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Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
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Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
91
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
185
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
42
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
19
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
101
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
83
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
57
My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
53
What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
2y
18
121
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
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Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
81
Give praise
4y
87
227
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
200
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
150
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
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[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
13
Northboro Air Quality Measurement
jefftk
6mo
0
76
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
126
Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
43
102
What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer
paulfchristiano
6y
49
59
The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
17
35
Planned Power Outages
jefftk
3y
18
46
Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
2
118
Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
372
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A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
29
14
What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
3
11
How much can surgical masks help with wildfire smoke?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2y
5