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College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
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Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
113
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
13
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
2mo
7
157
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
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Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
17
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
79
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
439
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
103
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
82
We can all be high status
4y
24
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My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
194
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
182
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
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Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
69
[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
77
The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
17
72
Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
43
5
Northboro Air Quality Measurement
jefftk
6mo
0
66
What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer
paulfchristiano
6y
49
14
What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
3
34
Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
2
86
Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
372
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Planned Power Outages
jefftk
3y
18
57
A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
29
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How much can surgical masks help with wildfire smoke?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2y
5