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Why Are Women Hot?
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College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
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Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Tharin
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The red paperclip theory of status
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The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
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Replacing expensive costly signals
KatjaGrace
4y
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Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
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3y
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Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
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Bay area OB/LW meetup, today, Sunday, March 29, at 5pm
AnnaSalamon
13y
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Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
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Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
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What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
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The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
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Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
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[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
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Paths Forward on Berkeley Culture Discussion
Zvi
5y
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A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
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Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
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The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
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Planned Power Outages
jefftk
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Northboro Air Quality Measurement
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