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Conservation of Expected Evidence
Dark Arts
Filtered Evidence
Censorship
Hansonian Pre-Rationality
Robotics
Principles
Trivial Inconvenience
Roko's Basilisk
Journalism
Autonomous Weapons
Shaping Your Environment
83 posts
Writing (communication method)
Group Rationality
Epistemic Review
Epistemic Spot Check
World Modeling Techniques
Good Explanations (Advice)
Selection Effects
Modeling People
Conceptual Media
Cognitive Reframes
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Public-facing Censorship Is Safety Theater, Causing Reputational Damage
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Law of No Evidence
Zvi
1y
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Saying no to the Appleman
Johannes C. Mayer
7mo
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Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists
Zack_M_Davis
3y
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Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence
abramdemski
3y
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Yes Requires the Possibility of No
Scott Garrabrant
3y
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Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard
abramdemski
2y
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Excerpts from Veyne's "Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?"
Rob Bensinger
1y
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[AN #146]: Plausible stories of how we might fail to avert an existential catastrophe
Rohin Shah
1y
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A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk
Rob Bensinger
7y
135
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[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship
Donald Hobson
2y
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120
Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
PhilGoetz
11y
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Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1
Scott Alexander
13y
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Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Why write more: improve your epistemics, self-care, & 28 other reasons
KatWoods
3d
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Against "Classic Style"
Cleo Nardo
27d
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Epistemic Legibility
Elizabeth
10mo
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The many types of blog posts
Adam Zerner
24d
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
Henrik Karlsson
2mo
10
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Editing Advice for LessWrong Users
JustisMills
8mo
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Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death
LRudL
4mo
5
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Observations about writing and commenting on the internet
dynomight
10mo
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78
Tell the Truth
lsusr
1y
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The Urgency of Normal: An Exercise in Bounded Distrust
Zvi
10mo
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Writing On The Pareto Frontier
johnswentworth
1y
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Christopher Alexander's architecture for learning
Henrik Karlsson
9mo
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Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful
KatjaGrace
1y
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Can we hold intellectuals to similar public standards as athletes?
ozziegooen
2y
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