at the abstraction tag on less wrong. And then there's just a whole lot of other stuff, general world models,. posts on general topics, posts on how to do research, all that stuff.