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Pitfalls of Rationality
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
25 posts
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Epistemic Hygiene
157
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
66
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
107
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
86
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
62
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
51
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
136
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
30
Don't Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
3y
6
49
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
122
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
33
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
85
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
84
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
62
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
50
Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster
Yitz
1mo
52
64
publishing alignment research and infohazards
carado
1mo
10
33
Charging for the Dharma
jchan
1mo
17
154
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
78
Don't use 'infohazard' for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5mo
28
61
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
164
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
40
"Infohazard" is a predominantly conflict-theoretic concept
jessicata
1y
17
90
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
133
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
64
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
54
Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong's Infohazard Policies
Ben Pace
2y
5
26
Often, enemies really are innately evil.
Andrew Vlahos
1y
56
51
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
eukaryote
2y
21